Venting about "A new path of resistance", fix this step

[Awha]

This post is more of me venting my frustration with this part of the relic, "A New path of resistance", this part is single-handedly making me annoyed and bored with the game to a point of me considering dropping making more relics, doing 15 DR with random is literally rolling dice to see if you will get at least a couple of players with essences or players that aren't afk at all, which is normally never the case, making something that could very well take 20 minutes to finish, take well over 45+ minutes, had a run that took almost a full hour.
Palace of the Dead isn't much better either, I tried a couple of run in there, 51-190 and 51-100, after around 6 hours or so, only got 4 artifacts after all of that, I normally enjoy running PotD but knowing that I will have to WASTE my time with a RNG drop until I got to 150 just sours the whole experience and makes me want to not do that kind of content.
Either NERF the amount needed to progress to like 5 or 10 or increase the amount you get from a single DR run from 1 to 3 and in PotD make the drop-rate from floors 51-100 be 50% and 101-200 be 100%, that's how I would fix it.
This isn't a Free-to-Play game, this is the first time since I started playing this game that I felt that my time as a player was not respected, I have faith that SE will fix this soon. Thank you.

Your mistake is doing it with randoms, join a PF group. If you are good people will end up friending you in game or via discord and they will ask you to join their groups in the future.

[Kolsykol]

It's probably my least favorite step.
Mainly since there's no variety.

At least with the Hell's Lid spam for the last step I have fun because I usually pick people up along the way and create premades and I've made friends that way.
It's a lot harder to do with this step tho I find.

[Vahlnir]

It's probably my least favorite step.
Mainly since there's no variety.

At least with the Hell's Lid spam for the last step I have fun because I usually pick people up along the way and create premades and I've made friends that way.
It's a lot harder to do with this step tho I find.

I liked the last step because I could switch between a couple dungeons and still get pretty fast queues. I wanted the caster set from Swallow's Compass and was able to get all the pieces of that on my way to 15.

[GrumbleBeard]

I finished one and have 15 for another but I won't turn them in unless they reduce how many are needed, I can't take another run there. Someone suggested that rather than 6 bosses, you fight only 4 with the first 3 being random and the last always been the Queen so you're not stuck on 6 straight mindless fights.

[wereotter]

This step and the 15 Crystal Tower runs I'll say are the two worst of the bunch.... would have preferred they made Shadows of Mhach or Ivalice the required step instead of Crystal Tower. Hopefully the buff the drop rates, though, since you can get two raw emotions from DR but only one timeworn artifact.

[Vahlnir]

This step and the 15 Crystal Tower runs I'll say are the two worst of the bunch.... would have preferred they made Shadows of Mhach or Ivalice the required step instead of Crystal Tower. Hopefully the buff the drop rates, though, since you can get two raw emotions from DR but only one timeworn artifact.

The CT part? That's easy. Avoid it entirely and hit up Castrum Lacus Litore 3 times. Or form a party of BLUs and massacre your way through ST. Or...just spam ST. Or all of the above. All of these are fast. I'm not saying that spamming ST is fun, but it's quick and mindless. I fail to see the problem with this step.

[ZedxKayn]

I dislike this step as much as I dislike the first "grind" step.
I simply hate FATEs, it's not good content, and I have no reason to go back to the southern front anymore.

[wereotter]

The CT part? That's easy. Avoid it entirely and hit up Castrum Lacus Litore 3 times. Or form a party of BLUs and massacre your way through ST. Or...just spam ST. Or all of the above. All of these are fast. I'm not saying that spamming ST is fun, but it's quick and mindless. I fail to see the problem with this step.

Bad experiences lately going into there... raids of almost entirely new people where we wipe multiple times before reaching the end. CT raids aren't the easy face roll one would think. I do like going into Lacus Litore, but hate having to hop instances or wait around until it's available. This is why I'm including that as one of the two worst steps of the process.

Besides, any step is easier if your argument is "just bring all blue mages in a preformed party"

[Kuroka]

I was planning on getting more than one relic completed, until I reached this step. After doing this I decided to not do another relic.

Doing fates I'm ok with. Doing bozja I'm OK with and actually like. Doing the same raid 15 times I am not OK with.

Doing ANYTHING 10-20 times is a no go for me so ive havent even reached that stage, we got so much content, but no... do X 15x... *sight*

Well one day ill have enough rouletts putting me there to continue... until then its the first relic ive never finished.

[Darnath]

I haven't finish the DR stage but I'll agree it's the most annoying stage of them all that I've completed.

Stage 1 : There's enough ways to get 1k poetics that no way to really get bored/burnt on it.
Stage 2 : This one can be a bit 'tedious' since the Bozjan Front way is a bit RNG ish or just blazing the HeavensWard FATEs (especially as BLU). Since I was using Southern Front to levelling up my 71+'s I got plenty of these tokens.
Stage 3 : Pick a level 60 dungeon, do it 6 times. Hell, if you got 'em levelled up can do Squadron runs of Fractal.
Stage 4 : The most options driven. CT Raids (guaranteed), Critical Engagements (RNG'ish, but still), or Castrum LL (3 and done)
Extra Stage : This one's good too. Run the Mhach or Ivalice raids over and over (guaranteed) and/or hit the Stormblood FATEs (and can BLU these now too)
Now Stage 5 : DR runs (which are hit and miss unless you join a discord) or pray to the RNG gods on PotD.

Side note (unrelated) : Currently only high 20's in my PotD aetherpools and I'll be damned if I can get the blue chests to upgrade 'em so when I feel like eyepoking, just floors 1-30 on PotD here.

Now if Stage 5 would've used even just Mhach and Ivalice as an alternative instead of PotD, that'd be great. Hell, once the Fan Festival Mooglestone event is over, Alliance Roulette is gonna turn back into 95% CT, 4.9999% Nier, and 0.0001% of the others. Would have been nice to keep Mhach and Ivalice there for that too.