Everything to know about 4.0 from the Fan Fest

[Laerad3993]

Woops, that should be 72 hour timers.

But I would not be surprised if the long spawn NM are tuned for 3 24 person alliances. Kinda like how the Brachiosaur in diadem is designed for that.

I keep seeing people saying this zone is akin to something from FFXI. I never played XI, were relics able to be completed without having to do this stuff?

[Dement]

I keep seeing people saying this zone is akin to something from FFXI. I never played XI, were relics able to be completed without having to do this stuff?

Relics were a major pain in the ass. You went into zones called Dynamis which were alternate reality replicas of other zones, including the starter cities, but they took place in a reality where the evil forces had won the Great War. The zones were filled with beastmen. They were incredibly strong and most linkshells took a full alliance or more of 18 people in to topple the zone. It was instanced and there were various NMs which you could kill that would drop relic armor. Everything would also drop beastmen currency in values of 1 or rarely 100 and you needed an absolute metric ton of beastmen currency to build a relic. I know the last step alone required 10,000 or so and there were 4-5 steps if I remember right. You also had to get certain drops from high level spawned monsters in certain Dynamis zones. Most linkshells never built even 1 relic for anyone, while there are others which managed to build several for different people.

The payoff of all this, though, was that while a relic took literal years to acquire, they were the top of the top weapons for the better part of a decade (or longer if you continued to upgrade them). They radically changed the capabilities of some classes (for example Dark Knight was a heavy DPS with paper thin defense. Relic DRKs would tank high end encounters) and you would easily use a relic for several years without having to worry about any other weapons.