Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
This is merely due to the fact that some jobs share the same materia for their required melds. You can bypass this entirely by acquiring the materia through spirit binding, which would require no more time than getting melds for any other weapon. The fact that the melds are more expensive are only an additional barrier to those who only wish to buy their materia or weapon straight out, and a clear bypass is readily present.

No matter what, Relics are going to require time. Time some players simply will not have. If anything I would encourage SE to create job-specific alternatives that are more in line with AF weapons from FFXI for those concerned for a 'complete' appearance.

But as far as the investment required to finish Relics, my statements on the first page still stand.

Issues regarding Random Number Generator is an entirely different conversation, and many of us do not like Speed Runs nor Random drops verses a steady progression system.

Great point. Except Some materia (Heavens' Eye IV) Is much more rare.