Bringing a thread over from the US Forums with calculations too glaring to be neglected: the amount of Anima needed to unlock all sets of Covenant cosmetic armour, of all armour types.
If you don’t want to click open the thread, this is one example the OP posted, for one armour type.
If you do your 1000 Anima weekly every week without fail, and average 1000 Anima per week, it will take you ~2.4 years to get one armour type’s sets. If you average 5000 Anima per week, it will take you 24-25 weeks to unlock one armour type’s sets.
For all Night Fae armour type sets, it will take 492,000 Anima. If you average 5000 Anima per week on every single character with each armour type, it will take you ~2 years to get the sets.
Yeah annyoing but alteast anima is cosmetic and quality of life only …i will never ever have upgraded building for anima i couldnt care less about it…but numbers are insane.
I’m on my 4th week of not updating my sanctum, I can’t even consider buying any cosmetics, that list of things I can’t get just grows as my renown increases. The mission table alone seems to consume great amounts of anima although I’m finally done with my last mission mount.
At this rate I’m going to be collecting everything in the next expansion too.
It’s not a fun mechanic to be starved of resources. They give no power gain so there is no harm in giving us twice the amount we are currently getting or simply lower the costs of items.
Regular world quests award 35 Anima tokens, and either 2, 3, or 4 of them.
If you’re lucky enough to get four 35x4 Anima token world quests that’s 5 a day to get 577+.
Down the middle is 6.
The low end is 9.
So you’re looking more at 6-7 world quests a day depending on RNG, not 4, without missing a single day or spending any Anima on your mission table.
And this is all assuming they do nothing more with Anima. That is only including armor sets, not mounts, toys, the illusions or back tmog.
I love upgrading my Sanctum, I have my Queens Conservatory at rank 2 and everything else at rank 1, and I’m struggling to get 5k to upgrade another aspect to rank 2.
It sucks.
It seems a crazy amount, especially based on how much anima we get at present, but on the other hand, how many people actually want/plan to get every recolour of every set for every covenant and every armour type?
I plan to get each covenant set for each armour type, but will be getting the campaign set only and then maybe get renown/other colour sets for a few particular sets if they are especially nice (like the purple Night Fae cloth set from renown which will look lovely on my arcane mage). The various different sets (and their ridiculous costs) seems more like it’s aimed at people who only play one character and want something to work towards, rather than the expectation that all players will want to “catch em all”.
This is crazy, agreed. i love pretty much all of the Venthyr sets for all the classes but the grind to get each recolor is absurd with the amount of anima it requires… Really want a buff to the amount of anima we get or a nerf to the amount required for the sets. Transmogging is a passion of mine but for this i just can’t do it
Funny thing is, I think they could have easily “prevented” this kind of outrage if they simply presented the stuff available in several steps. Would have also added “more” content to later, smaller patches. What I mean:
9.0.1: Sanctum stuff is all upgradable to rank 1 - renown sets are open for purchase in seperate items per slot (as is): but without offerings needed, since renown plus anima cost is enough of “timegating”
9.0.5 (or even later): Sanctum stuff is upgradable to rank 2 - pets & mounts for each of the structures become available.
9.1 (or even later): Sanctum stuff is upgradable to rank 3 - transmogg sets become available
I still think the anima prices for pretty much everything are to high, but it would look better if it wasn’t such a huge amount of grind you are confronted with at once; and later on those numbers actually may be less incredible, because we gain more anima. Showing everything at once was a mistake, because if you see something available, most ppl nowadays also want it immediatly.
If there are even more costly rewards ahead for later patches anyways though… well, then there is really some big miscalculation happening.
I’m just doing the red renown set for my blood DK, I don’t really care about the rest. I would be completely dropping the current content already otherwise, because of those astronomic costs.
The math is probably right, but it’s based on the assumption that the current anima supply will not increase, which is not necessary the case. I expect with 9.1 the anima rewards might double.
