Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
And the relic is a catch-up weapon. Never since HW the Relic has been a competitive weapon for brand new content.
Only because it's always been delayed by one patch or two: in ARR - despite knowing it was a remainder of 1.0 - the relic was always up to par because it was released on the same time or slightly more of the current patch, making it competitively better and sometimes the ONLY choice to do. I mean in 2.0 and later 2.1 you STILL wanted to do the relic for your class: the only better weapon was the coil one, which was 95.

But ever since HW they always released relic one or two patches later which alone is a problem: by the time the relic drops people will have tomestone weapons already, some even upgraded ones, and it's already obsolete EVEN if you can customize your stats, and when new content drops with better tomestone weapon the relic takes its sweet time to upgrade to the current item level. I mean when Pyros weapons came you could already get Suzaku weapons which are the same item level and some of them are BiS! And now we can get 395 with Seiryuu while relic sits at 385

TL;DR if they released relics at the start of the expansion, like 4.0, and practically released Eureka earlier, the relics would be more worthwhile and a valid alternative. AND STILL I don't think it would make Eureka better or more played at all.