Thread: Is it true about RELICS in 3.0?!

I feel sorry for those people who have spent hours, days, weeks, months on their Relic Weapons, and many of them several Relic Weapons.
But, I guess there was always a chance that the Relic would be replaced sooner or later.
Good thing for the new people that recently jumped into FXIV, as they don't have to feel all to left out with the new exp and a "fresh start" when it comes to gearing up.
I hope the "compensation" from owning a fully upgraded Relic in 2.x will be somewhat acceptable by the community.

Originally Posted by Evergrey

I feel sorry for those people who have spent hours, days, weeks, months on their Relic Weapons, and many of them several Relic Weapons.

They mentioned that people who DID complete the relic would be "taken into consideration," with no details further provided.

Also, the new relic isn't coming until 3.1, which is at LEAST a month to two months after launch. So the old relics will remain relevant for at least that long, as they've ALSO said our dreadwyrm/ironworks gear will "keep" a little longer than we're expecting.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...d_other_stuff/
"POE-cap isn't being raised/removed because IL130 is a little high in the early stages of Ishgarde. (previous off record interviews mentioned that they'll be relevant up to l55)"

Seems to me ironwork/dreadwyrm will be good for first half of expansion only.

Originally Posted by Evergrey

I feel sorry for those people who have spent hours, days, weeks, months on their Relic Weapons, and many of them several Relic Weapons.

Why? Gear is meant to be replaced. It's just a stepping stone to allow you to tackle harder content and acquire better gear. We got our relics, our relics served their purpose, and now we're replacing them with something better.

Originally Posted by Zaft

Why? Gear is meant to be replaced. It's just a stepping stone to allow you to tackle harder content and acquire better gear. We got our relics, our relics served their purpose, and now we're replacing them with something better.

Yes, but if they throw all that out the window, frankly I won't ever bother doing another relic. It's one thing to replace easily acquired tome and dungeon gear, relic is something else. It's so legendary we might as well throw it away? Haha.

If it means so little in HW, I will never trust that a relic quest is worth doing again.

"Just don't do it then!" Yeah, I probably won't. Because apparently "legendary relic" means nothing.

Originally Posted by seida

Yes, but if they throw all that out the window, frankly I won't ever bother doing another relic. It's one thing to replace easily acquired tome and dungeon gear, relic is something else. It's so legendary we might as well throw it away? Haha.

If it means so little in HW, I will never trust that a relic quest is worth doing again.

"Just don't do it then!" Yeah, I probably won't. Because apparently "legendary relic" means nothing.

That's just life in MMOs. Every legendary weapon on WoW, which took months to obtain, was replaced by expansion loot, never to be used again. But for the time we used them, they served our purpose. And now we're on to bigger and better things.

Originally Posted by GenJoe

What did you think it meant when the level cap was being raised?

When I heard that HW will raise the level cap, I quit my relic grind. We all knew it was coming..

Well, they could've made that further upgrading your Relic would also increase it's lvl usage.
So in the end it would've ended up as a lvl 60 weapon.

But we now know that's not the case.

Originally Posted by seida

Yes, but if they throw all that out the window, frankly I won't ever bother doing another relic. It's one thing to replace easily acquired tome and dungeon gear, relic is something else. It's so legendary we might as well throw it away? Haha.

If it means so little in HW, I will never trust that a relic quest is worth doing again.

"Just don't do it then!" Yeah, I probably won't. Because apparently "legendary relic" means nothing.

did you honestly expect anything else? To have thought that the ARR relics would remain important or meaningful in HW, no offense, is just delusional. I am working on my third zodiac weapon right now, fully knowing that I'd be replacing them at some point in HW, because, that's what you do in an rpg. You get gear, you replace gear. ESPECIALLY in an MMORPG. Guess what else, I'll be doing the new relic stuff as well. and I'll expect that those will be replaced as well in the expansion after, cuz that's logic.