Looks like the next level of Relic is about to come..

[Zumi]

I think it's silly for them to talk about "true powers" this early on. Because there's no way this is the last round of Relic upgrades, and it's going to feel cheap if we keep unlocking their true, no for real we mean it this time powers.

But anyway. I hope it's something cool and not just a stat/glow upgrade, but I'm not holding my breath. New abilities, random procs, enhancements to existing abilities would all be very cool.

They can't give the weapons a special effect without upping the stats, because weapon damage has the greatest effect on overall dps. Like if they gave a weapon a slow proc, or a paralyze proc, gives you shock spikes (FFXI drg relic), stun proc, gives you regen proc, drain hp proc, poison proc. Out of all those procs I listed the only one that gives a dps increase is a poison proc.

You can't just give a relic some proc and not increase its base states and weapon damage otherwise nobody would use relics because they would have weaker overall dps. Its really hard to balance procs, which is why they have to up the stats.

If relics just got a proc with no stat increases any other weapon that is the same ilvl as a relic would destroy the relic in terms of dps