Anima Weapons

[Nyghtmarerobu]

I mean, to the point where people are overreacting and threatening to quit if they don't get their way?

People want things to be easy. Funny thing about it, is the quest chain is easy. Nothing about the relic chain is "Hard". Its a time sink, that is all. No matter how you look at it, there are ways to make gil, and you can do the relic with relative ease on any server. Check the Market, find what sells, and do your best to profit off of it. It might require a bit of work, but thats all it is, time and effort. There are ways if you are determined enough to do it. And like others have said, it is optional. Thordan weapons are great, and if you aren't doing thordan, the i200 eso or relic step weapons are just fine with current content.

Only thing that I can see people bringing up, like I've said previously, is the lack of original content in the new quest chain. Its the same song and dance routine we've seen before, and I had hoped they would maybe make some interesting steps and maybe some solo or party trials just for the relic chain. Oh well, all I can do is be hopeful that they will do something better the next time around.

[Zophar]

Only thing that I can see people bringing up, like I've said previously, is the lack of original content in the new quest chain. Its the same song and dance routine we've seen before, and I had hoped they would maybe make some interesting steps and maybe some solo or party trials just for the relic chain. Oh well, all I can do is be hopeful that they will do something better the next time around.

And I totally get, and agree with that. I would love to see a degree of substance to the quests. Honestly, to me, it never got better than the Epic weapon quests from EQ. Every single class had it's own individual storyline for the quests, and progressed through the quests with different goals, and different items to achieve that (usually) had some relevance to the weapon and questline in question. It wasn't without it's drawbacks. Every single weapon required you to be able to hunt down multiple high end, basically NM's, most of them requiring a full on raid, and even then you had to be able to win the drop. It was incredibly frustrating at times, but god it felt gratifying when you finished.

That said though, that was structurally a VERY different game than this. That kind of questline, simply would not work that well in a game model like this. And to me, that's kind of the problem. If they were to create the kind of unique experience that people have asked for, without rehashing outdated content, even just for a singular questline like they have now, they'd have to release, honestly, almost a whole major version update's worth of content simply to satisfy the Anima weapon quests alone. It's something more suited to open world games like EQ or FFXI. Less so in games with such an instance focused model. There are only 2 ways I can see to challenge people in a game like this either through sheer difficulty of content, or by volume of work. I don't really see a third option, unless you count, removing challenge all together.

[TatoRazzino]

And I totally get, and agree with that. I would love to see a degree of substance to the quests. Honestly, to me, it never got better than the Epic weapon quests from EQ. Every single class had it's own individual storyline for the quests, and progressed through the quests with different goals, and different items to achieve that (usually) had some relevance to the weapon and questline in question. It wasn't without it's drawbacks. Every single weapon required you to be able to hunt down multiple high end, basically NM's, most of them requiring a full on raid, and even then you had to be able to win the drop. It was incredibly frustrating at times, but god it felt gratifying when you finished.

If people are complaining about the difficulty level of getting RNG drops and HQ Crafted Items, can you imagine what they would do if SE released exclusive content with that difficulty? I can see riots and pitchforks.

[kensatsu]

all i think is the quest come late, for my part if 3.2 is comming soon, it's maybe a little rough for anyone doing the relic and want finish in time to use it before other weapon come. i am only to think we should get this relic quest before?^^
but that's all.
for the crafting issue , if there is one, it's not one.
it's expensive because of the high demand, everyone is doing relic, and because people buy at the current price, this price don't drop or not drop too much.
you can find some crafters if you look for them. (IF you look for them ! set pf for this)
MMO will never be for solo gamer after all.
And also in many game the crafting gear is OP and may be also TOP gear in certain MMO.
How players would whine if it was the case in FFXIV.

[AbandonHopeTD]

Atma 2.x It took me a week to get the Cent Than stone. A solid week for 1 item. This grind is nothing compared to that.

[Whiteprincess]

Im so happy, I finally got my 1st crystal on fate 47. A friend said I have really bad rng, he's already almost done working on a 2nd set of crystals and they dropped at a better rate. ><

[Jim_Berry]

The Anima is for those of us who can't raid and get Alex's 210 weapon. Also, people who are spamming, say, Alex 1 Normal must don't realize they can also farm up a quick 700 Poetics and buy a Bone flat out. I saw that I got the 700 Poetics faster than queing up DF for Alex 1 Normal ten times for one bone.