These Relics Aren't Relicing

[SieyaM]

Honestly, I feel like the books from ARR are a good format for relics. They have you do a variety of content, even some open world content, in exchange for progress towards your relic. The number of books it has you complete is a little too much and as a result you do end up repeating a lot of things.

[Reinha]

Honestly, I feel like the books from ARR are a good format for relics. They have you do a variety of content, even some open world content, in exchange for progress towards your relic. The number of books it has you complete is a little too much and as a result you do end up repeating a lot of things.

The entire ARR relic as it is today is a good format. I'm doing them right now for several jobs. It's taking me a few weeks per job, and someone made a Youtube video of them grinding it in under 24 hours. It's a perfect amount of time investment imo. That would be 17 days to grind 17 full relic quests non-stop without sleep or around 8 months if going at my pace. Sadly, there aren't 17 different ARR relics so I'll be done much sooner. The number of books could be reduced, though.

You can collect tomestones, craft, grind fates (not a big grind anymore!), do maps and beast tribes, do dungeons and trials, light farm, attach materia, desynth and do the books you mentioned that contain specific levequest and enemy objects. That's a lot of variety. When completing subsequent relics you can gain light or do book-dungeons at the same time as farming dungeon drops for another job. You can also gain light while you do maps to get drops for an earlier stage.

I've been getting my EW relics by dumping the excess tomes I get from hunts. That's all. Extremely disappointing and boring.

[Canadane]

They're called 'Relics' for a reason.

I mean technically only the level 50 ones were relics, right?

[Mostly_Raxus]

you all know square, once they go lazy they never backtrack, so just like so many other features in game, prepare for the "economy class" relic quest from here on out.. but hey at least we have a cash shop with a 10$ charge to change eyes color or get a tan...

now take your weapon that was taken from the 1st raid tier of DT because the devs were to busy ripping us off with ff16 to actually develop a relic...

[MonteCristo]

I hard-disagree though.

I prefer this method of obtaining relics (which is actually the same as every other iteration, it just lets you choose what thing you're going to grind). And I like the look and effect on the final stage weapons.

Stop it....There is zero grind u can mindlessly hit a hunt mob one time with zero brain cells for 2 hours and get free relics...you CANT be serious

[AesirSyn]

I like the tech feel. I think it is a nice break from the norm. My big beef is that the Manderville weapons don't seem to be sized to smaller models properly. They are all way too large to look good. Ex: the scythe on my Miqo'te female makes it look like she is going to fall over at any given minute. I would like to see a slight readjustment to how top heavy and large they are on small models.

[LalafellDown]

I skipped this relic quest all together. I know the devs said more people done then this ti e around. I understand that’s due to it being way easier, but the whole expansion I skipped. Everything they released was a big downgrade. For the relic I didn’t like the story with hildibrand. If it was anything else lore wise I would enjoy it. I wish we traveled worlds for the relic and learned what happened to the other planets.

[Heroman3003]

Relics were originally supposed to be cool weapon that progresses with you as you progress through the .X patches. That's what they were supposed to be, and ever since the raider hardcore nutjobs whined so much that SE changed the relics into lagging behind at least a full patch in ilvl, they became nothing more than another glamour weapon and that's what they were since. Grind is irrelevant, lore is irrelevant, it's core appeal was initially that it was a weapon that you take with yourself throughout whole expansion, but now you always have better options unless you're at .55 at which point you've already done everything that may need a weapon anyway. And if it's just a glamour weapon, I honestly don't think grind levels matter either way. The only gear that matters of any given ilvl is whatever was released first, everything coming after is just glamour and catch up.

[Immut]

Yep. This was the worst relic by far. The end stage is obviously designed to be a glamour weapon for cyberpunk city. But the problem is nobody is going to be stupid enough to grind 6k tomes per job to collect a second or third one, when it's going to be a straight poetry dump when 7.0 hits. So it's dead content on release. And the trial not only has no EX version, it only needs to be done once for the story. So you'll need to PF it in another month or so when DF queues die.

SE has consistently shown that they no longer understand the simple concept of making content repeatable and have never understood the concept of making it infinitely repeatable. At the bare minimum you should have needed to do the fight for EACH relic.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Yep. This was the worst relic by far. The end stage is obviously designed to be a glamour weapon for cyberpunk city. But the problem is nobody is going to be stupid enough to grind 6k tomes per job to collect a second or third one, when it's going to be a straight poetry dump when 7.0 hits. We need shit that ISN'T just relics to dump poetry into. Desynthing tomestone weapons for airship/submarine mats is still the best use of poetry which is actually very stupid.

Doesn't feel cyberpunk to me. IMO it and the Solution 9 area they teased feels like an attempt of giving us a PSO2 collab after PSO2 got an FFXIV collab back in either ARR or Pre ARR. (so long ago I forget exactly when it happened.)