Looking for an official response - Relic weapons

[LeafRobelle]

Armory chest, multiclassing, crossclass skills, the game was designed so that you could and should change classes freely, not get stuck in a single role. Relics throw all of that out the window. You have to grind as the one class you want to finish your relic on for months, and if you wanted all classes powered up with this...There are just so many ways this content could quickly and easily be brought in line with the original concept of the game. Made more for fun and less as a torture test. I see no sense in it remaining as it is.

I completely agree with this. I'm doing my best to upgrade my gear so that I can finally "complete" WHM and move on to another class. Obviously new content will come out and my WHM will lag behind, but the grind for Relic weapons is preventing me from enjoying anything else about this game. It seems silly to me that they would create such a massive game, but have things in place to prevent you from playing it properly.

[MrCookTM]

I completely agree with this. I'm doing my best to upgrade my gear so that I can finally "complete" WHM and move on to another class. Obviously new content will come out and my WHM will lag behind, but the grind for Relic weapons is preventing me from enjoying anything else about this game. It seems silly to me that they would create such a massive game, but have things in place to prevent you from playing it properly.

Then you're just not the kind of player the relic quest line is done for. This is an mmo, huge parts of the player base are expected to no-life it, and they do.

FC friend of mine - blm main for a long time - decided to go monk this patch cycle, because his new static needed one. ~14 days later he went into fcob with his kaiser claws.

The whole point is, if you don't give people content they can no-life, you will lose their subs until the next update (or completely). SE pretends they're okay with this, but of course they're not.

If you feel like relic is keeping you from doing stuff you would actually enjoy more but still keep doing relic, you're playing the game wrong. Just get your HA/upgraded shiva ex wep, they're more than good enough for now, then get one of the new tome weps once they're available outside of fcob (probably 8 days from now) or even get it in fcob if you're doing it.