Quote Originally Posted by Mansion View Post
I guess... what's bad about it?
Relics were the "hardest" crafts along with the Ishgard things, but you can craft pretty much everything else with basic melds on a crafter gear. These additions are just bonuses to collect. We don't need stat improvements at this time of the expansion.
It depends.

1) If they have stats on them that are better than the relics, they invalidated months of work for the DoH relics.

2) If they don't have stats on them: Pentamelded Neo-Asthete's weapons are better than the current relics so that basically invalidates the relics (they were obtainable a while before the current relic step)

So your options on the relic are either

A) Spend time creating a relic that is subpar to a fully penta melded craftable item. This is counter to what the relic is supposed to be. At the end of the expansion the relic is supposed to be the best weapon you can have

B) Spend millions of gil attempting to pentameld a crafted item.

C) Don't really care either way and just buy the white scrip gear or buy /craft the Aesthete's and don't penta meld it. You don't NEED to anyway to make current crafts.

IMHO the crafting relic has been underwhelming the entire expansion. I hope the do better (if they do) next time.