Quote Originally Posted by Hasrat View Post
Fffff, wish I had known about that step before I dumped all my tier 1 materia into combining cuz it all felt like garbage anyway...Do the stats normalize again at some point after that, or are you stuck with whatever you dump into the weapon for some time? Ignoring the part where the weapon might be useless regardless or I might have something better by the time I get to that or whatever. I don't exactly play ideally/optimally anyway, might enjoy my time at least trying to make it decent. Although the massive time/resource dumps make it sound like I don't want to do this for every job asap...
The stats stay like that until you choose to change them around (you can do that at any point, I believe - but you will need new materia and alexandrites for that) - the whole point of the relic was that you get to choose your own stats, so "normal" stats for a relic dont exists.
The old ARR-relics are really "useless" as weapons though by now - a fully upgraded Zeta might last you til you reach The Vault, but they're mostly worth it for glamour. As soon as you get your Zeta-weapon you can buy replicas from Drake without stats at all, but well, with the look ofc.

On how to farm light... sure, Sastasha, TamTara and Ifrit are doing the trick, but my point was more: If you are already doing the level 50 or low level roulette anyways, you might aswell take your relic-weapon with you to get some extra-light.