This Needs to Be Said

[Bourne_Endeavor]

And you're ommiting the fact that gearing everything else also requires farming Tomestones...and gearing before that also required farming tomestones, and even before that. You just don't realize you're doing the same repetitive things for 5 years. And frankly, after the first dozens times, every trial is the same, and dungeons likewise.

Yes, I just don't realize I'm queuing for Dun Scaith, Alexander, Balesar's Wall or doing Beast Tribes; each having different bosses and mechanics in lieu of trash mobs equivalent to the world map. Just because they all reach the same goal doesn't make them identical. If we actually fought NMs with any regularity like in Anemos, you could at least make that argument. We don't. Pagos is literally grind trash mobs and nothing else.

Considering no one forces you to do the relic, no one forces you to participate in Eureka. In the end, the relic is like any other weapon, except that the later stages requires the earlier ones, which is a burden you wouldn't have to suffer for other weapons.

Like I said, you either do Eureka or you skip the Stormblood relic. There is no alternative. Heavensward and ARR allowed us to do different things. Saying "well you don't have to do the relic" is only proving how one dimensional and binary Eureka is. You have no choice if you want the relic. You have to grind trash mobs endlessly.

They slapped an i280 weapon on a random event that drops randomly for a random job to a random player with randomized stats. This is absolutely nothing like any gear you could build with the Eureka system, even if you decide to not put the "Relic" label on it.

You missed the point. Despite that being a better weapon, people didn't care. Hence why in Stormblood, they locked the relic behind their Diadem re-skin to hopefully goad more people into doing it as if it had anything else, regardless of superior ilvl, people wouldn't have touched Eureka. They still aren't despite the relic being there.