The Relic Weapons

[Ootarion]

Why is the quest to obtain an Animus Relic so long/difficult? Gathering the 12 Atma for the Atma Relic was so easy by comparison, and then the difficulty just skyrockets....why? Its been easy up to this point and now im just pulling at my hair over how annoyingly long it is taking to upgrade my Atma to Animus :/, it makes no sense D:

Someone please help me make sense of why the difficulty just skyrockets so hardcore D:

Edit: If I sound like I am whining I do apologize, its just stuff this difficult is something I am unaccustomed to and makes little sense to me. Dont we play games to have fun instead of working a second job? Cause thats what this part of the relic quest is feeling like right now...a second job instead of something fun, and that defeats the purpose of a game. No I am not asking to just have something handed to me, I do like a challenge, but there is a difference between playing a game that has a challenge, and doing something thats so challenging its like a second job.

[Kaze3434]

this is a joke thread right? the old relic is extremely easy to finish.

[itti18]

relic is the ultimate weapon in the game that can be obtained without raiding , it is supposed to be difficult to get , otherwise it will be just like any other weapon without any sense of achievement

[sayafrost]

With all the nerfes, when I decided to do one just to see how it was, I had it in a week's time °___°

[Ootarion]

this is a joke thread right? the old relic is extremely easy to finish.

Funny how people always assume this.....exactly how pray tell is going from Atma to Animus easy? And how long did it take you to do?

[CorbinDallas]

The Animus books are by far the grindiest part of the old relic. Just keep at it, don't burn yourself out and maybe only task yourself with doing only 1 book a day?

When I finished my Animus phase it took me less than a day to get to the Zodiac phase. The rest of the relic past the books is a breeze to finish.

Tip: Sastasha/Tam Tara unsync are the fastest light you will get. If you run one and it doesn't have bonus, switch to the other.

[Ragology]

Old relic quest used to be a lot tougher ( lower chance drops from fates, having to kill 10 of each enemy for the book part instead of three, drops at the end of the dungeon weren't guaranteed so you'd spend the whole day farming a single item, and the amount of light gathered per dungeon was lower I think.)

Do a little each day and you can have it done in a month I think. It can probably be done in 10 days if you can push ( and also if you've got some crafting friends to help you with that part, or at least the gil to buy the items yourself.)

[Ootarion]

relic is the ultimate weapon in the game that can be obtained without raiding , it is supposed to be difficult to get , otherwise it will be just like any other weapon without any sense of achievement

Im assuming then that Raid weapons are better then any level of the Relic weapons? Even the highest possible (Reconditioned Anima)?

[Ootarion]

The Animus books are by far the grindiest part of the old relic. Just keep at it, don't burn yourself out and maybe only task yourself with doing only 1 book a day?

When I finished my Animus phase it took me less than a day to get to the Zodiac phase. The rest of the relic past the books is a breeze to finish.

Tip: Sastasha/Tam Tara unsync are the fastest light you will get. If you run one and it doesn't have bonus, switch to the other.

I work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 7.5 hours a day technically cause i have to take a 30 minute break, and I only get 2 days off, so how did you do it so easily?

[CorbinDallas]

By doing what I said. 12 books, 12 days. I was working the same hours you do when I was tackling the ARR relic. It takes about an hour per book, if you're lucky with FATE spawns. Do the dungeons unsynced with a friend, they take no time at all.

Group the tasks per area. Say you have a FATE, 3 sets of mobs, and a leve quest all in the same area, do them all before moving on to the next area. It saves pointless teleporting everywhere.