Is doing anima weapon worth it now or not?

[ManuelBravo]

Here is an actual dumb question. I just want verification. I haven't ever done the zodiac weapons and finally finished those annoying books on my downtime. Would you recommend melding materia for these even though the stats don't matter anymore or should I skip it and go with the 2 only stats it comes with? I just want finish one and get one for glamour.

Yep pretty much you will converted at the end for skipping crystal grind if you make it into a Zeta so up to you. When farming light you just have to make sure you enter the dungeon / raid with it, change weapon, at end before engaging final fight switch it back on for credit.

[Zumi]

If you are looking for something to do in the game then do it.

[aleph_null]

If you want it for catching up (raising ilvl) it's not worth it. There are other ways that will take less time investment, like zurvan ex or scrip gears. But if you have nothing to spend your resources (lore, poetics, gc seal, hunt seal etc.) then you can slowly make the anima over a few weeks/months, for glamour.

[Feidam]

If you want it it is worth it. Plain and simple

[Urthdigger]

Here is an actual dumb question. I just want verification. I haven't ever done the zodiac weapons and finally finished those annoying books on my downtime. Would you recommend melding materia for these even though the stats don't matter anymore or should I skip it and go with the 2 only stats it comes with? I just want finish one and get one for glamour.

You can't actually skip that step, you have to put 75 materia of SOME sort in there. May as well go with something useful since tier IV materia is dirt cheap these days thanks to beast tribe quests.

[Natashio]

If you have nothing better else to do in the game... Knock yourself out.

[Vidu]

Here is an actual dumb question. I just want verification. I haven't ever done the zodiac weapons and finally finished those annoying books on my downtime. Would you recommend melding materia for these even though the stats don't matter anymore or should I skip it and go with the 2 only stats it comes with? I just want finish one and get one for glamour.

You cant skip the step - you have to meld 75 materias into your weapon, by picking up to 5 different stats. Since its unlikely that you'll ever use the weapon in content that really matters I would just stuff cheap one into it (I actually did that on my scholar-book - finally a use for parry-materia, wohoo!).
The follow up step will be light-farming however - and while you can do that in any ARR-duty, even unsyched, picking more useful stats to combine lightfarm and potential lowlevel and level 50 roulettes could be worth it, too.

[Keyln]

You cant skip the step - you have to meld 75 materias into your weapon, by picking up to 5 different stats. Since its unlikely that you'll ever use the weapon in content that really matters I would just stuff cheap one into it (I actually did that on my scholar-book - finally a use for parry-materia, wohoo!).
The follow up step will be light-farming however - and while you can do that in any ARR-duty, even unsyched, picking more useful stats to combine lightfarm and potential lowlevel and level 50 roulettes could be worth it, too.

That's slow. When I light farm at 50, I farm Ifrit. I can kill him in under a minute with just about any 60 level class.

[Antonio_Xul]

Thanks to all who responded. I thought you could because I accidentally clicked on the NPC to continue and it almost looked like he was going to accept it as is with no melds. He said something like if I was sure I wanted to continue or something like that. Looks like it's melding time.

[TheChemicalCat]

Do you want that sweet ass glamour? if yes, then do it

if no, then don't.

if WAR, weep at the visual state of your complete Anima.

Nobody does relic grinds for anything but glamour purposes in the end,this is a truth.