Patch 3.38 Discussion

[Cidel]

Knew it. This is precisely why I benched my 2nd anima weapon @ this step. Stopped gathering tokens at about 10 each and refused to pay for the overpriced HQ crafted items (not like the mats are even hard to come by) when I knew that at the very least the items would be NQ trade-ins (and now it's GC token-able as well).

No gil wasted, no surprises here.

[Dumbledoremd]

The anima step is now what it should have been from the very beginning.

If people wanted the relic they put the time in this has been known for a while dont be lazy put the work in

[Kahnom]

So basically nothing new on this patch,huh ..
Oh well,guess I'll go back to grind Chocobo Helmet.

[Rufalus]

So basically nothing new on this patch,huh ..
Oh well,guess I'll go back to grind Chocobo Helmet.

"Patch 3.38 brings a number of additions and refinements to the realm, including adjustments to the anima weapon and more!"

..and more! Ok no, you're right, it's just adjustments to lore/anima weapons and nothing else. Time to collect more weapons for glamor because I'm crazy @.@

[Khalithar]

If people wanted the relic they put the time in this has been known for a while dont be lazy put the work in

I won't be. I don't want the relic weapons, any of them in fact. I happen to think the relics for my main jobs (pld and drk) are absolutely hideous and as a result I don't want them. That being said, I did look in to the grind for the relic out of curiosity and I stand by my assertion that the 200 -> 210 step was absolutely ridiculous along with the fact that SE took the player feedback on NOT making the relic too grindy and threw it in to a furnace.

[Undeadfire]

Still their not going to make it simple to get compared to a current Raid Exclusive weapon. Grind or not, they have to make it time consuming.

[Rennies]

Was fully expecting at least a 50% cut to the unids, didn't foresee all the other nerfs LOL. So glad I didn't bother putting any more effort into that disgusting step.

[Antaria]

Hum,
I got 2 weapons on last phase (spirit feeding (well one is feeding the other is waiting)),
Good thing i kept 99 of each tribal money, this mean 3 weapons finishing this step (and was 1/3 of a weapon before this patch), and some craft to do too.
Guess the next bottle neck will be oil now (need memoquartz for feeding more than buying oil).

By the way, nobody noticed something special on this patch release calendar?
No?
like just in time for game anniversary?
If you remember last time we had a special event in game to enter in Development team room.

[Aquaslash]

I won't be. I don't want the relic weapons, any of them in fact. I happen to think the relics for my main jobs (pld and drk) are absolutely hideous and as a result I don't want them. That being said, I did look in to the grind for the relic out of curiosity and I stand by my assertion that the 200 -> 210 step was absolutely ridiculous along with the fact that SE took the player feedback on NOT making the relic too grindy and threw it in to a furnace.

200>210 was exactly as it should have been seeing as the reward was a raid level weapon, and in some cases a best in slot weapon. If the final phase of anima is equal to the final raid weapon just like the zeta was, expect the most hellish step yet.

[Khalithar]

200>210 was exactly as it should have been seeing as the reward was a raid level weapon, and in some cases a best in slot weapon.

I believe this is the wrong mindset to have in regards to the relic. I'm going to go ahead and say it, it being equal to a raid weapon at that early point in the xpac is irrelevant (not to mention the fact that if you were a raider you got the 210 weapon way before the relic was out anyway and since you got it first, people having a 210 weapon later shouldn't matter), the relic steps should have been designed on the time of release, i.e. the first relic steps should have had an incremental difficulty increase from the beginning and gotten harder later. The excessive and painful grind should be saved for the mid to late stages, the earliest stages (up to the 210 point) should have been the easiest out of all them and THEN ramped up as you went to the 230 and to the 240.