Crazy Relic User FEARS the expansion. Are they going to be useless?

[Felis]

Relic questline end at the moment you turn your relic into materia (with a 1.4% success chance ^^).
We have now zodiacs, not relics anymore ^^

So with 2.51 the first zodiac upgrade quest (maybe zenith zodiac?) should come

[Fyce]

There will be a new set of quests regarding an evolving weapon.
If you already completed the Zodiac+1 (2.51), you'll have a bonus for the beginning of the new questline.
New players jumping on the extension won't have to go through all the 2.X Relic&Zodiac questline. They'll be able to start the new one without a Zodiac+1, just like every other player who didn't achieve the Zodiac+1.

Now, regarding if the actual Zodiac+1 will be "consumed" for the new questline, nobody knows.

All I'm guessing it that it will be a completly new weapon to match the new AF2 gear.

[ruskie]

I hope the stats will transfer if they do just attribute our finishing towards progress in the new relic line... since that alone would make it worth it while the rest will need to buy in with custom stats.

Though I would prefer if it keeps evolving. Imho it should have been evolving since lvl 1 with the weathered lvl1 weapon.

[Warlyx]

3.0 , new weapon questline , just the ppl with zodiac will have a headstart (maybe avoiding the need of a crafted weapon for the 1 quest)

[ereskigal]

Still waiting for someone to post where SE said 3.0 will have a new quest line. At vagas fan fest yoshi said that in 3.0 you can play all of 2.0 content. That alone tells me 2.0 relic quest line not going any where!!! Maybe nerf but I don't see them removing the quest.

[Dererk]

I just hope 3 4 star crafters don't get a part in any more stuff with relics I got the mats to do most of mine was looking for some one to craft one of them guy tells me there's the crafted items on market board. Told him I got the mats he said just buy it on market board said to him I got the mats you gona help me or not he said just buy it on market board. Getting mattiria was better than dealing with these 3 stat items that had to be High Quality. Please no more crafter stuff please.

[KarstenS]

Although yoshi stated there will be some type of bonus

Maybe the bonus could be to keep our customized stats and the new one is getting fixed stats with correct weight like it was the case for the regular relic at beginning?

[Fyce]

Still waiting for someone to post where SE said 3.0 will have a new quest line. At vagas fan fest yoshi said that in 3.0 you can play all of 2.0 content. That alone tells me 2.0 relic quest line not going any where!!! Maybe nerf but I don't see them removing the quest.

Nobody said that the quest 2.X Relic&Zodiac would be removed.
What Yoshi-P was saying is that all the current available content of 2.X will still be available in 3.X.

As for a link about the new Heavensward quest: http://www.famitsu.com/news/201501/20069775.html
Yes, it's in japanese. The english translation given by I-don't-know-who was not giving the exact feeling Yoshi-P answer meant to have.
Basically, he's saying that the "evolving weapon" thingy is planned for 3.1. He's not speaking about the Zodiac+1 especially. He's just saying that a new questline will start in 3.1.

The only hint he gave was the answer to the next question, which was about giving a boost or bonus to players with a Zodiac+1. To which he said "yes of course".
It does mean that the Zodiac+1 won't be required to start the new 3.1 questline... but as for if the Zodiac+1 in itself will continue to evolve? Not a clue.

[dioxideUniversa]

I hope they are useless, frankly. People who think the obscene amount of grinding needed to create relic weapons is just completely fine need a wake-up call.

[Evangela]

I don't think they will be useless but it will be way easier to obtain.

and the next state of them should be available too.