3.5 Relic Interface

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So who can explain how this will work?

Smells like light farming.

Looks interesting, where did you find this?

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Originally Posted by The_Shang

Looks interesting, where did you find this?

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It's on the patch website now, it's been updated with a few new sections.

It also says this:

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Just what form will the anima take once all is said and done? Well, that's the million-gil question.

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... Which is a bit worrisome.

I've been playing on 3.5 for the past few weeks now, and the system is actually fairly straightforward.
Essentially what you're looking at is

No, I mean, really, why do people ever ask these questions? Do you actually expect time travelers to show up to answer them? Devs just lurking and waiting to explain all the fancy new elements ahead of release? It's not live yet, so how do you expect anyone to be able to tell you anything? The whole point of new content is that it's new. Everybody gets to learn at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

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I just worded it badly I mean like what do you think we would need to do for it? No need to get you knickers in a twist.

So after that stage its the final form of this relic isn't it....

I'm so intrigued to see what happens! It's 100% going to be a grind: because this is content that is going to last until Stormblood. It has to be a grind, it has to keep you resubbing.

I guess it will be the same like every relic step. either farm 20k tomes ore loads of light >_>

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Originally Posted by Pomelo

So after that stage its the final form of this relic isn't it....

It's 100% going to be a grind: because this is content that is going to last until Stormblood. It has to be a grind, it has to keep you resubbing.

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For me, this kind of grind is not even worth a sub, especially that annoying part -> grind for Umbrites/sands. If it will be worse than this.... no, thanks.
In World of Warcraft Legendary weapons is, well, Legendary, with new timed procs or mechanics and a little better stats, than top tier ones. In FFXIV they are almost no different from normal ones, aside from animation and stats of your choice.

Reminds me of Mahatmas, personally.

https://dindeen.files.wordpress.com/...8/zeta_ram.png

I love grinding.

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Originally Posted by Hakuro89

Smells like light farming.

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Is light farming such a big deal though? IIRC, it's something you'll gradually work on without any effort and you'll easily get there if you just do whatever you usually do.

That said though, there will always be the tryhards that want to get the new relic on day 1 :/

I'd rather light farming over dungeon atmas.

As long as it isn't built around RNG like the crystal farm, I don't really care what it is.

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Originally Posted by seekified

As long as it isn\\'t built around RNG like the crystal farm, I don\\'t really care what it is.

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This. I don't mind grinding as long as I'm making progress. I hate doing something and then rolling the dice to see if it counted.

I'd rather its something easy, but full of story...or with a unique trial. Omg make that proto ultima trial only for the relic xD

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Originally Posted by Pomelo

I'd rather its something easy, but full of story...or with a unique trial. Omg make that proto ultima trial only for the relic xD

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After what happen with Titan hard, relics will never have a trial again

It's the Mahatma victory lap all over again.

Remember yoshi said that the HW relic will never be as hard as the ARR one. It will take a few days, at worst.

10 dungeons total in HW with 3.5 being added not including ARF... 10 runes... SE please don't...

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Originally Posted by Remus

10 dungeons total in HW with 3.5 being added not including ARF... 10 runes... SE please don't...

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clear every dungeon 5 times to charge the runes

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

I guess it will be the same like every relic step. either farm 20k tomes ore loads of light >_>

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or pay millions of gil

As long as it doesn't require you have to have to grind like 100k lore or something, that last relic step was tedious

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Originally Posted by Remus

10 dungeons total in HW with 3.5 being added not including ARF... 10 runes... SE please don't...

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Well, only if they exclude ex dungeons, because we are already at 10 lvl 60 dungeons (+ARF) and the new ones will be 11th/12th.

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Originally Posted by Lexia

As long as it doesn't require you have to have to grind like 100k lore or something, that last relic step was tedious

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last step was 50 cluster, that was the easierst step ever :p

Mahatmas, Light farming or get ready for it.... fates specific to regions
This is in fact final stage of Relic until Stormblood, in which a new Relic will take place

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Originally Posted by Llynd

Remember yoshi said that the HW relic will never be as hard as the ARR one. It will take a few days, at worst.

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But you also forget Yoshi loves RNG, i have my doubts it will only be something of a day or 2

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Originally Posted by Felis

or pay millions of gil

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I think people are reading too much into the common saying.

Light farming is fine. It happens naturally, and frees up other resources to go into lower stages of other relics. What I don't like about it is that I have multiple relics, but I don't actually like playing any jobs but my main. Like the i200 stage (10 dungeons as the job) was kinda iffy on if I even wanted to put in the effort. I guess i don't mind doing pvp as those other jobs. Hopefully the Freelancer thing will make Frontlines queues pop fast.

Might be like before, run dungeons with rng chance of drop at end.

Where's that guy who did AV like 78 times

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Originally Posted by randysquirrel

Might be like before, run dungeons with rng chance of drop at end.

Where's that guy who did AV like 78 times

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People loathed that step with a passion and seeing how the steps have been here for 3.0, I highly doubt they'd repeat it.

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

last step was 50 cluster, that was the easierst step ever :p

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Yea I keep forgetting about that step, I meant the umbrite/stats step was tedious.

If its dungeons with an RNG drop, well, I had a good run with the relic.

If its light farming, eh, if I take my time with it, it shouldn't be too tedious.

Hoping its something actually original though.

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Originally Posted by Llynd

Remember yoshi said that the HW relic will never be as hard as the ARR one. It will take a few days, at worst.

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Was that before or after the 210 step when he said this?

Well it has to be a long step since it is the last step. I mean Umbrite step was just tedious and was a 2 week grind for casuals.

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Originally Posted by Derio

Well it has to be a long step since it is the last step. I mean Umbrite step was just tedious and was a 2 week grind for casuals.

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Not necessarily. The last step of the ARR relic was stupid easy and accumulated quickly. I started seeing them in Mor Dhona a lot in under a week following their release.

Light farming seems more likely to me than dungeon atmas since the third rune appears to only be partially colored. Dungeon atmas are pretty binary, you either have it or you don't.

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Originally Posted by Derio

Well it has to be a long step since it is the last step. I mean Umbrite step was just tedious and was a 2 week grind for casuals.

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2 weeks of spending 5 hours a day doing nothing but working on a 20k+ lore grind and ~70 crystal sands..... the casuals you know are way more serious about anima weapons than the casuals I know :rolleyes:
Although on another note, I haven't actually seen any SE adverts that this is officially the final step. They could be saving a faceroll easy step for 3.55 maybe? Or give us 2 steps this patch? Or someone can point me in the direction of the official 'final step' statement. I'm getting apprehensive thinking about it now......

We're gonna be doing it regardless lol

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Originally Posted by Hakuro89

Was that before or after the 210 step when he said this?

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3.0 has had such a easier relic, recall 2.0 had atma, special fates with a MASSIVE cool down, and dungeon atma. Only the first part of the 3.0 relic had anything RNG based and if you had your 2.0 relic, you could skip this part. Really everything other than that first step was guaranteed, the quantity of items needed later on may have been a bit much, but you were promised progress each and every time you did something. 2.0 did not promise that.