Why is "It's something to do" apparently a valid defense?

[Alahra]

A good read, but one thing left me wanting; what of 2.0 relic? What did they take away from player feedback (if anything at all) about that? Any signs of inspiration from the original relic quest requiring the defeat of actual challenging content bosses is completely absent, instead replaced with a revamped culmination of numerous grinds anyone can do in their sleep (or fall asleep doing.

Well, there was actually a lot of feedback about the original questline, too. The fact that we *don't* have to do challenging content for the Zodiac weapon and now the Anima weapon was because people wanted the weapon *not* to need challenging content. Rewards for challenging content have typically been in raid content ever since.

Mind you, I *liked* the original 2.0 relic quest, but I'm also a midcore player generally and I do enjoy handling tougher content (though Savage is beyond me, personally). I wish they'd put something like Titan HM in there again, too (in ARR, I was hoping for a stage that revisited the three original EX primals--still the best set of content we've ever received, in my mind--for the last part), but I understand why they haven't and why we have what we've got now.