Anima... its not fun anymore

[Jetstream_Fox]

My point was, they made the relics interesting, and people hated the difficulty, so they nixed that and made them grinds.

There was absolutely nothing interesting about sitting around Outer La Noscea for 3 days waiting for Schism to spawn, having the unfortunate rng that causes you to run Aurum Vale 100+ times, or Spirit Bonding level 50 gear only to get Grade 1 vitality, the only branch of 2.0 relic that had any interesting background was the perfect crafts simply because it MAY have lead to players to start crafting.

Your point was to paint the community as people who whine about everything and want things handed to them. Fighting Titan for relic was many players first steps into the door of end game content. Despite what you think of the community in regards to relic progression, it's because we ALL complained about the steps of 2.0, and is why 3.0 only had one rng based requirement and one crafting requirement. Every other step aside from fates and craft, was 100% drop rates, they were just lengthy and costed a lot more tomes. 4.0 relic will likely be the same as 3.0 except it will likely have reduced item requirements or tome costs, more than one way to obtain items, and likely require old 3.0 content to be ran unsynched.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I feel you are completely ignoring my point and focusing on the bit that i'm not even talking about. But oh well.

[CaptainLagbeard]

Being currently on the phase to gather the Aetheric Condensation for the Anima, my biggest annoyance with the part is having to play only one class... I leveled multiple classes so I don't get burned out playing just one class...

But overall, before that, there was the Crystal Sands, which was a terrible step since the only realible way to really get them was the Amber Encased Vilekins... And Levequest Allowances don't exactly allow to do the thousands of Levequests it would need to get all the sands...

[JisKing98]

The Umbrite cost WAS cut in half, they used to be 300 lore :V

I know i ment they cut it in half again

[NERV]

I don't think the Anime quest was ever meant to be fun or captivating, for that manner. It's a grind, and a test of patience, you didn't expect to easily obtain one of the strongest weapons in the game did you? Just be glad it's nerfed now, and you don't have to go through it pre-nerf.

[Brill_]

I don't think the Anime quest was ever meant to be fun or captivating, for that manner. It's a grind, and a test of patience, you didn't expect to easily obtain one of the strongest weapons in the game did you? Just be glad it's nerfed now, and you don't have to go through it pre-nerf.

No one said it had to be easy. People want it to be fun, the 3.x relic was not. I think the only part that was fun was the 230 part, only because it got people into crystal tower again.

[Jim_Berry]

The problem is that you are grinding, instead of gaining progress as you go. Many people spam A1S for Light. Me? I run anything Heavensward-related. It keep things fresh and reduces burning myself out.

The moment I got my PLD Lux I instantly began working on DRK, NIN, and AST's weapons.

[Abbyforce]

I don't think the Anime quest was ever meant to be fun or captivating, for that manner. It's a grind, and a test of patience, you didn't expect to easily obtain one of the strongest weapons in the game did you? Just be glad it's nerfed now, and you don't have to go through it pre-nerf.

Anima**** not anime -_-

[Ama_Hamada]

I am not sure if getting relics was ever meant to be "fun" but giving us a time sink

They need to give us a "time sink" that is more entertaining and interesting, not doing the same thing a million times over, that is not creative.

I will say this, 3.0 relics > 2.0 because 2.0 was too much find this rare fate or camp this rare fate that fails in 10 seconds after pop, that was insanely frustrating. In 3.0 relics you can get them just by doing dailies off different things that does not take long, that is the reason I have one on this account as an alt. It just came naturally trying do dailies and once i saw enough accumulation I was like wow this is realistic after all, I was not sure at first but might as well save the items in case it was. I did NO LORE FARMING or SAND CRAFTING farming to get my smn book and I'm close to my sch. I got the sands off poetic/ casual hunting for that, squad ventures and the new crafting weekly. ofc the 2 quests for clusters make that step a joke, ill have 50 easy

I did the Zodiac but I can't justify the investment anymore, not when I saw my Excalibur turn into two worthless crystals.

you could of done it if you just did dailies every day..... throwing out all those unidids is crazy.

[Limecat]

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