These Relics Aren't Relicing

[Caesius]

They obviously did not design this relic grind "for" the current veteran players who have already knocked out Eureka and Bozja. They designed it for today's sprouts and our future selves, I think.

I don't like it at this moment, but I'll be happy to go into Dawntrail having actually fully finished one expansion pack's relic grind and not worry about yet another old expac's Field Operations zones.

Having veteran players queue for duty roulettes instead of ducking off to Eureka or Bozja is good for the sprout player base since their duties will pop faster and have players who know what they're doing. That will keep them in the game going into Dawntrail, and when they eventually unlock Endwalker relics they'll be able to earn them passively with poetics instead of going to a dead field op or grinding out fates.

It's better in the long run that they did it this way since otherwise the players grinding for old relics would have been spread out across three field ops instead of just two. As for fates, shb and ew have shared fates/bicolor gemstones to grind, so there's no need to add a relic grind as a motivator.

There's no denying that the current relic grind isn't going to keep vets engaged though. I'll definitely be finished with these relics on my main within like a month, so I'll either need to find something else to do or spend my time in another game.

[Supersnow845]

They obviously did not design this relic grind "for" the current veteran players who have already knocked out Eureka and Bozja. They designed it for today's sprouts and our future selves, I think.

I don't like it at this moment, but I'll be happy to go into Dawntrail having actually fully finished one expansion pack's relic grind and not worry about yet another old expac's Field Operations zones.

Having veteran players queue for duty roulettes instead of ducking off to Eureka or Bozja is good for the sprout player base since their duties will pop faster and have players who know what they're doing. That will keep them in the game going into Dawntrail, and when they eventually unlock Endwalker relics they'll be able to earn them passively with poetics instead of going to a dead field op or grinding out fates.

It's better in the long run that they did it this way since otherwise the players grinding for old relics would have been spread out across three field ops instead of just two. As for fates, shb and ew have shared fates/bicolor gemstones to grind, so there's no need to add a relic grind as a motivator.

There's no denying that the current relic grind isn't going to keep vets engaged though. I'll definitely be finished with these relics on my main within like a month, so I'll either need to find something else to do or spend my time in another game.

Yeah it’s so much better designed that I; a paying customer; am doing horribly designed content to better fill the free trial players queues

Honestly stuff the free trial, it’s already overwhelmingly generous, leave something for those of us who actually pay please