Quote Originally Posted by Jim_Berry View Post
They COULD be useful, though. Going back to FFXI, the Relic weapons and Artifact gear were how many years old?
In FFXI, Artifact was crap at 75, EXCEPT, for the only specific boost to one of your spell/ability.

So, you got it, in your inventory, use a macro to swap gear for one cast, then switch back to your far more powerful lvl 75 gear.
Weren't you able to gear swap in combat, your Artifact gear would have gathered dust for years.

And relics become useless as soon as the level cap increased. But, of course, they designed ways to improve them, so that all the time you spent wasn't for nothing.
Yet, they relained far less powerful than their Empyrean counterpart (With a few exception), even though Empyrean Weapons were far less time consuming.