Coming back to the game after a long hiatus I now realize that I should never have bothered spending so much money and time doing the 2.0 Relic quest because -- despite claims the developers made at the time -- 3.0 abandoned the chain and created a new "Atma weapon" Relic quest.

Now I see that I can just buy ilv 200 weapon with tomes. Sure, it's not ilv210 but does that really matter? From my understanding the new quests don't even let you select some of the stats for the weapon, which is one of the advantages I saw in the zodiac quest.

I get the impression the Relic Weapon quests were not well thought out.