Just dinged 50; Relic Weapon question.

Should I do A Relic Reborn? Or is it a waste of time now? Kinda odd they load you up with your level 50 gear but leave a weapon out. Thanks in advance.

You can do it for the glamour of it, but otherwise it's a waste...I think you get better weapon a level 54.

If you want it for glamor, go for it. Otherwise pick up an Ironworks weapon at Mor Dhona. Grab that, upgrade it, and it will keep you through Sohm Al.

Just buy an i115 weapon from the vendor in Foundation. It'll be better than the first few stages of your relic. There's a lot of work between the base relic and Nexus (i115), and it'll get replaced in Dusk Vigil anyway. Zeta weapons are viable until 56-57ish or so, but the amount of work that goes into it for the return is pretty unreal.

The only reasons to have a Zeta at this point is if you already had one or if you really want the glamour.

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Originally Posted by bounddreamer

If you want it for glamor, go for it. Otherwise pick up an Ironworks weapon at Mor Dhona. Grab that, upgrade it, and it will keep you through Sohm Al.

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Ironworks weapons unfortunately take a tomestone from FCoB or the weekly quest for CT/ST/WoD.

If you want fast, just get an i115 vendor weapon (or a HQ version from the market board if you like).

I'd go ahead and do it at least for the base weapon - it doesn't take that long at all for the ilvl 90 and I think some of the HM fights are required for later story progression so you might as well knock them out while doing the weapon.

I leveled Ninja from scratch not too long ago and just skipped it completely, like others said you can just buy a weapon from vendor in Foundation.

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Originally Posted by Subucnimorning

I leveled Ninja from scratch not too long ago and just skipped it completely, like others said you can just buy a weapon from vendor in Foundation.

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Well, I still have to do the MSQ up to where I can get into Foundation. Will something just off the AH or a level 45 weapon work until then?

Edit: I checked out the Ironworks and no weapons were visible; On top of that, I have no idea what that currency is or how much grinding that would take, heh.
Hitting 50 in this game is really odd right now.

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Originally Posted by Malkbone

Well, I still have to do the MSQ up to where I can get into Foundation. Will something just off the AH or a level 45 weapon work until then?

Edit: I checked out the Ironworks and no weapons were visible; On top of that, I have no idea what that currency is or how much grinding that would take, heh.
Hitting 50 in this game is really odd right now.

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I want to say I got a level 48 weapon at some point while I was catching up on the MSQ and had that until HW content.

I would recommend doing the first steps just for the glamour, since the NIN relic looks better than the AF2 in my opinion. Stopping right after the Atma part should be enough.

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Originally Posted by Malkbone

Should I do A Relic Reborn? Or is it a waste of time now? Kinda odd they load you up with your level 50 gear but leave a weapon out. Thanks in advance.

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This is just my opinion, but I would say do the relic quest till you get the i90 weapon. Reason being, this will unlock Amdapor Keep, Chimera, Hydra, and Ifrit, Garuda, and Titan hard mode. You'll need these for trial roulettes eventually and it's also just good experience for later on in the game. You can still buy a better weapon even before you do all that, I'm talking strictly for unlocking content. Just my opinion.