Relic Weapon Revival (06/06/2012)

[Cenewulf]

"Long has the sacred sword Oathkeeper been bestowed upon the commander of the Sultansworn, vowed protectors of Ul’dah’s ruler. Yet it is not alone in its greatness. At the time of its making, three other swords were struck from the same ore and forged in the same fires. These brethren blades, Curtana among them, were then gifted to the three noble paladins by whose hand the brotherhood of the Sultansworn was founded."

from the looks of it this will be the first of many relic weapons for paladin. so there will probably be more down the road for the other jobs too.

[viion]

Even though it seems ridiculous, I am actually glad they are adding content connected to items that wont have everyone obtaining all 7 just hours after the patch is released that finally puts them in the game. I am all about longer content, not with everything mind you, but it certainly seems appropriate here. Looking foward to seeing the stats.

I think you will be disappointed. People have already been grinding out hamlet speculating this, as its now pretty much confirmed people will do more and act more and the weapons wont even be obtainable it seems (as you cant complete the quest) so by time they are added and other quests are, people will all be prepared with their hamlet stuff lol.

[Kyra]

At least we can be working on the "Defend Hamlet 1000 times" achievments at the same time

[DeadRiser]

More items like darklight that when I see someone with it equipped... I will think "wow this person must like grinding and be really lucky with drops" than "wow this person must be really skilled"

[Matsume]

Its repeatable, i dont expect much (they've said hard and challenging plenty of times and that has failed lol), the grind of hamlet is the painful part.

If it is one time only, then that I can deal with, but if i got to grind out hamlet each time, I will be pretty annoyed and likely wont do it at all.

I barely have the motivation to log on anymore. Actually, I have only logged on in the past three weeks when the Diablo3 servers are down for maintenance.

As far as Hamlet Defense and Relic weapons are concerned: the means by which you obtain the prerequesite for relic quests is an obvious attempt at forcing players to grind through a much anticipated and unfortunately detested instance by which i mean Hamlet Defense.

Due to the low drop rate of militia gear for any non top 20 suppliers and the difficulty of increasing the rank, most players had given up on Hamlet Defense less than a month after implementation. It just seems like SE forced a hamlet grind fest as prerequesite to relic weapons to prevent wasting what may be a lot of time and money on an undesirable event.

Which only reinforces the disgust. Then again, this is just my opinion and it's not worth more than 2 gil if you ask me.

[Isaveron]

More items like darklight that when I see someone with it equipped... I will think "wow this person must like grinding and be really lucky with drops" than "wow this person must be really skilled"

So it's no different than the vast majority of accomplishments in any MMO.

[Kyra]

More items like darklight that when I see someone with it equipped... I will think "wow this person must like grinding and be really lucky with drops" than "wow this person must be really skilled"

Nah there just realy lucky or a linkshell leader, had a guy like this in my old linkshell, expected you to be going to dungeon runs to gear his ass up lol. I prefer content I have to work hard on myself and get rewarded at the end, not have some douchbag decide if I get a drop or not. Thats why I prefer the primal way of obtaining the wepons rather than the dungeon runs.

[Arcell]

From the way it's worded, it sounds like we'll only have to get the soiled promissory note once. You need it to unlock the "A Relic Reborn" quest, but it's not used in the quest itself. The quest itself is then repeatable once unlocked.

[Alerith]

Thank the heavens! Sword and shield are a SET!

[Valtrex]

I barely have the motivation to log on anymore. Actually, I have only logged on in the past three weeks when the Diablo3 servers are down for maintenance.

As far as Hamlet Defense and Relic weapons are concerned: the means by which you obtain the prerequesite for relic quests is an obvious attempt at forcing players to grind through a much anticipated and unfortunately detested instance by which i mean Hamlet Defense.

Due to the low drop rate of militia gear for any non top 20 suppliers and the difficulty of increasing the rank, most players had given up on Hamlet Defense less than a month after implementation. It just seems like SE forced a hamlet grind fest as prerequesite to relic weapons to prevent wasting what may be a lot of time and money on an undesirable event.

Which only reinforces the disgust. Then again, this is just my opinion and it's not worth more than 2 gil if you ask me.

True Diablo 3 is way better, what with its incredibly skill based gameplay, and excellent drop rates, and further purpose besides grinding the same thing over and over.