Manderville Relic Criticism

[Theodric]

Well, that's disappointing. Hildibrand is already divisive content by their own admission since that sort of humour wears thin for a lot of people in the first place. So there's a good chunk of individuals who skip the cutscenes. Furthermore, anybody who has been playing for a decent chunk of time will have already likely tired of roulettes. It's odd that they're working to make the MSQ's solo friendly but expect veteran players to dip into roulettes if they want a relic weapon.

[LianaThorne]

Well, that's disappointing. Hildibrand is already divisive content by their own admission since that sort of humour wears thin for a lot of people in the first place. So there's a good chunk of individuals who skip the cutscenes. Furthermore, anybody who has been playing for a decent chunk of time will have already likely tired of roulettes. It's odd that they're working to make the MSQ's solo friendly but expect veteran players to dip into roulettes if they want a relic weapon.

We're all just here to keep the roulette machine running. Don't think there's anything else logical about the decision apart from that.

[xbahax92]

Excuse you, small indie company. They dont gain enough from subs, expansions and cash shop. Not enough dev resources to create lasting, engaging content. Please understand. /s

[Keytchouka]

I have only one problem with the Reaper relic. We have "young" job who has trouble finding good glamour and you add a weapon with some colors never seen before. Why the colors of the weapons don't match with the jobs vfx colors?

Like what is this yellow/green fluo? On a job where the main color are red/black/purple/green? Who thought i was a good idea?



Please stop adding colors who don't match the jobs. It don't make any sense

[Saraide]

The grind is boring and therefore does not have to return.

[SieyaM]

There seems to be this idea that this round of relics allows players an incredible amount of freedom in how they obtain materials for it, when the reality is you have to run a very narrow set of things in order to obtain the correct tomes, all of it EW content. It really isn't that different than in the past when specific dungeons were required to obtain light or whatever we were grinding. The difference here is that those past relics had different steps that either require different dungeons or required interactions with FATEs or other content, it wasn't all a dungeon grind beginning to end. This entire run has had us doing the same things since it's first step. Even Eureka and Bozja had us move into other zones providing a change of scenery during our time there.

[TheMightyMollusk]

These relics feel like the devs were obligated to put a relic in somewhere and just tacked it on to Hildebrand because, eh, why not. Even as someone who likes Hildy, they don't make a lot of sense.

[Zaniel]

The past few expansions, we’ve had quests and lengthy areas to play in to obtain relics - whether it be ARR/HW Crafting, SB Eureka, ShB Bozja, or any of the steps that involve replaying old content - it’s nowhere to be found with this relic. All it is is a glorified Tomestone grind. 4500 Tomestone and you have your relic for the expansion.

At the very least, I expected SOME modicum of effort to be put into this final step, but woe is the man who expects anything from the past two HILDIBRAND patches. Yes, they can be funny and you have to go through a lot of old stuff - but it isn’t that long in comparison to other relics.

For 7.0 relic, they need to bring back the grind.

I get both sides of this argument and while you aren't wrong I can understand why they did it. I think they need to have a half way point, no anima light farming/ book nonsense but yeah this is a bit dull. Perhapps they need to take an extended leaf out of the Bozja relics, make the mega grinds inside the once-only sections of the question chain. So the first relic is brutal but the successive relics are much easier. HW relic grind for 19 classes is a bit too much.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Counterpoint, I love that I can choose to grind tomes in whatever I want instead of their narrow prescribed list of new thing I may hate or specific old content.

Especially in a game of now 19 jobs. Relics can much more easily be accessed for players interested in gearing alternate jobs for current content.

This is how I feel, and said as such the last time this came up. I'm sure this same thread will appear next time it's updated too.

Being forced to be bored out of my mind on fates or specific dungeons was the worst experience I had with Relics, and am glad this is better than that at least.

[Bobby66]

I have only one problem with the Reaper relic. We have "young" job who has trouble finding good glamour and you add a weapon with some colors never seen before. Why the colors of the weapons don't match with the jobs vfx colors?

Like what is this yellow/green fluo? On a job where the main color are red/black/purple/green? Who thought i was a good idea?



Please stop adding colors who don't match the jobs. It don't make any sense

That looks awesome though.