Relic Weapon Upgrade

[Zaresin]

I have just recently came back to the game after taking about 8 months off from the game. I expected all my hard fought gear to be outdated as that is the norm for any MMO that is regularly updated.

What I didn't expect was how boring the grind would be to do the upgrades. While I hated Titan HM (especially as healer, oh god how I hated him) it was frustrating but not boring. Instead of doing an extended quest line with some kind of climax, we have hours upon boring hours of grinding boring fates. The system is not fun in any aspect. Even if the quest line took several weeks to complete it would be more entertaining than mind numbing borningness that is fate grinding. I've done the Atma grind for my Blm and am working on my Smn and Scholar. Does this sound like fun? To me? No not really. It feels like a chore and that is not why we play this game. We don't play it to make it our lives or to be bored. We as players play for fun.

This system feels less thought out than a particular DLC for Skyrim. It has no FF love to it. At the end of all the mindless hours of grinding the only thing you'll feel is a sense of relief and dread when you know you will have to do it all over again for the next relic weapon. You shouldn't dread playing the games content, you should have a sense of anticipation and excitement to see what is next. We dont' have that with this system. I implore the developers to change the system and make it true to the FF Legacy, not this half baked system we have right now. This current system does not make me want to keep playing due to the dred I feel in getting my relic weapon upgrades complete due to how boring it is to do, it isn't even hard just plain boring.