Boy is the Zeta weapon grind dumb

[Barraind]

This thing designed to take months to a year+ of time to do is taking longer than a couple days, please halp.

You'd have tons of fun with EQ epics.

[Avidria]

Yeah I did it in HW when it was already easier, tho not as easy as now, and it was godawful. I haven't bothered to do it again either. Also haven't finished my HW relic because the next phase is light farming and screw doing that again. Never touched StB's because Eureka. And if I finish ShB's, I have a feeling I'll only have the interest and fortitude to do it once too. No idea how people can bring themselves to do more than one of these things, but more power to them. Glad someone enjoys it, or enjoys the rewards enough, at least.

[Payotz]

I don't think Relics are something you rush through, it's something that you can do if you're bored.

I do think that ARR is the most tedious of all Relics, but I guess that's the main reason why they give you a title when completing one.

[Barraind]

I don't think Relics are something you rush through, it's something that you can do if you're bored.

I do think that ARR is the most tedious of all Relics, but I guess that's the main reason why they give you a title when completing one.

And a housing item!

[Gemina]

I'll be finishing the thing tonight, and will never repeat the process on another character or job. But boy oh boy do I regret the decision to begin it at all. This is just lousy, sloppy content of the first order.

Multiple ARR relic owners said the exact same thing.

To this day those designs are still some of the best they've ever released, and are reminiscent of a time SE didn't just give BiS away.

[ElazulHP]

Did it for one weapon like two years ago and never did it again. HW relics are less brain death inducting imo. Then they slipped backwards with Eureka and made them actually cause physical discomfort/pain if you did long periods of grinding in Pagos. New relic is like an overcorrection because Pagos and Eureka was so shitty. Now they're super easy with lots of story. I personally prefer this and think that is how they should be. They're only relevant for the last 3 months of an expansion anyways when all the raids and content is played out and people are just waiting on the next expansion.

[TeraRamis]

I do have a few questions: aside from randomly running dungeons, how do you figure out which dungeons are on 'the bonus'...? How often do the bonus dungeons switch? Is there more than one bonus dungeon at a time?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I do have a few questions: aside from randomly running dungeons, how do you figure out which dungeons are on 'the bonus'...? How often do the bonus dungeons switch? Is there more than one bonus dungeon at a time?

Its on a 2 hour window. It used to be tracked by reddit, though not anymore. It didn't tell you it's a bonus, you just have to know the differing tiers of light and infer from there.

I spammed stone vigil for my most recent one. 3ish min runs. Took me maybe 2 hours or so to finish

[Liam_Harper]

To this day those designs are still some of the best they've ever released, and are reminiscent of a time SE didn't just give BiS away.

Can agree with this. I'm working on both the ARR and HW relic in my own time and I'm quite happy with it. It's refreshing to have something that isn't just handed to you on a plate within a few days and where they actually aren't afraid to ask you to work a little for it. Sadly just a remnant of bygone days. Enix seem terrified to ask anything from their players at all this expansion, except rare obscure cases like "craft the same collectible for 500 hours for a mount" to try and shut the veteran crafters up.

[Jennah]

Still several hundred times better than the Eureka grind, though!

(Yes, I would rather do one fun-at-first thing (say, run a dungeon) 500 times than do one was-never-fun thing (say, stand in one spot and hit damage sponge mobs) 50 times. Why?)