What SHOULD a relic step be?

[Asari5]

lets make killing creatures a step. not in some instances but in the open world. and not in a fate but just the ones standing around everywhere. they barely have any use anyway

like 10 specific enemies.... a 100 times. just a long list of monsters.

would be a funny sight in the overworld

[Veritas-Ancora]

I love the current step of relic and want to add to it.

Next Relic Step should be similar to Books, but require 30 specific trials, 15 specific dungeons, 5 alliances, etc.

Instead of relying on roulette, it requires the player to pick some of the higher-level content to be played. So Jeuno and San d'Oria should absolutely be included in this.

[Raikai]

Regardless, I like if the approach is a different method every step. Hopefully the later ones will fully involve the North Horn and Forked Tower: Magic of the OC.

[BokoToloko]

I think the array should've had more options for grinding, even if the quantities were bellow 100 points of progrees in a crystal. Giving several choices for speeding the grind would've been neat, some of them being:
- Hunts
- Vana'diel Alliance Raids
- Extreme and Savage clears
- Occult Crescent and Forked Tower
- FATEs, Treasure Hunts, Wondrous Tails

Even if people will tend towards the path of least resistance, having options for detours that could appeal to people averse to the main method would be great. Which is also why I would like a step that salvages otherwise useless currencies and tokens (like Society Quests or EX totems) among other things. And, while some people would throw a fit, I want to see more chances for crafters to be involved.

[Raoabolic]

I'll say it...
there should be a step that involves your Squadron. Yes, this is the hill I will die on along with my beloved toppled, unused LoV machines!

[Nyastra]

I liked whatever Eureka did, live and play in the zone.

Eureka remains one of my favorites as well. I liked the culture around it and that you knew you were taking a day or few hours to spend time grinding in a zone. Common courtesy of waiting to pull NMs because they didn't just "respawn" vs the whole rush from one critical encounter to the next only to get there when it ends. Etc etc. But I get it's not for everyone.

[avraymk]

You know how each of the roulette has a specific element tied to the Aetherwell Array? Why not assign elements to specific duties and have us do those instead?
Like Ifrit and Hells' Lid giving fire, garuda and Xelphatol giving wind. Depending on what kind of duty it is it could give more or less aether.

I think there would be a burnout of farming the same boss over and over as there would always be an optimal farm choice...

... Though to be fair all I get is CT on alliance raid.

Maybe if they rotated the bosses each day and it was a one time bonus light? But then players would be expected to learn a lot of extremes (if thats what you were implying).

[Jason_Ashford]

That's the wonderful thing!

Ask 100 people and you'll get 100 different answers, lol.

that's what gets me, and why i call the community fickle. You have 100 different answers, the devs look at those answers, and pick the ones that seem popular, and then the other people who didn't ask for those features will complain that wasn't what they wanted.

[Valence]

Allow me to do what I like doing in the game, if the devs cannot provide anything engaging to do (fates are not engaging and neither is spamming CEs/fates in OC).

The problem of relics isn't that they're a grind, it's that they rely on excruciatingly mind numbing pieces of content, so if we can't have anything actually fun with good shelf life (like pvp or actual rogue lites) then I'd rather be able to pick what I like doing.

[Commander_Justitia]

I am fine with poetics.

The problem is that gear doesn't affect your skills in any meaningful way than crit + 0,5% etc. I rather have them focus on talent trees or gear that changes how we use our skills. They just need to remove the dust from the PvP trait system in 2.x and implement it for PvE with a relic traitpoint system