Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
Delubrum Reginae is... not my idea of fun. Every boss has several instant kills, you lose mettle for dying, and instead of Vuln Up debuffs you get a debuff that at 2 stacks turns into a 2 second Doom. There's a 78k Mettle minimum to go in so if you die too much you get to go back to the Southern Front for more "fun," and naturally all the cool new toys like the golden Gabriel mount and new hairstyle are locked in there.

Aaaaaaand you have to do Delubrum Reginae to even start the new weapon upgrade quest, which needs 15 Memories from Southern Front Critical Engagements / Crystal Tower raid runs, 18 Memories from Shadow of Mhach raids and/or Gyr Abania FATEs, 18 Memories from Return to Ivalice raids and/or Othard FATEs, and 15 Timeworn Artifacts from Delubrum Reginae and/or Palace of the Dead clears. No data on FATE droprates, but Critical Engagements are not guaranteed drops; and of course, no cheating the raids with undersized parties.
The whole thing just sounds horrendously demotivating, and - I haven't done the new patch stuff yet, but it's not a story that's left me fretting for the characters in the meanwhile or anything. I'll still try it out and see how bad it is, and hopefully get some glamour from it, but... ugh.

It all just seems designed to put players through grinding hell.