Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
To be perfectly honest: your "point" comes across as "waah waah I didn't get what I expected!11" kind of whining.

Would it be nice to be able to pick the stats? Sure.
Is it a necessity? No.

If you have a better weapon from a raid, and like how the relic looks -> glamour and be done with it. At least until they make the stats variable again in the later stages.

As for the companion weapon: If I remember correctly, SE didn't plan on doing another relic, that's why HW shipped w/o such a quest chain. They are only inputting it now because of community demand (or the need to repopulate dead areas of content like FATES and leveling dungeons).
And you don't even see my point nor argue against what I'm saying. I'm not sure if I'm arguing with someone or a tool. People are comparing the first stage relic of 3.x like the first stage of 2.x (which is a lie and I gave my points already)

- I invested the current grind. Atma farm, dungeon grinding, law/hunts/dungeon grind (alexander normal woooo)/beast-tribe(okay, this is new. yeahhhhh no thx), hq crafted items. 100% was there in 2.x. Lack of originality. This is recycled content and recycled code. It doesn't take much time to change names on a code you already have and works. The only thing they've work is the finished stage of the relic sprite. Really cheap and fast to make.
- This could have been there at the launch. If they wanted the relic to be exactly the same than 2.x. It was easy to release the first 2 steps and put the weapon at iLevel 190-200.
- They removed a key feature from relic : custom stats. This price is high if we consider we waited 5-6 months.

Those are the main point I'm against this Relic. If you think I'm simply a whiner, then you don't read or you're a tool and you aren't worth arguing with. I,d like to hear what is good about the 3.15 Relic grind? As far as I'm concerned, the only valid arguments are:
- Catch up for none-raider (Even the crap BLM relic is better than 205 Thordan's Staff)
- This is a really good time sink for the lack of content.

I don't see better reasons. Customization was the main attraction and reason for many players and it's not there right now.