Quote Originally Posted by Destous View Post
The HW relic isn't worth the grind. At least the ARR relic had you going to all the maps and grinding FATEs; so by the end of it, you spent endless hours fighting several different things. With HW, they jumped straight into raid humping for an ungodly amount of time, and they chose the 4 raids that everyone was already sick to death of running.

At least for step 2 they pulled their heads somewhat out of their ass and brought interest back to Crystal Tower; but that first grind is nauseating and shows the devs to be remarkably lazy in its concern.
It's not laziness but simple practicality. You may be bored to death of Alex, however there are plenty of new players who haven't even reached it yet. Content like this is designed specifically to keep people doing old content all while getting rewarded for doing so.