Relic weapon rant.

[Zumi]

FFXIV relic are not the same as FFXI Relics. They may have the same name but they aren't the same thing.

In 2 months I got all 9 relics, Took about 4 hours per relic. These were not hard to get at all. Once you done the boss fights required for them once they are a joke to repeat after your group knows all the mechanics. Compare that to FFXI pre dynamis nerf which took like 2 years or so of gathering currency farming gil to buy currency to make a relic weapon. There if very little time investment to the FFXIV relics you can finish one in a day. I think I even had a day where I did 2 of them in 1 day when i was getting close to finishing "Armed to the Teeth"

[Toranja]

How do you justify it lore-wise? You don't.

[Zantetsuken]

I think I didin't make myself clear. And I agree with most of you guys until a certain point.
What I'm complaining about is the importance of the relic in the lore [...] But I feel like SE hyped everyone with the relic weapon as if it's the most important piece of weapon for your job, then they give you a RNG weapon.

Perhaps you're a bit hung up on FFXI's interpretation/treatment of 'relic weapons'?

The relic weapons we have now are almost more like "AF weapons".. they are the final piece to our AF gear (in design, at least), and the +1s are matched to the AF+1 armor.

When you think "relics", you might be thinking of the legendary FF final weapons such as: Masamune, Save the Queen, Excalibur, Ragnarok, Kain's Lance, Nirvana, God Hand, Genji Blade, Lionheart, etc..


The true 'legendary weapons' aren't in the game yet, and they won't be for some time.

[Dano]

why did you post a new thread when there's already one that's discussed to death?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ffed-to-ilvl95.

[Mishakai]

My 67 mustang is great. I've spent many years working on restoring it to better than original condition (+1). I literally cannot count the time put into this thing.

Picked up a 2010 Camaro SS. Aside from defeating the loan boss at the credit union (which I drove to in my mustang), can't say I've put that much effort going back and forth to shops. This thing blows the door off my mustang too!

Until I finish the 348 Stroker and 3.73 9" rear I'm building for it..

[Wyvernheart]

^troll harder

[AunaYuuki]

Relics are not the final weapons in game. Allagan weapons on t5 the majority of them are better in slot then Relic +1. There will be weapons better then them eventually. Relics are not really hard to get or un-common making them no where near end game.

[Tribunus]

The idea that relics must be at the same level or best in slot forever is absurd in a vertical gear progression based game and I hope they just drop them and be done with it. There too easy to get, everyone and their mother has one and they are not anywhere near as unique as was perhaps invisioned.

As a raiding entry level weapon they are great and serve the purpose, but SE please forget about them and move on.

[Crimsonforce]

sorry i skiped everything, but they might be adding more of the quest to upgrade them even more in 2.1?

[Vindicate]

Relic weapons can be done in under 2 hours if you exclude the 900 tomes.

Allagan weapons on the other hand require significantly more effort. On top of needing to down T5, there's ye olde RNG to deal with each week. Why shouldn't they be better for a bit?

Allagan Weapons in fact need even less time to obtain, its just the RNG that matters. A weapon drops every time anyways, and sooner or later, you get yours aswell for not too much of a hassle