"Coming into its own" is too much!

[Kabzy]

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I disagree. It's just an illusion of choice, you can do as much Diadem as you want but people who want their weapons will be spamming a select few daily roulettes and the ARF dungeon. Yes, a lot of things give you esos but the majority of them are pretty irrelevant unless you want to get your weapon in 4.0.

Also, a lot of "DoW activities" is still not as varied as doing other optional things like making gil and spiritbonding. Not everyone had to progress through that route, but at least it added variety to the grind.

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Here's a thought, don't get this item then. Do the content that is designed for you! It's not like the relic weapon is better than many other options, and frankly if you can't put in enough time to do a few dungeons and get your tomes. The game probably isn't for you.

Like I mentioned earlier, to some jobs such as SCH and Noct.Ast, the accuracy stat IS the best possible option. So unless they add an accuracy option to tome weapons, certain roles will be forced to go through this route. They can still make a grind without dragging it quite as far, or at least make it more interesting for everyone.

[Zojha]

I disagree. It's just an illusion of choice,[...]

Also, a lot of "DoW activities" is still not as varied as doing other optional things like making gil and spiritbonding. Not everyone had to progress through that route, but at least it added variety to the grind.

I'm inclined to disagree myself here. For one, because thus far, I always managed to finish the most recent relic step a good month in advance to the next patch, let alone 4.0 and I usually only run two daily roulettes a day, then do other things. Right now, I'm at 120/240 with 8 umbrites in the bag, 600 esos at the ready and the next big patch is probably a good two months away. And I'm even skipping some roulettes and side activities because I'm close to exams. If you feel the need to kill your brain cells one by one by spamming solely aetherochemical... well...have fun? It's not necessary.

For another, I find progressing while doing things you already do because you enjoy doing them a "lot" better than going out of my way for progress. "Gaining gil" and "Spiritbonding" are first and foremost crafter, not DoW friendly options. Go figure how many DoW only players own a private mansion. Do the same for crafters afterwards. You'll notice a trend. Also, there's not a whole lot of option there, you need materia, so you either spiritbond yourself or get gil to buy the stuff other people have spiritbonded.

So yeah...I still vastly prefer these steps over just about anything the previous relic had. Books were nice I suppose, if you ignore the required FATEs.