I know relic weapons is always a contentious subject and i know grinds is an activity that vastly vary between people in enjoyment, so trust that my point isn't just "i want my grind back and screw everyone who doesn't like grinding".
As someone who truly enjoyed the Bozja weapon farm, i feel quite demotivated to play the game since mid-EW. EW moved the relic weapons from an exploration zone with activities dedicated to farming the different steps of the Bozja weapon to do one side quest and farm tomestones. Since tomestones is an additional reward from most activities, making relic weapons into a tomestone farm rather than a targeted activity changed the grind from an active farm to a passive farm. A passive farm being something you work on while doing other activities.
My large point is that we need to make relic weapons into an active farm again, or at least create a way to actively farm the relic weapons. The current initial quests are a decent example of how to actively farm relic weapons, even if the demiatma drop chance might have been a bit too stringent, personally i would rather higher target and drop chance.
We need some way to be able to actively farm the relic weapons after the initial quest. In Dawntrail we even got two entire exploration zones along with our relic weapons that are completely pointless for farming our relic weapons. Only with this lates step has the zones been anywhere near the most effective way to farm for the inital quest, but when that step is done, we return to the passive tomestone requirement for the phantom weapons.
I don't know why we moved away from having materials drop in the exploration zone and duty finder and moved to the tomstone system, my theory is that people wanted to be able to easier aquire relic weapons and with an increase in jobs having to actively farm them all felt like bloat.
There are many ways we can add an active component back into the relic farm, one is to make the material needed for the relic weapons droppable or purchasable within the exploration zone. I would personally prefer if the materials become purchasable with a patch delay, so when step 2 is introduced, step 1 materials would be purchasable with tomestones, but that is a personal opinion.
However i do genuinely believe we need to add back an active component to farming relic weapons, because it used to be a great source for grinding and farming and without it, players like me lose a great deal of potential enjoyment.
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As someone who truly enjoyed the Bozja weapon farm, i feel quite demotivated to play the game since mid-EW. EW moved the relic weapons from an exploration zone with activities dedicated to farming the different steps of the Bozja weapon to do one side quest and farm tomestones. Since tomestones is an additional reward from most activities, making relic weapons into a tomestone farm rather than a targeted activity changed the grind from an active farm to a passive farm. A passive farm being something you work on while doing other activities.
My large point is that we need to make relic weapons into an active farm again, or at least create a way to actively farm the relic weapons. The current initial quests are a decent example of how to actively farm relic weapons, even if the demiatma drop chance might have been a bit too stringent, personally i would rather higher target and drop chance.
We need some way to be able to actively farm the relic weapons after the initial quest. In Dawntrail we even got two entire exploration zones along with our relic weapons that are completely pointless for farming our relic weapons. Only with this lates step has the zones been anywhere near the most effective way to farm for the inital quest, but when that step is done, we return to the passive tomestone requirement for the phantom weapons.
I don't know why we moved away from having materials drop in the exploration zone and duty finder and moved to the tomstone system, my theory is that people wanted to be able to easier aquire relic weapons and with an increase in jobs having to actively farm them all felt like bloat.
There are many ways we can add an active component back into the relic farm, one is to make the material needed for the relic weapons droppable or purchasable within the exploration zone. I would personally prefer if the materials become purchasable with a patch delay, so when step 2 is introduced, step 1 materials would be purchasable with tomestones, but that is a personal opinion.
However i do genuinely believe we need to add back an active component to farming relic weapons, because it used to be a great source for grinding and farming and without it, players like me lose a great deal of potential enjoyment.
Continue reading...