Apparently someone in the JPN servers has completed their Animus relic!

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

What I really want to see in further relic steps is not "ermagawd challenge"... it is NEW and UNIQUE content instead of using it to repopulate abandoned parts of the game. Because right now that is seriously lacking.

Now THAT I can fully agree with. My biggest disappointment, more than the grind, was how uninspired it all was. SE had an opportunity to shine and impress, even make use of other new things that were underwhelming (Diadem), and they just didn't bother.

We could've had steak, but instead we got corned beef (re)hash.

(Disclaimer: I like corned beef hash. If you do too, that was not a statement against it. It's awesome. I'm hungry now.)

[Granyala]

Now THAT I can fully agree with. My biggest disappointment, more than the grind, was how uninspired it all was. SE had an opportunity to shine and impress, even make use of other new things that were underwhelming (Diadem), and they just didn't bother.

Yeah it doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that asking your games community to farm the content they already farmed for 6 months for 2-3 more months instead of providing new and fresh things to play won't go over well. ESP not in a game people shell out a monthly fee for...

Sometimes I truly wonder whether game DEVs lack common sense.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

*sigh* Blood-Aki. . .

No, this isn't the same person, and I really don't know them. Unless I go back a few pages, I can't even remember their name. Ease up on the tinfoil hats there.

And let's PLEASE not try to play the grammar game (for clarification sake, this refers to your "words and phrases you don't understand" bit.) I've played that game before too, it's usually a very petty tactic. Not that one so dignified as yourself would care, I've got quite the way with words, thanks to practically eating a dictionary once (<--- This is a metaphor. I did not literally attempt to ingest a dictionary.) No need to repeat yourself as I'm not interested, and you've several times declared you were done with this. Plus the damage has already well been done. Any further retorts on your part only serve to take away from your arguments and, well, make you look bad if not worse.

That said, run along now. Grown people are talking.

[Blood-Aki]

Nonsense

So you really don't have any clue of what you're talking about and just looking for attention, Gotcha, Moving on.

[Twilite]

~_~ honestly, who gives a damn. Oh wait.

I guess only I don't.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

So you really don't have any clue of what you're talking about and just looking for attention, Gotcha, Moving on.

Seriously, didn't you move on like, several pages ago? Who's really the one without a clue here?

[Granyala]

So you really don't have any clue of what you're talking about and just looking for attention, Gotcha, Moving on.

You two should get a room. :P

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

I would, but I'm a selfish lover and he's the type that always has to be right. We wouldn't last the honeymoon, lol.

[SchalaZeal]

Like I always say, it's climbing the mountain vs. walking the trail. Most will walk the trail. Don't make it needlessly tougher for people who might simply prefer mountain climbing. And definitely don't make walking the trail more rewarding. That is all kinds of backward, especially for vertical progression.

Those who can do the raid can do it. Nothing stopping them. Relic won't be at the same level as the raid weapon until it's been done to death.

The entry barrier for me doing raiding is finding a static. I don't really have an interest in running with whoever's gonna run it, look for learning parties, or farming parties in PF and just cross my fingers. It's ideally the same group for months, or it would have to be because that group disbanded. I didn't do Thordan EX because I only went once. I didn't do Ravana EX cause I never went. I did Bismarck EX a bit before 3.1. DF sucks, PF is impersonal, and I'm not really a social person. Static would have to fall in my lap.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

My only issue with people that say that 2.0's relic quest was challenging... It really wasn't. Even back before 2.1 it was a mechanically simplistic fight, without too much of an actual skill check. I have other problems, such as the excessive ease of acquisition and how annoying (not difficult) certain fights were, but more than anything, it was not challenging at all. Speaking for myself at least, I never got q sense of accomplishment from getting my relic, unless you include, "Finally! People stopped standing in stupid!"