Quote Originally Posted by Elesh View Post
Hildibrand for relic is just... not good. My issues with it holistically:
1) I don't like the idea of forcing every end-game player to go through the worst written and most bigoted quest in ffxiv(Specifically Heavensward Hildibrand, not Hildibrand as a whole)
2) It's bad form to make new players go through four expansions of an optional sidequest to access progression content.

My personal issue aside from the above is that I'm pretty confident this means we're getting gaudy, hideous weapons because gaudy and exaggerated is what Manderville stands for. But meh, that's not a big deal - I can just glam over it. Also... I think it's a real shame to not leverage ANY of the fascinating expert craftspeople we have in Endwalker that are story relevant who have unique and amazing visual styles for this.
Besides the Relic not being end game raider content, They had us do Bozjan for the last one, the most insulting quest chain in all of Final Fantasy, one that caused me to hate a player race in it's entirety. If I could tolerate that insufferable quest, you can skip cut scenes on happy silly slap stick.