Ok...let me level with you here SE...

[DrForester]

We have been seeing a lot of pretty fierce comments in regards to the trials to upgrade Relic/Mythic/Empyrean weapons and I feel the need to comment on a couple of things.

The number of items necessary
Let me start off with an explanation and apology.

While we did mention that the number was temporary, it seems like many of you misunderstood that and took the numbers we posted as indicators of the actual values. Instead, we should have used numbers like 1 or 9999 to make it abundantly clearer that these numbers were temporary.

I do not want to risk confusing you all even more, so I will make this simple. The difficulty (as well as time necessary) of obtaining the items necessary to upgrade each type of gear will be, in order of increasing difficulty, Mythic > Relic > Empyrean. As such, the number of items necessary to upgrade each type of gear will not be the same between the sets of trials.

As an adjustment to the time required for both creating and enhancing Mythic weapons, we are trying to increase the amount of zeni received for each soulplate traded, so you receive over 10 times the amount. (Currently on the test server the data has been changed so you receive 15 times as much)

With this as a basis, we are currently looking into and testing the appropriate amount of items, as well as the content of trials up until now and the obtainment paths for the required items. Once the amount has been decided after the investigation, we will be announcing the information along with the detailed thought process behind it.

In the meantime, we ask that you please stop focusing discussions on the idea that these values on the test server are the actual values that are to be implemented.

I have to be reading this wrong. Mythic is going to require the most time and effort to upgrade? It's already nearly impossible to obtain a mythic and you're making it have the hardest magian upgrade? Seriously, one single part of the Mythic Weapon quests requires twice the effort required for an entire relic weapon, and you're going to make it harder for people who go through that to upgrade?

You've unbalanced dynamis so much that people are getting Relic weapons left and right, yet all you're going to do for Mythic is increase the Alex drop rate rather than address the incredibly unbalanced reality that you need to obtain nearly twice as much Alexandrite as you do ancient currency (and Alexandrite is only part of the Mythic weapon quest line).

What the heck is wrong with you people...