Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
Yeah but the relic, IMO, should always be designed for solo play in mind. I shouldn't need to join a Discord and pray other people actually want their equivalent relics at the same time I do, while also being willing to commit a massive amount of time into dead content on specific roles we need.
As far as I remember, you don't need to beat BA or DRS for the relics. You do need to complete CLL and DR to progress through Bozja, but they grant The Echo now so you shouldn't need too many people. They are just a one-off as well.

I don't think the relic needs to be tied to completing the Field Operation content and its raids. Rather, its steps should be slightly more efficient to do in the Field Operation, but you should be able to avoid progressing the Field Operation through any CLL or DR style raids if you want to due to avoiding the social interaction and do old content instead.

Eureka is good in that you can do that whole thing solo, especially now NM spawning was nerfed and The Echo was added.

I can still go back and do ARR and HW relics without any of that
Technically, the most efficient way to farm light for HW relics involved getting a party for savage and that was the case for years before we could finally solo HW savage easily.

The ARR relic books, in particular, are very good because they have you do a variety and set different content like FATES and dungeons per book.
That's what I like about Field Operations. Different CEs, different Skirmishes each time I'm in there. And it's fresh content as opposed to yet more ARR and Heavensward.