Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[aveyond-dreams]

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?

[Duskane]

cuz its funny

[Oizen]

You see the humor is not only is his clothes ripped, but he's upside down in the ground. I didn't see you laugh the 47th time this happened during the hildibrand quest so we included it at least 71 more times in 6.2

Thanks for playing

[GoatOfWar]

cuz its funny

Is it though?

[Kaurhz]

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.

[Xeronia]

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.

I had skipped every ARR Hildibrand cutscene on an alt with a friend, that alone was 4-6 hours (I know it was greater then four hours but I forgot the exact time) with healer queue and giving up finding anyone for second trial and just going to our mains and carrying the other. ARR Hidlibrand is really fetch questy even with cutscene skipping.

[Kaurhz]

I had skipped every ARR Hildibrand cutscene on an alt with a friend, that alone was 4-6 hours (I know it was greater then four hours but I forgot the exact time) with healer queue and giving up finding anyone for second trial and just going to our mains and carrying the other. ARR Hidlibrand is really fetch questy even with cutscene skipping.

I don't know, I recall skipping it a couple of months back and it didn't really take me long at all. I can certainly say it wasn't longer than 4 hours. I think Stormblood took me around 45-60 minutes to finish. Maybe I'll try later on my alt.

But was your endeavor on doing it on an alt pre-flying or post-flying? The former definitely going to take considerably longer than the latter. Regardless of this though, the relics are designed to be a grindy piece of content, and honestly if people are already being sent to their knees by the requirement being Hildibrand then I argue they probably won't make it very far in the first place.

[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

[Zumi]

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.

Yea my friend who skips all cutscenes finished it very quickly.

[Kaurhz]

Yea my friend who skips all cutscenes finished it very quickly.

Honestly, the length of the quest is the weirdest complaint/angle to take given the context of the matter is relics, where grinding, and time-wasting endeavors form an integral part of the experience.

I could understand if the issue was the light-hearted, 'comedic' nature of Hildibrand, but man the length of the quests is just the worst possible angle I think, especially when you can skip them. At least that is the issue people are bringing up now at least, which is a positive -- But we'll have to see what actually substance is behind it rather than being too presumptuous about it.