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

[RyuSaarva]

The best thing about this is that alliance roulette has level 70 dungeons now and they are fun even greatly nerfed because in every fight the alliance is mostly dead and you are really fightning to stay alive lol.

[Tlamila]

As for the BGM. If you're referring to the EX trial, it's the old dungeon theme they replaced last patch. So it isn't new.

I'm pretty sure they're talking about the new resistance area, it's got a new awesome BGM. I think you might want to turn your sound on.

[Tlamila]

The best thing about this is that alliance roulette has level 70 dungeons now and they are fun even greatly nerfed because in every fight the alliance is mostly dead and you are really fightning to stay alive lol.

IMHO an awesome thing about this all which people are completely disregarding is that now finally people are unlocking Ivalice raids, and finally they'll pop in alliance raids roulette, giving us more than the same old I-wanna-poke-my-eyes-out LotA. Sure, some people will still cheese their ilvl but the problem was mostly that most people didn't even bother unlocking them, and those of us who wanted to couldn't because they never popped no matter how many hours you waited.
Now we just need something that forces people to unlock the HW ones too and we're gold.

And you're right, these runs with half of the people being first timers are very wipey and very fun. Yesterday I finally managed to do Orbonne as soon as I logged after patch, so that I could do the relic too, then with roulette had first Rabanastre and then Ridorana and my, was it fun. I hope it lasts.

[Zefiris]

Need do trial extreme to catch that weapons? o.ô
Well, grind is all right for me (I have 415 days of playtime), but I avoid hard things and never did trial extreme. Perhaps only going continue with my craft weapon.

[Tyssyn]

The Ex Trial is for the dyeable versions of the artifact class gear, not the weapon.

[Tlamila]

Need do trial extreme to catch that weapons? o.ô
Well, grind is all right for me (I have 415 days of playtime), but I avoid hard things and never did trial extreme. Perhaps only going continue with my craft weapon.

No, the trial is to get the dyable AF4. You get the first weapon with just a few hours of cutscenes and a beautiful solo instance, and the next ones with 1000 poetics, which is why this thread is about complaining it's too easy/fast.

[Lersayil]

Personally I don't really mind that the first step was easy, but... we are severely lacking in long term, casual, combat related content (aka grind).

As much as I hated Anemos and Pagos, they at least gave me a reason to play, besides doing relevant lockouts and capping currencies.

I was holding out for the relic weapon, but I guess we'll have to wait a few patches more for something to come.

[Kanitezz]

This actually makes me want to laugh out loud. I enjoyed the actual story aspect of this first step. Like REALLY enjoyed. Running through that instance, the battle, the cutscenes (Some more than others), and I am very satisfied. But I should've expected to see a lot of people on the forums not liking it, actually severely hating it. But its just proof that people on both ends of the spectrum do exist.

[Kalise]

This actually makes me want to laugh out loud. I enjoyed the actual story aspect of this first step. Like REALLY enjoyed. Running through that instance, the battle, the cutscenes (Some more than others), and I am very satisfied. But I should've expected to see a lot of people on the forums not liking it, actually severely hating it. But its just proof that people on both ends of the spectrum do exist.

I quite liked the story and the solo duty. I also loved how epic it felt as a Tank to step up with Thancred and block the big bad attack.

It's just, after that I was literally handed the Relic for free.

Like, literally free. Rowena even gave me the materials for free. Rowena gave me the materials for free.

With Gerolt just pulling a legendary weapon out of his butt. No, ridiculously convoluted method of gaining specific materials (No, that's memed in the Relic Tools with their "Oddly Specific" materials...), no needing to test the weapon to see how to power it up or tempering it by fighting.

Just a couple of slaps on an anvil with some magic words attained from a haphazard reconstruction of someone's memory (Which is hecking distorted af, yet the inscriptions on the replicas happened to be perfect, go figure)

The duty was good. But it wasn't really Relic worthy...

[Iscah]

Rowena even gave me the materials for free. Rowena gave me the materials for free.

Actually the Resistance paid for it. She's supplying materiel to the Resistance, and presumably charging them. We were just there to collect it.