Data from lucky bancho about participation in field content

[Jojoya]

This is reality-bending rofl

Most people didn't grind for relics. Most people just got their relics without grinding on day 1 without zero effort. Imagine calling that grinding. Congrats for setting up a complete strawman.

Their first relic, sure. They had been playing content before the patch released and had the tomestones ready because that's what many players do before the release of every patch.

What about the second, the fifth, the seventeenth relics, though? The relic steps cost 1500. Tomestones cap at 2000. They would have had to do something to earn the tomestones for their additional relics. It's a rare player that only gets the relic for one job.

Have the gear be equivalent to the dungeon item level for the patch but give them unique, compelling armor models. Maybe if you do the savage version, you can get armor models that have some kinda fancy glowing effect. Think Eureka elemental armor

Boom problem solved.

Another idea: Have Criterion drop the twines and such you need to upgrade gear (with a weekly lockout), and there you go.

Adding a full set for each role would contribute to inventory bloat not to mention people getting upset when the model they like is for a job different from the one they want to use it on. (not trying to say it's a bad idea or that I'm against it, it's just something that needs to be considered)

They did add the cosmetic gear as a reward because that has the benefit of being used on any job at any level. Should that be harder to grind?

Granted most players aren't going to do Criterion but it would be interesting to see the result if SE were to poll the players that do to see if they would prefer role locked or pure cosmetic sets as rewards.

Definitely I see adding the twines as a good idea for Criterion that shouldn't raise objections, especially if they're on a weekly lockout.