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

[EgilTheStressedMage]

I'm guessing it's because people like me couldn't be bothered doing the Ivalice raids because 1. personally I couldn't care less about anything from FFXII and 2. I didn't feel like putting further work into old relics I didn't want anymore. Because right after that nonsense did I do the quests for my relic weapon. At the end of day, it's all glam. I still have other jobs to unlock and level which validates my crafters and gatherers. Still plenty of content to get through.

[Kusanagi7]

i prefer this over boreeka though locking the gear behind extreme is meh imo.

[dinnertime]

It gives you something to do, something to work for.

Yes, but it can also not be mindless nor boring. It can take long but the time spent should be relative to how relevant it'll stay.

ALL gear becomes invalidated the following content patch. Yet people still farm up their Tomestone gear and or do Raids/Savage in order to get their swanky higher item level gear so they can AFK in Limsa with more stats than other people for a few months then the new content comes out and it's instantly replaced with the new gear that's better.

At least Relic weapons have the one advantage of being cool glams, which has infinite staying power given that "Glam is the real end game" is actually a sad reality because of the lack of staying power any content seems to have.

That is more of a problem than it is a valid point.
This cycle of a gear treadmill is just too frequent and that's not a good thing. It quickly invalidates the pieces of gear people have worked for to get, especially something like relic weapons. Not to mention how bland stats are in this game.
People still farm them because that's just how the game works and it's the kind of reality people accept in FFXIV or MMOs in general.

I play games to be entertained. Having stuff I log in, spend an hour on, then am done with for X amount of months is not what I'd call playing games. Especially in an MMO, the literal timesink genre of game.

It's still a game even if you play it for an hour a day. It's a good game if you enjoyed that one hour of playing it. Sure, MMOs should strive for longevity to keep their players playing but a long and mindless grind is never the answer to that in my opinion, but oh well.
Again yes this is short, but it's only the first stage. It's already better than Eureka because you have a variety of content you can do to get Poetics, which is a good thing.

[Almandaragal]

Honestly, I'm a bit disappointed overall. Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed the solo duty. I generally love those, and this was no exception in that respect. However, it was over entirely too fast. When I heard/read the relic was coming this patch, I was under the impression that it would be this and the first actual step. What we did isn't a first step, and anyone realistically trying to call it such is basically deluding themselves. We got the intro story, and boom, basically no effort weapon. Sure, fine by me, but how do I go about strengthening it to recreate these weapons of legend? Find out in 13 episodes of Goku yelling, trying to go super saiyan for the first time however many months until the next relic step is added.

It was just horribly lackluster, all things considered. This coming from someone who was only able to get one of the Ivalice 24-mans done prior to the patch, so I did the last two in one shot and started right in on the ShB relic. And, after it was all said and done, forcing me to endure the constant annoyance that are alliance raids was pointless. I didn't need any of that info from the Ivalice raides to understand what Mikoto was about. It was, frankly, pointless to force us through them, though I'm glad for the opportunity to see the story, since I couldn't get queues to pop for them otherwise when I did feel like torturing myself to attempt them.

So, all in all, we were made to deal with Alliance Raids for no actual gain in the Relic story specifically, only to get a single-use solo duty. And... That's it? I'm burnt out on DoH/DoL stuff from getting everything to 80 earlier this patch cycle after only having GSM and MIN at 80 when ShB dropped. I've tried Diadem and I literally start nodding off in my chair around the 30 minute mark. I do normal raids, but don't do EX or Savage.

That leaves me with content I did in one night, one few hour play session, and now no other new battle content for a few more months? Yeah, it's a little saddening. I still have a lot of things to do, but I was really hoping to have main job content to break up the monotony of leveling up classes I don't enjoy for the Amaro mount. There's only so many times Expert Roulette is fun.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Personally really enjoyed the update. The instance was really enjoyable and I usually find instances boring as heck. I have 6 relic weapons so far and I am happily working towards getting more and leveling those classes that aren't at 80! I think people need to relax a bit, it said in the patch notes that upgrading it will be more of a time investment. This expansion has a lot of new players, hitting them in the face with a lot of grind I don't think would have been nice right off the bat for them doing their first relic. I am working on old relics and I am finding it a little tedious tbh. I do like the glamour though so it's worth the effort. But if they can make upgrading these weapons a mix of reasonable grind and enjoyable content I will stay happy. It's by no means 1 hour content imo, I have a bunch of relics still to get, and then I have all the crafter ones to go for I haven't even gotten to that yet!

[Granyala]

For real. The grind for those relics is insane, and I'm not even done with Diadem yet. I have no clue how long it will take me for them, I think I'll only do it during dead times or I'll go crazy.
If people want grind there's plenty to find there, and in Firmament in general, but I guess if it's not combat grind, grind doesn't matter.

Took me around 5hrs of non stop gathering to get the HQ items. 90% of that time is spent waiting for GP lol. So basically doing nothing. Good I had a few episodes of Star Trek handy.
By comparison: the crafter relic took around 45 minutes, even with my wildly inefficient macro.

[RyuSaarva]

Took me around 5hrs of non stop gathering to get the HQ items. 90% of that time is spent waiting for GP lol. So basically doing nothing. Good I had a few episodes of Star Trek handy.
By comparison: the crafter relic took around 45 minutes, even with my wildly inefficient macro.

if you have all the mats, it takes about 15 minutes to craft all the items as long you do it manually.

[Sesera]

It was just horribly lackluster, all things considered. This coming from someone who was only able to get one of the Ivalice 24-mans done prior to the patch, so I did the last two in one shot and started right in on the ShB relic. And, after it was all said and done, forcing me to endure the constant annoyance that are alliance raids was pointless. I didn't need any of that info from the Ivalice raides to understand what Mikoto was about. It was, frankly, pointless to force us through them, though I'm glad for the opportunity to see the story, since I couldn't get queues to pop for them otherwise when I did feel like torturing myself to attempt them.

The Ivalice raid thing was more a way to make people unlock them so Alliance roulette is no longer CT roulette.

[RyuSaarva]

The Ivalice raid thing was more a way to make people unlock them so Alliance roulette is no longer CT roulette.

Sorry but after a few days have passed, nothing but crystal tower will pop there once more.

[Vidu]

The Ivalice raid thing was more a way to make people unlock them so Alliance roulette is no longer CT roulette.

The reason you get nothing but CT in your alliance roulette has more to do with people manipulating their ilvl before queueing and less with people not having the other raids unlocked...