Relic +1 or AF2 body

[Kaedan94]

For monks and dragoons, for examples (it's what I know), weapon equates to roughly 7.5 str.
Using the monk set as an example
The relic+1 is 2 weapon damage increase which is equivalent to 14 str. If you add the actual strength on the gear (which is an increase of 4), you get an upgrade of 18 in your main stat.

The Melee cyclas (monk chest) compared to the darklight chest has a difference of 9 in strength.

So the Relic+1 is twice of a main stat upgrade compared to the upgrading the chest piece. I believe all dps classes have a similar result, with the exception of bards who have lower weapon damage or something.

Weapon damage is everything to dps.

Congratulations on being incredibly tunnel visioned. Because of course STR is the only stat on gear... >.> (/sarcasm for those that have trouble detecting it).

Protip: look at all stats on the gear. STR is not the only important stat. Crit, ACC and to a smaller extent Determination and Skill Speed. So many DPS are horrible because they don't have the ACC for CoB because "ooh, shiny weapon and MOAR DAMAGE".