Thread: Post mortem on relics from 4.0

While people spent months for braindead grinding to end getting the ugliest glamours ever made I finished some ARR and HW relics I missed by just playing casually. Enjoy the final slap for supporting the worst content ever made for XIV.

After ARR, none of the relics have been truly legendary. ARR gave us classic FF weapons like Excalibur, Ragnarok, and Apocalypse. Even setting aside the weapon models, they were iconic to anyone who has played the series. HW and Stormblood's relic final forms have references to some FFXI weapons, but to most of us, that's kind of meaningless. I'm a bit sad that the later jobs missed out on the opportunity to get at least one iconic weapon for themselves. Most of the truly memorable weapons in FF's thirty year history are greatswords. I want my Defender. I want my Save the Queen. I just want to see one truly iconic FF greatsword on DRK. I'll put up with any sort of relic grind to get it.

Originally Posted by Chalbee

THIS!!! Other relics you could almost make progress on in the background as you did other things, or at the very least you have multiple options to achieve an end. There were annoying steps, of course, but the fact that Eureka is the only way to progress this relic is very annoying, even if Eureka weren't terrible. Sad I won't leave this expac with a relic, but oh well. I hope they don't repeat this for 5.0.

indeed. Also with the old relic and anima you could start to combine steps once cleared. Like running a dungeon needed both for books and the zodiac materials, or collecting umbrites and oils in advance while still on the unidentified items steps. Can't do that with eureka were the steps are clearly separated

I'm sad that my little buddy, Anima, who I grew and nurtured to have sentience was abandoned by XIV's team. What was set up led me to believe we'd continue to work on Anima's new 'body.' There wasn't a peep about them.

Originally Posted by Haxaan

The SB relic is just a weapon made by Gerolt that really has no tie to the Eureka story arc, which does feel bland.

It's not even made by Gerolt. He talks about upgrading your equipment, and it just conveniently happens to be that the gear from your level 70 job quest is usable as a starting point. There's no attempt to give any of it any meaningful connection.

I think this thread really hits home what I disliked about eureka. Yes i am not a big fan of the nm/mob grind an pagos was atrocious, but i can stomach it enough to at least finish one relic (the reason i was in there) my biggest gripe is the relic part of the story has absolutely no substance once so ever (and the models in my opinion are just plain ugly). Story is always a big draw for me. It is a big reason why i enjoyed coil so much more than alexander or omega. The 2.0 and 3.0 relic meant something to me. The Eureka weapon on the otherhand just happens to be a purple.

The fact the relic weapon has been reduced to just a glamour piece instead of a viable and sometimes superior endgame weapon says it all.

personally i dislike 4.0 relic for the fact i don't feel like i earned it, i mean, 2.0 and 3.0 relics forced you to do content, 4.0 relic you can basically afk for most of it(just bothering whit killing NM) and end up whit a relic, i do not find fun killing mobs what hardly keeps you busy(and for this i love dungeons or other instance content what is not potd/hoh/diadem/eureka)

also, i don't get why people has to get their relic on like day 1, 2.0 and 3.0 relic steps literally has that insane amount of tomes required to make it last for around 1 month if you played it on the intended casual way when they where relevant
now, i won't say what all the steps of the 2.0/3.0 relics where good, there are some bad obviously, arr relic was rather annoying on some parts(especially on atma step when relevant and book step while relevant AND currently), but hw relic?, its probably the easiest relic to get into since it gives you on most of its steps many ways to upgrade it(yes im excluding atma step if you didnt had a zeta relic and lvl 50 to 60 dungeons, since those had only one way to progress thro), you could do it by dungeons, you could do it by raids, you could do it by pvp!, even diadem 2.0 helped, you literally pogressed it whit whatever you did
i hope what if they do make the next relic, they make a "weekly" cap or something for turn in stuff like that to make everyone just not burn themselves on hardcore farming it, because that is one thing a lot of people suffered from on both arr and hw relics, they whanted their relic as soon as posible what they grinded it hard to the point to burn themselves