Patch 5.25 Release Date

[ForteNightshade]

Well I'm looking forward to the new patch,

I really want to do the Relic Weapons quests. I just hope they don't do anything stupid like make the farthest attainable Damage for the weapon less than or equal to the Crysterium Weapon.

If you really want a Crysterium weapon all you have to do is get 1000 seals and do the 8th Eden Raid 4 times and you've got the weapon.

The Relic weapons are a MAJOR pain in the rear and time consumer and significant effort way over and above 4 level 8 Eden Raids. They should be one step above Crysterium when you finish them at the end of the patch.

Going off what the Anemos Relics were, they ones will likely be i485—which puts them directly comparable to Ruby Weapons. Maybe they'll let us go to i490 but they will not be superior to an upgraded Tome weapon as that basically invalidates those weapons before non-Savage players even have a chance to upgrade them. Furthermore, Anemos Relics were extremely easy to farm. But yeah, it's all but guaranteed they will be weaker than the Crysterium weapons.

[Seraphor]

Ideally they should be between the current tome and upgraded tome weapons.

[linay]

Ideally they should be between the current tome and upgraded tome weapons.

They could be lower than the non-augmented version if they have more materia slots.

[Bearded]

Given that resources for testing, bug fixing and general support is somewhat decimated I'd suspect that release plans are out of the window unless it was polished and ready to go.

[Lord_Umbra]

Ideally they should be between the current tome and upgraded tome weapons.

They'll most likely be i485 though the base will probably be around i470 have 3 upgrade phases most likely at launch to go from i470 to i475 > i480 & finally i485, i485 is most likely to be Relics cap since Tome weapons will be be stuck at i490 until Nier part 2 since you'll need a coin from the first raid & second one to buy the upgrade materials for non-savage players.

Relic is basically a Glam for your main Job until the end of the expansion when they become BiS.

[LaylaTsarra]

They'll most likely be i485 though the base will probably be around i470 have 3 upgrade phases most likely at launch to go from i470 to i475 > i480 & finally i485, i485 is most likely to be Relics cap since Tome weapons will be be stuck at i490 until Nier part 2 since you'll need a coin from the first raid & second one to buy the upgrade materials for non-savage players.

Relic is basically a Glam for your main Job until the end of the expansion when they become BiS.

Relic cap is always higher than the tome weapon cap and that cap will be 400 when upgrades to the 390's are released.

[Mansion]

Ideally they should be between the current tome and upgraded tome weapons.

No, 495 is too high to come out so quickly, when the highest (505) is going to last until 5.4 (October roughly). Relic weapons have always been below, so I guess they will be around 485 now, and perhaps up to 500 by 5.35. And then they can be "BiS" by 5.55
Relic is just filler content, it's not really meant to be competitive with Savage Raid weapons, or even tome weapons when they come out.

[Doki]

Just in time for Person 5 Royal to come out and me to not do it right away... or if they go a bit longer just in time for FFVII R to come out and me to not do it right away.

[Ryaz]

Well I'm looking forward to the new patch,

I really want to do the Relic Weapons quests. I just hope they don't do anything stupid like make the farthest attainable Damage for the weapon less than or equal to the Crysterium Weapon.

If you really want a Crysterium weapon all you have to do is get 1000 seals and do the 8th Eden Raid 4 times and you've got the weapon.

The Relic weapons are a MAJOR pain in the rear and time consumer and significant effort way over and above 4 level 8 Eden Raids. They should be one step above Crysterium when you finish them at the end of the patch.

Sadly, they'll always be a step behind augmented tome weapons until the final patch when they can become BiS. The savage raiders would have a meltdown and flood the forums with salty tears if relics were that strong beforehand. Lol.

Plus, SE doesn't want to make tome weapons irrelevant altogether, so they'll be as strong as mid-step Ex-Trial weapons for most steps- better than regular tome gear, but worse than augmented. Or something like that.

People mostly do relics for the glam anyway, which is why I'm hoping they look better than the Eureka one, which were terrible compared to the previous relics, imo.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Assuming you can get to a store to pick up new games.