More Quests like Relic Reborn please!

[Felis]

Yeah, I really wish they had done something like the original relic reborn questline to upgrade from the Zenith relic, instead of the tedious and painful FATE grinding they actually implemented.

I think the Atma part is more like the original 1.0 relict quest (the hamlet defense part, but without the need to buy mats for milion gil to get into the top 3 supply ranking for better dropchance) then the ARR relict quest.

You mean... Activate quest, buy or craft a ludicrously expensive weapon, spirit bind it to 100%, meld two expensive materia to it (which could result in go back to "buy expensive weapon"), Farm up 25k seals for a key item, then speed run several dungeons, after that get 9 drops from a participant amount locked event, that going by opinion at the time everyone hated, which had a drop rate that made atmas seem common? I'm not seeing the difference. Except of course no speed runs, front loading the RNG grind, and no chance of your weapon going KABOOM resetting all your progress.

You didn't spiritbound the crafted weapon. First you put in the 2 needed materias, then you gave the weapon the NPC, then he told you to get 2 mats from AV and CC (17 minute speedrun for 100% chance or be happy with ~2% chance) and then he gave you the unfinished relict weapon and only the unfinished relict weaapon needed to be spiribound to 100%.
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