I was really hoping they would incorporate some of the things we had to do in v1 for our relics. I don't honestly remember the names of them anymore but there were things where you had to turn in supplies and defend a settlement, silver/gold bazaar back then and the chocobo escort missions and things of that sort. Maybe some bcnm type content or just something. Since they were basing it after xi I thought they may also be bringing in the fun open content from xi like campaign battles or besieged.

What I didn't expect was for them to take the worst and most complained about bits of xi like the lack of mounts, the grind, the deleveling and such and mix it together in a big pot of something awful, when xi had so much good in it too.

I heard there were going to be nms and while I assumed they would have drops we would need for the relic I didn't think it would be exclusively the way to obtain them. I thought there would be more misc drops from crafting items to glamour pieces.