Quote Originally Posted by Talraen View Post
You can take that exact same journey without having RDM or SAM anima weapons. You can do it with any of the pre-Stormblood jobs, or you can even do them on RDM or SAM by just doing all the busywork of the anima quest without actually doing the quests.

Even if you assume people with a relic are generally better, I don't think that assumption holds for people who get a relic once the content is obsolete. They can overgear or even unsync all of the relevant content. It just tells me they're persistent.
There really isn't much reason for SAM and RDM to do what the quest requires. The requirements for the previous two relics, when you boil it down is just doing what most people do throughout their gaming days. They eat up poetics and GC seals like there is no tomorrow, so you run countless dungeons, roulettes, and beast tribes for both quest and poe/seal grind purposes. They can also eat up gil if you don't have your own crafters leveled, or help from one. I did say the journey itself is rewarding, but not the only reward. You still want to yield the fruit of all your labor as well.

And I would have to disagree. Synced or unsynced, geared or over geared; it is still a lot of content you have to go through to complete these things. I never said that this person will play at a savage level, but you can keep your expectations of players in possession of a relic a little higher. You can take them more seriously because they take there job very seriously. You would have to be in order to be "persistent". This persistence you speak of applies to more than just acquisition of the relic; it's also applies to just overall experience in that particular class and role.