Anima Weapon Gil Cost

[Mycow8me]

My only problem with relics is that: They were created for the people who don't mind spending alot of time to obtain because for whatever reason, they have trouble raiding due to time/work/school/whatever. They were also apparently created for people who only have alot of money to spend. I could spend the money, but I can't bring myself to justify it.

It's like trial of the magians on ffxi only you need a ton of gil to complete as well. Makes no sense. Why not just a rough grind and call it at that?

I would give relic quests up in a heartbeat for a "trial of the magians" variant in FFXIV but the problem here is that gear doesn't have enough diversity to have something similar so were stuck with whatever relic quest they give us.

Seems like alot of people are in support of this because of "communication" and whatnot. I believe everyone is willing to communicate to find crafters to make them but the problem is still that even the mats cost alot of gil. Arguably your dropping all this gil for a weapon that will only be briefly top tier till a new release and there are other things people might be wanting to save their gil for but would still like to complete relic.

I don't consider overcoming the games economy a challenge for completing relic either (in before the players buy gil and RMT wins again!)... If they want these things to be worth obtaining in the long run, they need to actually withstand a long run in the game as well.

NERF PLS.

[Kewitt]

It only cost a lot right now... because everyone is trying to finish it quickly.

In turn ... Make friends get items from content and have them craft for you.

[jssanderson747]

On siren the crafted portion comes just shy of 8m gil. While personally I can afford it I'm not sure I want to fork over that kind of gil for +2 weapon damage.

People insisted that the prices were gonna drop by the time the grind was over but at least on NA servers it has stabilized at some pretty ridiculous prices.

How are people dealing with this? Just biting the bullet? Sucking up to crafters and hoping they're feeling charitable?

Despite the obvious flaws this presents for more casual players who don't gather or craft, as someone who profits solely off of gathering, it's kind of fulfilling that I've been able to make the gil necessary (roughly 8 mil on Coeurl as well) just due to how the markets are balanced lately. That said, there are tons of crafters on my server, so lots of people are competing for the current relic market so specific materials are super in demand.

[Vaer]

Despite the obvious flaws this presents for more casual players who don't gather or craft, as someone who profits solely off of gathering, it's kind of fulfilling that I've been able to make the gil necessary (roughly 8 mil on Coeurl as well) just due to how the markets are balanced lately. That said, there are tons of crafters on my server, so lots of people are competing for the current relic market so specific materials are super in demand.

Not to mention the raptorskin maps were up to 100k+ each on my server at one point. (unID items drop from them sometimes) They were usually worth around 20k before the relic was added. Easy money if you have 1 gatherer at 60 and don't care to gamble yourself.

I'm just going to work on the relic slowly just so if they decide to make the relics better in the later steps I won't be stuck on the first step long after everyone has moved on. By the time I finish the unID items the crafted items will probably have dropped in price. There are probably people gearing their crafts right now that will be done and be able to participate in the market when I need to buy them due to the weekly nature of red scrips.

[Dante_V]

I payed about 1.2 to 1.5 million for each set (4 items) on Jenova. Total cost was about 5.5 - 6 million range. I could definitely understand why this would be hard for people to pay. The best way if you don't have that kind of money is to get the items for the recipe and have a crafter make them for you that way. It is bit more time consuming to research and collect however it will save you substantial amount of gil.

[myahele]

They designed the Relic for players with a lot of time and to make it relatively casual. The high gil cost is there to as another time sink (and gil sink) since players will have to do __ to get enough gil.

[RiceisNice]

It's not a Gil sink if it's not taking the Gil out of market circulation, just as a note.

[Kikoten]

I've actually just given up on the relic!

I've never had more than 450k gil to my name from the day I started playing until now. I'm not going to be rolling in the dough anytime soon, I guarantee that.

Also, WHM is my main and... to be honest, well, I've gotten a little burnt out on healing all the time. I wanna DPS, and my DPS choice is level 35

Besides, there's no point working that hard for a relic that takes SECOND PLACE!!! next to the weapons you can get from simply raiding.

[Eidolon]

Besides, there's no point working that hard for a relic that takes SECOND PLACE!!! next to the weapons you can get from simply raiding.

76 WD
68 DET
102 SS

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CRIT71

Not sure about you, but the Anima axe is better than the Gordion one. :P

[Kikoten]

Not sure about you, but the Anima axe is better than the Gordion one. :P

In a few months the relic won't be at the top anymore, or so I heard. SQE is planning to add new raid weapons, which overshadow the relic.

I'd rather sink [less] time into getting THAT weapon than slam my face against a brick wall for 4, 5 hours per day just to get a few ingredients, and then eventually have to pay over one million, two million, five million, eight million gil to a bunch of greedy people just for a weapon that comes in... I'm gonna say it... second place.