Relic Weapons, is it worth it?

[Miguel85NYC]

In my opinion No. They are weaker then the Extreme weapons and Savage weapons.

Relics don't feel special anymore. And its Sad.

[BokoToloko]

Relic Weapons have only been BiS at the end of the expansion, and purely because they have customizable secondaries, contrary to Savage weapons.

It's always been like this. And the only places where gearing can mean the difference between a clear and a wipe is Savage and Extreme, where they already get their weapons. The only times a casual needs to gear up is to make it past iLvL requirements.

Are people discovering this just now? This has been going on for a decade already.

[Carstien]

This must be somebodies first relic grind because this is pretty tame in comparison to how it was. Would have some major crash-outs here if you guys had to do the atma grind of ARR or the HW light farm.

Sixty levelling roulettes. It is a lot, and the weapon is never relevant except for at the end of the expansion, it's been that way since ARR. You'll get over it.

[theunhappypotato]

i think its fine i like turning off my brains ometimesa and just grinding away at fates/levelling roulettes

[Moqi]

Relic Weapons have only been BiS at the end of the expansion, and purely because they have customizable secondaries, contrary to Savage weapons.

It's always been like this. And the only places where gearing can mean the difference between a clear and a wipe is Savage and Extreme, where they already get their weapons.

Are people discovering this just now? This has been going on for a decade already.

Yeah that's a weird question. They've been glorified glams since ARR.

[Connor]

This must be somebodies first relic grind because this is pretty tame in comparison to how it was. Would have some major crash-outs here if you guys had to do the atma grind of ARR or the HW light farm.

Sixty levelling roulettes. It is a lot, and the weapon is never relevant except for at the end of the expansion, it's been that way since ARR. You'll get over it.

Having obtained both of those relics (and Stormblood and Shadowbringers idk about Endwalker though) I can say I’d rather have or book grind than this bullcrap. At least you can just turn up wherever you want / Bozja / whatever and grind that way instead of having to slog your way through billions of outdated content.

ARR and HW by virtue of being so early didn’t have anywhere the amount of ‘dead content’ the game has now. They also didn’t have such bizarre and contradictory gameplay under level synch.

[Carstien]

Having obtained both of those relics (and Stormblood and Shadowbringers idk about Endwalker though) I can say I’d rather have or book grind than this bullcrap. At least you can just turn up wherever you want / Bozja / whatever and grind that way instead of having to slog your way through billions of outdated content.

ARR and HW by virtue of being so early didn’t have anywhere the amount of ‘dead content’ the game has now. They also didn’t have such bizarre and contradictory gameplay under level synch.

ARR relic had you going to every zone to do fates with a 2% drop rate, 12 in total so an average of 600 fates. With that being the average, some would do well over 1000 to get their atma's and you had to do it with a relic weapon equipped so no using it to level another job. That phase would have to be repeated for every single relic you wanted. Then there was the light grind. No, there was not nearly as much "dead" content but remember this content isn't dead for everybody, we ran into several new players doing our paste grind last night. It was fine, we did it.

Don't even get me started on the HW tome grind and yet another light grind, or just the materia grind of the ARR relic which is another step that makes these look simple and free. The amount of dead content really doesn't matter when you were all sitting in a zone for hours at a time just killing sprites.

[Kaurhz]

The relic weapons haven't really ever been 'worth' it.

Now if you want to ask whether they feel like relic weapons anymore? Nah, they are just glorified tome weapons.

[Reginald_Cain]

Forums been riddled with bait post like this for a while. Some have even been ai generated lmao

[Moqi]

ARR relic had you going to every zone to do fates with a 2% drop rate, 12 in total so an average of 600 fates. With that being the average, some would do well over 1000 to get their atma's and you had to do it with a relic weapon equipped so no using it to level another job. That phase would have to be repeated for every single relic you wanted. Then there was the light grind. No, there was not nearly as much "dead" content but remember this content isn't dead for everybody, we ran into several new players doing our paste grind last night. It was fine, we did it.

Don't even get me started on the HW tome grind and yet another light grind, or just the materia grind of the ARR relic which is another step that makes these look simple and free. The amount of dead content really doesn't matter when you were all sitting in a zone for hours at a time just killing sprites.

Having "recently" done 2 ARR relic and 2 HW relic, I have to say, I have quite enjoyed grinding for them now. More than spamming Eureka for that AST relic weapon for sure.