Will Square show some mercy, considering the ridiculousness of the last step? Or are we FATEd (heh) to an even grindier step this time around?

My hope is that, like everything 3.2 has been so far, the new step moves towards not being the annoying grind that HW has become synonymous with. Even if it's a lot of work, it'd be nice to have a step that doesn't force us to run the same stuff 200+ times, for example.

My heart tells me, though, that we're going to have to buy Diadem-Favors with red scrips to gather etirdnaxelA, which are needed to melt 200 tier V materia to your relic.

FWIW, I'm actually hoping for a nerf of the previous step at least. It's a lot of work for a 210 weapon.