Quote Originally Posted by VeryVoodoo View Post
Events now throw double SSR wpns at you every week usually. Not to mention there are soul weapons and such. So SRs aren't as essential for beginners to have as fillers as they once were. It's still a starting point for building grids, but newcomers nowadays get access to more SSRs more quickly than we once did in the past.
While true for Advents and UEs, Raids are still one weapon. Also before, weapons were either Assault(++) or Defender(++), and you'd need like one of the latter too. These days, they've increased the best weapons (to like Assault(+)/Defender()) but you can get absolute garbage weapons like Typhon's Elaborate(+)/Stinger weapon. Which is just... vat.

In other words, kinda, but on the on the other hand, kinda not. I think the biggest difference is that if you can get yourself into a decent Union, then you get two great weapons for yourself. Too bad DMM did away with that too.