Question for the people who don't dislike the 2nd relic step

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Every relic weapon has had short steps, but none of them have had steps copied like this in such a blatant manner.

>Implying Mahatma & Light grind from ARR relic aren't blatant copies of each other, which is then blatantly copied again during the HW relic
>Implying at least 5 different steps (likely more, memory a bit foggy) across the various relics aren't just blatantly carbon-copied 'Farm -x- fates in -y- region for -z- drop at some unspecified %drop rate'.
>Implying every step of the Eureka relic sans the final ones aren't just blatantly copying each other (kill zone boss to get special upgrade material, farm x amount of NM crystals)

While this step was lackluster in terms of giving something for people to do, let's take off the rose-tinted glasses and look at the objective truth that Square's relic design has been massively full of copy-paste. People have been complaining for a while now that its difficult to gear & spec into multiple jobs, so they decided to rectify that by making the current two steps be easy and very wide open to multi-relic, they see no need to dress up the step in some illusion that ultimately comes down to 'do this exact same task you've already done before but -x- more times'

Besides, with a relic design like this, there's nothing stopping people from making the quest whatever they want to be. Wanted it to force you to run Puppet's Bunker 15x? Then go run it 15x before buying the relic. Wanted it to force you to do variant dungeons till your eyes bled? Go spend all your tomestones so you start at 0, then go grind Variant till you have 1500. For anyone who was hoping the relic quest would be a grind, there's nothing stopping you from making it as grindy as you want - the only thing missing is Square Enix's authoritative voice telling you exactly how to do it with no fun allowed to alternatives otherwise. There's nothing limiting you besides your imagination! : )

This got such a good laugh from me.