"Coming into its own" is too much!

[Warlyx]

chimera and hydra were awesome! , the 3 trials were cool , titan was "hard" at the time? yeah but give me 10 titans instead of farming tomes , or buying HQ items any day of the week....at least that would challenge me....but noooooo fate spams , low lvl dungeons and then farm this content x100000 and pay or level crafting or ask a stranger to craft ....i dont see anything close to "awesome" in that content ...nor anything that feels like i deserve a powerfull weapon...

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

chimera and hydra were awesome! , the 3 trials were cool , titan was "hard" at the time? yeah but give me 10 titans instead of farming tomes , or buying HQ items any day of the week....at least that would challenge me....but noooooo fate spams , low lvl dungeons and then farm this content x100000 and pay or level crafting or ask a stranger to craft ....i dont see anything close to "awesome" in that content ...nor anything that feels like i deserve a powerfull weapon...

This, exactly. Thank you.

People cried about the challenge, thus we got a mindless, uninspired grind. No 4.0 relic for me, even if they go back and actually challenge you to earn it again. I'm done with this nonsense. Made it through ARR, and so far all of HVW without a relic. I think I'll be fine to completely opt out next time around.

[Fricca]

chimera and hydra were awesome! , the 3 trials were cool , titan was "hard" at the time? yeah but give me 10 titans instead of farming tomes , or buying HQ items any day of the week....at least that would challenge me....but noooooo fate spams , low lvl dungeons and then farm this content x100000 and pay or level crafting or ask a stranger to craft ....i dont see anything close to "awesome" in that content ...nor anything that feels like i deserve a powerfull weapon...

This. Before you actually had to interact, carry your own weight, and make friends in the process of getting your relic. Now, you have to mentally prepare yourself to farm x currencies to obtain x item to trade in for x material to upgrade your relic. Have fun!

I hope those who wished this current system onto the game is having lots of fun with it.

[Alahra]

I hope those who wished this current system onto the game is having lots of fun with it.

While I never really minded the presence of more difficult content in obtaining a Relic (I was hoping the last step of ARR would involve the three original EX Primals so the process could come full circle), the Zodiac/Anima questlines are some of my favorite content in the game. I had 4 Zeta weapons by the end of ARR (and a Nexus that I abandoned until after HW), and I'm on track to have 3 or 4 completed Anima weapons by the end of HW.

Regarding the topic itself, I am quite surprised they have yet to lessen the requirements for the 210 stage, though. By this point into ARR we had seen reductions in tomestone costs for Animus books and increases in Atma drop rates. All they've done so far to the Anima line is increase the luminous crystal drop rates. Normally when we get a new tomestone, the cost of items when converted to that new tomestone are reduced, and they kept the Esoterics cost equivalent to the Law cost for that portion. Coupled with the recent restructuring of Hunt Mark rewards and the changes to tomestone rewards from dungeons, this actually resulted in the stage becoming a little harder in 3.2, though it's since returned to about the same as it was initially with the adjustments to Tomestone rewards in 3.3.