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[Misutoraru]

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.

The approach in SB and ShB really weren’t ideal. Eureka was pretty dead a year after it released and Bozja might have improve the “soloing” abit still become “dead”.

Tomestone seem a reasonable approach, it is still not quick grind, and have to go through a series of quest, and it does not become hard to obtain because of dead content.

[Jeeqbit]

The approach in SB and ShB really weren’t ideal. Eureka was pretty dead a year after it released and Bozja might have improve the “soloing” abit still become “dead”.

Eureka still isn't dead because newer players are often talking about it being a thing they are doing. The Bozja method got harder but overall, it's possible to do the CE raids wth a small number of people and they made alternatives like Deep Dungeons, dungeon, FATE and raid farming.

Tomestone seem a reasonable approach, it is still not quick grind, and have to go through a series of quest

Maybe it's not quick for you, but many of us had a different experience where we got handed our relics for no additional work because we obtained the necessary tomestones through our normal activities that we were doing regardless. The series of quests was a few seconds, once Hilidibrand was complete, which a lot of people had kept up to date with already.