Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[Renathras]

Not sure whether they were being actually serious about this or not, but either way it's bad form to require such an absurdly long questline to be completed before we can do this expansion’s relic. I don’t even think Ivalice is as time consuming, and at least acts as a skill check on the playerbase.

Just why?

As others have probably said, Ivalice is more time consuming than blitzing Hildi quests and skipping cutscenes if you aren't into the humor. Bozja's Ivalice require was still the most extensive in terms of time consuming and effort. And no, it didn't act as "a skill check".

As for why...that I have no idea. It does seem wildly random.

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If we're missing out on field/exploration content/zones, that WILL piss me off, since that's my favorite kind of content in the game...

Don't worry, it seems players like us who wanted something serious are no longer welcome I guess.

You're getting Mythic+ dungeons, though. At least you're getting SOMEthing.

Players like me are getting nothing.

[Nizzi]

THAT.
SAID:

If we're missing out on field/exploration content/zones, that WILL piss me off, since that's my favorite kind of content in the game...

Highly agree on this; Eureka and Bozja were so much fun, especially playing with the Logos/Lost Actions to see what your job could do. If we do lose it, that's a huge loss for the game and the endgame grind; I really hope it wasn't replaced in favor for harder 4 man dungeons...

[Ascended_Demon]

I've played through all the Hildibrand quests and mostly enjoyed them but this? This bothers me in a way I cannot describe well. I generally dislike the possibility that it could lead to all the relic stages looking like jokes. Yeah, I know some of the weapon design contest winners were generally goofy or joke type weapons but they could easily make them glamour weapons (for clarification when I say this I mean ilvl 1 no stats or level restrictions like most stuff that tends to get called glamour equipment).

Maybe I'm also against the idea that this might mean sage and reaper will get shafted and stuck with gaudy weapons for their first relics. I know we have no idea what the weapons will look like but honestly? The vibes do not mesh. I would like majestic, visually impressive relics not something made out of pyrite.

As for the person claiming "tHIS isn't about power level!!!" bruh relics in this game have literally always been about pushing limits with the amount of power they can contain, they always end up being the BIS weapons at the end of an expansion's patch cycle. Relics always eventually moved to "just for glamour" when they are no longer current but I highly doubt as current content they will be exclusively for glamour. Please stop pulling takes out of nowhere.

[Kaurhz]

Highly agree on this; Eureka and Bozja were so much fun, especially playing with the Logos/Lost Actions to see what your job could do. If we do lose it, that's a huge loss for the game and the endgame grind; I really hope it wasn't replaced in favor for harder 4 man dungeons...

To be honest, it's possible that we may not get exploration zones associated with the relic at all, or even entirely. This could be because of pouring resources into Island Sanctuary, or they may want to make Deep Dungeon become a little more than a corridor crawler.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I tell ya one thing. Folks have been up in arms about things being samey yet the moment they actually throw a curve folks are upset. I'm indifferent atm. I'll judge it as I do it and give it a chance. People are making WAY to many assumptions

[Doc_Seraph]

Absurdly long? Just skip the scenes, it takes like 2-4 hours which is probably not so different from their requirement of Ivalician raids for the Bozjan relics. Ivalice doesn't act as any form of skill-check LOL. Those raids are regularly a 30-40 minute slogfest of wiping and throwing corpses at the bosses until they die.

aye kupo the actual questline is very easy and fast kupo <3 no worries

[Xtrasweettea]

I'm just going to repost what I posted back when SE was forcing us to do CT for MSQ and Rabanastre (level 70 content) for Resistance Weapons (level 80 content).

First it was the Rabanastre side story-line completion requirement in addition to completing 5.0 MSQ just to unlock the first Level 80 Relic quest.
Now it is having to complete CT side story-line and raids just to continue the MSQ.

To me, it seems like SE really wants us to do these pieces of content for some reason beyond helping them with keeping story-lines straight.

My stance is still the same.

I am at least half way done with the HW quests. Skip Cut-scene is the most viewed textbox for me (just like I did for CT and Rab). Plan on doing the same for the rest of these quests.

[weebtext]

Relics are just glamour in the end anyways, so I like this!

[LaylaTsarra]

To be honest, it's possible that we may not get exploration zones associated with the relic at all, or even entirely. This could be because of pouring resources into Island Sanctuary, or they may want to make Deep Dungeon become a little more than a corridor crawler.

I don't think we are. i loved the relic zones I can hope we'll see them again in 7.0. I suspect the resources that would have gone into BA/DRS etc were put into Criterian Dungeons.

[Vahlnir]

I tell ya one thing. Folks have been up in arms about things being samey yet the moment they actually throw a curve folks are upset. I'm indifferent atm. I'll judge it as I do it and give it a chance. People are making WAY to many assumptions

I'm not sure how I feel about it, honestly. I love Hildibrand, but the only way I could see it really working for most people is if it involved Gilgamesh in some way. If it's a silly adventure over all for our relic weapons, I'm not sure I'd approve. But we'll have to see how it plays out. It is indeed too early to make any sort of judgements on this, but I do have my concerns.