My thoughts on relics:

Battle relics:
  • I like the story. I was rather upset that as a GNB I didn't get some slightly different options to choose from. It's like the fact I trained with a member of the royal guard didn't matter.
  • I like the first weapon was free for doing the quest.
  • while I enjoy the simple grind and giving me something to do with poetics again, it does feel a little easy at the moment. I do believe the grind will be either longer or more difficult later.
  • The Gear being locked behind a EX trial only is, while different, something I wouldn't expect. It's not very player friendly to get though that on most servers with how party finders tend to be but if you have people you know that can go, could be easy. I haven't done it yet so I don't fully know how hard it is. It just seems really odd.

Crafting Relics:
  • Straight forward and simple. grind through yellow script and HQ crafts you can macro through. Getting yellow script through custom deliveries is a bonus. really love these.

Gathering relics:

This is whee I have the most negative comments on. The grind is insanely long for an opening step. IT's certainly not on par with the opening step of the other two types. maybe it's on par with beginning steps for other relics but I'm not certain. I've done relics in HW and SB. maybe it's in line with ARR I don't know. I think the difficulty is rather steep in items needed with how hard it is to get HQ amount. Seems a little awkward and really the only one that is a true grind at the moment.