Quote Originally Posted by Slashley View Post
They were playing previously, the shop was reset for this. The event ran before on March 2017 and June 2017. So players who were strong enough to farm Ultimate over a year ago are now grabbing and FLBing a second copy of the Bow. At best, some players might've gotten lucky drops from all three runs, and are FLBing a third Bow - but those players will be extremely rare.

... wait, didn't Phoenix reprint have something strange "Nutaku original" to it and you could get a couple of extra copies of the Bow... I forget.
The way I remember it, there was an extra copy at max price.
Keep in mind that Phoenix/Apocalypse reprint was still using the original rates, not the revision that came with Ixion, despite running after Ixion. So that extra copy wasn't for 100/75/60 mats. It was for the 120/90/70 rate.
The revision that came with Ixion of course isn't anywhere near as drastic as the Illuyanka event change, but it was still noticable at the time. Original rate was 455/255/215 to max the eidolon and 285/205/145 to max the weapon. From Ixion up until right before Illuyanka it'd be 375/210/150 for the eidolon and 260/165/125 for the weapon.

Phoenix/Apocalypse was also early enough that I still couldn't reliably farm ultimate yet. IIRC, from that reprint, I only moved up from 1* Phoenix Bow and Apoc Lance to 2*. Probably bumped the eidolons up 1* each as well. This was early enough for us such that even DMM was still pre-Guild Order, so we didn't have the knowledge to set up weapons for FLBing later.