Relic weapons for Stormblood?

[Leoheart]

4.15 is too late. the relic quest is cheap content wich can fill the gap between 4.0 and 4.1. didn't heavensward lost half the playerbase during the same time? we need something to do between the raids in the next 4 months

Sort of... that was because it was a 5 month gap between 3.0 and 3.1 which is nearly twice as long as the standard wait between patches.

[Ghastly]

4.15 is too late. the relic quest is cheap content wich can fill the gap between 4.0 and 4.1. didn't heavensward lost half the playerbase during the same time? we need something to do between the raids in the next 4 months

Yeah 4.15 is really late
I saw how half or more than half of the server quit in that time.

[kattzkitti]

Crafting, Gathering, Hunts, side quests, Ixion Farming, Foxy farming, Off-job leveling + gearing, treasure maps, farming for minions...Maybe it's too slow for people who play a lot, but I only get to play for 2 hours a day, not even every day so I am grateful for a slower pace since my to-do list is already quite long. Just another perspective to consider...

Stop trying to do everything all at once, and maybe you'll find yourself not having these problems.

On-topic, they really should have released the first stage of 4.x's version of relic/anima in 4.0. There's no real point to delaying it.

[Chalbee]

Stop trying to do everything all at once, and maybe you'll find yourself not having these problems.

What problems? All I was trying to say is that "too late" and "too early" are subjective and based on what you want, how often you play etc.

[QT_Melon]

It was that late back in HW too. And I agree, HW was pretty badly done for Relic quests...I much preferred ARR's, save for the Animus step (the books were absolute hell).

The reason why it was late and also badly done for the first step was that was when they took a 2 week break, so things were a bit behind.

I must be drinking the kool-aid then if you think the rest of HW was badly done. The crystal farming was easy, you didn't need your weapon or be in that job, you were even allowed to skip the first step if you had a relic in the past.

The crafting part and item turn in was probably the only step that was a bit much. The only reason Umbrite became an issue was due to using too much tomes. You either spent it on getting crafting mats for gear or using it for the weapon....and only became more of an issue if you had alts that needed the tomes.


The parts that did require you to go in with your weapon were easily cheesed by then, like A1s, or unsyncing half the content for the first step of the relic. For the rest of the stuff synced - if you couldn't do it for the weapon you're trying to create imo, you shouldn't have been in that job to being with

[Ayerinn]

There are Crafting, Gathering, Hunts, side quests, Ixion Farming, Foxy farming, Off-job leveling + gearing, treasure maps, farming for minions to fill the time still. Maybe it's too slow for people who play a lot, but for people who don't/can't, a slower pace might be welcome since our to-do lists are already quite long. In other words, "too soon" and "too late" are subjective.

True - it is also good gaming health to play other games to avoid burn out...I will be going back to Legion for 7.3 which should be at least 4 weeks before 4.1...so I'm fine with the relic/Eureka timing

[Alberel]

The second Omega tier will be released in Patch 4.2.

Was there a reason why Yoshi-P was holding back on the relic quests? 4.15 seems awfully late. HW's start of the relic quests was kind of... well... awful.

In Heavensward's case it was late because 3.1 was terribly late in general. Holding the relic back that long was definitely a mistake in that case.

We're still not sure what form the Stormblood relics will take though. Yoshi has stated before that the new relic will be tied to the new Eureka zone. This heavily implies that we won't be grinding old content as we used to but instead grinding a special new form of content designed specifically for the relic progression. It makes sense that the relics are being held back this time as it seems they depend on Eureka and some other things being implemented at the same time.

[Zenji]

Get ready for all the sam and rdm relics

[Maero]

NOOOOOO (In Vader Voice) i don't wanna endure hell over again


But will end up doing it again....

[Rinuko]

4.15 hm, so we probably talk about early/mid november. Was kinda hoping for 4.1