The relic weapon quest is OBSCENELY boring...

[NyarukoW]

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Tedious ≠ challenging. If the ONLY thing that separates you from your objective is TIME, then it's not HARD, it's boring.

Things are only challenging when you are learning it. Once you get stuff on farm it is not one bit challenging, it is all about the time. But it things were handed out without the time requirements then people would complain that it is not special. So you earn it by being the most persistent thru stuff that you find boring, or you make it a challenge to turn the grind into something interesting for you.

[RichardButte]

Things are only challenging when you are learning it. Once you get stuff on farm it is not one bit challenging

Tell that to people who know a fight, have cleared it, and can yet still screw up.

The level of challenge in in a HM primal fight vs. the level of challenge from running fates aren't even in the same universe.

[NyarukoW]

Tell that to people who know a fight, have cleared it, and can yet still screw up.

Watching a video does not equal knowing. Clearing once does not equal mastering it. When people can do it in their sleep is when they stop screwing up. Basically it has to get to the point where is automatic. And then the only reason for screwing up is being distracted/loss of concentration, or literally sleeping.

The level of challenge in in a HM primal fight vs. the level of challenge from running fates aren't even in the same universe.

Have you see Garuda HM lately? It is no different from running fates, they all just burn Garuda with AOE spams and ignore everything else.

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But the relic quests a grindy as heck because there are select group of players that like stuff like that. SE is throwing them a bone, and in the process they get to assist other players with old content.