All the content mentioned above, maybe excepting Island Sanctuary since its point is to be a chill game mode experience, could be used to farm the relics steps and save those tomes for... more relics or crafting materials. I understand the initial plan was to make it easy to get, so people can focus on returning to their old lives before the pandemic or focusing on other content while also doing Hildibrand quests as fast as possible was some kind of grind for some (not my case since I did that in ShB), but being honest what keeps you subbed to the game is savage and Ultimate and if you have a house, and both of that are only a minority of people. I still play the game since I found content to do myself (Eureka, Ultimate in PF while I can, making glams for all jobs) but I think the team should work on midcore content more. Eureka Orthos and Variant are by far my favorite additions in game for years, it's really great content, but it should be developed with a long term plan. Why don't make savage variant drop BiS pieces every week, so people can do Savage Raids and Savage Variant and get BiS faster and then grind more jobs? Or at least people like me who can't raid 8 man content due to a tight schedule at least can have it easier organizing something with other 3 and get BiS slower? You can even make Variant Savage drops the same gear as Savage raid or different looking gear with exact stats. If effort-reward balance is an issue, then make Variant drop all gear for ONE job till next savage tier comes while people who run only Savage Raids get gear faster or for more jobs, and people who do both get even more. At the end of the patch, the BiS will be replaced for crafted gear, so what's the point of making it SO important and unique if it's only useful for cheap first month/week prog gear?


With all said, I'd like to read your opinions on the matter at hand. I normally don't post here a lot so if it's a repeated post I'm sorry, I checked on the search bar but nothing appeared, that's why I made this. Also, I was planning to make another post talking more of the Variant Savage rewards and what could be reworked for the next expansion, but that's more in general terms.

Thanks for reading <3