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[Jeeqbit]

EW's relic wasn't "a solution" to the problems of ShB relic. It was the solution to the problem of production scaling back & shifting roadmap due to the pandemic.

It wasn't due to Covid nor was it due to them "being lazy".

It was for the simple reason that there is a split in the playerbase, where half want to work hard for their relics, and half want to be done with them asap. And within the ones who want to work for them, some of them want to do new content and some of them want to farm old content like Crystal Tower.

So the solution they came up with was: let players decide what content they do for it, by making it all tomestones, since everything drops tomestones. The issue with that approach was that it meant you got the weapon through your normal activities such as hunt trains or Expert Roulette, effectively reducing the overall amount of content being done that expansion, and making it feel like it's just handed to you.

They were also trying to solve the problem in ShB of people wanting to do all relics for all jobs despite the ever-growing number of jobs. It all makes sense, but overall, it obviously didn't feel like a prestigious weapon at all getting it that way.

[ZephyrMenodora]

It wasn't due to Covid nor was it due to them "being lazy".

It was for the simple reason that there is a split in the playerbase, where half want to work hard for their relics, and half want to be done with them asap. And within the ones who want to work for them, some of them want to do new content and some of them want to farm old content like Crystal Tower.

So the solution they came up with was: let players decide what content they do for it, by making it all tomestones, since everything drops tomestones. The issue with that approach was that it meant you got the weapon through your normal activities such as hunt trains or Expert Roulette, effectively reducing the overall amount of content being done that expansion, and making it feel like it's just handed to you.

They were also trying to solve the problem in ShB of people wanting to do all relics for all jobs despite the ever-growing number of jobs. It all makes sense, but overall, it obviously didn't feel like a prestigious weapon at all getting it that way.

Personally as someone who does not enjoy Hildebrand or find those quests funny, it was a slog / grind to even get all that chain done for them. After that though they really just felt like generic tomestone weapons. There are a few glams I like from the set but I actually deleted all of my EW relics because I was left with no sentimental value for any of them.

Normally I keep my Relics on a retainer as mementos, but these just ended up feeling like any other Tomestone weapon I would sell/discard after I outlevelled it.

As an aside, I hope Hildebrand is not a requirement in the future. I already stopped doing the 7.0 version of them.