Relics may be required for Crystal Tower

[neverendingxsin]

I'm still bothered that some are gonna have a good amount of alagan and ilvl 90 mythology pieces that most of the gear in crystal tower will be obsolete before it is even released. Which is sad because they are probably going to have completely new looks for the armor and weapons that will drop. I really hope it looks like crystal armor and they introduce the vanity system soon after.

How do you know the gear in it won't be as good?

[Ferr]

Relic weapons are basically what AF was in 1.0. They will be replaced shortly. Hell, some Allagan weapons are already better replacements for Relic +1s.

Yeah but for getting an Allagan weapon you need to beat Twintania and the borked server makes it very hard to do (or more accurately, imposible as for now), so by the time CT gets released (and seeing how the next Coil update will be in 2.2) Relic+1 will be the safer option and more or less on par with an Allagan wep (upgrading a Relic is easy as hell). I wonder if by the time we can farm Twintania for the weps they will introduce Relics+2...

Anyways, its true that getting a relic its easy (for such a good weapon, it doesnt reeally compare to AF gear IMO), once you get a decent FC you can do it in no time, and the biggest problems people have with Titan is due to latency and lag problems.

How do you know the gear in it won't be as good?

If Im not mistaken CT will be i80, so we can assume the armor will be i80 too. Coil drops i90 armor and is harder than CT (as Yoshi said). If they put better gear on the easier CT then there would be no point on doing Coil. CT should be a way to gear up for Coil.

[Ruisu]

The fact that Relics will be required for CT makes sense with how they wanted progression to work in ARR. However, personally, I don't like the idea of relics being required. There's really not any reason to not get a relic now, and while it's not any easier than it was in 1.0, it's definately more accessible. It's a fair requirement to have to have your relic for ilvl 80 content.

I kinda do hope SE implements something similar to what Relics were in XI though. Something that isn't essential to obtain, incredibly difficult to obtain, and is a large reward for anyone who manages to clear it. They can continue with giving them secondary stats like they are now, just via quests. So that way you can stay on top of your progression by upgrading, rather than getting a new weapon with every new raid.

[Mairuzu]

Relic should always be upgraded first.

Welp, that was easy.