Mandeville Weapons will likely remain the same come 6.45 (Yoshida interview)

[Shougun]

I am fine with options, I personally think relic should be accessible (and not focused for hard only content, which it generally has never really been, outside of nightmare atma farms, but ive seen suggested), but does make me wonder why at minimum something to use this expansion's DD wasn't also done.. seems underutilized.. could have been tomes and the V&C content (and maybe add other things, moogle tomes to V&C at least lol).

Definitely not against tomes as one option, personally probably more helpful for me lol so..not a negative, but for people who play a lot being directed to do different things is uh.. pretty good too lol. Like when relic could progress in and out of Bozja. (EDIT: removed eureka parallel, misleading reference).

Options are also nice crutch if one avenue dies, like if you used exclusively diadem for a relic step.. good luck doing that later lol.