I think people are forgetting the REAL original relic quest. Yeah, I speak of 1.0. In the original quest you needed three tokens from each of the three Hamlets that you could defend. The chances of a token dropping were low as is, in order to even have a 'good' chance you had to score perfectly and have one of the top 10 Hamlet crafters in the battle with you. Further, you had to buy a key item from the Companies that cost 25,000 seals but in order to even have the ability to buy it you had to be an officer, which was itself a 25,000 seal requirement. Similar to the current quest, that was all just to get Rowena (who was an Ul'dahn whore at the time) to get you on the path to turn in a specially prepared weapon to forge into your relic, which still required you to fight Ifrit Extreme to finalize. Relics in 1.0 were understandably rare because of all that. We're just two days in and already people have their relics +2 and are working on going +3. Grind... right.
Quote Originally Posted by Gezeru View Post
If you're talking about the first relic quest, then talk about THE first relic in 1.0. The current Zodiac quest is a breeze compared to what some of us did in 1.0. This thread very clearly shows you the amount you had to do for 1 relic. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rn-Walkthrough
Damn, beat me to it.