Quote Originally Posted by Granyala View Post
Really, that's your reason? So make it an NPC within OC that sells the Demiatmas.

Lots of ways to do that w/o having to limit players to one particular set of super boring content with a toxic RNG grind that doesn't feature any form of bad luck protection.

Light grind from past relics comes to mind, as an example. That can be applied to literally any content of the game. You can even exclude current Experts and Raids, that people run anyway and you wouldn't start capped the moment the patch dropped.
That last point is the main reason why the EW relic felt "bleh". We always already had 2K tomes and could finish it right away.
If EW was 5000 tomes per step instead of 2000 that wouldn’t have made the relic more interesting because you couldn’t get it immediately because tomes as a system are inherently uninteresting, it’s basically buying a relic weapon with Gil. It doesn’t make thematic sense nor does it “feel” fulfilling. You can argue I’m putting way too much stock on feeling but I mean the relics are useless anyway, if they don’t feel good what’s the point anyway.

I suggested a non RNG way (each relic requires guaranteed drops of shards of atma) but using tomes as a substitute for light (which I’ll remind you had RNG involved as well) to allow people to achieve it how they want is the exact argument they used for the EW relics