i230 Tome weapons!! So long relic grind...

[Ecks007]

Have you managed to miss the point of the relic questline through the entire 2.0 series? It's always the last to upgrade.

Actually Relics started out being the top weapons (aside from Binding Coil which were the best by small degree), and continued to be updated with every increase in tome weapons so that as long as you had your relic weapon up to date it was still the top weapon (aside from Coil weapons).

This is a slap in the face to anyone who even wants to do relics. Why do them when they are made irrelevant? Each time tome weapons are introduced the Relic weapons should have an upgrade to put them right at the same level (or higher, but that's just personal preference because of the grind). I mean really.

Why should we even do relics at this point? It's a more difficult grind and can cost gil as well, when compare to easily obtainable weapons you can get in a few weeks just by capping tomes. And for what? An inferior weapon? I'm sorry, but I am not grinding my relic just to use it as a weapon skin. I want a damn weapon worth this ridiculous grind, and 3.2 removes any worthiness from these weapons now. They are absolutely useless in about 3 weeks after the patch since everyone's going to be able to have an i230 weapon.

Relics in ARR were still damn near top tier as long as you upgraded them because they got updates matching the tome gear. Personally I'm fine if they aren't as strong as Midas Savage weapons (or Upgraded Midas weapons that come from Savage, whichever was the case), but I'll damned if easily obtainable tome weapons are vastly superior to relics. That just doesn't make any damn sense.

Added: I won't be too terribly opposed if A) 3.2x is implemented with Relics update 3 weeks after 3.2. (Though I hope the grind is something other than being like these stupid Unidentified items, oye it's some freaking time consuming crap unless you no-life it) or B) Relics jump to 240 to match upgraded tome weapons.

We're looking at probably 3 more stages to reach that point. Personally, I'd much rather have some stages like the light gathering stage in ARR rather than item collections that require a vast combination of various dailies and other token systems throughout several weeks plus a rather large sum of gil to obtain.

I just got my first Anima weapon completed about 2 weeks ago and am slowly working on my second and have almost made my gil back that was spent on the first (2.5mil - buying base mats, which were bought and crafted probably a week or two before I completed the weapon). I'm now working on my second (and final) Anima weapon. This Unidentified item collection grind is the worst. I would much rather do fates again for an item, even that doesn't take nearly as long.