Relic weapons should have been soul gems, what do you think?

[Steeled]

One thing that bugs me about relic weapons, and all gear, is they don't actually enhance the job in any manner. I tried to think of how they might enhance the jobs, but then the problem comes, as it did with WoW's legendaries, and XI's Relics - people want to keep them longer than they should. Suppose the paladin shield increased blocking by 10% more, or the warrior axe increased healing received by 10% (or 5, just numbers), or the whm relic added a hate-less hot to every heal for 10%. People might not want to take that off when new content came out with better weapons, or other weapons (An alternative warrior axe might increase defense by 10%, for instance, but the warrior might feel healing received was better, even if the new axe had better damage).

But we've got these silly soul gems that are unique. We'll probably have them until the day each of us can no longer play. Perhaps, in the future, other gems for the same job could be fused together.

I would like to see some gear enhancing the strengths of our jobs. Since we can't gearswap, it would never get out-of-hand quite like XI did (three different sets to cast a single spell) and would never become so cumbersome on inventory.

You pretty much just want the stats that 1.0 relics had on them, much the way stats were on alot of gear in 1.0. They changed it so people wouldnt get to confused when picking gear out in 2.0 lol.

I have heard briefly that the gear did have some unique stats and I can't imagine why they'd remove it. It just.... all feel so bland.

The only reason my warrior isn't interested in my paladin's valor [x] is because it doesn't say warrior on it...

...and that is silly. Some pieces, like Cleric and Argute gloves, have identical stats.

It would have been neat for relics to be gems, and be something truly unique to the job. Our weapons are only different because we can't use other job's weapons. There's nothing actually unique about them.