Why!

[NaesakiAshwell]

Sorry but I want my relic so it can help towards my DPS in raid.

I wasn't referring to those who want it to be genuinely helpful in their raid teams, I just mean the people who want it instantly without any model of effort or time spent.

I'm not complaining about the time frame. X3 I'm just annoyed I can't work on multiple steps of the relic weapons at the same time anymore... I was spending my eso on ui items before this update.

Its like SE just assumes we only ever focus on one job as our main and the rest are flights of fancy.

[AsteriaStarfall]

It's almost like they want you to dedicate to one relic or something. :P

Yeah...except this isnt a game where you are locked to a single class. Wouldnt it be shocking if you could actually gear and make viable all your classes instead of just gearing 1 or 2?

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Yeah...except this isnt a game where you are locked to a single class. Wouldnt it be shocking if you could actually gear and make viable all your classes instead of just gearing 1 or 2?

Aye! I see no reason to not have multiple jobs geared if I so wish.

[marewa]

*takes a deep breath and puts on *those players voice* * "Cause I waaaaannnnn it noaw!!!"

^Thats literally all it boils down to most of the time, they want to be the best as soon as they possibly can.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...at-end-game...

[Morningstar1337]

To answer your question. I say that there are two factors.

The first of which is that there are many methods of getting Anima weapons at a certain, and while they at least include one item bought with Eso, they are not the only method.

the 2nd is that the Eso thing was used in all steps because the previous relics also used Tomestones.

Additionally, the Relics are the designated Grind Weapon, as in you are not suppose to set multiple weapons to the highest stages easily. (See, pre-nerf Atma Weapons, where Low Drop Rates made it nigh-impossible for one player to get more than 1 Atma weapon, if they got any at all)

The Unidentified items can be obtained from all Beast Tribes bar Ixal, as well as ARR Hunts and Maps. Patience is key here, because one way or another you're going to wait until you can get all your relics to the same level.

[odie]

Antitower and Amdapor City are 100 Esos now...shouldn't be too bad

[CGMidlander]

Did you have to make eso mandatory for the latest relic step? Now how am I supposed to work on three relic weapons in tandem?

Farm your butt off, find a new butt, and farm that one off too.

[Pheryx]

The only thing I am annoyed with is the fact that getting an unidentified item with 13 of a abeast tribe currency instead of 12. So it takes an extra day to get it.

[madolyn]

24000 eso per relic. 300 eso per day. 80 days for relic completion or 240 days for you. Or if you work twice as hard as the normal casual you get 600 eso a day and it will only take you 40 days to complete 1 relic and 120 days to complete all 3.

as far as i know, you can only buy two types of the 4 items with esoterics....unless i missed something...so this isnt exactly an accurate timeline.

[EdwinLi]

as far as i know, you can only buy two types of the 4 items with esoterics....unless i missed something...so this isnt exactly an accurate timeline.

He is talking about the current 3.3 anima quest (phase 5) which requires 1 item, being Umbrite, that cost 300 eso per piece. The 2nd mat for phase 5 is Crystal Sand which is easier to obtain due to multiple ways with some easy to get a lot in one day and others may take a bit longer.

Players are going have to throw in a few extra dungeon/24 raid runs if they want to grab more than 1 Umbrite per day.

The Max amount required to complete phase 5 is 80 Umbrite and 80 Crystal Sand to get all the points for Phase 5. There is also a chance that if you're lucky that a Umbrite+Crystal Sand gives a extra 1 or 2 points reducing the total amount a player will need. Each Umbrite+Crystal Sand gives 3 points towards the phase 5 progression, which is 240 points, with a rare chance of providing 4 or 5 points.

The phase you're talking about is phase 3 (Collect 80 mats and 16 HQ mats)

2 is from Eso and 2 is from Poetics with both costing 680 of each.

At a casual level if a player runs all their roulette each day with a few extra runs for extra tomes then they should get at least 2 mats per day towards the 80 mats goal. Throw in beast tribe tokens then a extra 2 or 3 per week which result in at least 14 mats or more per week for phase 3.

During phase 3 players can gather some phase 4 and phase 5 materials early by getting the necessary materials to trade for those phase mats. Phase 4 Mats is Aether Oil so running Crystal Tower weekly will give 1 oil per week and phase 5 Crytsal Sand Mats has multiple sources such as the Leve Ambers from leve chests, 5 blue scrips reward tokens, old Relic mats being 5 Thavnairian Mist and 5 Superior Enchanted Ink, and etc.

Phase 8 is actually much lighter on grinding for the mats than phase 3 as a piece of phase 3 mats cost 680 times but phase 5 mats only cost 300 tomes. The Tavnairian Mist and Superior Enchanted Ink is slightly cheaper as well being only 450 tomes plus a Leve amber farm, if you saved your leve up to full 99, could provide around 15 or more level amber which is a easy 15 or more Crystal Sand based on how lucky you are to get the Leve chest to spawn during a leve within 1 day.

Crafters have a better time collecting the Crystal Sand thanks to Blue Scrips Tokens.