First impressions of Eureka (FFXI player)

[Lord_Zlatan]

Please do not forget that FFXI items used to have unique effects, and the relics used to allow the use of special weapon skills. Thus the long grind in FFXI needed to obtain such item was rewarded. With the current system, the long grind isn't rewarded at all.

And the second part of your post is pure speculation of your part. In my opinion it will be like everything else in FFXIV : There ll still be ways to obtain gear of better ilvl (that isn't really usefull in the first place unless you're doing the so called raids of ffxiv) faster than doing Eureka.

Just imagine the tears if you got a new WS in FFXIV based on your relic (they totally should do this). and while they are at it, they need to ENSURE that the end stages of the relic weapon ARE the best (or slightly second best)