Quote Originally Posted by Ankhira View Post
I'll agree Occult Crescent is a major step backwards after Bozja, I spent days in Bozja just doing fates, farming Dalriada and such, it was genuinely fun, but regarding the atma grind, people were so up in arms about Endwalker relics being just "Get tomes" they were very vocal that relics SHOULD be a grind, and SE now made the first step a grind and subsequent relics after the first one just tomes.

Is it the right path for relics? Not my place to say, there will always be those who are unhappy with any path, I just hope if we get a new field exploration in 8.0 it'll be better than Occult Crescent. But, I do not think they want their game to fail. I think as always with an MMO, it's just really hard to please everyone.
I can appreciate your perspective...buts lets take a step back and look at this from a logic of game design...they know when they had the biggest numbers...they know what kept people playing. I agree that EDW relic was to much of a cake walk...yet seeing this going from a cake walk to a brick wall based on pure RNG is pure poison. I remember playing this game for over 13 years now, and the Heavensward and Shadowbringers were both not a cakewalk nor pure gambling. Even if you didn't get the items from Bojza as a example, at least you earned XP, boxes, mounts and things that had utility even to this day. Occult Crescent is the polar opposite of all that. But thank you for the reply and be well!