New Relic weapon quest - are we down to 1 hour content already?

[Videra]

You don't need to do new content immediately and rush rush rush, and do note, there are other things to do and see in the patch. Also to note, #.5 patches like the end of Heavensward and Stormblood. Notably short and make the wait feel longest before the next expansion.

Not every patch needs to be a massive dump. That was, in fact, what was changed post Heavensward to keep a steady and maintainable update cycle. This is not a 4.# patch, so it is to be expected to be not as huge as a main patch.

And FYI, the Hatchling Tide event is an amazing lore dump. Far from minimalist because you can't appreciate it.

As much as I am a roleplayer, cutscenes are not gameplay. Just as well, there was no 'rush rush rush' attitude to take with this, it's literally content that's completed within one setting. If you're going to post hot takes, please, at least try not to be cripplingly wrong.

[Tlamila]

I'm mostly shocked we get new ones by doing absolutely nothing. 1000 poetics are a joke. I thought we'd get to repeat the duty which each class at least.

[Gula]

As much as I am a roleplayer, cutscenes are not gameplay. Just as well, there was no 'rush rush rush' attitude to take with this, it's literally content that's completed within one setting. If you're going to post hot takes, please, at least try not to be cripplingly wrong.

Point out what's so cripplingly wrong. Because it seems as though former patch cycles have been forgotten. This is not the first nor the last mini patch.

[AlliciaCapulet]

I'm also very disappointed about the first step. I know some people were complaining about Eureka, but honnestly, Eureka was mostly for me the best relics so far. Way better than the usual "revisiting old content". It was new, original. I agree that Pagos was a pain if you wanted every weapon, but it was overall nice.

I know, it's just the first step, but I feel like it's too easy. This game keeps getting easier and easier on every patches... And we lack content to do on end game, when a new major patch release a new raid tier (every 2 major patch), we have a few days to learn the fight, but after that, it's 1 hour per week to clear the savage and it's done. I know that causual player may not like the infinite grind that relics can bring, but this is a way to keep your players active. Lately, I'm playing other games because I get bored on FFXIV... I was hoping that the new relics would give something fun to do, like Eureka did...

I hope that some people from SE are reading the comments of the forum to give feedback to yoshi-p and the dev. Honnestly, you seems to be taking a big step in the wrong direction, and it's probably not too late to correct it. Well, for this patch, yes it is, but for the next steps, no it's not too late. You introduce us a resistance and a new place, for now it's small, but please, make it a bigger place and let us play a role in their resistance, something like Eureka would be so amazing.

[Xatsh]

Sorta horribly disappointed to hear that relics are a joke to get this time around... extremely pathetic if it only takes an hour or so to get. SE needs to increase the staff working on this game if this is all the content they can put out compared to other expansions. They cut out a dungeon per major patch... where is the content that replaced it?

I was hoping this was going to be content that would occupy time between savage raiding and what not. Game has a massive lack of content already at endgame... having no time sink content basically forces ppl to log out. Just a stupid decision overall. Do not know how this was ever greenlighted. Eureka was a good step in the right direction in terms of a side advancement to savage progression. This is the exact wrong direction... I mean hell even the horrific grind that was fate and dungeon spamming was a better direction for relics then this.

[ToniRomo]

Point out what's so cripplingly wrong. Because it seems as though former patch cycles have been forgotten. This is not the first nor the last mini patch.

In Heavensward we got a full relic step that took a long time to complete in a .15 patch.
In Stormblood we got Anemos in the .25 patch. As flawed as Eureka was Anemos took awhile to complete and had a bunch of things to collect. It was also an area you could revist to cap tomes.
In Shadowbringers in the .25 patch we get an hour long of cutscenes and a solo instance. The real first relic step won't begin until the next .35 patch cycle.

I used to spend most of my playtime building various relics. Every expansion they delay them more and more. So surely you might be able to understand why I am disappointed after outlining what I did above. I don't do savage raids so there's very little for me to do at level cap anymore.

[Sesera]

Anemos was your Relic, a dyable 5 slot version of the artifact set, your weekly tome cap, multiple minions and glam, silly amounts of materia and a T Rex mount all contained within a large dangerous open zone.

This is why I loved Eureka you could focus on farming one thing (i.e minions/t-rex) and in the end you got your crystals and weekly cap without even notice.

ARR and HW however were boring and felt like a painful grind but I did them in SB/SHB so maybe back then it felt like Eureka and not a mindless grind.

[Gemina]

485. With five materia slots.

I have to agree with the OP, though. I was expecting something much more in-depth. I liked Eureka. It had flaws but they were refined over time and it was an excellent way to make gil due to the vast amount of items to acquire and sell.

Sounds about right. I was curious if this gripe was stemmed from the fact that 7 weeks has passed since 5.2 release, and most peeps have their new i490 tome weapon, and then SE whips this out. Kind of reminds me of when SE slapped a RNG BiS into Diadem late in HW.

I actually don't mind if this is fairly quick to get through during this first phase. My agenda in game is already filled to the brim even before this patch.

[Lauront]

This is why I loved Eureka you could focus on farming one thing (i.e minions/t-rex) and in the end you got your crystals and weekly cap without even notice.

ARR and HW however were boring and felt like a painful grind but I did them in SB/SHB so maybe back then it felt like Eureka and not a mindless grind.

At least they're using an "either/or" approach this time. As an aside, I like the music... similar to Witcher 3/PF: Kingmaker.

[Hysterior]

Great because my FF7R copy arrived today. The less time spent on FFXIV quests right now the better XD