The REAL reason that Anima sucks

[Lambdafish]

Because you'll need this weapon to do the next step of the quests when they're released.

This is true, but I feel the timing puts a lot of people on the back foot. Unless we are waiting another 5 months from 3.1 - 3.2, I feel like we only have a month and a half (maybe 2) to finish this grind, meaning that the chances are that the majority of people will be doing this weapon well into the next gear cycle, and I understand where you are coming from, eventually it will be BiS and the relic that we want it to be, just like when we got the novus step, BUT, from a psychological perspective, people traded away their Zetas to get a grind laid out in front of them for a weapon that is potentially worse than one that they quite likely have, which I feel was very poor planning.

No one is forcing you to "suffer" through it (as you put it). If you don't wanna do it, don't do it. Simply grab any other more easily obtainable alternate weapons and be on your merry way.

.....ok? After seeing the relic quest, thats what I will be doing, thanks for suggesting that :P But on a serious note, im not bashing the questline, there are plenty of other threads you can hate on if thats your angle. I'm stating that at this current time, the reward for the grind is by far not good enough for the time invested, and that this is because of the timing of the content.

Think about it this way, we are getting relic, the most time consuming and biggest currency sink in the game during catchup patch when they are throwing i210 gear at players left right and center, I'm sorry for wondering where the motivation is