I'll say it. I did it and the first half was painful at times. Did it take a long time? Yes. Did I almost go insane? Yes, but so would you after spending 7 hours hours in Outer La Noscea one day then eleven straight hours in Western La Noscea the next.

But now as much a pain in the ass as it was I get tangible progression now. Now when people are losing their minds because they can't get a mirror to even drop I'll be able to sit there and think to myself "I'm glad I did the relic right away."

Yeah, the FATE part was crap, but now it's smooth, if long sailing. Farm myth and do a glorified hunting log. Stuff you do in this game on a regular basis anyway. It's all on me now, working under my own power. I paid my dues to the RNG gods. How much you want to bet most people will be fighting the RNG gods a lot longer in Leviathan Extreme for their mirror?

I say the relic was the easy way out for most and that the rest of the player base just doesn't realize it yet.