Umbrites are terrible.

[Nixxe]

I'm sure I'm not alone in this, but the umbrite step of the anima weapon is awful. It's not even about the rate of acquisition, but simply that spamming Gubal or whatever other dungeon over and over and over and over is not particularly fun. The crystal sands are a vastly superior design, allowing for some diversity in how I can grind for them. I can do levequests or beast tribe dailies or even buy them off the MB. The entire anima weapon is very lore intensive, and while I expect that to some extent, it would be nice if in the future more was done to alleviate the monotony of the longer steps by avoiding forcing people to do simple instance spam to get through it, even if the other options aren't necessarily as efficient.

[Settiesama]

You can do more than spam one dungeon continuously. The design of it being Lore is to let people play the game as they normally would and accumulate the Lore to buy the items. It wasn't intended to be done in a day by people finding the quickest dungeon and spamming it over and over. While they could of added different options for it, it's not so much a flawed system, as it is flawed mindsets of "must have now".

[Kit-Kat]

Opposite reaction for me. Umbrite comes easy while doing normal content everyday while the sand exchange is kinda annoying, varies a lot with MB expensive prices on different servers.

[Greedalox]

I didn't find it that bad.

[Fjaere]

Its the main reason I don't understand how people can do 2-3 relics

[Settiesama]

Its the main reason I don't understand how people can do 2-3 relics

As I said before, you accumulate them just playing the game, there are more ways of getting Lore than just dungeons. Some people, like myself right now since I'm holding off on another Anima, sit at 2000/2000 Lore. I don't need Lore armour, so what else would I get?

[Amariel34]

Its the main reason I don't understand how people can do 2-3 relics

THIS! I have a friend that, I think, is doing a relic for every single job. While I'm about ready to tear my hair out from just doing one. And THIS is the umbrite stepped nerfed! Personally I think they need to halve it again. Even running roulettes every day is boring as heck to me. But if they nerfed it again people would complain that everyone is getting it easy and that we're "entitled" or something. But adding other options would be lovely. Since the sand has blue scripts, why can't the umbrites be red scripts? Or even scriptures as well as lore? Just something other than ONLY lore.

[Serilda]

I found the Umbrites super boring but the sands were easy because of how many different ways you could obtain them. I didn't spam anything for my Umbrites, though; I just played normally. It took absolutely forever and I finished right before the cost was nerfed, but multiple acquisition methods would have been appreciated.

[Faliandra]

Im soon gonna finish my 6th relic. Yes, my 6th. This means I've done the umbrite grind 6 times, and 4 out of 6 were done before the umbrite nerf.

Have I spammed dungeons repeatedly? Nope.
I've done my daily roulettes. My weekly Dun Scaith, sometimes a Void Ark or Weeping.
I mightve done 2-3 extra dungeons sometimes but I only did that cos I sometimes took a break from roulettes for a few days.

Other than that, first timer bonuses helped....and...I probably joined Alexander 1- 12 bonus runs 3 or 4 times when someone has an alt or found a new player
who still hasnt completed them. Thats a solid lore bonus too.

So really, you dont need to be a no-lifer to get that step done.



edit: I forgot, I was using my lvling roulette to lvl my remaining classes to 60 the last few months.
So i was even missing out on the lore bonus on lvl 50/lvling roulette.

[Ama_Hamada]

You can do more than spam one dungeon continuously. The design of it being Lore is to let people play the game as they normally would and accumulate the Lore to buy the items. It wasn't intended to be done in a day by people finding the quickest dungeon and spamming it over and over. While they could of added different options for it, it's not so much a flawed system, as it is flawed mindsets of "must have now".

friend got 70 in 3 days lul , trying get a blm relic
anyways I think the best design was the clusters, wish the Umbrite was done the same way