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

[Mergadeth]

a bit off topic but those bard shoes look terrible. Thank god for glamours.....

[Reishi]

a bit off topic but those bard shoes look terrible. Thank god for glamours.....

I love the new bard shoes! They look way better than anything we had so far. Most of all Coil Boots, just terrible...

[KrenianKandos]

If those are the new relic weapons like it's pretty much being agreed upon, then I love the look of the PLD weapon.

Stoked to get it!

[Sfarzoso]

Plenty of upgrades for relic! Ssj relic! Ssj2 relic! ...bah.. Let's cheat... Aaaaarrrrrg!!! *super secret powers burrowed from primals* ssj4 relic fused all together!

[Kuroyasha]

That bow though.....THAT BOW THOUGH.....

[SirSaber]

That bow though.....THAT BOW THOUGH.....

THAT BOW THOUGH !

I like that Bow !

[NintenPyjak64]

I haven't actually discarded my relic, was just a hypothetical. I've actually never seen a game where you get an item, get a better item, then are expected to still be holding onto the older one.

XI's SAM class was an example of this. For unlocking the class they gave you an easily replaceable level 1 Great Katana which was later used for the level 40 AF weapon. If you discarded it you'd have to go out of your way to talk to an NPC to get a new one, which took about 3 real life hours for the NPC to give you a new one

[therpgfanatic]

Those are new relics. The whole spiel about forgeries and whatnot is merely more added lore pertaining to Gerolt, might have something to do with the new quests perhaps, but that's likely about it. I am looking forward to these. I hope that the new book for Summoners looks cool, but tbh, I want to see what all the new relic weapons that haven't been shown look like.

I'm sorry, but unless you work for Square-Enix and have deep insight into the matter, you're speculating as much as anyone else is.

Again, I doubt it's a new look. That's totally new armor being shown, and there are no relic armours.

[NintenPyjak64]

there are no relic armours.

Our current Myth gear is technically classified as Relic armor according to SE. I believe this was stated in the Live stream where they show off AF2 concept arts

[Ecks007]

I'm sorry, but unless you work for Square-Enix and have deep insight into the matter, you're speculating as much as anyone else is.

Again, I doubt it's a new look. That's totally new armor being shown, and there are no relic armours.

Um.. I never said anything about relic armors. Relics refer to the weapons. That being said, the armors shown are some of the new tome armors. You can think I'm speculating, and I suppose I am partially. Though aside from these three pictures they are also displayed in the new 2.2 video during the Moogle King Extreme part, where a Warrior is wearing the same gear shown in the picture that the Pld is wearing (in fact I believe that section of the video shows all the new tome gear and new relic weapons, but it is rather hard to make out details on a lot of the characters). It's the new tome tank set, these armors are too unique looking to match any dungeon drops you'd see at level 50 or any crafted armors that have been shown and given the look of these they are far more detailed than any crafted armors that we have seen or will see with 2.2.

Speaking of crafted armor, it's about time we get dye-able versions of the lvl 15 unique dungeon armors. Who knows, maybe 2.3 will add the dye-able versions of the Brayflox sets.

I'm not saying we won't perhaps eventually get dye-able crafted gear that is actually interesting looking and unique, but given the current trend, I would bet on seeing anything that's going to be brand new in 2.2 have a craftable version of it any time in the near or even semi distant future.