How grindy will the next relic upgrade be?

[Xevren]

Seeing as how the Atma and Animus stages were to forcibly funnel people back into FATEs and early dungeons, the next stage will have a weak tie to other underused content, like say, crafting and gathering. In all honestly it will probably be something like making you buy a bunch of new items with soldiery tomes, find a three star DoH to combine those items with a three star DoL item to get your progression token. There will be 8 items, one from each DoH. (Though you may need up to ten of each! Don't worry though, because HQ ones count as two!)

See? This way crafting and gathering is forcibly relevant again! And since people complained about RNG in atma drops and fates, and soldiery gear not actually being that good anyway, a guaranteed weekly tome grind is the perfect compromise. Please look forward to it.

Delusional much? You have no point of reference for this, and you're just trying to be negative. You're a cliche.

[Decrith]

Next wave:

1) Take part and receive Gold rank 100 times in Behemoth FATE (even without Fantasia your hair will turn grey)
2) Harvest 100 3 star items in HQ (Give me all your GIL because you will need 405 Gathering to even see them)
3) Make 100 level 45 leves for carpenter (drains your GIL as well if you have something left from the harvesting adventure)
4) Fish 100 capital fishes (even without Fantasia you will grow a long beard)

Result: Main stat +2

This way we are busy till 2025. Hell Yeah!

I would be very pissed if the new relic quest involves Odin or Behemoth in some way, I just tossed out my 29 behemoth horns because I had no use for it anymore and it was just taking inventory space.

[Hysterior]

I am fine with grind as long as not RNG filled
doing the books was fine apart for waiting for fates (waited 5 hours for one..)
and the 12 atma grind... never again please....

[Gralna]

^^ Agreed

Going from Zenith to Atma was a PITA, it wasn't a grind it was a throw of the dice with each FATE. You could get extremely lucky and get all 12 stones in 12 FATES, or get unlucky and not get a full set till next year.

At least when going from Atma to Animus, you see your progress, it takes awhile but every step you take brings you closer to the goal.