How hard is it to get Animus now?

[Gardes]

you have the opportunity to get a weapon that is slightly below what can be obtained by tackling the game's hardest content, which is always upgradable to one tier below the hardest content in each and every patch and would be the best of that tier because of customizability and you think it's not worth it?

As I've said, tome weapon takes less time and less tedious and at the end of it, you only have the secondary stat to compare with. The weapon damage is the same, the primary stat is the same, the vitality is the same, only the secondary stats are different and you probably already know that weapon damage and primary stat is worth much much more than a secondary stat. I feel that any secondary stat advantage (if the tome weapon secondary stats are worthless) is not worth all this trouble players go through. Even if I'm supporting the degree of the grind we currently have, the reward is not justified.

Technically with enough dedication you can get it within the first week of it coming out, too.

Technically, you can get the i110 tome weapon in 3 weeks after it came out, which was like 2 months ago. i110 novus came out like a week ago. By the time a player gets a novus, he would have probably attained his tome weapon and made use of it for a while. Any sense of boost you get from the animus will be near minimal.

But you want epic loot, there you have it, put some effort into it?

Not only would the HA weapons are more 'epic', it's more fun to put effort into.