WILL RELIC WEAPONS remain the best weapons till level 99 like in FFXI?

[Rillifane]

Slightly off topic, but here's a question I couldn't seem to find an answer to anywhere:

If you initially turned in an HQ base weapon to the blacksmith for the relic quest as opposed to the standard version of it, will your finished relic weapon have improved stats? Will the blacksmith even accept it?

From what I have read in the "relic reborn" thread on the forums, stats are the same of HQ and NQ turn in. He accepts both, the relic +1 items come from doing a quest after getting the relic made, which is basically turn in relic + 3 items that require 300 mythology tomes each and you get relic +1.

Now the whole relic +1 concept might be an indication that over patches/expansions the relics will be upgradable so might end up seeing relic +10 or something like that.