AF+1 or Relic+1?

[Exdee-em]

Title pretty much says it all. Which do you believe you should spend Myth tomes on first: collecting your AF+1, or your Relic+1?

[Amyas]

Depends on how badly you want out of the DL lol. For real though, +1 relic I think for all save for tank classes afaik.

[Pellegri]

Depends on your class and what you are upgrading out of. If you are a bard or tank(minus pally for shield) and are upgrading out of say ak gear then yes the af1 gear would be better overall than going straight for your relic upgrade, for bards it's a little different as chest/legs and possibly a few other pieces are flat out better than the +1 dmg on relic.

Now for other classes though it is pretty much unless you like the looks of af1 more than darklight or even ak gear, getting relic +1 is more of a benefit to your dmg or healing than any piece you could upgrade.

For those coming in here instantly saying get +1 for everything over anything else, i'll say this. Not everyone sees the significance in getting full darklight before getting relic, and honestly in a good enough group it's not needed for titan(my group did it 2 months ago in half dl/ak with ifrit/garuda weps). There are pieces depending on your class that will blow away any sort of upgrade you could get from the relic upgrade when compared to upgrading from an ak piece to a myth piece.

[Feyniphia]

I always get the weapon before the rest. Smarter to take weapon before all.

[Vantwan]

Weapon glow > all

[Ryans]

snip.

The reason people say upgrade to relic+1 is because the extra two weapon damage is something like 28 of your main stat. Add on the couple extra stat points you get and it's clearly the best single upgrade for damage and healing.

[Pellegri]

The reason people say upgrade to relic+1 is because the extra two weapon damage is something like 28 of your main stat. Add on the couple extra stat points you get and it's clearly the best single upgrade for damage and healing.

Except for bard it's only +1 dmg and 1 dmg for all classes is 7 of your core stat(bards get more of an increase through secondary stats off certain myth items then they do from +1 relic). This thread was also started by a tank, so putting 2 and 2 together they were probably asking if they should go +1 relic right off the bat as tank, which depending on the rest of their gear even with +1 having 2 dmg for tanks it is not the best upgrade when compared to other pieces depending on what someone currently has.

[Arkista]

Depends on how much you play? My wife doesn't play very much and got her Body 1st and just got +1 last week. She went from doing 980ish crits to a lil over 1k crits. Dunno how much here non crits are.

[Feyniphia]

The reason people say upgrade to relic+1 is because the extra two weapon damage is something like 28 of your main stat. Add on the couple extra stat points you get and it's clearly the best single upgrade for damage and healing.

2 for 1H and 3 for 2H?

[NoctisCaelus]

Honestly, I wish I didn't upgrade my Sword/Shield and just bought my myth gears cause I hated the Darklight look. Hope this helps you.