Coming into its Own [How are you faring with it?]

[VirusChris]

I'm curious if anyone else is doing the Relic Quest in 3.2 with the new ilvl weapons being 220 - 240 now and clearly with better stats and if so how are they faring?

Currently I'm super busy with my job so I can't spend many hours doing the raids, dungeons, and BT Quests as much as I like so I have to take it nice and slow as I want to complete the new Relic Quest line.

I've gotten 20 out of 80 of the needed items to collect and so far gotten one of my crafts to level 60, but it's CUL, so it will be a while before I can make the HQ Items for the Relic but considering they're non-Specialist recipes now I assume their prices dropped quite a bit?

Sadly it seems like Malboro is one of the few servers where skyrockets the prices... I've seen lv55 gear HQ priced at 200k and no one biting.

Anyway you guys plan on working on the Relic when the next upgrade happens and have the Relic ready for the next step or are you just dropping it altogether?

[KibaStormborn]

I don't know about the rest of the community on Faeirie which is my server but I still plan on working on the relic they may or are planning to update it so it will be nice to be prepared. Besides if you got all DOW DOM lvled it'll give you time to get those relics for those classes. Cheers and Faerie is a bit costly as well for items required as well so you're not alone but it's either level crafters and gatherers or pay an outrageous price.

[VirusChris]

That's why I level all of my classes so I can do a little of everything and help others in case they need a certain job to provide a task they need. Also need to meld Materia on my own and crafting high level gear too.

[Khalithar]

I farm the tokens as a side project but I still think the 4 HQ items per quest item is excessive, SE really didn't listen about making it less grindy. As far as I'm concerned it should have been 1 normal quality item and 10 tokens per quest item instead.

[Dualblade]

With the new way to get Materia Vs I had enough money to get the HQ items and some to spare still. Not a lot but better then when I was doing the Zodiac.

That said I got it in my head somehow that it was just ten of each of the tokens...on the bright side all my Beast Tribes are read to go if I really just want to do that instead of finishing the Vath/Ixali ones. Plus Alexander can get my DRK some work on its mount progress.

If nothing else around the time people can get their weapons and aren't doing savage, the next steps will be out. Whether the current steps will be eased up in any way I have no idea.

[Frizze]

Yeah, finishing it as a side project currently when im not doing anything else. I hope to have it ready when the next update to the quest hits, so that i can get back into it and continue making it better. Not being able to see the final form it/its stats take in advance, it feels like a good idea to be partway into it, just incase it ends up being really good at the end.

[Confidence_Trick]

I got my Nothung last week and very nice it looks too.

[VirusChris]

Well with 3.25 right around the corner did SE mention anything making the last step of the first part of the Animus easier or no? I only got 31/80 items collected and I don't have a lot of time on my hand so I can only do what I can for the moment until I get all 80 items and then the 4 HQ items of 4 different kinds of items.

Also what do you guys think the next part will be like? Easier or worse than the first part of the Animus weapon?

[Dualblade]

We'll see when the patch notes come tonight. I'm currently leaning to no changes to the current steps, with a small side of hope that the Unidentified items are reduced to 10 each instead of 20. If that happens I assume the HQ items would be reduced to 2 each.

I honestly don't know what the next part will be like, but from what I've heard 3.3 will be the one were we can fiddle with the stats (and no Alexandrites to worry about.) I'm currently saving Materia just in case for that.

[VirusChris]

I do hope they reduce the items needed... they're not hard to get just tedious and too many.

I wouldn't mind a questline that's easy to get the Relic weapon like the first part of the Zodiac Weapon and then do optional quests that's part of the Relic to added in special abilities and customize your own stats and the like but they are long to do as you need to do and collect a lot of stuff and perform some challenges too to forge your ideal Relic Weapon. Not Raid-Tier challenge but close enough. Just an idea I had where the Relic became more "legendary" and sought-out as you require the help of friends (which makes it go faster to complete) to make it or your can do it solo (but takes like 2 to 3 times longer to make).

I mean you're building your own ideal legendary weapon... surely it should become the top weapon after all the hardwork, effort, and time you put into. Raid Weapons should remain powerful, yes, because they're from the highest difficulty content in the game, but Raid Weapons are more "easier" to get and faster too where Relic Weapons should be the weapon that's the ultimate weapon... like the FFXI Relic Weapons I hear where it remained the strongest weapon in the game (apart from the last patches I hear). Just my thoughts on it.


Let's hope that the next part is a bit "lax", but I doubt it. I wonder why there's no preview Patch Notes at the moment.