What is wrong with people on the forum..?

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Most of those other games also give you a way better reward for the grind put in, or make the grinding more tolerable, or seeing some actual useful development during the whole process. Here at most you'll find use for the reborn stage and then nothing until the final stage.
Why are we even defending grinding because 'other games have worse grinds' anyway?

The grind is actually tolerant if you delve into it and take a casual approach. If you did hunts, dailies, fates and Alex normal runs, you'll have an Anima weapon within a couple weapons. People decrying typically look at a single method (farm Alex Normal 620 times) and love their minds. This content was not designed with farming in mind, but allowed it as an option for those willing to put in that level of dedication. Even if you did just farm Alex, it would take a conservative 50 hours (4 minute speed runs, plus additional 'extra' time to account for possibly slow queues). Divvy that up over a two week period and you're looking at: 3.6 hours a day. And 2.3 hours over a three week period.

Even if you toss another ten hours, it's not all that difficult. Of course the grind will be somewhat monotonous. We are getting a weapon equivalent (or one level below) to the best in the entire game. If the grind is too much, just settle for an il200 and attempt Alex Savage.