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- Back in ARR, the "old" dungeons and trials you had to do were not old. Neither were all of the HW ones. They are old now, but minus the old ATMA step, a lot was fairly current content at that time and mixed here and there with an earlier dungeon or trial. And with anima, there were later steps like running Leveling or 50/60/70 Roulette for singing clusters.
- It's been a while on ARR but the HW anima pieces were not bought with the weekly locked tomestones. It was very possible to get your limited tomestone to keep up on your gear and get purchasable anima pieces for the relic. But a lot weren't purchasable at that time.
- I personally didn't have trouble with crafting stages since I'm an omnicrafter. However, I feel they can be a bottleneck and shouldn't be the lone method to complete a step. I think what they did with treated crystal sand where they were options to get items was a perfect way to integrate them without punishing people for not wanting to interact with that part of the game.
- The books were tedious, but really only because you could only do one at at time. They got you out into the world doing FATES, hitting up overworld monsters, diving into dungeons, and even doing levequests. If you could have done multiple books at once, they would still be a grind, but a lot more streamlined. SE also seems to have learned from that, since they didn't repeat that idea with HW

But the key thing that both ARR and HW relic lines had was choices. On that step in ARR with 16 dungeons, I picked which dungeons I did in what order. Especially on the light step for both, I had numerous options on where I wanted to go to gather it. They gave different levels of light and it was my choice if I did the highest with the biggest bang or spent my time in a dungeon I loved or some mixture of both. When they closet relics away in instanced zoned with required steps involving those zones, they take away our freedom to make those choices. I've made the choice to miss out on the relics for two expansions now. I'm not happy about it. So I'm going to give them feedback that what they're doing sucks and give suggestions on how they can balance both sides.

The last time I stepped into Alexander Normal was last night. I often get them for Normal Raids and I always do them on WT. I've had a lot of fun recently because there are a lot of sprouts in them and it's wonderful to see their reactions. When was the last time you ran one?