These Relics Aren't Relicing

[Denji]

Yeah, no. These endwalker relics just aren't it. Being a player who's played this game for almost 2 years and tried almost every relic grind, I must say the EW one has been the worst so far. Not only because of how lazy it feels but also because the final stage isn't satisfying to me at all. Firstly, where are the matte/alternative versions? ARR, SB, & SHB all had matte versions. HW had an alternative color version. What went wrong with EW? The 6.45 versions were so damn good in my opinion, and then we went onto the "Beep Boop Omega-Styled Extreme Vibed" final stage relic. I don't get what's the obsession of technological weapons as Relics. They're called 'Relics' for a reason. Grindy, Stages that aren't the same grind all the damn time and pretty unique ones. This just gives omega but at-home vibes. Honestly, I expected much more 'Fantasy' vibes, like the other damn relics. I can see why it's called a Tome Relic as a joke. They better not disappoint for DT, but yet again. This is Square Enix. Gotta listen to all the players and satisfy no one, don't we? Another thing I must question is Why aren't the damn AST cards, SCH & SMN pages, and the MCH box thing never changing. They don't fit the "Technology" vibes at all. I can understand that for a few other weapons but not these. They should've really saved these weapons for the new zone in DT, so that we can have armor that actually looks good with it. Make it make sense.

wdym we cut out the entire endgame content and basically gave you nothing to replace it with other than a boring-ass island sanctuary and weird multi-path dungeons that you have to play 500 times in a row with NPCs you don't care about. how could you not enjoy this?? look! the relics aren't at all interesting! you should love these designs, they're boring just like the rest of the end-game content.

there's a complete lack of mid-range endgame content in this expansion and it shows. there's nothing for casual players to do. normal people don't have raid nights and the designs for most of the equipment this expansion have just been... lame. idk. none of them leap out at me as something i'd like to wear unlike the shb/sb/hw ones.