i230 Tome weapons!! So long relic grind...

[Archvile78]

...Ugh... I still remember how disappointed I was with the Zodiac weapon... "The Zodiac Braves slew a demon to finish their weapons!", awesome! New trial against a demon?! "We'll just craft some demon blood though!", ........

Yeah...i heard the relic in XI was pretty awesome, where you had to do a solo trial. Too bad they didnt repeat the same there.

[Nalien]

Yeah...i heard the relic in XI was pretty awesome, where you had to do a solo trial. Too bad they didnt repeat the same there.

Honestly, I wanted to to a Mythic weapon in XI for the trial at the end more than anything... It was as much the reward for finishing the weapon as the weapon was... It made the quest pretty damn epic, where as previously it was basically just a massive grind... The grind for a Mythic being far better (even though it was far far longer, people think 75 Alexandrite is a lot for Sphere Scrolls? Mythics needed 30,000 Alexandrite...) if only because it used new and relevant content... Here we get sent back into stuff like Alexander after it has become irrelevant, and they involve something like Diadem in the worst possible way (I'd take no crafted requirements, double the Unidentified item requirements, and Unidentified items only coming from Diadem over what we currently have, and I don't even like Diadem...)... Mythic weapons went "This it ToAH, we added Assault, Nyzul Isle, Salvage, ZNMs and Einherjar, do all of these things to obtain your Mythic", while XIV just doesn't have that variety in content... Actually, it does, but SE arbitrarily rule out involving half their content because it's "too hard"... So we're basically locked down to dungeons and FATEs... Hopefully storymode Alexander and Sephirot can change that, but it's already too late. We'll grind that content in 3.2, then 3.25 will tell us to do it again for our Relics when people are burned out from doing the content... SE really shoots themselves in the foot here... I'd do Alexander and Sephirot for my Relic next week if I could, and a month later I'd do them again for another Relic, delaying the grind just makes it less attractive and doesn't really achieve anything...

[NovaLevossida]

They need to realize the real problem with stuff like Chimera and Titan. It wasn't quite that individual players couldn't handle it, it was that groups couldn't handle it.

That is the most depressing thing about it. I played WAR at 2.0 launch so no one wanted to group with me anyway, so I was doubly forced into the duty finder. The only reason I cleared it was because a FC was forming for Coil and they used Titan Hard as my trial run. Once I had 7 competent people with me, success.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Who does 10+ Alex normal everyday?

Do 5 one day, 15 another? Alex Normal runs take anywhere from 4-8 minutes each. You'll be done within a few hours at most. Ask hardcore raiders the amount of hours they put into clearing Savage. Suddenly, this won't seem so bad.

[Arrius]

Do 5 one day, 15 another? Alex Normal runs take anywhere from 4-8 minutes each. You'll be done within a few hours at most. Ask hardcore raiders the amount of hours they put into clearing Savage. Suddenly, this won't seem so bad.

Unless you're going for world firsts, even dedicated raiders have a set timetable of when they are attempting Savage - Which is mostly about 3-4 hours on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

And you can't tell me that doing 70 Alexander runs a week plus each of the roulettes and beast tribes won't drain your motivation and fun of it.

*insert "If It Isn't Fun, You're Doing It Wrong" picture*

[RubenSnizzle]

You know, those time that you tell yourself "God, there's nothing to do on this game..", well, you could work on your relic, do some nice glamour. Might just be me, but that's what i've been doing on/off since anima was out, got 4 of the 6 required crystals, and it's gonna keep me busy in those times.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Unless you're going for world firsts, even dedicated raiders have a set timetable of when they are attempting Savage - Which is mostly about 3-4 hours on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

And you can't tell me that doing 70 Alexander runs a week plus each of the roulettes and beast tribes won't drain your motivation and fun of it.

*insert "If It Isn't Fun, You're Doing It Wrong" picture*

Then space it out even further. The whole point of the Anima grind is to be gifted a top tier weapon without having to fight top tier content. The only reason this particular step was so grueling is because the devs felt they had to justify the difficulty of A3S and A4S through a comparative tedious grind. We're seeing a significant jump in ilvl to avoid an encore of this in the future. Odds are the next steps will bring the Anima weapons up to 230-240 and be less of a chore, but still grind heavy.

[AsteriaStarfall]

Everything being said in this thread is why i stopped grinding the relic. To little reward for the time put into it. A lot of people may have just completed it or are close to completing it and it is already outdated with better weapons coming that will be quicker to obtain. Ill just wait a year for all the nerfs to go back and get it for glamour purposes.

[MicahZerrshia]

You know, those time that you tell yourself "God, there's nothing to do on this game..", well, you could work on your relic, do some nice glamour. Might just be me, but that's what i've been doing on/off since anima was out, got 4 of the 6 required crystals, and it's gonna keep me busy in those times.

After busting my hump and spending gillions and gillions doing 6 Zeta because Yoshi specifically said they will always be relevant because he didn't want all our hard work to be in vain and then having them all turn into nothing but silly little glamour pieces, that if I read the patch notes right, you don't even have to have made to get the glamour, this relic questline can kiss my grits

[MilesSaintboroguh]

When he say they would stay relevant?