Quote Originally Posted by Ashgarth View Post
Quick question.

Did you do the ARR/HW relics when they were released, or the heavily nerfed forms available today?
Because if you find farming fates in Bozja boring. Explain to me how farming fates in upper la noscea for 6 days to get ONE of twelve drops was fun. Or having to spend stupid amounts of gil trying to fit materias into a relic while praying to God the goddam thing actually enters this time and doesnt break both the materia AND the alexandrite. Running Garuda and Cape Westwind for hours upon hours to get lights... etc.
Simple, atma was bad design and Square hasn't done relic stages with that level of RNG since. People who defend bozja, which if you like it then go ahead and do so, seem to bring this up like it's some sort of grand argument that'll instantly shut people up. Bad design is bad design and we've moved away.

As for the alexandrite and materia section, didn't find it bad, doing the maps for alexandrite wasn't bad and were done quickly and while you had to either spiritbond your own gear and hope for the right materia, I did just buy them off the marketboard. Just going and grabbing a few Fire Clusters or something when I was on was more than enough to cover costs of materia. Gave me a use for my Botanist that I'd leveled. Light grinding is a very simple answer, I didn't run the same instance over and over again because it was "efficient". Sure if something I didn't mind doing a few times had bonus I'd go in again, but I just grabbed light by doing my normal daily stuff.

I simply don't like having to go into an instance to grind monsters/fates and do nothing else. Can't queue for anything as a DPS while I wait, can't go easily go and gather any of the timed materials, while Castrum sounds fun, again, Square just kinda did bad design again.