Thread: Relic Quest 3.0 Wish List

Originally Posted by Nomad-phx

Don't care what it looks like, don't care what its called or if it glows. Let me either retain what I already put in it or continue customized stats or the relic will no longer be of interest to me. Not meant as a angry"give me x or riots" post, the only reason I did the previous relic was its 100% versatile stats. No customizing = no personal interest.

That seems to be the common consensus among everyone so far. The custom stats really set the old relic apart from any of the stock weapons, including raid ones. In fact, the stat bonuses given with Zeta were so good (if you did yours right) that I found myself using my zeta all the way up to lvl 56-57 just because the secondary stats I had on it was better than the weapons found in game. I don't think I was alone in that, because I often saw Zeta weapons in dungeons as high as the Vault.

Originally Posted by Veritas-Ancora

Please remove RNG.

If I have to spend two hours every single day for three months advancing my weapon, so be it. As long as I don't have to spend a week getting irritated that others have gotten twice as many and I have nothing to show for it after days of attempts.

I agree with this wholeheartedly. I actually gave up on my relic for a long time during the ATMA stage, because I had a FC mate who got 5 of the stupid things in as few days, but after a MONTH of grinding FATES in the same zone for hours on end I had one. With that drop rate, I wasn't keen on spending a year just to get all my ATMA, so I flipped table and gave up. I think the only reason I even went back to it was because another FC mate was doing it and needed company. I stuck it out... but then came Zeta drops... that very nearly made me drop this game entirely. NO ONE should have to do over 70 runs of a dungeon just to get their drop. That's lunacy.

Alright, I'm gonna list what we've got so far. I apologize for the wall of text, but I'm gonna break it down in three stages. The bold parts are the important bits. Feel free to pick out my two cents on it and contribute where you see fit. Agree, disagree, add to it or take away. Let's get our list of demands for when we hold an SE employee hostage.

For the weapon:

1. Return of the custom Statistics!

I don't think anyone is arguing that this is the single most requested thing to return to the new relic.

2. SE honours their Zeta compensation promise.

Most people want their old stats to carry over to the new relic, but I'm not sure how this would happen. The first thing that comes to mind is using the old relic as the base for the new, as we did with Zodiac. That sounds fine on paper, but the problem would be the players who didn't do their original Zeta. Those players would have no base to start on... Which is probably why SE stated that the New Relic will not be tied to the Old. An alternative would be giving the Zeta players the ability to allocate their new relic stats with no/or less of a penalty than fresh players. Ie: if we need to use materia to gain new stats for our new weapons, Zeta players can simply skip that part and allocate their stats for free or at a diminished cost. Maybe they'll give us tokens we can exchange for Materia of our choosing from a Vendor, instead of stiffing the price on the MB.

3. Customization options / Zodiac theme

This one is a little outlandish. The idea put forward was that, like airship construction, we could have a workshop dedicated to customizing the shape of our weapon by trading out pre-rendered designs. Ie: You want this hilt with this blade, in this colour...etc. It's not likely that this will ever be a thing; however, I do think that we should, AT THE VERY LEAST, be able to customize the colour of the weapon or the colour of the glow of the weapon (if the new weapon even glows at all). Let's face it, some of us got shafted with some ugly colour combinations that just didn't suit us.

Also, personally, I would like the new Relic to better reflect the Zodiac theme. Give us shapes and designs that reflect that in some way.

The Lore:

This is an obscure one and touched on in the last list, but people seem to have requests about it, myself included.

1. Original Relic Owners / Zodiac Braves / Trials:

The last Relic quest touched on this story line, and gave us books that supposedly detailed the tasks of these talented warriors, but we don’t really know much about the original owners of the weapons or the true connection to the zodiac signs. Give us some details and incorporate them into the quest somehow. The original Relic had us merely simulate the fights the original Relic holders did. We basically do an imitation, but not the genuine oracle. That’s just not as cool… Give us challenges that are up to snuff. Personally, I want to fight a Lucavi, but that’s just me.

2. Expansion on the Zeta lore.

The Zeta relic, supposedly, has its own mind and consciousness…and that’s it. We worked our asses off to build this thing a personality only to have it glow. I was personally hoping for a little more out of that plot point than that.

Must say what Februs wrote up matches with what I'd like to see as well.

#noglow please... just add bits to it that glow is what I prefer. Or something more delicate than the novus/nexus glows... my eyes...