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Zodiak weapons are no longer current content and players have access to better gear to keep leveling, it's optional content that you do for glamour, titles and/or achievements. I did the PLD relic during HW and I took me around 3 months of casual game play (I even level all DoH to craft the necessary items myself because I can't afford the prices of my server back then), all the hardest and most annoying parts (the items from dungeons are 100% drop now for example) of the chain are nerfed.
There is no reason to nerf it even more, if you want the item you deal with it but if you can't be bothered just ignore it.
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Ok, minor bump as I make a bit of progress. A step that needs a major nerf is the one right after light farming. All the quests to run the 50 dungeons are just fine, but holy hell, the crafting requirements for the final turn-ins need to be dropped like a stone. I thought I was prepared to be able to do it myself, I probably could've desynthed enough to get what I needed (maybe, kinda abandoned trying when I saw the stat requirements), but it is obscene to expect players to grind that at this stage.
Yeah yeah, just level crafters more and gear up past 50 and better skills etc etc. But at that point, you're (again) likely outpacing the (limited) usefulness of the weapon.