Feedback Regarding the Relic Upgrade Quest

[Elyana_Starfall]

I would rather they did 12 fates with quest related mobs (something similar to cancer in costa del sol maybe) or something similar to the previous relic (killing EXs and stuff).
Indeed, the Animus part of the quest seems fine to me, it's the Atma totally-random-grinding-low-level-fates-for-hours that I dislike.
Do I have to spend HOURS beating liv 10 mobs hoping to get 1 out of 12 part of a relic upgrade? wow, now I feel very challenged and my skills are being tested...meh.

Also, story immersion anyone? it's called Zodiac Saga and stuff and you send me randomly in old fates? yay ._.
how about something actually related to the relic, its story, ancestors etc?

[bokchoykn]

I feel incredibly shameful for every minute I spend grinding Fates towards upgrading my Relic Weapon.

Why?

Because I'm spending my limited and precious leisure time doing something that is not:

• Challenging
• Social
• Thought-provoking
• Compelling
• Interactive
• FUN

And for what purpose? To acquire imaginary items in a video game? The game is basically asking me to sacrifice fun and therefore sell my gamer soul in order to achieve video game leetness. No thanks.

I challenge anyone, especially S-E developers and representatives, to tell me that this is a fun activity. The fact that I spent the last three months anxiously awaiting this patch only to find myself grinding low-level fates is disturbing to me.

I will not be participating in this mind-numbing grind for loot. I value my leisure time far too much to take part in this nonsense and join the masses who are somehow willing to hike through a mile of shit while foaming at their mouths chasing this carrot on a stick.

Make me do quests, grind dungeons, grind primals, help strangers/noobs. But please...No more FATEs.

[Clavaat]

Do I have to spend HOURS beating liv 10 mobs hoping to get 1 out of 12 part of a relic upgrade?

No. I already answered you. Get a different weapon if you feel this isn't up to your requirements. Actually, you don't need to do anything you don't want to sooooooo....

[Elyana_Starfall]

No. I already answered you. Get a different weapon if you feel this isn't up to your requirements. Actually, you don't need to do anything you don't want to sooooooo....

Sooooooooooo...
Relic is being upgraded in patches to come, I want to keep up with it ^_^
Anddddddd, I do feel it's in my rights to say that I would have preferred some other way to upgrade it. Or do I have to ask for permission?
Thank you.

[jars]

everyone hates the atmas quests. this is why all these ff11 idiots need to go back to ff11, not ruin 14

[LordSliver]

I didnt read the whole thread and I seen complaining after complaining on the last two pages. SE wants the patch to last for a bit is probably why the drop doesnt happen instantly, honestly I think they Myth drop rate is too low from what I seen in threads being posted but I guess that isnt at a high rate because they want people to go out and farm Darklight for their new classes or make CT worth doing still.

[SendohJin]

You going to tell me doing Dynamis hundreds or thousands of times for currency is not a grind?

i didn't say there was no grind. i said FFXI relics was not "all grind" and it's not a "simple grind". there were difficult elements that people needed to figure out and you had to gather large groups of people to help you do it.

and i don't know why you replied to Animated Weapons with Currency, Animated Weapons has nothing to do with the Currency part of the quest. and pretty much everyone i know who had a relic (about half a dozen including myself) bought part if not all their currency with gil, they didn't personally grind every piece of currency by doing Dynamis themselves. if i can buy this Atma stuff off the AH, i would.

right now this FATE stuff is all solo grind, and so will be the gathering of myths.

[Doo]

The issue isn't really grind. All mmos have some forum of grind. This kind is just too generic. There's no sense of accomplishment and it feels like leveling all over again. Nothing new was added, just going to each fate to spam mindlessly.

[Bizniztyme]

i didn't say there was no grind. i said FFXI relics was not "all grind" and it's not a "simple grind". there were difficult elements that people needed to figure out and you had to gather large groups of people to help you do it.

and i don't know why you replied to Animated Weapons with Currency, Animated Weapons has nothing to do with the Currency part of the quest. and pretty much everyone i know who had a relic (about half a dozen including myself) bought part if not all their currency with gil, they didn't personally grind every piece of currency by doing Dynamis themselves. if i can buy this Atma stuff off the AH, i would.

right now this FATE stuff is all solo grind, and so will be the gathering of myths.

Then I stand corrected, my apologies, lets hope once you get the myths to buy the books there is a challenge that you would have to overcome like the one in 11.

[SendohJin]

I brought it up because i am specifically talking about grinding, they bringing up animated weapons is irrelevant to talking about grinding, which was the initial argument, tell me getting your relic in FFXI was not a grind?

you need to go back and look at the first post you responded to, the initial argument was not about grinding. the initial argument was me refuting this statement "Time consuming, yes, hard, no.", specifically the word "no" in that statement.