Famitsu interview with Yoshida after NA's FanFest

[Nezerius]

Another relic????? ..... I hope our Anima can be evolved or turned in to start it or i'm not doing it.

I'm assuming you started in 3.0, since it shouldn't really come as a surprise that 4.0 will have a new relic weapon.

When the 3.0 relic was added, players were allowed to turn their finished zodiac weapon (the 2.x relic) in to skip the first step of it (the fate grind step). It's probably safe to assume that the 4.0 relic will see something similar.

Ok my fault exact same number of quests with 3X the budget.

You're taking that example way too literally. Yoshi is just saying that if 2.x had roughly 57% of its quests related to the MSQ, then 4.0 will have roughly 71% of its quests related to the MSQ.

[Lunafreya]

I'm assuming you started in 3.0, since it shouldn't really come as a surprise that 4.0 will have a new relic weapon.

When the 3.0 relic was added, players were allowed to turn their finished zodiac weapon (the 2.x relic) in to skip the first step of it (the fate grind step). It's probably safe to assume that the 4.0 relic will see something similar.

I started the game like i'd say 1 month before Heavensward. I rushed the ARR storyline in about a month and got to the expansion rather quickly to play endgame with friends that have been playing a year or 2 already. I finished my zeta nerfed the day anima came out. I knew there would be a 4.0 relic but not right away. Don't we still have two steps to go for our anima?

[Nezerius]

I started the game like i'd say 1 month before Heavensward. I rushed the ARR storyline in about a month and got to the expansion rather quickly to play endgame with friends that have been playing a year or 2 already. I finished my zeta nerfed the day anima came out. I knew there would be a 4.0 relic but not right away. Don't we still have two steps to go for our anima?

3.5 will likely be the last step for the anima relic, unless they add another step in 3.55.

As for the 4.0 relic, it depends on if they handle it like the 2.x or the 3.x weapon. 2.x base relic and its first upgrade (Zenith) were available at launch, while the steps after that didn't start being added until 2.2. Start of the Anima questchain wasn't added until 3.15.

[RukiaFae]

You're taking that example way too literally. Yoshi is just saying that if 2.x had roughly 57% of its quests related to the MSQ, then 4.0 will have roughly 71% of its quests related to the MSQ.

I was just replying to someone else.