Quote Originally Posted by JustARTificial View Post
There is absolutely no information on the 2.X relics aside from "it will give you a boost". A "boost" can just mean that you are doing 10dps more than the other guy. A "boost" can mean that if you completed a Zeta you can skip stage 1 of a new upgrading item. The latter is everyone's fantasy with no facts to back it. The former, while horribly underplayed, is probably the hard truth.

Square Enix have been continuously making the game better for new people to get into. What the Zeta gives in 3.X, probably will not be something exclusive or game-changing. If it was, there would have been more information for it by now.
I am pretty sure by now, if there was some grand huge benefit to completing a 2.0 relic weapon, they would have said so by now. Especially since doing so wouldn't drive away new players, because they wouldn't be losing anything to begin with, and current players would be more hooked, as well as some retired players might return. So yeah, the "benefit" is likely insignificant, possibly glamour material, or maybe an option to choose the skin of the weapon. They really couldn't give an entirely unique unfair advantage to people that already put in the work, because then those that are new would have significantly more pressure to have to go back and do so much old grind content before being able to actually play the new stuff.