Anima Weapons. Putting things into perspective.

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I actually had all the numbers in my post originally, then edited them out. :P

esoterics:

Expert = 60 + 80 = 140
60 = 100 + 40 (ranges between 30-60 iirc, so averaged 40) = 140
50 = 120
Leveling = 100
Trial = 60
Frontline = 50

That's 140 + 140 + 120 + 60 + 100 + 50 = 610 per day

Level 60 roulette average 146, so close enough on that. I don't know about other data centers but, since the introduction of the Feast, Frontline roulette queues on Primal are at least an hour, if they pop at all, so I skipped it when doing my math.

Void Ark = 40 esoterics
Midas = 20 or 30, cannot remember at work. = 80-120 minimum per week, tho likely on average you'll run each floor twice (4 drops, 8 people) - so 160-240 per week

Void Ark is 50 and Midas is 20 per floor.

That's 610 * 7 + 40 + 200 per week = 4510 = 2.5 pieces

Skipping Frontlines gives us 566 per day, for 3962 per week. Adding the raids brings that to 4172.

Then comes week two, on that tuesday you do your roulettes for 610 + your void ark + 40 plus your midas + 200 = anotehr 850 to finish off your last half + your CT runs. So boom, you've got it in 8 days.

Adding the second week's raids brings it to 4382, leaving 1018 remaining. Two more days of roulettes would get you there.

You're doing the stuff you're doing anyway, you just now are doing it on your main for 1 week instead of leveling your alts.

All that said, my point was more that I'd be surprised if most people are doing expert, level 60, level 50, leveling, and trial roulette every single day. This reddit thread certainly suggests they're not.

If you assume a fairly quick 20 minutes per run for the dungeons, that's almost an hour and a half just in the instances. It's likely longer than that, and if you're a DPS you can add queue times on top of it. A lot of the people in that thread are saying they only play for a few hours a night, so that would essentially be almost the entirety of their play time.