Relics!!!

[AmalonStar]

The ARR relic? Garbage now only good as a glamor.

The anima relic? Possibly out dated and garbaged like the ARR relic was after hw was released.

What I would actually like to see is new quests for both of those relic lines, bring them up and keep those custom built weapons relevant to new content coming out. Why throw away the time and everything invested into those weapons? Keeping those weapons up to par with new gear coming out only makes sense to me and also adds a sense of accomplishment that you BUILT the weapon you're using.

[Blazinhart]

I see no problem with How they are. The Relic Weapon is great until The Vault, and you can Level up your char while doing your relic. I'm doing my Blm one, and I'm close to lv56 and started doing at the moment I reached lv50 (that's my fourth one). Then you can use it to jump the first step in your Anima weapon.
And about Anima, it's a great weapon now and probably you will be able to make some good progress in SB before needing to get a better one. And they might be used to jump a step for the next Evolutive Weapon.

[AmalonStar]

I won't simply throw away a weapon like that to skip a simple step in the next new relic. I'm proud of building a weapon like that, it's just a shame that SE believes the time put into those aren't worth keeping them up to level and relevant, if they make new quests for those relics people will continue to build those and use those.

[dragonseth07]

I won't simply throw away a weapon like that to skip a simple step in the next new relic. I'm proud of building a weapon like that, it's just a shame that SE believes the time put into those aren't worth keeping them up to level and relevant, if they make new quests for those relics people will continue to build those and use those.

You're looking at it backwards. The Anima questline is, essentially, a continuation of the level 50 relic weapon. But, you have an option to skip the level 50 portion if you do an extra step. The relic weapons are one giant line already.

[AmalonStar]

You're looking at it backwards. The Anima questline is, essentially, a continuation of the level 50 relic weapon. But, you have an option to skip the level 50 portion if you do an extra step. The relic weapons are one giant line already.

No I'm looking at it as having multiple relics to build up, using the ARR relic to skip one simple step is a complete waste of the time put into it.

[dragonseth07]

No I'm looking at it as having multiple relics to build up, using the ARR relic to skip one simple step is a complete waste of the time put into it.

You're making a distinction where one doesn't need to exist. You have a level 50 relic. You can upgrade it to level 60 and do another questline after that, in the form of the Anima questline. The SB relic will be the same. We take the old relic and upgrade it to level 70 for a new questline.

[AmalonStar]

Obviously those that have responded thus far either weren't around and had put in the work for the ARR relic to recall when HW was released the out rage of those that had finished their relic to have found out the relic they worked so hard to build getting used as a trade in to skip one simple step for the new relic line.

Those players had spent the time and the millions of Gil building that relic just for it to get tossed away like garbage. Sure they put in replicas of the original but all I'm saying is more quests should be put in to continue building both relics up so it isn't just a time sink that gets outdated.

[dragonseth07]

all I'm saying is more quests should be put in to continue building both relics up so it isn't just a time sink that gets outdated.

Quests to build up the old relic? Sure, let's say you can take your level 50 relic and upgrade it to level 60. We'll have a whole new quest line, with new models for each step. We can call it... the Anima questline!

It is one giant upgrade questline. It is. It's broken up so that you can start at the latest expansion (with extra work), but it is one giant upgrade questline, just like you're asking for.

Remember the i125 step, where you take the Nexus weapon and turn it into a Zodiac Brave weapon? It's not the same weapon anymore, you basically used the old one as a crafting mat. It's the same thing going to the Anima quests.

Edit: Specifically, if you recall, we had Mutamix convert the relic weapon into Materia, because it couldn't be perfected further. That Materia was used as a material to help recreate the Zodiac Brave weapon, a new starting point. The Zodiac Brave weapon can't be perfected further, so we need to use it in helping to forge a new weapon, a new starting point. We've done it before, and we'll do it again and again.

[HaelseMikiro]

So...if the optional step to fate grind for the anima cyrstals didn't exist and you were forced to turn in your 50 zeta, you'd be perfectly happy with it?

[dragonseth07]

So...if the optional step to fate grind for the anima cyrstals didn't exist and you were forced to turn in your 50 zeta, you'd be perfectly happy with it?

It looks like the issue is the name of the weapon changing. I should be using my Blunt Aeolian Scimitar all the way to 275 dangit!