For those of us Relic Hunters

[loreleidiangelo]

Uhm...as someone who did the original late, I found that was the worst step, particularly because you couldn't do multiple books at the same time (Leading to you constantly visiting the same places to kill mobs you could have killed the first time around) and because of the specific FATEs that you had to wait hours for.
The step (as a whole) made you visit every dungeon once, do every high level leve once, kill every high level mob 3-10 times and do almost every high level FATE once (I 'think' there are no overlaps, but I'm not 100% sure). Either way...I personally don't get what's particularly good about that. Maybe the fact you spent more time in the overworld? I "can" see an appeal in that. But that aside, uh...egh.

Yeah, I kinda forgot about how crap the hours-long respawn on some of the FATEs were. But mostly, what I liked about it was that yeah, you were out in the overworld, doing content you hadn't bothered with in a while, and (with the exception of the fact that you needed Myth tomes to BUY the stupid things) it wasn't reliant on just spamming dungeons over and over again for tomestones. Literally, if they removed the tomestone requirement and the FATE respawn was like what it is now (they buffed respawns hugely), I would love it. Compare that to a later step, light farming, where you COULD get light from a variety of sources but realistically the best way was to just farm faceroll HM primal windows over and over...basically, I just like relic steps that have you doing a variety of things, whether it's because the game MAKES you do them or because all sources are equally viable. But any time it's tied to a tomestone currency or something like light-farming, the easiest way to do it is to just spam one type of thing over and over, and that's boring to me.

The Crystal Sand part of this most recent relic was an okay step too. But tying that to Umbrite, tome farm-fest city? No thank you.

I hate how everything in this game relies upon collecting some sort of moronic tomestone or another.

EDIT: For clarification, though, I really do think the original part of the relic questline was the best. It was a wholly unique series of trial fights that really made you FEEL like you were earning your weapon, not just "buying" it from a vendor. I can respect that a lot of people don't want to put the effort into learning those types of fights, which is why I mentioned that of the "casual friendly" steps, the books step was my favorite (minus the Myth tome requirement).