Are the relic/anima weapons even trying anymore?

[HaelseMikiro]

Relics are invaluable for healers, especially if they're raiding. The accuracy you can meld on it means we can finally stop missing without using half overmelded accessories.

I'd actually recommend NOT putting accuracy on a healer relic. If a person already has accuracy melded, then it serves no real puropose other than re-melding all your gear. And when next tier rolls out, the accuracy relic will only see use until the first weapon upgrade is available. Likely a 250 Triad weapon on 3.4 launch, or worst case a couple weeks into the tier for a new tome weapon. At which point anyone pushing content will place the relic on a retainer until 2 months before 4.0 when the relic steps catch up to final Alexander ilvls, and have to meld accuracy on all their gear anyways. Anyone more concerned with saving gil than pushing content can certainly use their accuracy relic to heal with all the way until the other 6 members of a group have 270 weapons, and the only people left for a final Gobdip would be the healers, but at that points you'd again have to remeld gear for accuracy.

IMO it's easier and more flexible to just put your best healing secondaries on the relic, and not have anything holding you back from upgrading your weapon when the opportunity arises.

[Chirol86]

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This isn't true. With fully melding 240 (with VIT right side), you stand at 606 accuracy, no food. There's no reason to re meld. I personally don't mind waiting a couple months for a relic to be relevant if it means I can swap from my overmelded crafted accessories, as realistically in a midcore group, at that point I'm either on the second to last floor of the fight and close to clearing or the last floor itself, with the assumption that something like A6S doesn't happen again. A relic with accuracy melded still serves purpose to midcore raiders.

[HaelseMikiro]

I'd actually recommend NOT putting accuracy on a healer relic. If a person already has accuracy melded, then it serves no real puropose other than re-melding all your gear.

This isn't true. With fully melding 240 (with VIT right side), you stand at 606 accuracy, no food. There's no reason to re meld. I personally don't mind waiting a couple months for a relic to be relevant if it means I can swap from my overmelded crafted accessories, as realistically in a midcore group, at that point I'm either on the second to last floor of the fight and close to clearing or the last floor itself, with the assumption that something like A6S doesn't happen again. A relic with accuracy melded still serves purpose to midcore raiders.

Kinda guessing that's what I said that you were replying to. What I meant was, that any healer who was raiding prior to the current relic step, was already melded for the accuracy that they needed. Of course you bring up the excellent point that if you put 120 accuracy on a relic now, that would allow you to upgrade from crafted accessories, not use accuracy food, or otherwise re-meld some gear out of accuracy.
But of course caster accuracy will go up, probably in the 650-660 range. A 275 relic will have 138 accuracy, so your 606 is now 624. I suppose this does at least give you options of only using an accuracy food, or a single pentamelded 15 Vit +36 accuracy ring to make it up.

I guess it comes down to personal preference. An accuracy relic is the more frugal choice, but locks you into using the same weapon for the entire tier of raiding, waiting months for new steps to be added, which could take some people months to accomplish.
A person without an accuracy relic will only hit 604 accuracy with full melds and Urchins. So they'll have to rely on crafted overmelds if they want 100% accuracy