Animus Weapons Underpoweresd

[Crater]

The Animus weapons are not underpowered; they're exactly where they should be in relation to the other weapons. Of the three weapons available at the i100 level, you've got one that requires you to complete very difficult content, but requires comparatively little in the way of raw playtime to get (having to complete Turn 7 to get a Soldiery weapon), you've got one that requires you to complete moderately-difficult content, with (what should be) a moderate amount of play-time required (Leviathan directly dropping weapons and mirrors, according to RNG), and you've got one that requires a very low amount of actual effort, but a very high amount of raw play-time (the Animus, which requires nothing more strenuous than running the i55-and-under dungeons). That's a pretty fair way to offer players multiple pathways to powerful gear.

If there's a problem with the distribution of these weapons, it's not with the Animus - it's with the extremely low drop rate on Mirrors (ie: You could conceivably spend the exact same amount of time on Leviathan that you would need to get an Animus weapon, and still never win a roll for a Mirror), and the stingy distribution of Unidentified Allagan Tomestones (one per group, meaning that even in a coordinated static, someone is going to be waiting two months to see one). In relation to those problems, you could make the argument that the Animus weapons are too easy to get (but you wouldn't make that argument, because it's stupid, and the problem, if you think there is one, is pretty obviously with the other two).

[Zumi]

I am 400 myth away from finishing my animus weapon, another guy in my FC done a ton of leviathan still waiting for mirror to drop.

[Zaiken]

I am 400 myth away from finishing my animus weapon, another guy in my FC done a ton of leviathan still waiting for mirror to drop.

The Levi i100 will still be better then your Animus Weapon because Animus attack does not increased, it is the same as the Relic. Not to mention the 13.5k Myth Tomb needed just to upgrade the status to be the same as the Levi as well.

[Kyroc]

The Levi i100 will still be better then your Animus Weapon because Animus attack does not increased, it is the same as the Relic. Not to mention the 13.5k Myth Tomb needed just to upgrade the status to be the same as the Levi as well.

Umm no. The attack does increase on the Animus. The BLM one is the same as the upgraded Levi weapon. Relic and Atma are 69. Animus and Tidal Wave staff are 72.

[Zumi]

The Levi i100 will still be better then your Animus Weapon because Animus attack does not increased, it is the same as the Relic. Not to mention the 13.5k Myth Tomb needed just to upgrade the status to be the same as the Levi as well.

Animus has the same damage rating as tidal wave weapons. But all this work it should be higher. Hoping the future upgrades make up for it.

[Thorauku]

From what i understood from live letter, we have only part of the quest.

So the weapon will power up more

It will power up more for another set of effort. Meanwhile, it won't still be comparable to the next set of weapons by the time the Relic Upgrade will be available.

I mean it's pretty much reasonable that Animus is lower than High Allagan Weapons, but for it to be comparable to Levi EX weapons and Weathered weapons. That's just absurd.

Make it 105 or even 110, then it'll hold its ground as a "Relic" weapon.

[Zumi]

I am guessing it will be 105 and 110 in the next upgrade quests.

[Wolf_Gang]

Yall talking like High Allagan Weapons will be that easy to get...

[Skyl1n3]

I think SE should've made Atma weapons ilvl95, at least SOMETHING for having to sit through countless FATE's instead of JUST being a reskin, then Animus being the real ilvl100 or 105.

It just seems stupid, Adding all 12 Atmas to your weapon changes NO stats yet bumps the ilvl by 10, but grinding through a monumental 13,500 Myth on 9 Trials Books upgrading Stat-by-stat and a final attack increase once they're all complete doesn't change the ilvl AT ALL! It's completely backwards.

[Djeserit]

It's completely backwards.

No it's not. iLVL determines stat CAPS. This is why HQ and NQ crafted items have the same iLVL, but the NQ has to have materia on main stats to reach that ilvl's stat caps, which the HQ ia at naturally.

This is the exact same thing if you think of Atma as NQ and Animus as HQ, with each book being materia.