"Coming into its own" is too much!

[CheshirePuss]

I've done the first relic from the first step.
It was way better and more fun to do.

Glad the thread was bumped so I could see this post. In what way was it fun?

I fully enjoyed the opportunity to invest an effort I'd otherwise never see reason to for a quest line in this game, as someone who hadn't bothered with raid based content in the past at the time. But as someone who has played the entirety of my time with FF14 in Hyperion, I can say that there were a couple of phases that were not appealing to me. The amount of Grade 4 Carbonized Matter I had to sell..... lord. The silver lining could be that it did enforce the need to cap both my Botany and Miner to 50.

If I were to choose which phase would be my favorite, I'd say it'd have to be both the Atma and Alexandrite grind. It allowed me to unite with strangers to meet a common goal, and boast about my unnatural luck.

From what I've experienced with the Realm Reborn relic though, despite the Eso/Poetic grinding, it feels much easier.