Now Ive been told if youre a brd nin or mch (any job who uses dex as damage modifiers), you can have all the dex in the world but your damage well mean crap without a good weapon too, so if youre in lets say full il200 gear wearing a level 20 bow youre damage as gonna be no better than if you were wearing il90 gear using an lvl 20 or il90 bow.
So my question is this. if youre in lets say all il170 gear using a zeta bow (il135) and doing crit weapon skills that are already doing 1.5k+ consistently, if you upgrade to the lets say il160 bow that drops in fractal, which has a whole 3 more base damage (i would expect a much higher boost from il135 to il160 especially considering one is level 50 while the other is level 60) and a lower crit hit rate (but higher dex and det) is that really gonna make the difference between the damage youre doing now to maybe youre crit weaponskills doing 2k+ consistently and your normal attacks critting for 1k more often while non crits are 800-900?
the last three times I ran fractal Ive had 3 different ppl complain about me still using zeta (it ironic ppl join duty finder and get shocked if the group of randoms they get matched with arent up to their standards... if I want ppl i know are gonna be up to par I dont use DF i go with friends or FC duh lol), one healer even left right after a tank pulled a boss because it was "slow", now I do intend to upgrade but that would require farming enough tomes to do so or finally getting a drop, which I finally just did and after looking at the stats. I dont see em as THAT much better, if the dps is already slow/sucks I doubt that weapon now is gonna change the tides so dramatically that a dungeon that we were already doing beforehand in 20-25 mins is now gonna drop to 15-20min consistently, right?