Lets talk about relic grinds, shall we? Aether grinding gave me the option to do different things to earn light. Sometimes I ran savage. Sometimes I farmed 24 mans for gearing alts. Most often, I just did my dailies. Books gave me the options to complete tasks in the order I wanted. Personally, I liked to knock the fates out of the way first so that I could do the kill counts little by little when I was bored. Fates could be done solo or with friends/strangers who were also working on their weapons or just willing to help out. Umbrite, crystal sands, and clusters could be bought from doing various different activities. Some were faster than others, but I could mix and match depending on my free time & how much progress I wanted to make in a night.

There are zero options here in Pagos. I'll type it again, this time in bold so hopefully my point gets through: There is no other way for me to earn this relic other than to suffer through Pagos's mindless training dummy grind. Imagine if spamming ARF was the only way to earn umbrite for the anima, that you had to hunker down and spam the dungeon over and over and over and over and over and over. Its just as stupid a concept as Pagos.