Thread: the "relic" and "anima" and whatever 4.0 version of it should not be powerful

Why yes, I DO want to spend an entire expansion on a weapon that is both time gated and content gated only for it to be worse than a PvP weapon. That sounds amazing


in all serious though, let's just stand back and actually see what's required for Anima
Let's assume every step is completed within the same day.
Let's also assume we're starting at nothing- no unidentifiables, no oils, no umbrites, no clusters. How much would that run you?
you blast through the crystal and dungeon steps,
now you have to buy the inidentifiables- if using just lore, it would run you 12,000 lore. since the other items are through GC seals, it would run you 100,000 seals
We move onto the aether oil step. I'll consider the nerf here. You'll need to buy 4 at 700 lore each after the weekly, another 2,800 lore.
And now we get to the umbrite step. For this, we assume RNG hates you and you get no bonuses. so you gotta buy 80, bucko. that's 24,000 lore added to the heap.
Singing cluster time! We knock off 11 for the quests meaning we gonna buy another 39- 5,850 more lore!

Before we count pneumites (I haven't bothered doing the 270 step yet) this "glamour-only" weapon would take...

At least 1 full day,
100,000 Grand Company Seals
44,650 Lore
Whatever resources you spent to get 80 sands,
However many dungeons you had to run to acquire the required lore.
All assuming it was done in a day. Also keeping in mind all these steps are only actually available at the end of the expansion. They werent all here from the start.

All this for a proposed weapon weaker than a single dungeon piece.
That sounds fair. That's about the same amount of work as a PvP weapon. Or farming for a dungeon drop.