Relic upgrade and your thoughts

[Wyrmnus]

Newbie: Hi guys I am new to Ifrit HM so... WTF?

*INSERT HORRIFIC IFIRIT SCREAMS*
*plumes appeared kills the newbie*

Newbie: Need a raise plea...

*insert Ifrit death cutscene*

*The Ifrit cane have been placed in your inventory*

Newbie: I think I need to complain in the forums that the contents are far too easy.

^This. A Million times over. I recently got my Arcanist to 50 and I was doing Garuda HM for my SMN relic. So when I got to Garuda HM, it was just rushed. So I go " UHm. Something about this is so very wrong.. " Know what thier response was? " No idea what ur talking about lol. " Arrogant FFF...

[Ashkendor]

This upgrade is nice due to no RNG, but also because it's inadvertently become the most hilarious bit of content yet. All these trials with one new player or someone in i60ish, who then completely panics as the seven people upgrading to a nexus rip the primals to pieces. XD

Lmao, yes, I've seen this a few times now, though most of the time these players seem excited about it. I'm sure some of them have seen strategy videos and such and are expecting a lot more of a tough fight. A couple of people have said: I hope I get you guys when I go to Titan! It's really pretty funny how fast i100+ people tear up these fights.

[Niqote]

I think it's great. No Gil, no RNG - just purely playing the game.

It's great for those who want to charge through it without mercy because they can.
It's great for those who want to chip at it an hour a day because they can.

Yay!

[silentwindfr]

it seems better than some part we did get before... sadly for reach this point we need to go throught the otherpart. i do hope that at some point they will make this previous step easier... or the new player will simply never do it.

[JonBigwood]

For me it has its good and bad aspects. You have to play always that class if you want to go as quick as possible (bad thing.) More people are playing content they didn't play before (good thing.) You can take it easy and do what you like and it will go up too (good thing.) New people may get carried in speed runs while they don't keep up (bad thing.)

I would like some challenge added different than just something that takes a long time. But it's much better than atmas of course, or farming myth for the books when myth were much harder to farm. It's difficult to make something challenging without it being too difficult for the majority to pass. Remember when Titan HM took maybe weeks to do because finding a group that could pass was so difficult. I liked the first part of the relic when it was challenging (now you meet overgeared people everywhere, great for new people to catch up.)

[Lazearus]

I like this. No Gil, RNG, myths needed

[Danbo05]

inb4 the next upgrade is MUUUUUUUUUUUCH worse than atma

[Zumi]

I think this is the worst upgrade by far. I much prefer the alexandrites then this. Its do the same avatar over and over and over and its so boring. At least with alex it was once a day and I don't feel obligated to be spamming avatars whenever I am on the game.

[TheMoonflow]

The whole relic quest was genius and very well played by SE
Coming from WoW you have no idea how much I see people griping about the game world being dead, no one running old content, everyone sitting in town and just queuing for raids, etc etc
With one questline SE have taken measures to prevent that from happening in their game.

[MasamuneBranford]

I think it is a good idea - but I don't think it is accomplishing what SE set out to do. The problem is that it's more efficient to spam HM primal trials than to mess with anything else (extreme primals, CT, BCB, etc.). The obvious purpose of implementing this system was to preserve the old content for new players (easy to find a group). I think there needs to be greater reward for completing difficult content and then large light bonuses for clearing difficult content with players who have never completed the content.