Quote Originally Posted by Stanelis View Post
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You obviously don't know how to handle a grind. While I was doing that I was catching up on my shows or listening to awesome music or working on improving my rotations. You go into these things with an extra objective in mind. You bring stuff to craft in the field or stuff to track like more SB gear. The only part that got a little annoying to handle was the FATE spawns for Animus. But I dealt with Lottery Spawn NMs in FFXI that wouldn't spawn for literally days. So to me that sounds like a hollow complaint. Nobody said you had to do Animus books, and if you weren't on the tip of Relic progression you would've had plenty of warning when you went looking into it.

The purpose of Relic is to get the most out of old content. And while I'll agree it showed some of the issues with the FATE system (that being a absolute lack of control on the player's part. None as opposed to any kind of slight nudging we can do. Even like being able to interact with something to bump up a FATE's position in the queue/FATE cooldown time), but none of it was as bad as you're making it out to be if you go in expecting the grind. I could finish an Animus book done in a Night and I only had maybe 4 hours to give. You just have to tackle it right.