Quote Originally Posted by Ehr View Post
The 2.x relic is at this point just for fun and for glamour. Trying to do the old relic for the ability to skip a step of the HW relic would actually take way longer than the single step you skip in the new relic. However I do recommend finishing the very first quest for at least one weapon (the quest that gets you the base relic, the i80 one) just to get access to the Binding Coil of Bahamut raid (if that requirement still exists).
The requirement was actually beating Titan HM. Not sure if it still exists but that was it.