Quote Originally Posted by Colorful View Post
From the speculation I've read the relic weapon is going to be i210, but we don't know yet. I think you're failing to see my point though, upgrading the weapon once again takes yet another long grind, that's not longevity, that's almost grinding out another weapon. By the time it can be upgraded to i220 the Gobdip 2.0 will be implemented in The Sky Pirate Saga and again, we're back to the same situation. Alt's do not need close to BiS weapons either, to my knowledge anyway. I'm of the belief that BiS weapons should require some effort, don't want to grind the Anima weapon? Then there's Thordan, by implementing Gobdip you're also invalidating content that's barely 1.5 months old at that point.

Using a weapon for several patch cycles is longevity though. No current weapon will be more relevant than the new relic weapon for such a long period.
And the new Relic weapon will have already invalidated Thordan even if it comes out to be i210. And even if the relic weapon ends at i210 (which I doubt) with 3.15 it will probably still be BiS over anything else available. I doubt that they would make you go through the grind of making your relic weapon and then have it's secondary stats be something that is incompatible with the best possible stat build you could have. Meaning gobdip will still be used only for alt jobs unless you're a person who doesn't feel like doing the relic grind.