Guess that Relic Weapon!

[CrystZ]

I think Astrologian will be "Save the Queen". (Considering the Queen card is within a deck of Cards) XD

Isn't "Save the Queen" usually a sword?

[Craiger]

I didn't say I know anything, I said it's not likely. Unless you work for SE you don't know what those weapons in the trailers were either so that useless argument can work both ways...

Expansions usually attract a lot of new players. As a result it would be incredibly poor game design to have an ongoing quest from before the expansion be a requirement to obtain and progress relic weapons going forwards. I know a lot of you are in love with your weapons and all the time and effort you've poured into them but it's just not realistic from a design standpoint for them to continue to upgrade through multiple expansions. A new player joining after 3.0 would have to waste weeks doing old content that no one is interested in any more to get their relic just so they can upgrade it to deal with level 60 content... you see the problem? It would put any new players off completely, and SE wouldn't want that.

I do think there will be a relic equivalent in the expansion (possibly those weapons in the trailers), but it will be a new quest, not an extension of the current one. I wasn't trying to suggest the thread was pointless or anything, just that I don't think those new weapons will be relics but rather something else. I actually quite like the idea of Cerberus for Machinist. Astrologian is going to be difficult to predict anything for though because it's an entirely new weapon type to the series as far as I'm aware.

Yeah..

I'm 99% certain all gear we have right now and get until 3.0, will be easily replaced in the expansion... And I'm also almost sure that a player that levels from 1-60, doesn't have to care about the higher gear at level 50.

The Zodiac arc is going to end after the weapon is upgraded to ilvl 135 or whatever it will end at, and then there will be something new for the expansion, which I predict won't have anything to do with the current relics.

Also, like someone else here mentioned, there are only 12 Zodiac weapons, and there will be 13 jobs in the expansion... Just another hint that the new jobs won't get them.

[XgungraveX]

One of Merlwyb's muskets is already called Death Penalty iirc, so that name is unlikely. Though it was the name of the mythic weapon for the Corsair in FFXI...

I think Fomalhaut is the best bet for Machinist, something along those lines. Also possible is Annihilator and the Exeter.

For DRK, I would say Deathbringer is most likely, for Astrologian, Final Trump (though I suspect we will get something more unique this time around)

what i was going with Vincent Valentine's ultimate weapon.

[ZanzhizExaverion]

<- Still waiting on confirmation if farming Alexandrite and Atma for DRK is a wasted effort.

[Shioban]

Isn't "Save the Queen" usually a sword?

Sometimes, yes.
Sometimes, no.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Save_the_Queen

[Eul]

Astrologian - The World

[EdwinLi]

Well there are 12 in existance but for now it is unknown what they will call 3.0 Iconic Weapons.

1 Relic/Zodiac is missing if you consider that Kan-E-Senna is wielding the 11th Relic/Zodiac weapon called Claustrum.

But I guess they could just add the lore that the 12th Relic/Zodiac weapon belongs to a NPC like how Claustrum belongs to Kan-E-Senna.

Though this is a thread made for the fun game of guessing the Iconic weapon for Machinist, Astrologian, and Dark Knight.

and right now the Iconic Weapon are only called Relic/Zodiac until they release the official name for any 3.0 Iconic Weapon planned.

Yeah..

I'm 99% certain all gear we have right now and get until 3.0, will be easily replaced in the expansion... And I'm also almost sure that a player that levels from 1-60, doesn't have to care about the higher gear at level 50.

The Zodiac arc is going to end after the weapon is upgraded to ilvl 135 or whatever it will end at, and then there will be something new for the expansion, which I predict won't have anything to do with the current relics.

Also, like someone else here mentioned, there are only 12 Zodiac weapons, and there will be 13 jobs in the expansion... Just another hint that the new jobs won't get them.

I'm taking 3.0 Main Scenario access with a grain of salt and assuming that players will still be required to playthrough 2.X Main Scenario before they can get into 3.0 Main Scenario which would still require a ilvl 70 or higher, I think, gears to meet the requirement for all the Dungeons and Trials in 2.X Main Scenario.

[jojober]

Since Astrologian uses a globe type thing, relic will be a condensed version of Bugenhagen's observatory!

[Shane_Leonhart]

Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but there were 12 Zodiac Braves, I don't recall hearing that there were only 12 weapons. For all we know one of 'em used multiple weapons. Anyhow, for 3.0, the only two routes I see them going with is either continue the current relic questline (thus requiring the new jobs to do it and keep old content relevant into the expansion) or just do a full on a reset and give us a new relic thing to work on from scratch, which is more likely to happen.

Dark Knight's weapon... Deathbringer is the only one that comes to mind off the top of my head. Not even sure where to begin with Machinist or Astrologian though.

[kyuven]

Astrologian: Philosopher's Stone