The real reason you're mad about Anima

[Alahra]

People aren't complaining about the grind required for relic. In fact, very few people are complaining about the grind at all

You apparently missed a lot of posts, as there was a lot of outcry about how long the grind was and how casual players couldn't possibly finish the weapon before 3.2, and so on. >.>

[Alberel]

You apparently missed a lot of posts, as there was a lot of outcry about how long the grind was and how casual players couldn't possibly finish the weapon before 3.2, and so on. >.>

Those complaints, once again, were not about the grind itself though. The point of that argument was that if you can't finish the relic before 3.2 (which you won't without doing all of your roulettes and beast tribes almost every day) then the relic is entirely pointless as there will be more powerful weapons available for a fraction of the effort in 3.2. If this quest had been introduced around the time Alex Savage released then there wouldn't be an issue. The problem is that for those that finish it in good time the weapon will see pathetically little use before it gets replaced, and for everyone else (which will be most players) they'll never actually get to make use of it.

[Alahra]

Those complaints, once again, were not about the grind itself though. The point of that argument was that if you can't finish the relic before 3.2 (which you won't without doing all of your roulettes and beast tribes almost every day)

That's actually not true. Assuming 3.2 launches sometime in mid February, doing Expert Roulette, L60/L50 Roulette, Trials, and Main Scenario Roulette daily gets you your weapon just before that (with roughly 60 days of Roulettes). If you're actually doing Leveling Roulette as well *and* Beast Tribe Dailies every day, you'd get the weapon before it with time to spare.

There's been a lot of knee-jerk overestimating of the length of the grind on the forums. And I've seen plenty of complaining that the grind is too long for "casual" players, made under the assumption that the relic is "for" them—but the rub is that it was never intended for players with limited time to play. From the getgo of the Zodiac questline, Yoshi was clear in interviews that the questline was about investing a lot of time.