The relic weapon quest is OBSCENELY boring...

[Kotemon]

I wouldn't say boring.. It does give me something to do. However after reading how lights work. It just dawned to me that its a lot like the first stage for Mythic in FFXI. Where you need to build points based on weapon skills and skill chains. Except its more or less being done without ever climbing 100 floors in Nyzule or having someone to chain off of. Boring no, excessively repetitive maybe, but its not as bad as it could have been. The RNG on Atma (better), fate Alex (meh..??), Dungeon drops (not even close yet), and materia farming/melding, for each relic is nothing like what folks had to do in XI. Especially before the nerfs to make it almost more accessible. To give a hint; try farming 10,000 Alexandrite 5 years ago for that one mythic stage. Or currency farming 8 years ago. Maybe that's why I'm not completely out of my mind on these Relic quests.

[RichardButte]

I wouldn't say boring..

I dunno. To me, if I can do something 90% asleep and/or drunk while also watching netflix, it's not engaging me and is therefore boring.

Not that YOU said this, but a lot of people don't seem to understand the difference between "challenging" and "tedious". If it has a skill check, meaning that you need a reasonable amount of competency as a player to accomplish it, it's challenging. If the ONLY thing separating you from achieving whatever it is is TIME, it's tedious.

There were some things that were probably even more grindy than this questline in Aion, like grinding up piles of Balur parts, but you did it in the abyss where an enemy player could jump you at any moment so it DEFINITELY wasn't boring.

You know whatever it is is boring when getting ganked while doing it might actually IMPROVE the experience...

[Battlewrench]

I dunno. To me, if I can do something 90% asleep and/or drunk while also watching netflix, it's not engaging me and is therefore boring.

Not that YOU said this, but a lot of people don't seem to understand the difference between "challenging" and "tedious". If it has a skill check, meaning that you need a reasonable amount of competency as a player to accomplish it, it's challenging. If the ONLY thing separating you from achieving whatever it is is TIME, it's tedious.

There were some things that were probably even more grindy than this questline in Aion, like grinding up piles of Balur parts, but you did it in the abyss where an enemy player could jump you at any moment so it DEFINITELY wasn't boring.

You know whatever it is is boring when getting ganked while doing it might actually IMPROVE the experience...

To be fair, I've done a number of hard mode and ex dungeons drunk / asleep and still made it through healing them.....Take that as you will. Bad quest is bad though.

[RichardButte]

To be fair, I've done a number of hard mode and ex dungeons drunk / asleep and still made it through healing them.....Take that as you will. Bad quest is bad though.

Ah, but were you Netflixing at the time as well?

IMO, healing the Midgardsomr fight is the minimum level of challenge tht any fight should have, including the between quests for the relic weapon (if there were any, I mean).