Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
I didn't say I know anything, I said it's not likely. Unless you work for SE you don't know what those weapons in the trailers were either so that useless argument can work both ways...

Expansions usually attract a lot of new players. As a result it would be incredibly poor game design to have an ongoing quest from before the expansion be a requirement to obtain and progress relic weapons going forwards. I know a lot of you are in love with your weapons and all the time and effort you've poured into them but it's just not realistic from a design standpoint for them to continue to upgrade through multiple expansions. A new player joining after 3.0 would have to waste weeks doing old content that no one is interested in any more to get their relic just so they can upgrade it to deal with level 60 content... you see the problem? It would put any new players off completely, and SE wouldn't want that.

I do think there will be a relic equivalent in the expansion (possibly those weapons in the trailers), but it will be a new quest, not an extension of the current one. I wasn't trying to suggest the thread was pointless or anything, just that I don't think those new weapons will be relics but rather something else. I actually quite like the idea of Cerberus for Machinist. Astrologian is going to be difficult to predict anything for though because it's an entirely new weapon type to the series as far as I'm aware.
Yeah..

I'm 99% certain all gear we have right now and get until 3.0, will be easily replaced in the expansion... And I'm also almost sure that a player that levels from 1-60, doesn't have to care about the higher gear at level 50.

The Zodiac arc is going to end after the weapon is upgraded to ilvl 135 or whatever it will end at, and then there will be something new for the expansion, which I predict won't have anything to do with the current relics.

Also, like someone else here mentioned, there are only 12 Zodiac weapons, and there will be 13 jobs in the expansion... Just another hint that the new jobs won't get them.