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[Nalien]

The grind for a relic in this game isn't even a fraction of what you had to do in XI, it's not even comparable in terms of a time sink let alone difficulty.

What exactly was difficult about XI's Relics? I found Titan infinitely more challenging, heck Chimera was harder than anything XI threw at me... Dynamis was effectively just a bigger dungeon with more trash mobs, I wouldn't exactly call it harder, same for Salvage really... XI's took longer, sure, though a large part of that was just because of lockouts (which are purely artificial)... Imagine finishing an Animus weapon when you can only do a dungeon once every 3 days; even ignoring purchasing the books, that's over 80 days. Farming Alexandrite would take nearly a year... The only difference then is that Dynamis takes an hour or so, and a dungeon takes no more than 30 minutes (guess we could also throw in "You cannot do a specific dungeon if anyone else on your server is currently doing that dungeon"). The events you had to do in XI were longer, sure, but most of the time sink came from lockouts and there really wasn't any difficulty outside event planning... XI in general was only challenging if you wanted it to be, since you didn't have strict event requirements and could solo/lowman if you wanted.