Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[Xeronia]

Absurdly long? Just skip the scenes, it takes like 2-4 hours which is probably not so different from their requirement of Ivalician raids for the Bozjan relics. Ivalice doesn't act as any form of skill-check LOL. Those raids are regularly a 30-40 minute slogfest of wiping and throwing corpses at the bosses until they die.

I had skipped every ARR Hildibrand cutscene on an alt with a friend, that alone was 4-6 hours (I know it was greater then four hours but I forgot the exact time) with healer queue and giving up finding anyone for second trial and just going to our mains and carrying the other. ARR Hidlibrand is really fetch questy even with cutscene skipping.

[Kaurhz]

I had skipped every ARR Hildibrand cutscene on an alt with a friend, that alone was 4-6 hours (I know it was greater then four hours but I forgot the exact time) with healer queue and giving up finding anyone for second trial and just going to our mains and carrying the other. ARR Hidlibrand is really fetch questy even with cutscene skipping.

I don't know, I recall skipping it a couple of months back and it didn't really take me long at all. I can certainly say it wasn't longer than 4 hours. I think Stormblood took me around 45-60 minutes to finish. Maybe I'll try later on my alt.

But was your endeavor on doing it on an alt pre-flying or post-flying? The former definitely going to take considerably longer than the latter. Regardless of this though, the relics are designed to be a grindy piece of content, and honestly if people are already being sent to their knees by the requirement being Hildibrand then I argue they probably won't make it very far in the first place.