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    Kenji1134's Avatar
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    Aleksandr Deicide
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    Cactuar
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    Marauder Lv 70
    So, here is my question to the dev team.

    The relic is claimed to be a means for "casual" players who do not have a sufficiently rigid schedule to form statics and tackle raid content (ignoring the very high difficulty of A3S and A4S which gates us from 210 weapons and has an abysmal clear rate), to obtain a weapon comparable to endgame raid weapons by investing a larger amount of time as opposed to tackling top end content.

    Just looking at the final step, some people have calculated that if you were to grind Alex for the drops and spend the Law obtained from Alex, it would require about 640 runs.
    At 20 minutes per run including wait time, that comes out to 213 hours. If someone can play an average of 5 hours per day, lets say after work, and does nothing but Alex for these items, it would take them about 42 days.

    Lets say we use our Zetas to skip Atma 3.0 (now requiring 18 drops instead of 12!), we then need to clear a number of old dungeons for a random drop item, get 80 mats available from tomes and Alex tokens, and a number of HQ specialist only recipe items... Which I PRAY (but sadly know wont be the case) will not require a number of melded 170 or 180 Red Scrip items to HQ.

    Again, 5 hours per day, which is really not "casual" from a time perspective. How long do you intend for this to take? 60 days? 90 days? We expect 3.3 around early Feb, some 45-50 days out, which will bring new tomes. 3 weeks of those (bringing our total to 66-71) and we can buy the new tome weapon, I hope. So is the intent for the relic to REALLY be doable within ~60 days of "casual" play?

    60 days is a long time, a long time to grind, but if the quest is SO long, rng gated, and grindy, that it takes people until the next weapon becomes available to complete it, then you guys just created dead content.
    Seriously, we've seen all of this before, this is a compressed version of Atma, Zodiac, and Zeta, nothing new here, just a chance for the new players to experience the 2.0 relic grind in a compressed form. The thing is, because we have seen all of this before, we have a sense of how long this takes, so SE, unless you can confirm that this IS reasonably doable BEFORE it becomes outdated, then nobody in their right mind will bother with this "content".
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    Last edited by Kenji1134; 12-17-2015 at 12:42 AM.