So who's fearing what they have in store for us Anima-wise?

[Killtastic]

does anyone know if the I230 going to have a diff model (skin) or is it the same as I210.

I can't find the link on Reddit right now, but they showed off new models for Dark Knight and White Mage during the live letter.

[OmegaStrongtan]

I fear it will be something like this:
Go to Diadem and get 50 1% dps from every Star rank... Diadem is pretty dead on some servers so they may force us to 'enjoy' Diadem again.

[Jeykama]

The 3.25 relics are almost certainly the same models, as they have the same names just with Hyperconductive tacked on.

[Ultimatecalibur]

does anyone know if the I230 going to have a diff model (skin) or is it the same as I210.

The model should be the same as the i210 with a new "glow" effect.

[Aethaeryn]

New relic ilvl on par as the lore weapon, hmm idk how I feel about that. Hoped it would be higher than lore. Sure its possible one might have better secondary stats, but if I don't care about that but rather the base damage of the weapon, then might as well just go with the lore weapon at this point, since the lore is easier to get, with we having been able to do A8 for the tokens for 5 weeks. Of course it depends on the actual grind for the steps.

3.3 will probably bring it up to 240, and seeing as how we never got casual mode gobdip until 3.2, I'm guessing lore weapons won't be possible to (non-raider) upgrade before 3.4. Never know, though. They keep changing stuff around.

I don't like the secondary stats on my relic gun, but I'd rather just upgrade the relic and use my midan gears and 1k tomes on another job. Tough decision. I need a savage static.

[Morningstar1337]

Well there are the weapons themselves (Replicas included this time, shame they don't unclue the dyable stuff,), an the only other items are Chocobo race relate stuff...and an odd item called Aether Oil. I'm gonna take a guess and say that it is needed in getting the Hyperconductive Weapons, and that they will likely come at least from the House of Splendors branch in Iddylshire (Maybe BT tokens, but I'm likely gonna use them exclusively for getting Anima weapons to this point before getting the Oils with them)

Other possible ways of getting them would be a Daily quest like for Alexandrite (for Level 60 this time) and maybe an option for the Gift of the Archmagus (that we can only get on Sunday ) or Drops from Midas

[Kotemon]

I'm thinking well need to lots of Diadem farming at some point.

[Lawson_Grey]

The patch notes for 3.25 only list one new item being added that sounds like it's associated with the relic, so I feel like this step will actually be simple. You will just have to spend two weeks worth of lore to upgrade it.

That means in two weeks you have a choice, you pick up your lore weapon or you go ahead and upgrade your relic weapon right away, giving you options for secondary stats.

Then the next step will go back to soul sucking grinding.

[Sicno]

So even before we can get a lore weapon because of weekly lockouts the new anima step has the same ilvl... yyyyyyup, this is gonna be either super grindy or super stupid. Or probably both.

[Millen1]

Hoping the oil isn't 1000 lore and boom i230. Yay no grind. Saved up 1000 lore just in case but would rather use it on gear and grind for the relic.