Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
And its a completely different argument than this thread is trying to make. This is the casual weapon where you just need time.
Know what else was fairly casual? The Hildebrand storyline, and yet it managed to not be skull-crushingly boring.

Imagine the Hildebrand storyline, minus the interesting characters, the funny jokes and whatnot. What's left? A barely-explained quest where you run around and do random shit for no particular reason.

That's the relic weapon questline in a nutshell, and the fact that it's so bland and boring makes it stick out like a sore thumb against all of the other story objectives in the game. Even the crafting and gathering professions have storylines associated with them, FFS! But the relic weapon quest devolves to someone telling you to go check off a big laundry list of random crap because...reasons.