About relic weapon...

[chococo]

I have a feeling half of those people asking this kind of questions are new to MMORPGs. It's an expansion, older stuff will most likely be useless at lv 60. You get your relic and use it in 2.X, and up to some point in 3.X (or skins if you wish). It's almost like saying farming FCoB for Dreadwyrm is insulting because there will be new gear in Heavensward.

New expansion, new stuff.

I have a feeling half of the people saying this kind of remarks is what got us the current vertical progression treadmill.

[Spiritreaver1217]

I have a feeling half of those people asking this kind of questions are new to MMORPGs. It's an expansion, older stuff will most likely be useless at lv 60. You get your relic and use it in 2.X, and up to some point in 3.X (or skins if you wish). It's almost like saying farming FCoB for Dreadwyrm is insulting because there will be new gear in Heavensward.

New expansion, new stuff.

Agree with this. You put in the time to have 'the best' for the given time frame. Well MMOs(good ones anyways) aren't completely static and will change over time. New items will be introduced to replace the old; including 'the best' items.

I started my first relic weapon with this concept in mind as it has been this way in other MMOs i have played. And having a full zeta and soon to be second before HW hits, i'm fine with current relics being surpassed in the future.

I have a feeling half of the people saying this kind of remarks is what got us the current vertical progression treadmill.

Vertical progression done the way it is in FFXIV is preferable to the 'side-grade' gearing scheme i've seen elsewhere-in particular SE's own FFXI.

Yeah, you know that gear is going to become obsolete, but by the same token gear is relatively easy to get in a system like FFXIV's. In XI, there were BiS pieces that lasted from early exp point leveling all the way to EG and beyond in some cases. But the acquisition of those pieces was quite difficult.

For me personally, barring a combination of the two gear acquisition schemes, i'd go vertical progression anytime i was given a choice. Gearing up is so much easier and more time can be spent elsewhere in the game doing things as opposed to gearing up to in able to do things.