You just said you have too much anima - is it too much or not enough?
Make your mind up.
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Well what else are you doing in the world?
I earn my anima by running dungeons and raids it seems. On the off chance I am out in the world, flight paths seem to be sufficient. It’s rare that I am except to get to so spot for a limited time. Then I can use my hearthstone to get back to the worlds central hub.
If you are out in the world more regularly, I assume you are doing world quests, and as such farming anima is probably why you are doing so. What else it out in the world that needing such transportation efficiency?
So you are out in the world farming anima, to earn enough anima to build the transportation network that gets you to the places where you farm more anima.
Do you understand why this circular logic doesn’t actually provide any real utility outside of itself?
There is no way you have over 1.6 million anima 
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You look like a goblin but you smell like a troll.
Why you want to fight with people who like transmogs?
Please, how would you obtain the winterborne ensemble without grinding anima, grace us with your secret knowledge?
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No, but the point of the post is that I don’t need it. What is the rationale for needing so much anima?
I like transmogs. I’m wearing one on all of my characters.
So I want the winterborne set and the green set from the garden. Ergo I need anima, and lots of it.
I also like the look of the mounts and maybe I’ll get some items from the purple set as they go nicely with the winterborne white.
The maths has been done - if you need more than a few 10000s of anima, you are better off investing in the covenant features eve if you don’t value those features.
However, I like the augment runes from the table (the adventures pay for themselves if you always take some anima reward ones as well), the conductor gives you dailies for more anima each day, and the transport network also gives me more dailies.
It would be much much slower to gain anima without those.
Then its not an issue you need to worry about
You need 1.6 million anima for one class to have everything they can equip and wear which is about 4 years worth of farming that is going beyond an expansion life and a lot of $$ for basically cosmetics hidden behind hard gates.
If You are a completionist and you want for every class , then 
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This is another reason to invest in upgrading the sanctum. We have potentially years worth of rewards already, more to be added. Getting higher anima returns now will met you more anima in the long run.
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Yeah exactly it would be more than that if they add more things
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You’re showing up as a Goblin, but I’m pretty sure you’re a troll. Must be a forum bug.
Like, for real, I’ve seen you post in other threads and you always seem to take the contrarian point of view.
Anima gates content. We’re in a content drought. This is simple stuff. Very, very simple. Like, even just ignoring the cosmetics that cost anima, you need anima to upgrade your Covenant activities if you want to fully progress the Abomination Yard, the Garden, the Ember Court, and the Path of Ascension. Quite a bit in fact.
My honest opinion is that Blizzard should have increased anima gains by a factor of about x3 to x5. Really. They could have solved a lot of complaints about the content drought by making anima obtainable and making WQ more relevant as the time investment to gain anima would be considered something worthwhile to pursue.
Many, many people right now are waiting for Blizzard to “open the floodgates” of Anima, which is literally the exact opposite of where Blizzard wants to be. It’s mind-boggling to be honest. Blizzard has all this content and cosmetics but almost no one is playing it because it’s behind a gate.
It’s like that meme of the guy yelling “LET ME IN, LET ME IN”. This is an actual problem that Blizzard could fix that would increase enjoyment of the game in a tangible way. It actually boggles my mind a bit. Blizzard has very little reason to hold this in reserve when 9.1 will presumably satisfy folks hunger for content in a longer-term fashion and we simply need immediate relief.
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That only applies because you literally aren’t spending it on anything that takes the majority of the anima collected.
I’ve just upgraded my Abomination Factory to level 5 and that took 15,000 anima and 70 souls to do. Once it completes, I will be able to gain an upgraded companion for adventuring. Plus a mount I think. And the ability to gain even more mats from the bunch of quest givers surrounding the AF.
If you don’t spend your anima on anything then you will be sitting there wondering why players are complaining about there never being enough anima.
But those of us who are upgrading their sanctums are finding that the anima is in short supply.
Now I will be working on buying the transmogs and other items that use anima that I didn’t bother with.
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Yes, I do seem to find the rationale for why pop culture plays video games quite perplexing.
So what I’m getting from you all is that Transmog Completionism is the only reasons why anyone would need to invest anima into the current system.
Of all the different types of players that play the game, the entirety of the single player experience is focused on a niche activity.
That’s kind of my point. So I’ll ask again, why isn’t there something that I can spend my anima on?
Curious, but what do you consider an abundance of anima?
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It gates content.
Content is its own reward. We’re in a content drought. People want to be able to engage with new content. Anima is a gate to that content. What are you not understanding?
You seem to lack the courage to simply say what you want to say, which is “I want to be able to buy ilvl 213 gear with anima”, but that has nothing, NOTHING to do with why many people want Anima.
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How is anima gating joining a raid, dungeon, battleground, arena, pet battles, gathering, crafting, auction house, world PvP, or doing world quests?
What “content” are you even talking about other than transmogs? And how can there be a drought of such content if it’s literally impossible for you to have all the anima for you to acquire it all?
I have ilvl 213 gear. I get it from raiding and mythic+. I even have some 220 gear.
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/venthyr-covenant-ember-court
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/necrolord-covenant-abominable-stitching
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/night-fae-covenant-queens-conservatory
https://www.wowhead.com/guides/kyrian-covenant-path-of-ascension
This is content.
So you haven’t bought anything, don’t plan to, and come in here with “lol what’s your problem, I have plenty of anima!”
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I mostly chalk it up to the guy trolling.
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Has to be. No one can be this obtuse.
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