Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Originally Posted by Alahra

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Besides all that, Yoshi's only really saying in the post that the Anima item level isn't higher because Savage's is i210: he's responding to the feedback that the weapons are possibly going to be outstripped by starter gear in 3.2 and saying they couldn't currently make the weapon higher (to make it last longer) since Savage was supposed to be the baseline. The difficulty of Savage has almost nothing to do with the length of the Anima grind--if it did, we wouldn't be completing this weapon for a very long time.

Thing is, time and gil consuming steps do not make for interesting content(unless its a long term investment like a house, which clearly the anima is not.) The Anima weapon basically took what we were already either doing or were tired of doing, added expensive items and stuck a weapon at the end of it. Is alex normal hard? Well its failable. But you are conflating casual difficulty with tedium. If the relic does not catch up to the casual player, then it is nothing more than a trinket. The window of time for this gets shrunk on both ends(the late start because the fear of it replacing the raid, and the desire to finish its last step quickly before future patch gear overtakes it.) Which is what makes getting the relic up to speed unappealing from both a casual and raider standpoint.

"Since it is currently only possible to obtain an item level 210 weapon from Alexander: Gordias (Savage), the time and effort required to create an Anima weapon was set to be roughly the same level with this as a benchmark. "

"The same level with this" means the time and efforts required to cleared alex savage. This means, since they overtuned the raid, so they then overtuned the grind on step 3.