Quote Originally Posted by wereotter View Post
This was, in large part, how the Heavensward relic was done back in the day, farming tomes from Atherochemical Research Facility, and many players preferred the Heavensward system to Eureka/Bojza explicitly because they could try to accomplish two in-game goals at once rather than being quardened off into separate zones where you cant do other things while running the content.

Yes, this relic weapon could have used more than just get 1,500 tomes per weapon per step, and I think doing something like the Endwalker relic where maybe between the steps you have one big task to accomplish before you can unlock and breeze through the later ones. But even at it's dull simplicity here, I still prefer it over being forced into exploratory zones.
Too many people who clamour for the ARR/HW system clamour for what they think is the original system when really it’s the nerfed poetic system

Look at books, you won’t naturally complete books just doing your daily’s, you have to seek out the content the books want you to do

But people today see anima relics as nerfed poetic dumps and go “yeah the two for one system is good”