Heavensward Relic weapons

[Saccharin]

Honestly hoping they continue the Zodiac chain. Spent the entirety of ARR working on it and I'm about to obtain Zeta. I'd love to be able to continue upgrading it throughout Heavensward.

I like the idea of continuing it but the practicality. Take new players for instance: do you want to grind for month and months and still not get a weapon of current expansion ilevel. this also works for new jobs too.

Recognition of the zodiac grind but a new weapon for level cap.

[RiceisNice]

I like the idea of continuing it but the practicality. Take new players for instance: do you want to grind for month and months and still not get a weapon of current expansion ilevel. this also works for new jobs too.

Recognition of the zodiac grind but a new weapon for level cap.

IIRC a long while back they'd said that whoever had finished zeta would get some sort of perk or bonus when it comes to 3.0's relic. Though they've been completely hush hush about that ever since.

[SirTaint]

IIRC a long while back they'd said that whoever had finished zeta would get some sort of perk or bonus when it comes to 3.0's relic. Though they've been completely hush hush about that ever since.

My guess is they will use the tome lockout to zeta holders advantage. The original zenith weapons took 3 weeks worth of tomes. If they let zeta holders skip a similar step it would be a nice nod for all our work.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

I wouldn't expect to get anything super awesome for relic in 3.0. Yoshi already said in an interview the 3.0 relics weren't going to be hard to get. So all players will get the initial relic pretty easy regardless of zeta.

Also if your on animus, it might be best to just get the archmagus rewards and build the poetic wpn with the encrypted tomestone and 10 rowena tokens of poetics. Its lvl 120 and upgradable to 130 with a carbontwine.

Itll still take you around 2-3 weeks but its a lot less hours total as apposed to trying to get 75 alexandrite, a whole bunch of light, gil, dungeon atma, ect.

Starting relic now would be kinda pointless as by the time you finish it wont be good for long.

[AdamuKun322]

I just got my Shield to Novus and the Sword is still at Animus. I am considering just getting the Ironworks Sword to hold me over. It's still a top tier weapon. Not BiS, but still a fairly decent blade.

[Wizarus]

I certainly hope the relic quest is continued to 3.0, or they better make a late-game SCH book stacked with ACC

[Craiger]

Yoshi-P have said they were working on some way to compensate the people who got Zeta, but really... is it really something special to have a Zeta?

You can decide to get a Zeta from scratch, and have it within 3 weeks if you farm a lot. I know not everyone have that time, but still, you could have started to follow the upgrades to relic so long ago, that it really isn't something special to have Zeta now.

You see Zeta wielders everywhere you look, and many even have multiples. I have 2, and I could have many more if I wanted.

If the people who had Zeta got privileges other the ones who don't, you wouldn't see much difference, because everyone have it anyways.

[Maero]

But surely they understand that even the first steps takes a lot of time. Killing 900 monsters, doing 27 dungeons, 27 leves and 27 fates takes a lot of time and commitment. I don't want to feel like it has been time wasted.

Not to offend you but you have only begun. I had started my Relic way back before they increased atma drop rates, that was hell. 4 months just to get all 12 atmas, now it takes less then a week. Also for animus the books cost 1500 tomes back in the day and also fate spawn rate was far worst.
Also the Zodiac line if they do not increase drop rate by the time you get to it you will also see that this step is hell as well.
So yeah only those that have Zeta should have a head start really.

Also to add to the Zeta nothing special and so on, well it is if you actually add the correct stats for the class, some people add stats that are not beneficial at all.

[Gunspec]

People with a zeta might just skip a short phase somewhere in the new questline. Like, normal players will have to run some favors in order to meet someone with expertise making weapons , but people who finished Zeta will simply talk to 2.0 relic NPCs and jump ahead a few steps. Gerolt says "go talk to my brother", and we don't have to fetch an extra 50 bear pelts.

[Viridiana]

Yoshi-P have said they were working on some way to compensate the people who got Zeta, but really... is it really something special to have a Zeta?

You can decide to get a Zeta from scratch, and have it within 3 weeks if you farm a lot.

If you're going entirely off of post-nerf rates, sure. If you're going off of the rates of things as they came out, that three weeks would get you a Zenith, not a Zeta.