Quote Originally Posted by Mycow8me View Post
It's like trial of the magians on ffxi only you need a ton of gil to complete as well. Makes no sense. Why not just a rough grind and call it at that?

I would give relic quests up in a heartbeat for a "trial of the magians" variant in FFXIV but the problem here is that gear doesn't have enough diversity to have something similar so were stuck with whatever relic quest they give us.
Did you even DO Trial of the Magians? Even if you took the "easy" elemental weapon routes, you typically had to buy a crapton of elemental Geodes and Avatarites to finish the latter stages. And if you went the Empyreal weapon route? Dear lord, Heavy Metal Plates, Riftcinders, Riftdross... And heaven help you if you wanted to try to get an Afterglow on your Empy...

The gil grind on Trial of the Magians makes the Anima relic look like a walk in the park!