Quote Originally Posted by Ethereal View Post
I'm all for constant relic bumps as long as some amount of effort is put toward upgrading it.

If they want people to do the content and still go for the new weapons... then how about they add a function where in order to upgrade your relic, you need to trade in these new high damage weapons. Some NPC can "fuse them together" to empower the RME. For those that don't have an RME, then you can still obtain and use the new weapon effectively like usual.
What they should have done in the first place, instead of plutons/beitetsu/boulders, was tie the upgrades to the new content. Kill X delve boss Y times, collect (large number) of Z stone, or any number of other things that would have been more involved.

But it is a fact that not all 119s are created equal, and stuff like mythic weapons should be called "merely slightly above average" weapons unless they bump RME up.