Anima Weapon...should I bother?

[magnanimousCynic]

2.0 ones [Relic].. the rng is unreal..

I still have night terrors of the original relic steps pre-nerfs Almost all the steps felt like a challenge itself:

Base Relic needing Titan HM when it was very tough due to insane lag on launch and the low HP people had at the time.

Zenith originally needing 3 weeks worth of your capped tomestones. Thankfully Yoshi-P learned to stay away from using capped tomestones for Relic/Anima.

Atma Drop-rate being like 2% along with needing to farm 12 different zones.

Animus Books needing FATEs that sometimes took an entire day to spawn. Killing the 10x10 mob per book was also frustrating near release since people crowded the spawns.

Novus and the horrible RNG of trying to meld past Tier 2 Materia. So people either had to pump in a lot of gil at the time for a good weapon or settle with a subpar relic to avoid the staggering cost.

Nexus being the light grind to start them all.

Zodiac being the most insane step pre-nerf; 400k gil for vendor items, 8 HQ crafting items that needed Desynth for all 8 classes along with 2 big fishes, 400x4 Soldiery, 20k x4 GC seals, and needing to farm SIXTEEN different dungeons for a chance to get the needed key item.

Thankfully the Zeta step was a much easier version of the Nexus step, only with needing tomestones every 1 our of 12 steps of the way.

The only pre-nerf Anima steps that could compare to Relic steps like Animus or Zodiac in difficulty would be i210 and i240. i170 step may have been challenging to FATE farm but at least you had access to most or all of your toolkit, unlike most zones for Atma. Not to mention that the drop rate was much higher compared to Atma.