Opinions: Ishgardian Restoration

[Jojoya]

If you dont grind at least quite a bit (even if you dont do this daily) you will probably take months or maybe even years..they could have easily give us the mount after getting one DoH and one DoL to 500k and it would still take most of the people quite a bit of a time..that achievement would be better placed in a Asia grind F2P MMO..

In the end Ishgard restauration has turned into nothing but an utter grindfest for rowena like turn ins. You either craft that one expert item a huge amount of time or another. The few fates that we have are still as boring as the first ones and just take longer to spawn and honestly Diadem was only fun for the first few times afterwards (especially if you want to win a title) its nothing but mindless grind again. At least I can watch some lets plays next to it. The only thing fun was the new attack in it and I wished we had more of that and less of just pure grind.

For it being the endgame content for crafters and gatherers it feels bad to me. In the end its just Rowena with a different look. The next steps really have to be absolutely great to make me change my opinion.

If I average 20k points a day, I can have the mount achievement completed in about 10 months. That's really not that bad. It gives me a long term goal to work toward rather than becoming another piece of content that's completed the same week it's released then forgotten.

I definitely can understand that some feel it is disappointing as an end game for crafters right now. But still it's contributing to server wide progress on what's likely to be a new housing district, something that many players have been asking for. And it opens the door for SE to expand on Expert craft related content in the future, much as squadrons led to Trust and the Doman Enclave was likely a testing ground for the Restoration.

Feel like they're using this as a test case for how grindy they can make the crafter relic, lol.

1,5 mill points needed fro crafter relic incomming xD

I'm sure they're using the combat relic weapon grind as a guide for the Skytool grind. There will definitely be a lot of crafting and gathering involved to progress the tools but it won't be based on Skyward points.