Relic: Your progress on the Grind.

Have completed bard and drk relics.... Iono... If a start a third one...someone shoot me pls... :x

If I complete a 5th though I should be allowed to summon a megazord mount.

But then I'd have to farm like 5 really hard to get coins and I'm not sure how I feel about that. And of course, having a evil witch hunt me down wouldn't be great either. But likely I'd probably just mess up her plans most of the time, so that's good I guess.

I was in no huge hurry. The only reason the first one went so long was because I fell asleep while in queue.

Our FC airships eventually came back from hunting Zu tokens, so I got it done with one of those:

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And I should get my final oil for the i230 tomorrow, so good timing!

@Ibi

Gratz on finishing your i210 Relic!

These Crafted Mats are going to be a pain though, but I will finish this.

Honestly, the entire relic weapon system feels like some small niche of die hards somewhere screamed: I want my old school grind! And then the developers decided to throw this in there. I wouldn't be bothered by it so much if it was more designed around some tough fights you need to bring three buddies along with to complete or something along with a good quest chain built around pushing your class knowledge to the extreme. Right now this is almost pointless to do.

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Originally Posted by Colt47

Honestly, the entire relic weapon system feels like some small niche of die hards somewhere screamed: I want my old school grind! And then the developers decided to throw this in there. I wouldn't be bothered by it so much if it was more designed around some tough fights you need to bring three buddies along with to complete or something along with a good quest chain built around pushing your class knowledge to the extreme. Right now this is almost pointless to do.

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Actually the reverse is true. Relic is something for casuals to work towards over a series of months. Hardcore raiders will have raid weapons, which are always available sooner and are usually stronger.

I'm not saying I agree with it, because I don't, but poopsocking your way to anima in the first week was never intended. You WILL eventually get it if you're playing regularly. Unless you're spending all your eso on something else and you're not doing beast tribes at all.

I'm having so much trouble getting the unidentified items. I have 0/7/1/20. Maybe I should figure out beast tribes to see if that will make it easier. Any tips are appreciated

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Originally Posted by RukiaFae

I'm having so much trouble getting the unidentified items. I have 0/7/1/20. Maybe I should figure out beast tribes to see if that will make it easier. Any tips are appreciated

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Just do roulettes and hunts. I'm not sure what time you have available but you should get a bunch that way.

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Originally Posted by RukiaFae

I'm having so much trouble getting the unidentified items. I have 0/7/1/20. Maybe I should figure out beast tribes to see if that will make it easier. Any tips are appreciated

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I obtained my unidentified items primarily through beast tribe quests. In terms of time actively spent working vs tokens obtains, they're one of the most efficient methods. Each unidentified item is 13 tokens, which represents an average of 30-40 minutes of work (depending on how often you get Boar Wars and Quenching the Flame), so it's likely better than any of the roulettes, but probably worse than a lucky streak of hunts, carrying new players through unsynced level 50 content, or farming the easier turns of Gordias with a dedicated group.

They have the added bonus, post-3.2, of each quest also providing a Grade IV materia. They've come down a little in price now, but earlier in the patch it could easily be 200k+ gil per day from quests you were already doing if you're working toward the anima.

As far as the quests themselves go, if you're starting from scratch and working on all four tribes simultaneously, you can get all four of the relevant tribes up to Friendly (the point at which you can start accepting the quests that give the tokens for anima items) in 28 days:

• 10 days to get to Recognized (3 quests per day per tribe at 5 reputation each, with 150 reputation necessary to rank up)
• 17 days, plus 1 additional quest on the 18th day, to get to Friendly (3 quests per day per tribe at 7 reputation each, with 360 reputation necessary to rank up)

I'm only at 55-56/80 items on my first relic still. >A>()

Thanks. Aww crap its going to take forever because I'm starting from scratch on my beast tribe quests. Thanks for the information.