Anima... its not fun anymore

[Transient_Shadow]

I'm sorry but I need to vent. I've spent hours grinding for that special weapon of weapons and have endured grind after grind. However upon reaching the 'reborn' phase I honestly can't take it anymore.

Mindlessly grinding though content isn't clever or intuitive. its insufferable. It was fun when it had a story and a goal behind it. that and the weapon was below par. but now I literally have the custom stats. there's no motivation.

I want to explore other classes but I have this nagging guilt in the back of my head for not completing this endless story line for a weapon that'a already better than most weapons i could get right now.

Is anyone else burnt out on this or is it just me?

[Ferth]

Was it ever fun?

[Transient_Shadow]

Was it ever fun?

har har. but to an extent for me it was. I was working towards that specialized weapon that you couldn't get anywhere else. Now that I have it though these ilvl ups just seem superfluous.

[PArcher]

Don't do it then? Nothing is forcing you to get the weapon done.

If you don't want to finish it, don't. There are other weapons in the game at around the same level, and the cap is going up soon anyway.

[Enkidoh]

Don't do it then? Nothing is forcing you to get the weapon done.

If you don't want to finish it, don't. There are other weapons in the game at around the same level, and the cap is going up soon anyway.

^This. I haven't even unlocked the quest (Rowena is still there in Idyllshire with the quest available icon above her head, and I ignore her every time I pass by), and have no intention on it either. I never got a Zeta relic either as I just don't have the patience to grind for such weapons which are ultimately fated to become just glamour gear anyway. And glamour wise I'm perfectly happy with my base relic regardless and that won't change. It's just easier to source a near-comparable weapon through other means and spare myself the mind numbing grinding (which is what I've done).

I know some people might just regard that as cutting off the nose to spite the face but I just can't be bothered with it.

[ShinMetsu]

Don't do it then? Nothing is forcing you to get the weapon done.

If you don't want to finish it, don't. There are other weapons in the game at around the same level, and the cap is going up soon anyway.

By this logic. How about we stop making raids easier? You guys don't need to do them. Seriously.

[ErryK]

By this logic. How about we stop making raids easier? You guys don't need to do them. Seriously.

That's incorrect reverse-logic. If PArcher said "Don't do it then? It's not gonna get easier to get the weapons done." Except they did infact nerf both Anima and Alexander, so your logic is kinda flawed.

In any case, PArcher is right, as are you (at least the gist of your post), both Anima and raids are optional and you don't need to do them. Nerfing them is another subject since both of them are nerfed or receiving nerfs anyways.

Or the fact atma drops and dungeon drop rates had astonishingly low percentages, so low that almost nothing in this game has ever rivaled them in terms of drop rates. Or the fact that the special fates required had some of the longest wait times out of any other fates. The fact you had to meld 75 materia into the weapons while trying to Spirit Bond or purchase them off the mb. Or the required perfect crafted items which was a grind in its own special way if you didn't have gil, knew a crafter, or never started a craft before.

Nope it was because Titan, all him, all the other steps were meet with glee and happiness from everyone in the community, we all sang songs and joined hands during those other steps, that's exactly what we did.

The only things that got removed was defeating 900 enemies, everything else we still had in the Anima.

2.0 Relic -> 5x trials i80, Zenith (900x tomestones) i90, Atma i100, Animus (Books: FATEs, dungeons, 900 enemies), Novus melds i110, light farming i115, dungeon Atma i130, light farming again i135.
3.0 Anima -> FATEs i170, Dungeons i200, Unidentified farming and crafts i210, Hyperconductive (x5 Oils) i230, "of the" Anima (umbrite + sand phase) i240, sharpened (x50 clusters) i260, complete Anima (light farming) i270, (trials) Lux i275.

They didn't really get rid of any part of 2.0's relic. We had materia melding but without a Gil sink with the i240 step. We had tomestone grinds every step. We had to go to certain instances on the i200 and i275 steps. Light farming at i270. Crafts at i210, they also needed to be HQ. FATEs at i170 to actually make the Anima weapon base itself.

Were these also met with glee? Perhaps not, but it honestly doesn't matter, because these weapons won't be any easier come 5.0 or 6.0, 4.1 will probably bring the last changes but that's it. Only way they're getting easier is through natural gearing as the game progresses along with being able to unsync duties.

[NolLacnala]

Relic stopped being fun when they realized they could get people into year old content with it. The only time it was ever fun was when it utilized relevant content in 2.0

[Laerad3993]

It was never fun for me in any sense, but was the only thing I had to get me to stay when I felt "bored" and wanted to leave.

If it weren't for the Relic I likely would have quit 10 months ago. I would even go so far as to say it "punished" me in a way that made me appreciate everything else there really was to do in the game.

I realize how stupid it sounds, but it's true.

[Transient_Shadow]

It was never fun for me in any sense, but was the only thing I had to get me to stay when I felt "bored" and wanted to leave.

If it weren't for the Relic I likely would have quit 10 months ago. I would even go so far as to say it "punished" me in a way that made me appreciate everything else there really was to do in the game.

I realize how stupid it sounds, but it's true.

You are among fellow masochists my friend. XD