Quote Originally Posted by TaleraRistain View Post
They would be grinding. Just not in the same way. They'd grind their tomestones in whatever content they wanted to gain those in.

My personal preference is something more like ARR and HW questlines. I was hoping for that for EW. I even was kind of disappointed with the one time aspect of ShB steps because I'm one of the crazies that enjoys that checklist aspect. I would have done that one time step on all of my relics.

I just don't feel that now that another option has been presented, everyone needs to be forced into that. I've always advocated for choices in relic content, which is why I bristled against the Eureka and Bozja design, not to mention the FOMO aspects of those whereas ARR and HW remain much more accessible expansions later. So I really don't care if someone else gets their relic and their grind is tomestones.

Could even be something like being presented the quest and being told you can go find the items yourself through this specific content, or Rowena's rep conveniently has a supply for large amounts of tomestones each. It's really not that dissimilar than being able to shortcut your next relic after the one time steps.
The issue with this, is that most players will still end up picking the tomestone choice, for the simple fact that players can stock up on 2000 tomestones before the patch is released. Meanwhile, specific items from content (ShB's memories etc.) can't be farmed prior to the step being made available. The only way for you to even begin to make this a balanced choice, is if you were to make the tomestone choice be heavily timegated while the step is current.

And that aside, why does the relic weapon need an easier option? There's other easily accessible weapons that players can obtain, if they don't want to go through a more long term relic grind.