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

[FeliAiko]

CRT/PIE and DET/PIE are better combinations than SS/PIE, so you can add AST and WHM to that list of Anima > Lore

[Colorful]

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I hear ya, I'm doing it very casually (by that, I mean not even paying attention to it) and from 3.15 to now I'm about 40/80, it would be significantly easier if I had the other beast tribes leveled but I don't, and ended up "giving up" on the Anima so I didn't do them (though I'm doing them for the materia now anyhow).

They don't have to outright nerf the step, just make a few adjustments:

• Early level beast tribe quests give items (highest ranked quests accessible only).
• Weekly CT quest can give 2-3 items per week.
• Alexander Midas drops the Gordias items for the items.

Just those 3 changes would make it infinitely more bearable for most people.

[Powe]

Yayyyyy it way easier now, also might get LOA heal gear so bonus

[AlphaSonic]

CRT/PIE and DET/PIE are better combinations than SS/PIE, so you can add AST and WHM to that list of Anima > Lore

SS/PIE is better for WHM. WHM works better with SS, faster heals, faster DPS. AST works better with Crit because it has that extra 5% spell speed bonus in Diurnal and makes SS less worth and nocturnal is better with Crit.

[Lone-wolfe-02]

There has to be another step it cannot be as simple as get 5 oils.

[Colorful]

There has to be another step it cannot be as simple as get 5 oils.

There's another step coming in 3.3 which will likely be much worse, if that's what you're asking for.

[silentwindfr]

I hear ya, I'm doing it very casually (by that, I mean not even paying attention to it) and from 3.15 to now I'm about 40/80, it would be significantly easier if I had the other beast tribes leveled but I don't, and ended up "giving up" on the Anima so I didn't do them (though I'm doing them for the materia now anyhow).

They don't have to outright nerf the step, just make a few adjustments:

• Early level beast tribe quests give items (highest ranked quests accessible only).
• Weekly CT quest can give 2-3 items per week.
• Alexander Midas drops the Gordias items for the items.

Just those 3 changes would make it infinitely more bearable for most people.

the trouble with the beast tribes it's it take between 4 (arr) to 6 (hw) days for get one item,that too long, worst, why make it not the same value? one ask 13 and the other ask 18... for the other change, maybe... but i doubt it will be interesting the midas/gordias part, i feel the 10 runs for one item far too long too.

most of the previous step was for make us have something to do, the trouble is.... this step is sick and dumb. since we have more than one jobs, why make it soo long. especially for a weapon that is now obsolete... if the lore take 7 week of light grind for get it, the previous step must ask the same thing, since it's only a i210 weapon.

most of the grind in HW was made with in mind people that only play one jobs.... but that not the main core of the game, the game offer us the possibility to play different jobs, why not reflect it into the relic. since it's never the best weapon.

ps: for the tribes just a reminder, for the arr quest you need 4 day (for get the 13 mark) meaning 13 quest for one item and for HW you need 6 day, meaning 18 quest....for only 1 item. when you need 80 of them. we mustn't forget that new player are still not at this point.... meaning they will arrive to that part (like for the craft/gathering) and simply see that they have weeks and weeks of grind before they can expect to earn the same gears than other player, indeed it's possible to earn good stuff from token and such, but with the laws out, i have seen people struggles for get inside the 60 roulette or even the expert.

a lot of the idea behind the grind was to buy time, for give them the time for add new content, however it become a massive pain for any new player or person that don't play everyday, to the point that they are leave behind, reducing the possible amount of player that will partake inside bigger challenge/craft/relic content.

[Morningstar1337]

There's another step coming in 3.3 which will likely be much worse, if that's what you're asking for.

• Step 1: get a 1% drop from T5, T9, T13
• Step 2: Get a 1% drop from A4S
• Step 3: Clear A8S
• Step 4: get 120 Grade 5 Materia
• Step 5: Get 40 HQ Level 60 3 Star tokens that need 1% drops from Void Ark and its successor
• Step 6: desynth your relic and pray you get an item cal "Soul of <item>
• Step 7: now that you lost your Anima and got only an egg, get another Weapon and break out you maps
• Step 8: If you're lucky, you should find a giant egg-shaped crystal in your map, bring that back to Azys Lla
• Step 9: Now that you have the Egg and Soul, have Adashir place the soul in the egg-shape crystal
• Step 10: While the souls is incubating, Gerolt will try to recreate the Anima weapon, in the meantime, you will have to get Cristina's items again
• Step 11: You get a random redirect to the Character Creation Screen
• Step 12: Now do Gubal, ARK, Neverreap, Fractal, Sirius HM, Arboretum, Amapor HM an Antitower, in order.
• Step 13: Show Adashir some Proto-Ultima Exoplating or the Ultima Horns, the Pegasus, The Kirin, any one Lanner and the Zu
• Step 14: Congratulations the egg has hatched you not only got a new i240 weapon, you now have an NPC buddy

Yes, this is an exaggeration, and yes I hope we get to build an NPC over the course of the questline

[DragonSlayer45]

Few weeks? Maybe a few days or less

A few days? I expect someone to have their i230 Anima weapon by the end of today. If you capped Esoterics ahead of time, you have a head start in the quest. Add in the CT weekly reward and you already have 2 out of the 5 done.

[kuma_aus]

A million gil says that the 3.3 step is going to be incredibly expensive.

If you're wrong and it isn't incredibly expensive... That means you have to pay a million gil... Which means that it's incredibly expensive for ilvl230... Which means you don't need to pay the gil... Which means that it isn't expensive anymore...