Square Enix should retire the relic quests with Endwalker

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

[…]And yet you could have decided "I will do The Dead Ends 15 times, Storm's Crown EX 20 times, P8S 10 times to complete this stage of a relic". Earned tomestones through normal play of other content? Spend it on other things like crafting mats or Rains so they aren't available to use toward the relic.

But you didn't. Instead, you opted for the efficient way to get your tomestones as fast as possible.

What do you think it says to others when you state you prefer a grind, you were given the option to grind, and yet you did things the "easy" way?

What do you think that I did when ShB relic asked for 15 Loathsome memories that you can farm either from 15 clears of CT raid or from 15 clears of CLL within BSF?

I did the latter.

I could’ve picked the former. It’s guaranteed 3 memories vs 1 potential memory because Echo & the gain ratio fix was not a thing back then. But I did it anyway. What do you think people say to me when I admitted this?

I don’t need to switch up my daily routine to get EW relic. But if I do the same to any older expac relic, I won’t ever get any of those steps done. There’s a difference between these two. One doesn’t require you to make the commitment to change your pace. The other requires a semblance of choice to make your progress.

Again, I am NOT asking the steps to be EASY or HARD. Even though none of the relics were even hard to begin with. They just require you to make the effort to switch a varied degree of your routine to work for it. EW doesn’t do that to you. If you’ve been doing roulettes since base 6.0? Congrats, that’s all you need to do! What a way to cut corner!

What I personally liked from ShB relics was the fact they gave us the REAL choice on how we would to approach some of the steps. Take bitter memories step as an example, pick your poison: let daily leveling and lucky lv60 capstone roulette fill your inventory, or spam Antsytower, or go into BSF? IMHO they should learn from that model.