Unfortunately, the grind is almost always the most efficient way to obtain certain rewards fast. Pretty much everything about MMOs these days amount to a grind, which is why the players usually have to take it upon themselves to spread it out as thin as they can. It is called the « grind, » believed to be named so after the colourful image of gears grinding against each other after decaying over time. Video games have a term for doing an action so repeatedly it becomes an annoyance, a tedious chore. Tomestone vendors, with my best current gear setup (median item level 458 on all my tanks) and my current tomestones.
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Alternatively, you can also clear savage, and have the very best gear of the patch within the first two weeks, then pretty much be done for the patch. Not the most engaging gameplay loop, and game director Naoki Yoshida actively advises players to unsubscribe if they don’t have anything to do, before the quest for gear becomes a second work shift. This is obviously done to spread out the content - or lack thereof - throughout the span of several months and give the players something to do while waiting for a new update. After all, when the next expansion rolls around, I’ll be able to get much better gear than I currently have with Tomestones of Poetics, which are the most common and easiest to get. In other words: by the very nature of MMORPGs, the gear is made artifically scarce while it is relevant, and will be absolutely trivial to obtain once it is no longer, making the initial process of getting them seem futile: what the player is really doing is not just trying to get better gear, but getting good gear while it is still relevant. Eureka’s very best sits neatly at 405, fifteen item levels above the maximum gear that could be obtained in tomestones at the end of Stormblood. I can fairly easily buy item level 440 gear with Allagan Tomestones of Goetia - Allagan Tomestones are, in-lore, XIV‘s Ancient high-tech civilisation equivalent of USB keys, and are highly sought after by scholars and collectors, which is why they’re used as an exclusive currency to get better weapons - and even get item level (henceforth « ilvl ») 460 gear with Tomestones of Phantasmagoria (though a player can only earn 450 of these weekly, not enough for most pieces of gear), possibly upgrading it into 470 gear with Manufactured Coins obtained weekly from the Alliance Raid, the Copied Factory. That is, at least until a new expansion rolls around and all this gear becomes outdated.
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Relic weapons are essentially the very top of the crop when it comes to weaponry in FINAL FANTASY XIV, and since it’s a game where the main gameplay loop is to always try and update your current gear to increase your damage and « item level » ever so slightly, Relic weapons are hard to ignore, but they are also extremely long and arduous to get. Stormblood is a bit special, in that it has Eureka. A Realm Reborn had Zodiac Weapons, and Heavensward had Anima Weapons. Tomestones, or The Art of Wasting Time on the Eventually FutileĮach expansion that rolls around in FINAL FANTASY XIV brings its new « Relic Weapon » quest line. But I talked about it from a narrative perspective, and there’s something more to say about it. « Come on, another article on this game so soon? » I know I already talked about FINAL FANTASY XIV.
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