Our poor Anima weapons.

[Cabalabob]

We haven't even finished them yet and already there's talk about "the next relic/anima".

Our anima is a sentient cognisant being. But once we finish it, it's gonna spend the rest of its life in a box, or be thrown to the ground and watch as we turn our back and walk away. Or best case scenario for the poor creature we'll murder it and use its body for parts in the new relic quest.

Why did we make these poor tragic weapons? ;_;

[Yhoiryo]

Well we don't know what's going to happen, there's still a couple more steps most likely in the anima line to develop the story.

If all else though I wouldn't be surprised if SE did start a completely new relic/anima quest line for 4.0, sooooo there is the high probability that we might store our anima buddy away forever.





Also we all really know why we made this weapons: the statssssss

[Radacci]

Also we all really know why we made this weapons: glow-stick]

fixed.
relic is always inferior to raid weps, until mini patch before ilv increase (which is usually only last a month, if you can be bothered to rush to get it quick enough to enjoy it)
it's a huge waste of time, with little benefit; unless you do it casually and only gather tomes to buy mats, from daily roulette bonuses/beast tribe missions/etc; but if you do it casually, it's already outdated by the time you get it, because they added a new primal, that you can get higher ilv weps, from, in 10min.
You know that 240 relic step ppl worked so hard on? ya now i have all ilv 255 sophia weps, except 1. and it took less time to get all of them, than 1 relic wep. hopefully soon i'll get 270 wep from A12S (making next relic step, obsolete, before it was released)

• Bast Case Scenario: They give the Anima arc some closure that involves sentient weapons for all and a way to somehow separate the soul form the weapon so that we can trade in for 4.0. In that case I'd expect a Homunculus-type NPC or a minion (or 13 like the Yo-kai Watch event in reverse). Given the ability to get more than one Anima weapon I'd say either different designs for the Minions or making up to 13 homunculi vessels (one for each job) are likely.

i like this idea, but i think it would just be that elemental we see in CS, which is same for all weps; to much time/effort/cost to make a different homunculi for each wep.
buuut, it's kind of the soul that gives power to the wep, so if you remove it, you turn the wep into a replica, basically.

[CaptainLagbeard]

You could always carry it with you in your inventory...

And also, maybe it'll be a case of Zodiac and Anima where we can trade it away for stuff to help with making it's replacement, then get a replica looking it like.
Because you're a heartless monster.

[ChrisBabaganoosh]

To be fair, we basically turned our sentient Zodiac Zeta weapons into nodules for use in our anima, so it sort of lives on through the anima. Maybe we'll just do the same for the 4.0 weapon?

[ThirdKeyOfSun]

Maybe too many resources, but I would be totally okay if they made two separate questlines (dialogue really not content) and in one its a new weapon but in another if you turn in your weapon the sentience/personality carries over and you get snippets of dialogue interaction etc to show that our little friend is alive, well and excited for his/her new body/journey D:

[MagiusNecros]

To be fair, we basically turned our sentient Zodiac Zeta weapons into nodules for use in our anima, so it sort of lives on through the anima. Maybe we'll just do the same for the 4.0 weapon?

You mean how we just destroyed them alongside accompanied stats to just start over anew? They don't live on at all. You used them as a catalyst.

That's like saying that chicken you ate the other day lives on because you consumed it. When that isn't really true at all.

[Syhrwyb]

That's like saying that chicken you ate the other day lives on because you consumed it. When that isn't really true at all.

I don't know what to believe in anymore!

[Jim_Berry]

That's like saying that chicken you ate the other day lives on because you consumed it. When that isn't really true at all.

But........the chicken can become replicated, right? RIGHT?????

[MagiusNecros]

But........the chicken can become replicated, right? RIGHT?????

And yet is a different chicken. Once you eat or kill the original well it don't live on anymore.

Don't get me started on trees, paper, and doors.