Is a relic worth it?

[SpiralMask]

if you have lots of gil? no.
if you have lots of time? sure why not.
if it's outdated? only if you like the glam.

[Metalwrath]

In terms of stats relic weapon has never really been worth it because savage weapons exist and the differencve ie miminal and the only reason you need bis weapons is for savage and ultimate.
Some of the weapons look really good this expansion though.way better than the awful loking eureka ones.
So if you value glam like myself then yes its completly worth it.

[Deceptus]

No.

It has zero way to do it solo, and the time investment is pretty insane for a single weapon and I have all jobs to 80 so I'm not doing it.

Especially when you consider you could invest roughly 12 days in the Ex roulette and have enough tomes to get a better weapon.

or try Emerald EX for more RNG based approach.

or spend 80K-130K on an HQ 510 weapon from the market board.

Sad, but true. I imagine these relics will become harder to obtain than even the eureka weapons. As far as I am aware, Castrum won't even pop unless there are a specific amount of qualifying players in a zone. I cannot believe SE thought any of this was a good idea.

100% accurate. This relic hasn't been futureproofed AT ALL. And that's a bad thing.

[Doozer]

No.

It has zero way to do it solo,

Did you take a wrong turn? This is an MMO.

[Jeeqbit]

100% accurate. This relic hasn't been futureproofed AT ALL. And that's a bad thing.

It's extremely future proofed from what I've seen. You can get most of the memories you need quite quickly in the BSF which has NPCs fight with you in fates, or alternatively by doing open world fates, dungeons and alliance raids, which are easy to do thanks to the duty finder. I've been in BSF alone for 3 hours before just farming fates and mobs on my own to get what I need, so all the fates scaled to 1 person.

If any of the steps are not achievable in the future I'm sure they will make that possible, like they did with previous relics that were made significantly easier.

[TheMightyMollusk]

It's extremely future proofed from what I've seen. You can get most of the memories you need quite quickly in the BSF which has NPCs fight with you in fates, or alternatively by doing open world fates, dungeons and alliance raids, which are easy to do thanks to the duty finder. I've been in BSF alone for 3 hours before just farming fates and mobs on my own to get what I need, so all the fates scaled to 1 person.

If any of the steps are not achievable in the future I'm sure they will make that possible, like they did with previous relics that were made significantly easier.

The problem is the raids. People are struggling to get through Castrum Lacus Litore now, never mind down the line when fewer and fewer people will be in Bozja at all. Delubrum Reginae is also going to be a bottleneck later, for similar reasons. Short of nerfing both straight into the ground or making the rewards completely absurd, they're going to be a massive struggle for anyone who isn't already working on it.

[Vahlnir]

the time investment is pretty insane for a single weapon

I got mine done in 4 days, and that wasn't even playing 24/7. Mileage may vary. Time wasn't the issue. The issue was having to run old raids ad nauseum that we've been doing for years already just to get a leg up on RNG, which didn't make it particularly fun. I would have preferred to have done it all in Bozja from start to finish.

[LaylaTsarra]

I would have preferred to have done it all in Bozja from start to finish.

Amen to that.

The fate RNG is horrendous for step 2 but considering playtime better than doing 36 raids. It's quite a sore spot for me atm because i have numerous alts and have to suffer through this step multiple times. And yes relic is worth it to me. I've done all of them and in spite of the haters I loved Eureka. Not being able to do all of the relic in zone is bad in my view and should actually be easier to finish there than some of the current metrics that make it easier to do outside.

[ForteNightshade]

Amen to that.

The fate RNG is horrendous for step 2 but considering playtime better than doing 36 raids. It's quite a sore spot for me atm because i have numerous alts and have to suffer through this step multiple times. And yes relic is worth it to me. I've done all of them and in spite of the haters I loved Eureka. Not being able to do all of the relic in zone is bad in my view and should actually be easier to finish there than some of the current metrics that make it easier to do outside.

It will forever baffle me what they were aiming to achieve with Shadowbringers' relic. It still forced people into Bozja who, otherwise, had zero interest in the content. While also forcing people who liked Bozja out of it to grind boring FATEs and CT. Basically, all they did is piss off both sides without addressing the actual complaint from Eureka. C

ome 6.0, just let people have an entirely separate step ala the Zodiac/Anima and make the new Bozja primary option. That way, everybody wins.

[Jeeqbit]

It will forever baffle me what they were aiming to achieve with Shadowbringers' relic. It still forced people into Bozja who, otherwise, had zero interest in the content. While also forcing people who liked Bozja out of it to grind boring FATEs and CT.

I thought it was always possible in Bozja without doing FATEs and CT. People just did FATEs and CT because they like doing old content instead.