Relic quest Vs. Future Weapons?

[IceSpear]

Is the Relic Quest worth the time and work when you can just get the a different weapon e.g. Final coil? Just wondering, because I don't want to put all this time and effort in then a few patches later a weapon that beat the Relic hands down comes out...

[CGMidlander]

Relic is constantly updated.
It could be behind the coil weapons like now, or BiS for a short time like Nexus was.

[FranSeara]

Its worth it if you don't have any way to try Final Coil. It seems like the Devs will always update relics and give players a choice on how to arm themsleves.

[Zophar]

I'd say it really depends. For example, can you get a Dreadwyrm weapon faster than you can complete the most current step of zodiac? If the answer is yes, then good for you. If no, then it's worth it even if just to help you clear content to replace it.

[Maero]

For the simple fact that you can do coil with alternative weapons until you get Dreawyrm or Augmented Ironworks, is it worth it? That is questionable. I agree with what Zophar has stated.

[Iagainsti]

The Devs did say that the relic weapons will be upgradable throughout the levelling 50-60 and stated that it will have its place just like your Relic and Relic+1 did early endgame.

[Sessurea]

The Devs did say that the relic weapons will be upgradable throughout the levelling 50-60 and stated that it will have its place just like your Relic and Relic+1 did early endgame.

I do wonder though.....do they mean u NEED current relic for post expansion relic?

Relics are super useful when a new raid comes along. Also useful if u have terrible luck with raid weapons. Augmented weapons will always be more than good enough, but is that good enough for you? Will you be happy using augmented crep when u could have 135 relic? All boils down to that I guess.

[Frozenbear]

TLDR
Yes, get your relic done.
Unless you are farming final coil everything else is just so/so compared to a personaly tailored relic. And once you get it caught up upgrading it to be current to each new patch isnt that bad.
need less lights now, atma easier, spiritbonding easy. no reason not to.

[Iagainsti]

I do wonder though.....do they mean u NEED current relic for post expansion relic?

Relics are super useful when a new raid comes along. Also useful if u have terrible luck with raid weapons. Augmented weapons will always be more than good enough, but is that good enough for you? Will you be happy using augmented crep when u could have 135 relic? All boils down to that I guess.

I want to believe Relic +6, bc if they fast track it at xpac time, I and everyone else who took the grind to heart (2% atma farming fml, books for 1200 myth >X) will feel duped.

[LalaRu]

If it is true that a new relic path comes with expansion, I'll check that.
Yep this relic always ugradable, but the path from vanilla relic to latest, become more and more difficult to follow for a new player, with every patch adding steps to that. On vanilla XIV we were able to get 2nd best weapon with a little quest chain, and "just" killing the first three hard primals. Said "just" because at that time, iLevel made that kills an achievement. But anyway doable in a fraction of the time a new player have to put today to get same result, aka to get one of the top 10 best weapons.