Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
This "mandatory" nonsense really needs to stop.
Relics Nexus and Zetas were, at their time, THE absolute BiS weapon for every job. If people were really denied content because they weren't "optimal", anyone without a perfect Relic would have been excluded from hard content already.
Well, substats were a reasonably minor difference compared to something like item level(weapon damage), which is why no one cared what substats your i135 weapon had, so long as it was, y'know, an i135 one.

Adding additional or unique effects would probably amount to much more of a difference in DPS/HPS/mitigation unless the effects are something so minor as to be negligible anyway...in which case that would kind of defeat the purpose of what people are asking for in this thread.