Relic weapon: what should I do?

[dragonseth07]

Hello! I'm going to be hitting level 50 soonish, so I did some reading on relic weapons.

From the sound of it, I can either level up the 50 weapon to the 60 weapon in one huge endeavor, or tack on an extra step at level 60 to skip the 50 version and go right to 60.

Is the 50 version worth going through and upgrading? Or is it better to coast to 60 and skip it?

[Alistaire]

Skip. The 50 relic isn't required for anything anymore (used to be you needed to do part of it to unlock coil). If you did finish it, it removes a step you can do in a day easily for the 60 relic, and takes much more work than that to do.

[Atoli]

The "extra step" at the start of the 60 relic has been nerfed already, it's just doing a handful of FATEs and you are done with it.
Absolutely not worth it to do the 50 relic for it.

But the 50 relic is very nice-looking, so you might want to keep it in mind to one day maybe do it for glamour

[Launched]

Don't do either of them. Get one of the weapons that are much easier to obtain and use the time you would have spent grinding relic doing something that's actually fun.

[Moomba33]

The 50 relic is just glamour at this point.
Do it if you want access to the weapon models or are interested in the quests, skip it if you just want a strong weapon at 60.
It'd be much faster to do all the steps at 60 than to do the entire 50 relic just to skip the first step.

Relic weapons in general are long grinds. There are quicker and easier weapons to get at 60 if all you want is something strong to use. The relic is worthwhile if you like having a long term goal to grind away at between patches.

[Dorander]

If you want it for the glamour, do it. If you want it for the sake of: "Will it be useful?," skip it. It (the level 50 relic) caps at item level 135 when it's fully completed. You'll easily get weapons through the MSQ all the way up to 60 that you'll be replacing quickly, and the first part of the level 60 relic weapon quest is just a fate grind for crystals.

[CaptainLagbeard]

I don't think it's worth to get the level 50 Relic and upgrading it... It's probably faster to get to 60 than going through all the stuff needed to get it finished all the way to the end.

And even if you did, all it would do is reduce the amount of FATEs you need to do at 60 for the first step of the Anima weapon.

[Atoli]

Don't do either of them. Get one of the weapons that are much easier to obtain and use the time you would have spent grinding relic doing something that's actually fun.

Except that..you can totally do whatever you consider fun and that will progress the relic, because you can do the 60 relic steps with just about any content

Also, other weapons are random, stats may suck in one patch or be good in another. Relic is always an alternative stat set-up, and in later stages even let's you choose your own stats.
AND unless you do really well in raiding (which most of the playerbase does not), Relic is the only way to obtain a weapon with a similar item level in the same patch.
So yes, it is actually worth it (the 60 one, not the 50 one).

And even if you did, all it would do is reduce the amount of FATEs you need to do at 60 for the first step of the Anima weapon.

No it actually let's you skip that step completely. Not a single fate needs to be done
But since the step was nerfed, you get a crystal in nearly every FATE, so it will only take 1-2 hours to finish the first step now.

[dragonseth07]

Thank you for the information. I will probably go back and do the 50 for glamour eventually, but that will be down the road.

Thank you again.

[LaylaTsarra]

The 50 relic quest is classic. It's worth running for the experience of having done it. It's where it all started and you'll get to know Gerolt. I would recommending doing it first.