Patch 3.38 Discussion

[Morningstar1337]

I believe this is the wrong mindset to have in regards to the relic.

I think that Mindset can be traced to the ease of getting a raid worthy weapon for 4 relatively easy trials and 1 somewhat hard one, and certain people not liking that.

[YISUG]

now we'll start seeing threads complaining about the current step
and i hope we never see any need for high craft in the coming steps

[Raynar]

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.

I concur with you on this.

[HakuroDK]

My thought process is, "They put an achievement for every single individual Anima weapon and anima weapon step in the game. I need to get them all."

[Astral145]

meh I'll wait till 3.4 and see if its worth coming back to the game. ATM I am enjoying Neverwinter MMO on the PS4... Hey what can I say it has a pretty awesome combat system and ITS FREE TO PLAY..... Yes its a dated game but they did get a few things right. Awesome guild system, awesome combat system (the hunter class in Neverwinter is what BRD should of been in FFXIV), sweet gearing system, sweet pvp system and last but not least Skill Points actually work with the build you are going for per class. Simply put FFXIV could really benefit from doing a little modifications on the current classes to make them really shine. BRD could easily become a pure dps class that can go from range to melee in one flip of a button while in combat.

Anyways have fun farming for your relic weapon in patch 3.8... I'll be on Neverwinter having a blast in pvp and pve as a hunter....

[Nalien]

Huh... Didn't expect to be able to do 4 Anima weapons this morning... Shame I refuse to farm FATEs, can we nerf the Zodiac quests at some point? The whole Light farming aspect is redundant at this point, pre-3.0 it got people queuing for content to farm Light and boost queues, now I just enter Sastasha solo and burn through my sanity at an alarming rate... Never would have thought the Animus books would end up being my favorite part... Actually feels like I'm doing a quest of some sort, can't say the same for these Anima weapons... They're pretty much a glorified tomestone grind, there's no nuance involved in these quests... 2.#s quests weren't great by any measure, but at least there was some direction involved... Well, except Light farms...

Really hope they work solo trials either into the next step, or for 4.0 relics... We've been getting fairly consistently enjoyable solo trials in the MSQs, wouldn't be too hard to make a fairly challenging relic trial that actually makes these quests rewarding... 2.0s quest was rewarding, it felt great finally beating Titan and getting that damn weapon... Everything since? Meh...

[Aquaslash]

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.

Tell that to the raiding community, who got incredibly butthurt when a similar thing happened with the Zodiac weapon.

can we nerf the Zodiac quests at some point?

If they nerfed it any more they would just give them to you >_>

[Nalien]

If they nerfed it any more they would just give them to you >_>

Might as well with the Light farming aspect... It's a complete joke at this point... At least the Animus books are either a fun solo challenge, or helping with Lv50 dungeon queues... Light farming is just a formality, the final one I'm somewhat OK with given it can be a single run per thing, but the original one? It was a terrible stage originally, now it's terrible-er... A step above FATE farming if only by virtue of the fact that blitzing through a dungeon solo is entertaining at least a few times...

Really hope 4.0 doesn't involve FATE or Light farming... Is it too much to ask for Relic quests to be somewhat epic? You're obtaining/forging a legendary weapon, it should be exciting, not a chore... If forging a sentient weapon doesn't conclude with a solo trial against said weapon, Balrahn style...

[aesteval]

Hello there!

I just read the patch notes and i've a problem (or doubt..)

I was taking my time to take the 80 objects needed for the Anima Weapon, and i was going for 1 at a time.

At this point i have something like 20 Bones, and 17 Seeds, what am i supposed to do with them?

(I only have 1 class at 60, and i don't think i'll ever do another Anima Weapon..)

Are they complete garbage at this point?

I think they can be exchanged for Grade 5 Carbonized Matter in Idyllshire. Not much of a trade, but it's something.

[aesteval]

Maybe this will lower the AH price if those items are still there. Good thing I kept that penny and farthing from last week.

Prices will probably come down if people buy with seals to sell them on the market. The mats for the actual crafted ones are probably still priced at a premium and may not be worth it in comparison. Diadem mats and Dawnborne Aethersand, so much easier to get the items via seals instead.