The Relic Quests are a great example of poor game design

[LineageRazor]

Buy the cheapest weapon for your Job in the Marketboard. Problem solved. (Then sell It after you don't need It, since you'll never use it)

Still an irritation. Need to find the correct vendor and travel there, then back again. Difficult? No. Expensive? No. Annoying? Yes. That's why it's bad design. There's no reason you should need to jump through those hoops, easy though they might be, and yet we must, all because the game was not designed to allow equipped items to be traded or upgraded. Hence, bad game design, the accusation made by the original player.

The fact that there's a workaround, and that it's an easy workaround, doesn't change the fact that we NEED a workaround. If you need a workaround, that's bad design, practically by definition.