Done!

[Nestama]

Game
n. noun

An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime.

And that does not describe the entirety of the Zodiac quest at all... pastime maybe, but definitely not the two important words.

[Dragoon4life]

I feel like there is going to be an enormous amount of players that will only have Zenith or Atma at best. The Massive amount of time it takes just to get a brand new Atma to just Nexus is overwhelming. I really hope SE make the Relic relevant in the next few patches. I see more Soldiery and Shiva EX weapons now more then ever and this trend will probably continue with Alexander.

[Balipu]

I feel like there is going to be an enormous amount of players that will only have Zenith or Atma at best. The Massive amount of time it takes just to get a brand new Atma to just Nexus is overwhelming. I really hope SE make the Relic relevant in the next few patches. I see more Soldiery and Shiva EX weapons now more then ever and this trend will probably continue with Alexander.

Well I will keep doing the Zodiac questline. Gives me something to do while I wait for duty finder.

[Havenchild]

Several people in this thread are laughable.

The relic is probably the most balanced content we have all around as it virtually taps into every aspect of the game to get which SE was quite smart to do since there is no general consensus on how the quests should be done. Also is potentially the strongest weapon every few patches, that actually didn't require hrs of practice in end-game content that requires scheduling for most, and many hrs making slow progress.

GRINDY : Players complain its "too long", "too much grind", "not enough time to play this game, game is not my life"

CHALLENGING : Top players clear it; Mediocre players complain "it's too difficult", "locked out content"

NO CHALLENGE / GRIND : "Weapon is too accessible", "everyone has one", "too easy to obtain", "no value"

RNG is the best method for the relic all around as it balances the playing field for everyone. This is coming from someone who rather dislikes RNG due to end game raiding drop nonsense.

I'm glad SE refuses to listen to any single group on the relic quest line and continues to go different avenues with each step. Too much entitled people feel the game should be handed to them on silver platter with little work just cause they "pay" for it. You give an insult identifying as a casual and give a bad name to true casuals that simply play the game less often but work for their items.

[Dragoon4life]

I don't know if you guys remember the chaos of not being able to identify the Bland color of Atma I sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo glad they fixed that first instead of the drops rates.

[Aurora-Pendragon]

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I'm playing PLD, so I have insta queue for dungeons. I can't "wait" during queue times. Now, my game is in french, and fates names are a lot different from english one. The chance a french player is doing the same fates as mine is very low. And when I'm 2/3 fates completed with everything else done, I'm forced to wait for the 3rd while all my friends are doing cool stuff. It's surely fun and entertaining ! Fortunatly, I'm 7/9 books, so I'm almost done with this. Without the fates, this relic step would have been the best of the 4.

I've played MMOs where end game items were hidden behind dumb time gates, but at least, they were on a predictable schedule, so you could still play while waiting. If you ever played Aion and did the Miragent quest line, you know what I mean and you know how stupid the RNG was at this time. But there was a reason, korean players were paying/ minute. Now, with a sub, there's no reason at all to time gate content this way.