How would your Anima Questline look like?

[Blood-Aki]

I'm not a game designer, but here is what I would change:

I wouldn't implement a grind step like Atma 2.0 in order to get a weapon that is 30 item levels worse than what players have been running around with for months now.
That simply makes 0 sense at all.

I'm not sure why that even matters, SE and everyone who has sense knows full well that all that is just the "start" and no one is going to do the crystals only and then call it a day, as the next step which is incredibly easy dungeon runs will get you to 200 quicker then that 170.

[Granyala]

I'm not sure why that even matters, SE and everyone who has sense knows full well that all that is just the "start" and no one is going to do the crystals only and then call it a day, as the next step which is incredibly easy dungeon runs will get you to 200 quicker then that 170.

Because it is idiotic to put HOURS of work into something that is vastly inferior than what you already had for months?!

Do you value your free time so little, that you need further explanations on this?

The first step would have made perfect sense if this questline had been released with Heavensward. Now it's simply "we want you to waste 5-10 hours of playtime (depending on RNG luck) just because we can".