Skybuilder's tools (510 shiny)

[Kaurhz]

Pretty much this. The current relic step is totally unbalance in reward vs time. Each relic requires a minimum of 2700 yellow scrips (max 5400) EACH coupled with time in the Diadem vs less than an hour for the Aesthete's which can be penta melded to be better.

Relic is supposed to be casual. The last step of this relic requires an EXPERT level craft which is the hardest crafting content in the game.

It's akin to requiring savage raiding for the DoW/DoM relics

The fact that the crafter relics don't have at least 2 meld slots (should be 5) is bad.

The fact that we STILL don't have a better fishing gig that the level 61 version is bad. This would have been the perfect time to upgrade it.

Except getting a pentamelded Aesthete's tool to do what you would consider as 'outclass' the relic requires an approximate sum of:
Yellow Crafters' Scrip x80,750 or approximately 10,093~ Yellow Crafters' Scrip per tool
+
White Crafters' Scrip x28,000 or approximately 3500~ White Crafters' Scrip per tool.

Getting all of the above to pentameld your tools isn't exactly an hour journey. Next time factor the time of getting the materia in your comparison tbh.

The necessary breakpoints which you must hit during the Expert recipes are relatively lenient to compensate for the fact they are indeed Expert recipes. These are barely akin to running Hades extreme at iLv510. Not even an inconvenience even at all. Besides, these tools are quite good in their own right, it's only right they make you do something tedious aside from hit a macro and be done with it. I'm down for them adding 5-materia slots, but only at the expense of it being excruciatingly more tedious/difficult. The minimum quality you need is, what, 24,000?