Quote Originally Posted by Creelo View Post
The problem I have with this Relic trial is that it simply cannot be low-manned; it's completely inconsistent with how relics can be made now.
That's exactely the "Carrot on a stick" I was talking about.
The same "carrot on a stick" Camate was told to reassure us about.
The same "carrot on a stick" which wasn't supposed to be and that, just like most of us were afraid of, is happening.

You can solo a Relic, but then you need an alliance to get the last stage which was supposed to be "for everyone" because:

Quote Originally Posted by Camate View Post
They don’t want to dangle a carrot in front of everyone saying, “you can make these weapons even more powerful!” and then make it so only small fraction of players achieve this.

It's completely unbalanced.
Tbh there would be a lot to say about Empyrean trial as well, but probably nobody cares anymore because lolempys etc.
The new WSs changed the in-game balance for the majority (all?) of empyrean weapons, the fact that we hardly play inside of abyssea anymore did the rest.
Atm Empyreans are looking to become inferior to their relic/mythic counterpart, but they're also looking harder to get to 99, considering the lv95 and lv99 cockblocks.
And we all know how players feel about doing something harder to get something weaker...
This doesn't sound very "balanced" to me. The 1500 plates was a cockblock big enough to stop people from further advancing into Empy trials, and it will be even harder in the future as people moves even more into newer content and Heavy Plates will become more and more and more and more rare.