"Coming into its own" is too much!

[Felis]

If relic is supposed to be a second tier arm, that gives you good stats but isn`t the BiS, there is no reason for it to be behind such an horrendous timesink.

Sure, it is not the best weapon for most jobs, but still the second best weapon.

Let's agree to disagree... I much prefer the old Zodiac line (pre-nerf) compared to the Anima line currently. At least I did a load of other things instead of redoing AFC over until my mind goes numb. It wasn't engaging or fun like Zodiac was even if it was annoying at times.

Like Brayflox's Longstop (hard) for myth farming?
Or Garuda (hard) for light farming?
If you don't like ARF, do lv 50 roulette.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

its either going to be a grind, or locked behind savage. And its not even that time consuming, I have a 240, 3rd of the way to 2nd 240, another 230, and halfway to a 4th 210, just doing weeklies and dailies. Original Atma, light farming, the zodiak step, were all much worse than any of these.

[bass9020]

its either going to be a grind, or locked behind savage. And its not even that time consuming, I have a 240, 3rd of the way to 2nd 240, another 230, and halfway to a 4th 210, just doing weeklies and dailies. Original Atma, light farming, the zodiak step, were all much worse than any of these.

It can be a grind but make it interesting.

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

Well hopefully people can get their Palace of the Dead weapon and stop complaining.... You want something thats not a dumbed down grind? Go do that then..... geez. The amount of bellyaching over the one quest that actually takes a month or two to complete is kinda unreal. People act like playing the game for a couple months a year is actually going to damage them psychologically or something lol. Most of the people complaining probably already have a lvl 230 weapon and will be given lvl 240 upgrades in patch 3.4

I'm assuming all the people that are upset about relic are the people that burnt through all the other easy stuff already and have nothing better to do. So either do the relic, raid, or go play another game until they patch in more easy content that you can complete in 1 week.

Also remember. Everything except Weeping City that was challenging has been nerfed due to player feedback, so that's why the game is like this now.

[Causality]

This step of the Anima Relic quest is too hard!
Many people can\\'t login and play the game for hours, let alone do that kind of grind every single day.
The tomestones required to obtain unidentified items is way over the top, It takes forever to get them. We need 680 tomes per item and we need 20x for 4 items, the price should be halved at least.
Not all players can play everyday and do all this grind.
The next steps are there too so it would be really great if this quest gets some balancing.
Thank You!

It was nerfed. They added Moogle Beast Tribe so another beast tribe to give you tokens that can be used for any piece.

Even better unlike Vanu and G'nath. Moogles give you 3 tokens at rank 7 so you can get an item of every 6 days from them and 9 from the other two, and 12-13 from a 4th beast tribe (each one except ixal gives one of the 4 items). (Kobald = Ore, Sylph = Seed, Amalj'aa = Bone, Sahagin = Shell)

Dragonskin maps can drop ore.

Allied seals for hunts can be used for items (and hunts drop eso and poetics!)

Esoterics and Poetics can be used for items

Alexander Gordias can be farmed 10 clears = 1 item each floor gives tokens for a specific item (AND you get Eso to boot!)

The relic is meant to be a very long grind.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

The relic is meant to be a very long grind.

Apparently long enough that when you finish it, the next expansion arrives and the weapon's not worth more than turning in to skip a step for the NEXT grind.

No. Thanks.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Apparently long enough that when you finish it, the next expansion arrives and the weapon's not worth more than turning in to skip a step for the NEXT grind.

No. Thanks.

Its not even that long of a grind lol. Maybe if you only play for 30 minutes a day.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Its not even that long of a grind lol. Maybe if you only play for 30 minutes a day.

I certainly put time into the game, and for a brief moment when it was new, I actively worked on the 210 step. Despite the fact that the stats weren't favorable, and I didn't even like the look of it. I finally got all the unidentifiables, and for lack of gil/leveled crafters (I started a new FC, so that's were the gil went), I'm effectively dead in the water on the 210 step. Got the oils. No clue what the 240 step entails, and at this point, what little interest I had is RAPIDLY fading.

I think I can say at this point I gave it the "fair chance" I said I would, and remain uninspired, unmotivated, and rather disappointed. Definitely no 4.0 relic for me.

[Neophyte]

Apparently long enough that when you finish it, the next expansion arrives and the weapon's not worth more than turning in to skip a step for the NEXT grind.

No. Thanks.

Well, i have my 240 relic now since a month and I will carry it for another 2-3 months, before I upgrade it again within a few weeks in 3.4 I guess.

The longest relic steps so far (200->210 and 230->240) were around max. 40-60h 'work' in a 3-6 month period.

That IS NOT MUCH!

[Kallera]

Well, i have my 240 relic now since a month and I will carry it for another 2-3 months, before I upgrade it again within a few weeks in 3.4 I guess.

The longest relic steps so far (200->210 and 230->240) were around max. 40-60h 'work' in a 3-6 month period.

That IS NOT MUCH!

40-60h of work that you do not want to do can be quite a lot. maddening amounts of eso to farm does not get me hyped to do dungeon roulettes all day, quite the opposite really.