I just don't understand why relics can't be "earn a crap ton of exp in x zone" or "kill Dynamis Lord 20 times" instead of this Arch Dynamis Lord non sense. Everyone's busy being dedicated to bargaining a compromise for ADL but I say screw that noise. Relic trials have a pattern up to level 95 involving Dynamis. Instead of doing the next logical trial of taking on the DL himself, they skip him for the Arch version. What the eff.

Did we learn NOTHING with augments and the playerbase? We WANT to work for our rewards. We WANT crap not handed to us on a silver platter. What we do NOT want is to never be able to achieve our frickin' goals. Make us do 200,000 exp in Xarc. Make us do 20 DLs. Make us do SOMETHING that is feasible with work. The days of little reward for our invested time is over. Accept it, or risk getting left behind by your customers for greener pastures. It really is that. damn. simple.

And I'm sorry for anyone who does not understand that and wants to applaud such content design decisions. But the fact is when a game reaches a certain point in it's life span, namely when the dev company cuts support for their flagship MMO to try to make a new MMO the new flagship MMO or customers beat you to the punch and start looking elsewhere for their dollars, you have to change your strategy up to maintain current customers. This is not maintaining customers. This is giving the middle finger to them. You might not intend for it to happen, but that's exactly what it is in our view.

We are an aging playerbase. We don't have what it takes anymore to be doing what we did years ago. We want to work for stuff. We just don't want it to be nigh impossible. There are already a select few who owns these weapons, relics, mythics AND Empyreans. Compared to the entire population yes it's a select few. We already paid our dues and then some. We really don't need to have level 99 trials on any ultimate weapons to be the most devastating trials ever. Not even Empyrean after the lv95 trials. I can see that regret with the fairly minor lv99 trial of x60 items. This was understood some time ago when, for example, relic weapon trails to start were seriously dialed the hell back from what they were originally. So, what up? Did you forget those trials? 2,000 kills? What's changed since then?

Ah well, I hope the JP are fussing a storm because I know this deal is in their hands.