DT Relic Proposal - Involved quests for first weapon - Tomes for alt jobs

[Hyperia]

After reading the article where Yoshi said that the Dev team is going to update the relic approach so it will require more than EW, I wanted to propose an answer to their question about making it easier to gear for alt jobs.

The first relic weapon would be involved, lots of story, lots of questing, dungeons, raids, FATES, etc. Give us something to do, keep us involved, starting at patch 2.1 please... /prettyplease

After finishing the current step, all additional relic weapons for alt jobs could be purchased using tomes as they were in EW but only after you do the main quest up to the current step.

Example: Do the full quest to get the i700 weapon for your main and then 1500 tomes for each of your other jobs. Then continue to get the i730 weapon for your main and an additional 1500 tomes for each other job to elevate to the next step.

For the Savage raiders, maybe drop an item that can be used to totally bypass the 1500 tome step with a single token, one per raid boss. That could also help keep people doing the Savage raids a bit longer before they go stale.

I believe that this would give everybody a good compromise where we want something to do but keep the easy access to alt weapons. In my opinion, it wouldn't diminish the relic status as you had to go through it once. I don't think most players would want to do the full quest over and over and over again.

For those who do, maybe have a NewGame+ option for the relic quest so that you have to do it all over again for an alt but make it selectable.

What are your thoughts? Is this a good compromise or do you have better options you believe the Devs should be aware?

[strawberrycake]

I actually love this idea, only thing i would change is it being the field instance we do everything in, but after we do 1500 tomes and or a savage token.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Yes please. I don’t mind grinding for the first one, but I play multiple classes and level them all and I don’t want to have to repeat steps for additional weapons.

[Gemina]

I will always be of the mind to keep field content and relic progression separate. Ishgard Restoration is a great example of expanded content that works despite not tying any of it to relics. Eureka and Bozja both would have been fine on their own. The content incentivized itself. Now if you want to progress either of these relics, you are in for a really rough time. It should be clear now that relics were never really the reason why players did this content. I would have hoped that the dev team would have learned this lesson.

The way I see successful relic content in FFXIV is a combination of Zodiac/Atma and Manderville. I agree that progressing steps with tomes is viable only after the step(s) are completed initially so it is easier to obtain additional relics for other jobs. But there should be a grind there that incentivizes existing content to give players something to work towards in between patch cycles. Much like Zodiac/Atma, relic content should be designed in a way that make it so players can still progress it on their own at any given time. Not just when the content is relevant.

If relic steps in DT are exclusive to the field content, this content will suffer the same fate as Eureka and Bozja.

[mallleable]

Now, should the easy/tome option unlock after completing each step or after fully completing a relic?

[strawberrycake]

Now, should the easy/tome option unlock after completing each step or after fully completing a relic?

I think fully completing the relic if they attach it to anything for the content it's in to be conisstently done. if it's just whatever content people wanna do then it won;t matter. NA will just grind CT like always.

[Jeeqbit]

article where Yoshi said that the Dev team is going to update the relic approach so it will require more than EW

It didn't actually say that. It said that there will be multiple ways to do it. There are multiple ways... to get tomestones in EW. So it was that vague.

The first relic weapon would be involved, lots of story, lots of questing, dungeons, raids, FATES, etc. Give us something to do, keep us involved, starting at patch 2.1 please... /prettyplease

After finishing the current step, all additional relic weapons for alt jobs could be purchased using tomes as they were in EW but only after you do the main quest up to the current step.

I thought exactly the same thing. The first relic should be the grind, then all subsequent ones can just be easy to get or apply massive nerfs for subsequent ones.

I think this way because I spent a lot of time on my first one in Heavensward, as well as a lot of time on my first one in Stormblood and a lot of time on my Shadowbringers one. But when it came to doing more of them I just put it off because it involved doing duties and getting items from different places.

So grind for the first one, but not subsequent ones would make me happy.

[Sove92]

Yea it would be the best of both worlds. Need to do a grind for each step only once and subsequent relics can simply be bought with tomes.

[Saraide]

Now, should the easy/tome option unlock after completing each step or after fully completing a relic?

I think it should be per step. It would spread out the tome farming a bit over the entire expansion instead of making people wait until the end of the expansion to do all the tome farming in the world.

[Kranel_San]

After reading the article where Yoshi said that the Dev team is going to update the relic approach so it will require more than EW, I wanted to propose an answer to their question about making it easier to gear for alt jobs.

The first relic weapon would be involved, lots of story, lots of questing, dungeons, raids, FATES, etc. Give us something to do, keep us involved, starting at patch 2.1 please... /prettyplease

After finishing the current step, all additional relic weapons for alt jobs could be purchased using tomes as they were in EW but only after you do the main quest up to the current step.

Example: Do the full quest to get the i700 weapon for your main and then 1500 tomes for each of your other jobs. Then continue to get the i730 weapon for your main and an additional 1500 tomes for each other job to elevate to the next step.

For the Savage raiders, maybe drop an item that can be used to totally bypass the 1500 tome step with a single token, one per raid boss. That could also help keep people doing the Savage raids a bit longer before they go stale.

I believe that this would give everybody a good compromise where we want something to do but keep the easy access to alt weapons. In my opinion, it wouldn't diminish the relic status as you had to go through it once. I don't think most players would want to do the full quest over and over and over again.

For those who do, maybe have a NewGame+ option for the relic quest so that you have to do it all over again for an alt but make it selectable.

What are your thoughts? Is this a good compromise or do you have better options you believe the Devs should be aware?

I pretty much like your proposal and support it wholeheartedly. I wish devs would take up notes from your suggestion