Start working on your relics <3

[Kajukai]

No. Pray that the relics have decent stats.

[Arkann]

I started doing my books for Thyrus yesterday just so I can glamour the Animus or Novus version depending on my current outfit, they look so cool. But damn, those FATEs... make me want to gouge my eyes out. At least the Stardust Rod Zenith looks good enough as it is. I pray that we won't have to camp specific FATEs for the new relic.

[Deathscythe343]

I started doing my books for Thyrus yesterday just so I can glamour the Animus or Novus version depending on my current outfit, they look so cool. But damn, those FATEs... make me want to gouge my eyes out. At least the Stardust Rod Zenith looks good enough as it is. I pray that we won't have to camp specific FATEs for the new relic.

Ya, the first couple of upgrades were kind of rough. The process, as a whole, seemed to get much better at the zodiak step. I figure that is what the new relic will be like.

Although, after seeing the WoW expansion video, I'm kind of hoping that the new relics will have a process similar to their artifact weapons.

[Arkann]

Warcraft Artifact Weapons

I don't know anything about WoW so I quickly checked a wiki, and I agree, the power-up process looks very fun. Reminiscent of the light farming stage, but with (lots of) options. I won't get my hopes up though. I bought tons of materia when their price plumetted, in anticipation for my new grimoire.

[Gunspec]

Although, after seeing the WoW expansion video, I'm kind of hoping that the new relics will have a process similar to their artifact weapons.

You mean a badly thought out system missing a majority of the promised features? Oh wait, that was the last WoW expansion's gimmick.

The weapon upgrade thing in WoW sounds neat on paper, and I have a feeling they got the idea directly from FFXIV's relic questline, but they are literally going from having ONE class quest per expansion to having THIRTY-SIX class quests all at launch. That's practically an entire zone of quests, and these are guys can't add something small without taking out something large.

So yeah, I'd rather have a smaller relic system in FFXIV that doesn't become the main driving force of the expansion.

[Colorful]

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You just described FFXIV, and pretty much every other MMO that promises features that are too large and ends up downscaling them. Personal housing, removing a dungeon for airship exploration, lackluster PvP for the sake of PvE content, etc. They're not the driving force of the entire expansion either, so I don't know where you got that from. They're a major feature, sure, but claiming that's a bad thing is like claiming the additional Gold Saucer content is also a bad thing as it takes development time away from other things.

I don't like most things Blizzard has done with WoW recently, but that's no reason to be cynical towards everything they do. Their artifact system is a step up from FFXIV's relic, whether or not they copied it from FFXIV doesn't matter as FFXIV has copied literally almost everything from WoW.

[Maaizr]

No. Pray that the relics have decent stats.

[Blood-Aki]

Even with the much eased conditions to do them, it's still a complete waste of time, other then for glamour, i doubt the "advantage" people will get will be anything huge.

So yea, No.

[Eul]

I just finish my Last Resort Zeta yesterday :3

[AskaRay]

I'm working on my Last Resort Zeta.

Yes, for glamour.

Glamour > all