New Relic step is great

[Rayne6665]

Just my two cents here but...
What the actual frick is that glow for SMN/SCH weapon? Just saw it on The Phookas yt video of it. Even HW relic for the book looks better -___- lol some shit glow at this second stage tf.

[MarniDawg]

I have some feedback for this. I very much like the grindy step with the roulettes except because it's weighted I've seen people leave lower level stuff. In the future if the goal is to fill up roulettes then consider making it a flat number and then balance based on that. A shame that you didn't have something to do in occult crescent to keep that going and populating it a bit for new people. I liked having two options in the past with field content.

[ZephyrMenodora]

Step seems fine. Adds some value for crafters and this isn't the first time crafters could help you (like ARR).

I'm not particularly excited about the bicolor gemstone part unless that item goes down a lot on the marketboard, but if I want the reward I'll just have to suck it up.

Roulettes are whatever, at least gives me a reason to do them since I don't really bother after all my jobs got to 100.

I do agree that there should be light grind available in OC itself though.

[brinn12]

Still underwhelming to me. Not having the atma RNG is an improvement, but now we don't get any OC steps for whatever reason. And considering how long it took them to update the relic, it's disappointing that the new step can be finished in just a few days of daily roulettes. It really feels like they just want people to sub for a month, and then have no PvE content to do for the other 3. I just hope DD/Quantum deliver.

[PaulusHamsteru]

There are people in PF giving out the mats for free, including the Rronek glue. Thanks, Jonah Sorenson@Balmung!

[Veritas-Ancora]

LOVE this relic step.

Excellent job, Square-Enix.

I'm loving my Aetherwell Array.

[CCheshire]

Did they buff drop rates of the first step?

I don't mind gathering, crafting and... or rather endure tomestone farming....

But I will not throw myself into hours of progress or no progress of pure RNG in OC. RNG as bad as some Gacha Game odds.
Cause after spending a few hours over multiple days in OC spamming CEs (boring old Fate farming), which I hate, I got not a single one.

No it's too early for them to buff the drop rate of step 1 as most ppl have finished like months ago and now doing step 2 which is just rous for now.

Also ppl who say I don't want to spend gil on mats OR level my DoH/L then they can just do the DT Ex5 for a weapon, tome wep, or even crafted. The relic has always been an optional upgrade there's been a few expansions I had skipped them since I dislike Eureka and Bozja and it was fine.

[MicahZerrshia]

Also ppl who say I don't want to spend gil on mats OR level my DoH/L then they can just do the DT Ex5 for a weapon, tome wep, or even crafted. The relic has always been an optional upgrade there's been a few expansions I had skipped them since I dislike Eureka and Bozja and it was fine.

I have 2 views on this.

First, it's a pittance. Outside the flat 300k item from an npc, on aether at 11am this morning they were all barely over 100k each, and I am sure the prices will drop significantly in the next few days.

Second, however, is they make the required crafting/gathering stats way too high. They should have leveled them out to be gathered/crafted in scrip gear, high end crafting and gathering should def never have been a requirement.

[hydralus]

I have 2 views on this.

First, it's a pittance. Outside the flat 300k item from an npc, on aether at 11am this morning they were all barely over 100k each, and I am sure the prices will drop significantly in the next few days.

Second, however, is they make the required crafting/gathering stats way too high. They should have leveled them out to be gathered/crafted in scrip gear, high end crafting and gathering should def never have been a requirement.

You can hit the minimum requirements for it in scrip gear and black star jewellery. If you use a tisane and All i pibre you can even 100% macro it.

[St0rmy]

This relic weapon step is good. I don't know why people are complaining.

It's easy enough to gather the first few materials. It barely costs anything on the marketboard with how much people are making. The 300k gil item is barely a gil sink. Gil is pretty much worthless in this game unless you: own a house and are decorating it or are doing week 1 raiding and are paying someone for armor.

The roulette step afterwards is nice. I do wish there was an alternative method in OC especially with the upcoming phantom jobs but I still do my roulettes daily (albeit I don't do high level dungeons this gives me proper incentive to do them) so this works out fine for me. I don't need the weapon asap. It'll be something that completes itself in 10 or so days. Part of me almost wishes that the roulette step was required for each weapon but afiak it goes to the 1.5k tomestone after this, which is a nice for subsequent weapons.

I'm not sure what people expect. Devs can't seem to win. Either there is no grind or it's too grindy. The only bad thing is this step is missing inclusion with OC.