Patch 3.38

[Suetan124]

Thank you SE so much for these changes to the anima relic questline. Making the crafted items able to be purchased from your grand company is a great idea.

Taking the requirement for getting the unidentifiable items down from 680 to 300 tomes makes this so much more enjoyable. Then there's the whole thing of making the unidentifiable item exchange amount cut in half is going to make it so that I can finally finish this quest.

Thank you guys so much for this patch.

[MaikoRain]

Holy mother of god! Relic got nerfed bad.

[Suetan124]

It really needed it though. Level 60 high quality crafted items made this either super expensive or impossible to finish for someone like me that is just getting their crafting to 50. Trying to sell mats that you make from gathering goes nowhere quickly because by time they sell, the gil goes right back into new gear again.

This makes it so that people like me can actually finish this without having to spend a ton of gil or relying on the kindness of fc members to craft them after you spend everything you have on getting the mats. This is really useful and I'm glad they did this.

Besides, 56 items is going to be a lot easier to get instead of 96.

[MistyMew]

now we just need more ways to obtain umbrite other then eso. for the current stage ^^

do eet se!!

[Jas710]

Holy mother of god! Relic got nerfed finally.

I fixed it for you.

[Suetan124]

now we just need more ways to obtain umbrite other then eso. for the current stage ^^

do eet se!!

I don't think that would be so hard now that esos drop like crazy. It's so easy to get them now.

[Dement]

I don't think that would be so hard now that esos drop like crazy. It's so easy to get them now.

They're easily obtained but 24,000 is quite the haul to get.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I don't think that would be so hard now that esos drop like crazy. It's so easy to get them now.

Keep in mind that you literally have to farm 24,000 esoterics for the current final step of Anima, and the "best" way to get them is to do the Aetherochemical Research Facility for 150 tomes. This means you're doing 160 runs at ~24 minutes a pop for ~64 hours worth of actual in-game dungeon time (not including wait times for queues). The fact that "Coming into it's Own" is only just getting nerfed means that people who were pushing hard on the quest line went from doing what was primarily a tome grind with a few diversions to an even more linear tome line with about an hour of starting and abandoning leves every week and a half to get vilekin. Let's hope that the next step has absolutely nothing to do with tomes.

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I'm happy for all of the old relic step nerfs, but we literally got NOTHING this patch. With 3 fully finished relics under my belt, I don't have a reason to log on as it stands currently besides for dailys and to raid. Thanks SE for not adding anything new this patch. I'd have been okay with a 5ilvl upgrade quest for relic to keep my occupied till 3.4, but nope... see you all in a month...

[Erudito]

I can safely say that this has made some of the people I know pick up the relic quest again.

Seriously SE, if gil or high level crafting or FATEs are needed for relic down the line, think about it real carefully because its sure to make people ignore it big time, like what happened with this Heavensward relic.

The 20 items (now 10) could be done simply enough with a good amount of dedication, but those HQ items were a serious offense to many.