So yeah, i decided to skip the relics because of the huge headache is it to acquire them....mostly because of the 25,000 worth of grand company seals you need to buy the rare/ex item. And im perfectly ok with skipping them until after 2.0 is released.

BUT after reading through the patch notes, im going to need another 25,000 grand company seals to get a higher rank? Really SE??

Atm, i've been using all my seals for the doh/dol exp buff items (which i love very much btw^^) but requiring me to get another 25k seals is just outrageous to me.

I know there are numerous ways to get seals between doing supplies/provisioning at gc, gc leves, caravans and trading in ifrit weapons.....but it takes a while to get to 25k.....even just for the relic/rank....then i have to do it over again. Now i know that i can trade in my ifrit weapons....but if they arent going to be in 2.0 why would i just trade them in? It'd be dumb to consider, especially since it takes forever to get just 1 drop.

I think if se is going to continue this route of ridiculous, spamming same content over and over and over (which is essentially what you need to do to get seals) im going to throw in the towel. I have been one of those faithful players that have played since beta and have truly loved the game, but i dont want to be forced to mass spam everything over and over.....its getting very old, very fast. And just when i think spamming of certain dungeons/instances are done, they add something else that requires you to spam it even more.