Beyond Keeping Subscribers, Why REMA Augs?

While no amount of "Mercy Stroke damage +" is going to make Mandau beat Aeneas or Vajra

A good amount of Base damage+ and more relic proc damage, will make it situationally viable again. It's already close just not close enough.

That fix needs to happen with Mercy Stroke, itself. Relic WS not scaling with TP makes the Relic (always) second class.

No assumption made. Already stated JP is the optional path.

Its not speculation.

Literally sitting on 500 jps on 9 jobs like

I can almost guarantee that if you can do it with job points alone, it's going to take significantly more than 500 per weapon.

I kind of expect it to be 500 JP per reinforcement level if JP alone can do it.

If you want to hear the most bitching you've ever heard in your entire life in regards to ffxi, it'll be like that.

I'm down, I think it'd be absolutely hilarious. But unrealistic.

To the tune of "you're rewarding the bots that get jp 24/7 and can max their weapon out in 2 days" "I'm already master, why do I need to keep collecting X000 job points" "job points were supposed to be a bonus, not required"

Yea the reason it will be job points is the endless bitching that "I can't beat Wave 3 Dynamis"