Fresh lvl 50

[Waveon]

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Holy... That's a ridiculous grind. Is there any reason to do this aside for, as you said, the sake of completing them? I would say glamour is a reason, but you could save time and just buy the weathered versions.

[m3eansean]

Holy... That's a ridiculous grind. Is there any reason to do this aside for, as you said, the sake of completing them? I would say glamour is a reason, but you could save time and just buy the weathered versions.

There was a point in time when these weapons were BiS for about 3 months, so yes, there was a point to complete them. Also for their 2 year lifetime of upgrades, they were always a competitive weapon (persistently left 5 ilevels behind the current best-tier raid weapon however, so that some wouldn't get upset from "casuals" accessing the strongest weapon outside of a raid). You get a nifty title too ^^

[Velisra]

Holy... That's a ridiculous grind. Is there any reason to do this aside for, as you said, the sake of completing them? I would say glamour is a reason, but you could save time and just buy the weathered versions.

Weathered versions?

[Niwashi]

I would say glamour is a reason, but you could save time and just buy the weathered versions.

Weathered versions?

There are weathered weapons, but not weathered versions of relic weapons.

For relics, there's an unfinished version you get during one of the earlier steps of the initial quest and its appearance looks just like the completed relic, just lower stats. You can buy another copy of your relic weapon from the calamity salvager if you've already earned it in-game before. Or if you've gotten through the entire upgrade chain through zeta, then you can buy replicas of the zodiac weapons. But you can't buy a relic (or replica of it) if you haven't earned it.