I second this.
Is it just me or has anyone else feel like the the ffxiv relic is a variant of the ffxi magian trails relic quest. But it's all myth instead of collect X amount of item or kill X amount of monsters
The whole relic questline seems to be about making (more or less) irrelevant stuff relevant. Like FATEs, guildleves, killing random weak mobs, various unused dungeons and now materia.
Imagine if we got new content only used for these quests. Like they did with Chimera and Hydra. At the very least, give us one exclusive new fight or dungeon for each upgrade. That would have been something...
To get the next uber weapon "Stratus" it will be an invigorating and lengthy test of combat prowess and skill spending 200 days harvesting BEETS!
Please look forward to it!! (and subscribe)
The worst part is, I'm considering the absolute WORST conditions would take you 75 CASUALLY. With better materia, a controlled, moderate amount of grinding, and just doing the daily it should only take a few weeks for most people.
But no, people are having kneejerk reactions because they can't just go kill something to get their epic lootz. Go run Coil or EX Primals if you want to kill for loot.
How do you know that the worst conditions will drag the quest out for 75 days? Depending on what we see in later progression will higher grade materia; it may take only half as long, or it may take twice as long depending on RNG. I'm not saying that it will or not, I'm not going to make assumptions about what no one knows, but I will say that the relic quest line seems to keep gradually becoming less and less worth the time spent and I think that's where most others are coming from as well.