Project Armageddon complete!(For now)

So after 5 months of grinding, finally.....

Lv 99 Armageddon complete!

Because I don't plan to do Afterglow for now(No gil for it...no really!), so this gun is considered completed atm.

I have to admit, I originally planned to finish it in 3.5 months, then it start to drag....and drag....and drag....in the end it dragged 1.5 month longer.

But still feel nice to finally finished this semi long project.....not as long as Mythic, but still cost about 190M regardless.

This weapon is certainly one of the rarest lv 99 choice(excluding staff/club etc that's not even really a "weapon"), so far I've only seen 2 players on my server has it. And the reason why it's rare is because out of all weapons, Armageddon has smallest gain on the way to 99.

A lv 99 Ukon, currently the most popular lv 99 empy, has 156 base dmg. A lv 90 Ukon has 131 base dmg. That's 25 base dmg increase from 90 to 99. A lv 99 Masa has 132 base dmg, and lv 90 has 114 base dmg, thus 18 base dmg increase.

A lv 90 Arma has 64 base dmg, and lv 99 has 76 base dmg, thus it's only 12 base dmg increase. It has 582 delay, Ukon has 482 delay, so Arma has 100 more delay than Ukon, but base dmg increase is only less than half of it. Those weapon with smaller base dmg increase, such as Twashtar, has 7 base dmg increase from 90 to 99, but also literally hits 3 times faster.

Couple with the fact that Corsair is still 2nd least popular job this year, it's not very surprising that despite this weapon is one of the most job changing empy weapon, it's only more popular than club/staff/polearm/bow/scythe/axe(all those are generally subpar empy except bow) to 99. Based on the 11th census, it's even less popular than Cala D;

But regardless, this weapon is still, no doubt, best gun COR can use in this game in most situations. To a point that I gave up my long term dream of Death Penalty to 99 this. In VW Arma win over DP in every way, due to the fact that I WS 2.5 times faster than QD. DP only pull ahead when QD/WS ratio getting close to 1:1, which is outside of VW. But Arma also has 10 extra racc, that more or less offset the difference in events such as legion when racc is an issue.

It is possible that Arma got outparsed by DP in situations when QD/WS ratio close to 1:1. But regardless, I'm still quite happy to make the choice to 99 this weapon first, considering it's way more versatile than DP and cheaper too.
Maybe, maybe one day I will continue to finish DP. But atm, I want to take a break from farming all those damn gil.