Quote Originally Posted by Alahra View Post
That's not really true, considering HW FATEs, leveling dungeons, Vanu Vanu Beast Tribe quests, HW treasure maps, and level 60 dungeons (for Law) all contribute to the Anima questline during one of the three steps. The only HW contents that don't contribute in some way toward a finished Anima is Great Gubal Library (which honestly seems pretty weird to me, but I suppose that means we'll see it used in a later step). The HW Trials don't contribute much, but I imagine we'll see them used in another step, just like Great Gubal.
Heh it was /sarcasm, thought that part was implied. That said, they've done a lot to have us gobble up and forget about a lot of the great Heavensward content. For example, I've cleared Bismark around 5 times, once for myself and 4 times to help others get by. It was a very fun fight, but I never had incentive to farm it. It's now no longer fun because we were thrown up the ilvl so fast that it's a cakewalk and has lost all of it's fun-value. I feel like a lot of Heavensward content is this way.

Further, to your counter argument, your methods of obtaining stuff for the Anima relic are all significantly slower than the alternative methods. So if you consider opportunity cost, then you are handicapping yourself by doing those.