Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
While it's certainly likely that the new Heavensward Relics will similarly be designed to revitalize old content, if folks who did the old relic grind are not sufficiently "rewarded" for their efforts, it may well make them AND new people considering building a relic for the first time, much more leery and reluctant. SE does NOT want to foster this kind of discontent in the people they're counting on to help new players through old content.
These are my thoughts exactly, if he doesn't make it relevant in 3.0 or 3.1 then I don't think many people will bother with the new relic unless it is significantly less grindy. People spent over 100 hours on these weapons on average and some people spent a significant chunk of gil which also takes time to obtain so if they just erase all of that I'm sure there will be a lot of skepticism moving forward and people saying why bother?