Try the Eureka grind. It's like the OC, but better in many ways. Sure, you had to work to call the fates, but any time you successfully called a fate NM, and it wasn't RNG but a matter of timers, you were always rewarded with the same results. Anemos was chill, a great place to grind out your relic and artifact armor. And that's another sore point for me about the OC. Eureka allowed us to forge our armor alongside our weapons. In the OC, we have to pay for it through a grueling grind for coins.


Admittedly, the rewards for the gold and silver coins are way better, but lockboxes were always plentiful in Eureka. It was common to end up with stacks of them in your inventory, and those tended to make you filthy rich if you ground for a good while, anywhere from 2 million to 7 million depending on RNG. So that's a feather in Eureka's proverbial cap.


Pagos kind of sucked, but it had its own charms. Sure, those stat-boosting items that bosses dropped required a ton of RNG, but everyone managed to get at least one of them. Some got them all.


As for relic progression, in all four areas, the rewards were always consistent. That made the grind bearable. My grinding engine doesn't run on maybe fluffs. Yet I'm still grinding at OC, somehow. sweatdrops '^^