Why This Relic is Better Than Endwalker (And Most Expansions)

[VeyaAkemi]

Points I don't respond to are things I have nothing to add, for the things I have to add:

- NO LIGHT FARMING. Arbitrary light percentages are gone. No more grinding the same thing over and over again. Alex 1 isn't required over and over.

This absolutely is Light farming, the sole difference is that the "Light" is an item in your inventory rather than a metric tracked by the item itself, the point about "No more the same duty over and over" is also moot, as it is self-inflicted, Light always had a rather large range of options to be farmed from.

- CHOICE OF SOUTH HORN. Let's face it, South Horn sucks. If we were required to be there, people wouldn't bother. Yes it's nice to have it as an option, but let's let South Horn die out already. It wasn't fun content and Squeenix dropped the ball pretty hard on Forked Tower and this job system. Don't force content that people won't enjoy.

The problem lies not so much on the choice, the problem lies on South Horn being such a godawful option to gain Paste from, if they doubled the SH gains, or halved everything else(I'd prefer the latter), it would be actually pretty good.

- IT'S NOT A TOME GRIND. We ALL complained about Endwalker. It was tasteless, mindless grinding and putting tomes without much thought. Sure you had the freedom to do whatever you wanted, but we didn't have a sense of accomplishment. The relics didn't feel earned as much as it does now.

It is though, at least if you aren't a one-and-done, for anyone aiming for more than that or even all relics, the supermajority of the grind will be a tome grind. I'd take at least an alternative to Tomes.

- SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT. I actually feel like I'm achieving something this time around. I'm playing the game a lot more than I have been and I'm getting my subscription's worth of playing.

Far too subjective, I personally didn't feel anything other than a vague "oooh, new shiny" feeling after finishing mine.

- OKAY NOT ALL OF THE RELICS LOOK GREAT. I'm thankful I'm a Reaper main.

Okay subjective again but on the opposite end, I haven't looked at all of them, but I have most, and all that I looked at look pretty great, art direction is the best aspect of the DT relics so far.