What "challenge" or "work" is involved with spamming an event a million times hoping to get lucky?

People seriously need to get with the times and stop equating time sinks with difficulty. Yes, time sinks are necessary in MMOs, no one is disputing that - but the tendency is to generally push it too far.

Even so, thankfully the current form of the quest is still far more lenient than XI relics ever were. I think empyreans have been the best so far in terms of striking a decent balance but XIV hasn't been all bad either. There's still room for improvement.