Anima Weapons

[Nova_Dresden]

If you aren't planning on seriously doing endgame, there is no reason, at all, beyond pure ego that a person needs a 210 weapon.

If you want to get technical you can't acquire a 210 weapon until you beat end game, so it's not even required for that. And if 2.x is a benchmark weapons were the choke point on your item level and were not easily upgraded unless you did the relic quest. Relics aren't supposed to be what you think they are. They are equivalent weapons that can be acquired by non-raiders. And people constantly going to the argument of "you don't need it if you don't raid" completely invalidates the entire mechanism of this game and can/will drive players away from this game. It sounds good to you, but trust me you do not want a dead game. This quest is unacceptable busy work to use old content rather than devote resources to creating something new, and it should not be defended unless this is what you want patch after patch.

i really don't understand the level of complaints over the new relic weapon quests

i mean comparing the Anima Weapon (FFXIV) to the Aeonic weapon (FFXI) quest line

People need to stop bringing up FFXI. Relic weapons and other weapons like them were a P.I.T.A. to get......but they lasted FOREVER. Gear in a vertical progression MMO has a shelf life of maybe 3-5 months. These two games can't even be compared accurately. If you can compare this game to another game WoW is as close as it gets.

to get the weapon you would need 8 pages which means 8 weeks of farming which means 2 months, and this weapon will take about the same time to get sooo you want something thats good you gotta work for it equally as everyone else dont expect to get everything handed out to you just cause, imo this is not that bad.

Except that those two methods of obtaining a weapon aren't remotely equivalent. It might take ~2 months of killing A4s to get a gobdip or the gordian weapon, but the content to acquire either of those is one-and-done. Every week it resets, and you go kill it and then you're done until the next week. The relic weapon requires day in, day out, all day, every day farming of old content to get the items. And even if I dump that much time into farming content and getting all of the non-tradeable items I still have to deal with buying the remaining items from the market board and that's the crux of why this is bad. I know a lot of players who never have more than like 800k gil on them at any time and just one of these items now are floating between 1M and 4M gil, and they're not things you can craft yourself. They're specialist recipe items made with other specialist recipe items and you can only have 3 specializations. This will not end well and the prices won't go down far enough for far more than 2 months. It would probably also be cheaper to just buy an A4S clear to get a 210 weapon.

until yesterday i had no real objective to playing this game, now i do!! (i'm doing the Crystal grind even though i can skip it)

I feel you there. I never really considered quitting until I hit step 3 of the relic on Wednesday.