the "relic" and "anima" and whatever 4.0 version of it should not be powerful

[Fevelle]

Those guys are..."special" and I'll leave it at that

Are you implying they are favored by the devs or that they use some kind of hack to get world first? Because that's what it sounded like.

Anima takes zero skill and zero mastery, it just takes time and willpower.

That's the idea. You have three options right now: learn hard battles and kill the strongest bosses to get a weapon; burn your time and resources through a gated quest chain to get a powerful weapon; wait for the catch up patches to upgrade your tomestone weapon to a similar power to that of relics.

[Aquaslash]

Are you implying they are favored by the devs or that they use some kind of hack to get world first? Because that's what it sounded like.

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No, but that's some Suspiciously Specific Denial if I've ever seen it. Freudian slip perhaps?