Tomestones.. Again.. for a relic..

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- They complained about books in ARR
- They complained about FATEs in HW
- They complained about Eureka in SB, granted it was mostly a you have to do Eureka, and Eureka alone if you wanted it.
- They complained about needing to do CLL, DR, and Dalriada, and complain you needed to do them especially to progress relic. They also complained that we had FATEs still, and complained about the one-time only 24-man raid farms.

As far as they're concerned, the best way to address this was to simply attach it to tomestones, which doesn't care about the 'how' - Again, I personally don't like it, but historically the community has only complained, and complained about the 'how'.

Seriously. First it was "WE WANT A WEAPON WE CAN GRIND FOR!" after the base AF weapons were gained through Myth tomes and a couple of relic fights you rarely see people going through anymore, which turned into "no not like this!!! It's TOO HARD!" in which... a lot of XI players went "lol" at.

The complaints were many in HW and if you had a Zeta weapon you could skip the first step entirely! But it was still a resounding "not another light grind I hate it!"

And then Eureka + Bozja.... I don't think I need to highlight those complaints. I didn't mind the zones, I did all the ShB relics (and still didn't get my freakin' raptor mount from Dalriada which means I have to catch it again eventually), and I enjoyed Eureka since I'm also an old XI player - it's just XI in my XIV.

But when the playerbase complains heavily about content, the devs are just going to go "okay, we'll go back to grinds /shrug" so I don't know what people were expecting. Tome grinds, atma grinds, whatever, it's going to be boring as sin.

I just don't get why the relic quest is always soooo late in the XPac. The new deep dungeon comes pretty late too.

Uhm and why we are getting just one dungeon per patch cycle? For quests like that?

Gives the chance for the Savage raiders to have the better weapons for... idk, better raiding for a bit. Wasn't really an issue in ARR since T6S-T9S didn't really require those back then, but then when HW came out, Savage gear was dyeable and slightly better. Dungeons being 1 per have been like this since SB, less dev time on optional dungeons that some people won't run and more dev time on other things... though going by a few here on the OF, if it's not something they can see they're not actually working on the game. :P