The Relic Weapons

[Whiteprincess]

Its made to be a time sink and a way to help bring traffic to old content. We pretty much become employees for them and our reward is a shiny weapon that will be a downgrade after several or a few months. That and some ppl actually think grinding is fun.

[Nekotee]

Last I recall the relic weapon is here to reward people taking time to do it
If the ground is so huge it's because it's suppose to take time to have it

And I agree the atma book are the most boring part but they are now extremely easier to achieve and cost nothing
The light part are also insanely fun because you just have to farm sastacha lv15 in 3 min again and again, then 1h later your weapon is ready XD

[Maero]

Some are saying it's easy because it is. Before any nerf whatsoever some of us it had taken 4 months or more of grinding fates for the 12 atma, the dungeon drop stage was better but still very bad, also light was rather long. Now it's a breeze.
The book stage, and not even kidding here fates would take up to 3 hrs to spawn. So 4+ months, compaired to now max 2 weeks
Current Anima Relic because can add some custom stats is 2nd best weapon atm for most if not all jobs with the weapon from Savage being the best.

[Niqote]

Because it is a Relic.
Something that is so valuable that it is unique in look, upgrade-able through several stages, has its own lore and cutsenes and its own unique set of items that are developed only to get a relic weapon.

It takes time and effort because time and effort went into implementing them, and its a valuable tool to keep older content running here and there.

[Nora_of_Mira]

Its honestly only as hard as you make it. The Anima weapons are "meant" to be done over time (usually 2-3 months on average). If you wanted to get it in 1-2 weeks, yeah, you're gonna have a bad time. I'm taking the very casual route to finishing my Anima and also working 40hrs/5days, so I can relate. I just do a few daily roulettes (not minding if I miss one) to get Esoterics and Poetics, spend my allowances getting Vilekin, and doing the 24-man raids once a week. It's really just become part of the background things I do while playing FFxiv, thats the only way I can make it feel like "non-work".


Edit: I just realized you're talking about the old relic, not the current one. Whoops

[Melondra]

(If I recalled it use to be 10X of 5 different mobs + 3 Dungeon Bosses per page)X3 per book X 15 Books

total 50 Mobes 6 bosses 3 Fates per book
I belever there were 12 books at the time so we had to do 600 Mobs 36 Dungeon Bosses and 36 Fates wich could take anywhere from 2-3 hours per spawn.

[Felis]

Im assuming then that Raid weapons are better then any level of the Relic weapons? Even the highest possible (Reconditioned Anima)?

best Raid ilevel = best Relic ilevel +5 (currently it is ilevel 245 for best raid weapon and ilevel 240 for best relic weapon)
If better or worse depend of the secondary stats on the raid weapon.

Also you don't need ilevel 70-130 relic questline to start the anima weapon questline (start with ilevel 170).

[Radacci]

relic is the ultimate weapon in the game that can be obtained without raiding , it is supposed to be difficult to get , otherwise it will be just like any other weapon without any sense of achievement

ultimate weapon...lol.
usually it's the same lv as other weps you can get, and only catch up to raid weps a month before new raid weps are released.
the good part about this step, is that you can choose stats, unlike before when many weps had shit stats, so there was no point in getting them.
relic is usually waste of time, when you could just kill seph, and get an equally good wep.
what lv is new step? i guess it's 235, and apparently nidhogg is easy, so it's faster to just kill him, and get a 235 weps, for much less hassle.
relic is just vanity item - e-peen for the elite players who race to be first to get it, and afk a week in idyll, to show off.

[Vaer]

New step is 240 but takes a while to do. Customizable stats and an extra tier V materia melded into it as a bonus. (Basically it's like a weapon with 3 V's melded IIRC, which so far is impossible on other weapons since most weapons only have 2 slots)

Depending on your job's lore weapon secondaries the relic will be slightly better than it even when it gets up to 240. Not by much though. Only way to get accuracy on a weapon which helps healers a lot if they don't want to spend money on penta melds or can free up some melds for other stuff like VIT on accessories.

For non min-maxers, doesn't matter too much as the difference is small enough to not be worth the effort most of the time but that's always been the case with relic.

[Felis]

ultimate weapon...lol.
usually it's the same lv as other weps you can get, and only catch up to raid weps a month before new raid weps are released.

I guess the current step need around 1 month to finish. That would be 2 month before the next raid.
What is the average time between new raid comin ingame and new raid weapon in the hand?