If you need to ask the answer is usually yes…
No you don’t.
I cant see thing being treated as an exploit but this is obviously an unintended interaction. While the likelihood of you getting banned is relatively small if doing this, specifically seems that it only really effects cosmetics, I wouldn’t recommend doing it.
Yes, I do:
- 700 anima from the dungeon quests in Oribos.
- 500 anima from the two world bosses, each
- 500 anima from shaping fate
- 4-6k during shaping fate
That’s already 6.2k, and we’re on Wednesday. Now add a couple of keys (~200+ anima / key), and a bunch of anima missions from the table, and ~15k a week is done easily, doing nothing but what I’d normally do anyway.
I run 15-20 dungeons a week, sometimes more, and at 200 anima / key, that’s 3-4k alone. So even without the mission table, I’m at 9k-10k a week now, easily. Add a couple of random anima WQs I do for a calling, the mission table, and 15k a week ain’t that much anymore, and I haven’t stepped foot in Korthia outside of Shaping Fate.
It’s not different than sending anima from alts, and you do spend quite a lot of gold on what amounts for a small amount of anima in the end.
While I do see your point, the class Trials are intended to test out a class before boosting/leveling. Not an infinite replacement of alts, if they were ok with that premise they wouldn’t have stopped class trials getting into instanced content.
Hold up, how are you sending anima to alts anyway? All the anima drops I get are marked as soul bound 
deposit it into your covenant, then buy the anima item from the vendor in oribos so you cant transfer to whoever
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It’s not infinite, it’s limited by the amount of trials you can create a week, and it’s also not free, as it costs gold. All for what amounts to a medium sized bag of anima. It helps if you still have cosmetics and whatnot to buy, but it’s almost completely useless after that.
It’s not game breaking, it doesn’t give you an advantage or anything, and it also costs gold. If they weren’t fine with trials sending stuff to mains, they would’ve disabled their ability to mail a long, long time ago.
Its free in terms of time though, your effectively gaining access to a system you put 0 effort into. Utilising the maw skip to bypass leveling (which was introduced for repeat character runs, actual alts), utilizing the threads of fate which was meant for endgame progression whilst lvling an alt, then the covenant swapping in order to allow flexibility between covenants.
I dont think you can deny that it is an unintended interaction for a class trial to do.
I did state in my original post that it wasn’t game breaking as its mainly for cosmetics so I do agree with you on that part. You have a point with the mail, they could have disabled it along time ago. Theres no need once looms got put in the toy box tab.
Could have been an oversight, could be a “just in case” you dont feel like your loosing everything you may have tinkered around with if you feel like the class is for you. Or I could be completely wrong.
But from my point of view, unintended interactions aren’t worth risking it however your not breaking TOS until stated otherwise.
Nope , you get 1.5 maybe 2 k
Is self eating, just like you said in mission table thread.
No, you don’t get 15k without korthia grind
I do agree you can still farm anima and get all the things without spending the gold as you do on a trial character, but the biggest difference i see is the time, where you can do all 8 characters in around 1 1/2 hour depending on how fast you are. Its kinda hard to beat 32k anima gain in such a short time. Since you gotta use a lot longer to farm that the normal way with dungeons, wq, worldbosses etc. And if gold is not a problem for the player its a really easy way to gain anima. Again im not doing it until I find out if its okay by Blizzard
You do get much more than that, though. Granted, when I’m doing Shaping Fate, I don’t stop when I’m done, I tend to kill a few more rares, and pick up chests and stuff on my path. But it’s still a single session in Korthia.
I didn’t say that. I said the mission table is self-sufficient. You get more anima from anima missions that they cost. I do spend some of that anima on other missions, indeed. But we’re talking about anima income, not what you’re spending it on, and the table nets more anima from anima missions than what they cost.
For example, I have a couple of missions that reward 15 pieces of 5 anima items, for a cost of about 12-14 anima. That’s about 60 anima won. Small amount? Yes. But I send out 4-5 of those missions a day, if not more, adding up to ~1.5k+ anima a week. And then we have the blue anima missions that reward even more.
How much gold will you give me if I show you proof next week that I do? 
I’ll take a screenie every time I receive anima, from whatever source. You’ll see where I am, and how much anima I received, so you can double check my claims.
Because I’m willing to bet, lets say… 200k on AD or Draenor horde that I easily get 15k with stepping foot in Korthia on a single day only, on a single character, without sending anima from other chars, pretty much doing what I normally do anyway. Without going out of my way to farm anima.
Look at it this way: you’ll get the same amount of anima eventually, earning it passively by doing whatever you normally do. With using trials, you trade gold and time to unlock things sooner. I don’t see a problem there. It doesn’t hurt anybody, you’re not gaining anything others haven’t gained months ago. It’s a catchup for gold.
This is also from a pure lazy perspective, since gold is no issue for me, and I rather just be done as fast as possible with the anima grind, so I dont have to keep on doing WQ, farm and all that 
I’m also incredibly lazy, so I just don’t bother with the trials, 'cos I’ll eventually have everything I want anyway. I’m more limited by grateful offerings than anima anyway.
Those are (luckily) not a problem for me so far, got 500+ of those lol
Just to update: I’m at 6050 anima this week: doing the two world bosses, Shaping Fate (including the Fae assault and Tormentors of Torghast), and the two dungeon quests, and a Torghast wing, and a few missions from the table I started before reset. I’ll be running 20+ keys this week, so that’s another ~4k. Then I only need ~5k to trickle in from various other sources. That’s not going to be hard.
But I’m not depositing any anima into my reservoir until Tuesday, so I’ll know the exact amount then!
I’ll be doing keys, callings, the mission table, and the next assault. I’m not going to do any more Torghast or Korthia runs.
That’s fine, but i never said that it is impossible to grind 15k anima per week. I said you do not get 15k if you don’t do activities outside of Shaping the fate and some regular activity, which would be dungeon/ raids / pvp.
Most of activities you listed is dedicated anima grind 
I ended up asking a GM, and his response was that he wouldnt recommend me doing it any further, since he cant guarantee that I wouldnt get penalized for it. He then gave me a link to send the question/problem to another team to investigate it.
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My regular stuff includes the weekly dungeons, the two world bosses, callings and the mission table, and keys. That nets me 15k easily, and none of those are anima grinds. You may count the old world boss as a grind, but that’s 500 anima, I still get 15k without that. The other world boss counts towards Shaping Fate, so two birds with one stone and all.
The weekly dungeons I usually do in keys, so that’s not anything I do on top of my regular activities, apart from picking up and handing the quest in - hardly a grind.
Nor do I step foot in Korthia after finishing Shaping Fate.
There’s no grind. Just what I normally do anyway, for reasons other than anima:
- I do Shaping Fate for research and rep. Still need stuff from the paragon chest.
- I do a single Torghast wing for conduit upgrades. (But I’ll stop doing that once I max out enhancement too)
- I do callings for Grateful Offerings.
- I do the mission table for gold and materials.
- I do keys for fun (and this passively includes the weekly dungeons)
Any anima I get is a passive bonus, from activities that I do for a number of other reasons. I don’t go out of my way to collect it.