Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
So, Endwalker was closer to what I like but still missed the mark on several things. The first, and most obvious, is that 1500 Tomes per "step" is really small. Just a few days of Dailies is enough to fully cover a single relic from beginning to end, and you can do that even faster with things like Hunts or even Crystaline Conflict. I do like all the ways you can get Tomes to cover these so I'm not limited to a dead zone like Eureka, but instead of using Tomes, I think it would've been better to have unique currencies that you obtain much slower doing the same things. This is why steps like the Books, or Atma, or Crystal Sand/Umbrite were all much better. Even after they had their amounts reduced, they're still grindy enough to be long term goals and payoff. And the methods of obtaining them are still viable today without needing external resources like Discord groups or depending on other peoples' interests.
I wonder how much the over-abundance of classes has to do with this...personally, steps like Atma are the reason I only ever progressed one ARR relic beyond that step. Endless FATE grinding for a low-% drop that you need a dozen of? No thanks. And now there's probably about double the classes you could progress.

The tomestone approach, on the other hand, has done what was likely its design job of enticing me to play more. Having something straightforward that I can make steady progress on while doing a wide variety of content makes me...well...do more content! I've done more roulettes each time a new relic phase begins, continued doing hunt trains well after I stopped in ShB, and so on. Meanwhile, I never even finished one single ShB relic because Bozja.