Even if I could only "activate" one book at a time, just being able to hold more than one at a time would have made the book step that much smoother. Heck, I'd take only having one book per weapon at the same time. Having one book period was such a pain.
I did the BLM and PLD Zodiacs back in Heavensward. Then I did WAR in Stormblood, prefarming the rest and sitting on them. Quit when Eureka Pyros burned me out. Came back in 6.1, and did the rest. The friggin' books took me two days per weapon because the FATEs just took sevenever to spawn. I have five alts. _NONE_ of them are touching the Zodiac, even though the SMN book looks nice before it starts getting glowy. No thank you. I gave the game enough masochism doing all 10 Zodiacs, all 13 Anima, and all 15 Physeos on main (Haven't touched Bozja yet in any real depth, not looking forward to it) and I have the materials for all 19 Mandervilles up to Majestic. I think I'm good.
This is an issue with ARR quests in general. I decided recently to do every side quest in the game, and the amount of quests that are a chain is so fucking annoying. QUIT GIVING ME A NEW QUEST AFTER I JUST TURNED IN THE ONE YOU GAVE ME
Zodiac relics are incomparably faster now with data travel, I remember taking like a week to finish one book because fate was never spawning in my playtime window
Another thing that helps now is the rise of BLU mage. With a high level BLU mage with ram's voice and ultravibration, you can two-shot almost any boss fate and, with the flashy DPS BLU spells, you can still clear mob fates pretty fast. And if you keep speed clearing the fates this way, it will force the needed fate to spawn much faster (which can also be cleared insanely fast with BLU compared to literally any other level-syned job).
not to mention increased drop rates of the needed items(atma went from something like a 1%-5% to around a 20% and the dungeons were not a garunteed completion per run, something like 50%, so that 27 dungeon runs was easily more, and not to forget about the second dungeon step later that also was a 50/50 on wether you got the item needed at the end of the dungeon), light, decreased cost of poetic items as well as being able to solo all of the content required.
I damn near spit my food out when I saw my Retainers name in a random Video on UA-cam! You bought my Vampire's Knives! I guess the premelded ones I was selling were already gone... Little did I know what adventures those knives would see. Congrats on the -Zodiac- Zeta Weapon!
Comparing making a relic weapon now to how it was in Arr aint possible. You have some basic things like: - Drop rates in arr (were back in arr as low as 0.5-1%) - Not being able to fly - There was a limit on how many tomes you could get a week for the relic. The books also cost like 500 each - The anima books used to have 10 of each mob, while it only spawned 3 at a time, so you would have the whole server camping the same 3 dudes... - The respawn timers of some of the fates had up to a 72 hours of respawn time... - Light grind was hell since it was complelty random which fight was on bonus. And you got so little light from each thing. - Zeta atmas was.. special since it was a small chance to get your atma drop from your dungeon, and you didnt get it until the end of the dungeon, so each dungeon taking about 20 mins to do... - Materia grind, you would break your alexandriets as well if you failed, and it was a reallyy frustrating since you only got 1 map for free each day (from the expert roulette.) and you only got 1 per map. The list goes on.
@BrunoLopes-ou1gy I agree that Eureka and Bozja grinds are longer. But I do think that the ARR grind is worse because there's next to no new content for it, unlike Bozja and Eureka with unique zones, bosses, and raids.
@BrunoLopes-ou1gy Plus, Almost all of the ARR relics look bad except for the final versions imo, so it's less rewarding to recieve the earlier versions.
@@Bruiser7985 when it's a current content I agree, it could be very fun to do, at least once. But after that it's very frustrating to do because you rely on other people who probably already did that for you to finish what you want. I hope eureka become popular again with the free trial up to stormblood than I'll be able to finish it.
@@BrunoLopes-ou1gy To be fair I started Eureka this month and it's been extremely populated at when I've played. I had no issues finding prep groups and NM farm groups
The daily instance cap is exactly 100, I saw this from Blue Mage gil farming videos. The instance caps will block you out from doing solo quest duties and Gold Saucer Gates such as Leap of Faith and Airforce one as well (The stage ones and the chocobo hatchling are still fine since they are not instanced). I think I once reached the cap through Chocobo Racing.
The trick is to start at 7 am (or 9 hours before reset) and have the reset occur right between all the dungeon runs. There is some leeway, but timing is key.
I did PLD's Zodiac relic before I even got to HW, during EW. At level 60. On the free trial. It was awful. Keep in mind that "it's easier now" does NOT mean "it's easy". Also, for those giving it a try, Garuda Extreme is better than Aurum Vale for the first light farm. Faster by two thirds, for only slightly less light. If you have two level 90 dps, you can get it done in *9* seconds. Recently helped a friend through theirs and that's how we did that step. Just spamming the quest and trying to beat the time each run. I think our lowest was 6 seconds if we got every hit off just right.
Garuda is faster, but if you're ever worried about hitting the duty limit (if you want to do duty roulettes or cap tomes the same day) then Aurum is better.
I remember back in the day I got all the ATMA in one day and my friends still talk about it to this day. I can't even complain about rng in this game because they bring up the atma incident everytime and are just like "girl shut up, eff you"😂 xD
i just did this the other day. although after doing the books i doubt ill ever use the other atma. lol but at least i have them all just in case i guess.
The *best* way I've found to farm these is to do it with 2 other people. Every book has 3 FATEs, so you just have one person sit in each zone. None of the FATEs up? Queue for a dungeon. FATE up? Everyone goes to do it and then goes back to their designated zone. Rinse and repeat. It's great.
As someone who's done half the weapons available and only got 2 book grinds left, they're fun to do in downtime when you dunno what you wanna do on any game, but to do it in 1 day you've actually lost the plot 😂 Amazing stuff though still, congrats 👏
Getting a Zodiac is essentially saying after every step, "Well that wasn't so bad how bad could it be from here?" and it just gets progressively more mentally draining than the next.
I'm gonna feel bad saying this... but apparently the most efficient way to get light is to see which one has the bonus out of the three dungeons. Tam-tara, Stone Vigil, and Aurum Vale. You unsync all three of them and you spam the one that gives you the "blinding" bonus that shifts every two hours that's better than the brilliant light that you were getting spamming Aurum Vale. ...man I can't believe you actually hit the duty cap.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I also did this in one day, but never actually hit the dungeon limit thanks to the bonus light which is actually the most hidden, trash mechanic in the entire game. Actually, maybe the game tells you there is a bonus for light, but its so easily missable.
I dont think so, is the ban only for doing dungeons? Even if it isnt, ex trials, garuda and moogle to be specific, are for what i have seen by far the best way to farm light at lvl cap.
@@blkhailink5963I calculated the time required to do a few of them at the time. It's definitely been a while so I lost those numbers. Anything that required duty finder will lock you out unfortunately.
@@blkhailink5963 Assuming you don't have a fast dungeon with bonus (which would most likely be the fastest regardless), then yeah, an EX that you can clear in 2/3 the time (or same time, if the EX has a bonus) of a dungeon would break even on time, and you should be able to make even better. Another option to consider: Ifrit Normal (4-man version, not "Hard") gives 1/4 the light of non-bonus EX or 1/6 the light of EX w/ bonus, and can be killed the second the intro circle drops. At least with fast load times, this becomes very competitive with EX. But either way, since these are trials, they do not count towards the ~100 dungeons/day limit.
The biggest thing I like about the ARR relics is that they can be used in the Heavensward relics. The idea that they are the culmination of your time in ARR, travel with you through Heavensward, and in some form they continue to grow in power is such a neat concept.
honestly i just wish they kept that in for each new relic, giving you a chance to have a set of truly personal weapons that continued to grow with you, something you really crafted yourself from the ground up. plus then youd only need to make one set of weapons, and each time you turn it in you can keep access to the replicas without hogging inventory space
I remember doing my light grind last year for my first weapon, optimising it, reporting to friends on my fastest times, declinging sanity. They at least pulled me out every now and then for raids and roulette, would have gone truly mad otherwise
you dont need to comeplete a leve, you can just pick one up and abandon it and it still refreshes the list, picking up a level changes the list not completing them
Unsynced didn't exist in ARR, dungeons were a lot harder then they are now, drop rates are improved from what they were.. In short everything is a lot easier now then they used to be.
Some of your tips helped me in my free trial zodiac journey, and after completing the first I decided I had not felt enough pain and began gathering the materials to make the other 9 relics
Great video, Rinon. I did the NIN weap myself and a BLM one and can tell you your chat definitely did you a favor. Maybe unintentionally because they wanted you to suffer but optimized you can finish Aurumn Vale with NIN in like 1:09 or even faster. And the weapon looks the best imo from all ARR ones. Even better than the Ultimate daggers of any Ultimates. With BLM it would've been major pain to farm fates AND run Aurumn AND do books. I thought you're on Light not Chaos. Thanks for the p12s guide it's pretty standard here.
The chat to the rescue on the fate grind at the end is the most wholesome part for me. They wanted to see you succeed and put their own time in to help you. What a community.
I didn't do my ARR Relic in 1 day, but I did do it on the Free Trial. No market board access - I had to get all of the materia and crafted items manually! I worked on it slowly in the background and it took like 3 months - mostly because of the materia and a couple of craft materials that can only drop from certain treasure maps. The 300k gil cap was also a bit of an issue with regards to getting the desynth items since they only come from overpriced vendor items.
I've done like 4-5 Zetas and the last 2 were a breeze because of World travel. It makes Books so much faster it's a night and day difference. I think my last weapon I finished in 2 days.
What amazing accomplishment, ARR RELIC in 1 day!, i remember getting a PLD relic weapon right after i beat ARR when i was like lvl 62 and broke, the whole ARR relic took me like an month to complete
I enjoyed the pain so much, I did all 10 of them For the levepart, if u hold the ones u dont want, the leves will be forced to pick the ones u want to fill the pool, making that part pretty much not RNG at all, especially handy if u do multiple relics
fun fact. You don't ahve to turn the leve in to trigger a new one showing up. You just have to complete it. this works 95% of the time, so you can actually forcably get the entire leve list from a single levemete into your quest log at once. It doenst' fix everyting but it takes a big bite out of the RNG aspect of it
im on my 6th ARR weapon, you can get the crafted step open as you're doing books (after the first weapon) so the dungeons you do for books also work for the crafted step
I'm on the books now in Dawntrail....and they will be what kills me because I no longer have any poetics to spend on them, so now I have to go grind poetics out just for that!
once youve got your zeta, turn it in to start your heavensward relic, that way you keep thw ability to buy the rwplicas without needing to keep the weapon
I've done two Zodiac relics so far and I still don't understand why each one needs nine animus books. We're only updating four skills by a tiny amount in the end, so surely it would make more sense to just have one book per skill for a totof four. It would still be grindy but you'd cut that step down by more than half.
Ninja is the only ARR relic i did, but synced for the first half because i didn't know better. The second half was kind of fun, speedrunning dungeons. In theory, with the move speed buff, 2 blinks, and lightning dash, plus resets from raiton, ninja would be extremely fast at running through anything.
The big problem with the books is that they dont allow you to get into the flow of the grind. Usually, if you have a big task of killing billions of mobs you eventually just enter a zen state of mind where time flies by and you dont even notice the grind anymore. Not so much here, with the book giving you tasks all over the world, where you must constantly travel back and fro zone after zone after zone. This more then killing tons of mobs grinds my gears so much it becomes unthinkable to continue.
i do remember these caps were added for safety of players health. it seems odd but i do recall an interview where they explained why this exists. its not to deal with bots though but thats most i recall other than what i mentioned as possible recalled factoids.
Nah, never gonna do THAT. I would rather grind tomestones, Bozja or even Eureka again before I start doing that shit. I wouldnt mind if they rework the grind or just exchange it for tome stone grind, as well. But I'm sure a small loud minority would complain about that, as well. =)
I'm currently torturing myself with the ARR Relics. I completed my WHM Relic, and then decided I'd get all of the rest before moving on to HW. Furthermore, I'm doing them ALL AT ONCE. 9 of each Atma sucked so much. I'm currently on the books, I finished Paladin, so now I'm doing Ninja. I'm in the L50s, so I thankfully have a friend that's L90 to do it with. 9 Relics, for the 2nd to last stage, require 720K Grand Company Seals, 7.2K Poetics, and 3.6Mil Gil, for everything I need. Plus more Poetics for the books (900 for each weapon), plus the final stage which requires yet more Poetics. This is gonna be hell.
I remember doing the atma grind when it first came out on my old ps4 account, it was miserable, took me weeks of grinding FATEs and i never did get all 12.. think i made it to 8 and just stopped playing from general burnout but im sure grinding for atma every day accelerated the progress. Years later i got a pc and made a new account so that relic will forever be unfinished, glad to hear they've drastically increased the drop rate of atma though, cuz that shit sucked.
A friend grinded atmas in the area where you get "the goat" recently. I decided to join him after a while and brought my own zenith weapon and got 3 atma of the goat in the first 3 fates. And it took a long time for him to get 1 after that
I did one of these relic weapons weeks ago or more back, I would not say I gave up on it just got sidetracked and was to into the story I forgotten about it. After hitting Stormblood I decided to go back and finish it up for my White Mage Relic as I dont find White Mage my least fun it was my first choice and It was my most favorite Job in FFXIV, I already completed it with ease, my WHM was like lvl 80 sooo I tackled it with zero issues. I never disliked fates, I like them. Plus who does not want to hear the music?
making the calculations it's like... 6 duties on the first step + 27 on the books step, +42 on the light step (dunno how many had bonuses) + 18 on the mahatma step, it's a total of 93 duties per day you can do in this game before the restriction activates xD
For the book step if your fate isn’t popping up I’m 99 percent sure you can just start doing the other fates in the area to get your desired fate to spawn when I’ve done this before assuming my fate hasn’t spawned yet it takes me 5-10 minutes to spawn in my experience
I just finished my second zodiac and for the final light farm and there's two things that really struck me. (books are books, nothing special here) This go around, for my final step, I bribed a friend with the inferno horns we'd find and did ifrit ex. At 30 seconds each run and 2-3 runs per mahatma, this step did not take that long. The backbreaker here is the books, and the gil step if you dont have that much. I only had 1.5 mil going into this and now I hover at about 50k. Still, congrats on your weapon! the Zodiacs are one of the best looking weapons in the game
that is basically the game telling you "calm down and go take a break" XD fun fact: if Aurum doesn't have the light bonus when you run it, it isn't the fastest way.
I see you fell for the Aurum Vale wiki trap. Light farming on NIN and similarly high damage burst jobs is actually faster if you alternate between King Moogle EX and Ifrit EX unsync. King Moogle takes about 25-30 sec and for some reason, Ifrit will only let you 3 sec kill him every other time you instance, both of which give you 32 light each. Compare that to spamming Aurum Vale, which takes about 1-2 minutes per run and gives 48 light. **This is a difference between ~112-128 light every minute and ~24-48 light every minute.** Garuda is the only other ARR EX trial that can be killed as fast as Ifrit with NIN but it only gives 16 light per kill and has the same issue as Ifrit, in that it can only be killed before RP every other instance and it seems to overlap with Ifrit's issue every time. I finished the Nexus Light farming in about 10 minutes doing this and about 5 minutes for the Zeta relic. This also bypasses the hidden dungeon cap, as you can spam trials without issue likely because of mount farming. Atma is the absolute worst part of this relic and there really is no speeding it up without insane fate/leve luck.
The rotations I used for each trial were as follows: -King Moogle: Prepull Kassatsu -> Prepull Shukuchi -> Mug -> Hyosho Ranryu -> Wait for moogles to spawn -> Katon -> Wait for moogles to res -> Katon -Ifrit: Prepull Huton-Hide -> Prepull NQ Dex pot (Instance barrier ends around here) -> Prepull Kassatsu -> Prepull Shukuchi -> Mug -> Hyosho Ranryu -> Dream Within a Dream -> Tenchijin: Ten-Chi-Jin -> Trick attack -> Fleeting Raiju (Usually died halfway through Tenchijin)
Good job. For the next challenge/Zodiac, try doing it old-school. No server/DC hopping, no pre-farming Alexandrites and start the run with 0 poetics :D
definitely make sure you hang onto that weapon because unlike every other relic weapon, you have to actually bring the completed zodiak weapon with you to the replica vendor to buy versions of any of the steps for glam
As someone who did the Zodiac relic on content level, I don't even want to think about how much money I spent on materia for BiS stats In today's money it could probably buy you several large housing plots
Back in ShB I saw the WHM Zodiak relic and decided, "yeah i've done a few of each type of relic already and liked them, we're in a lul til EW, I might as well get a christmas tree cane" and...god. And after that absolute slog? I went back for the SMN relic. Because I decided I needed to have each SMN relic. I don't even like the Zodiak book, it's hideous! But now in EW, working on my last relic for all jobs til January's step, I'm considering getting the PLD one. I don't play PLD, but I'm so starved for a real combat relic that I might just do it once I get my last gatherer relic done if I don't decide to go back to the Diadem grind instead.
I have done Zodiac weapons (when able to no-life them) in about 3 days each on average entirely solo. I genuinely recommend using Bozja for grinding poetics and just AFK for FATEs to spawn at specific locations rather than seever hopping so you retain your sanity.
I got my Yoichi Bow Zeta before Heavensward released. It took quite a bit of effort, but having that sweet glowy boy going into the next bit of content was fantastic.
FYI just did my ARR relic yesterday (took me 3 days) but at the last step where you need to farm light 12 times me and a friend ran the trial ultima's Bane. 6 second clear time and only takes 5 runs per step. It works on the light farming in the earlier step as well and is SO MUCH FASTER than running dungeons. Finished that step in less than 1 hour.
Completing relics is a drug that I recommend to anyone. It feels so wonderful to put a lot of effort into something and have it completed. Go do your relics! It's amazing!
Watching people experience Pain so i dont have to do it made me realize that grinding Savage Alexander is nothing compared to 50+ runs of Arum Vale for Relic Weapons
It took me a month or two to grind out my Zodiac weapon. I had the bright idea to go out of my way to level up all my crafters to 50, gear them up (and collect all of the Supra/Lucis tools) so that I could do the craft parts on my own.
you can also get a lot of alexandrite pretty quick by doing the treasure maps for them, which is a looooot faster than any of the other methods. (but still not quite as fast as already having them im a retainer I guess lol)
I have done this relic twice and and i think what kills me to with this relic is that for the 2nd half of it there is no quest what so ever, you have to go into your COMPLETED quests to keep track of what you were asked to do and for certain parts of the relic it's SUPER vague just reading what's in the quest log to try and figure out what to do. it's is not a "hard" relic to get but it is stupid grindy all that said i would do this over bozja and eureka any day of the week.
Part of me wants to make this relic on the free trial, but that is pretty intimidating. In particular, the zodiac stage looks intimidating since it requires eight high quality crafted items. Apparently the only way to get some materials on the free trial is through desynthesis? Oh man.
That Zenith step is only so "easy" because they nerfed it. It used to take something like 900 Mythology tomes, and instead of the weekly cap of 450 we have now, we had a cap of 300 back then so it took 3 weeks to get an i90 weapon.
Not true, I got my zenith weapon back in 2013 after 12 days fate grinding for lvl 50/MSQ finished and 3 days to get Zenith. 15 days is what it took 10-12hrs a day grinding. Now to get full i90 it took roughly a month or so for a Job
@@zonedout3390 it absolutely is true. You can check any of the archives. Thavnairian Mist was 300 mythology, and you needed 3 for every weapon. You weren't getting a Zenith/+1 weapon in "3 days" because it took 3 weeks of time gate.
I did only a Zodiac weapon and was for the Warrior Axe and tbh, the light farm was the thing that traumatized me and made me never want to step into Sastasha again. I chose to spam Sastasha because I could 1 shot most things with the relic still so I wouldn't accidentally forget to swap weapons before exiting dungeon/equipping it before the final boss.
Im not sure if Aurum Vale is truly the most time efficient way of doing the Nexus Light farm. I did it doing King Moggle Mog Extreme over and over again, and since you can kill him with some coordination within 30 seconds or less, especially with friends, even factoring in loadingscreens you make much more light per minute/hour even though you dont get as much light per kill
You totally skipped the cutscene where the game tries to fake you out. Gerolt is like "We're trying to do the impossible. I'd put this at a 1% chance of success..." and the game pops up an option "Would you like the continue anyway?" and if you say yes, it says "If this process fails, you WILL lose your weapon and all progress up to this point. Are you absolutely sure?" Of course it succeeds every time, but it's such a rude troll after all that work.
Just as a note. The Atma drop rates have been since increased by a total of 200% from when it first released in Patch 2.2. This buff wasn't done in one patch though. It was raised by 50-100% 2-3 times over the course of 2.4-3.x. The grind for Atma is gated by FATEs, which you have to level sync for, so it is impossible to take advantage of the "40 levels" you so mentioned. Back then, however, a single atma drop could take 8+ Hours, sometimes more. I would know, because I did the original iteration, three times on an old character.
I don't know which method of relic weapon progression I prefer. Yes Endwalker progression was mind-numbingly easy and even easier now that Dawntrail is out and you can buy everything with poetics, but this level of grind is kind of nuts as well. I think I would want something that does give incentive to do fates, but make the item you need from the fates be a possible drop from the fate but also purchasable with bicolor gemstones so if you get RNG screwed you are guaranteed to get what you need after a certain amount of grinding.
Heres the issue ARR relic was designed to be a time sync. It was supposed to give the olayers soemthing to do between Raids. It was also meant to be alternative content for people who didn't do raids. But SE changed their stance on Relic now. Relic is not considered content anymore. Just fsrm tome, get item, upgrade relic. The Atma farming was the worst part. It took me two weeks to get all 12 Atma. I spent a week just for one Atma to drop. The books were actually easier and took less time back in ARR.
Ironically, Nin was also my one and only Zodiac I could bring myself to complete. Years later, mind you. I started with the monk weapon back in ARR and rage quit at the Light farm phase. Smh At least that Sasuke blade is worth it😅 Never hit dungeon que cap tho. I think it’s because I farmed the Coil Savage dungeon which gave a ton of light and was able to finish each run in like 3mins per run.
As someone with a primitive brain as mine I only recently finished the Zodiac warr relic I had, after 3 yrs of procastanating after the Anima step And as a Free Trial still, m ways of grinding are.... old school xD I have since then decided in the future to get every other relic for all jobs, in all expansions Just for the replica glam to store in my dresser to take unnccessary space This vid was exactly what I needed to remind me of the brain damage I must've suffered to cloud out these memories and the choices ahead Your videos have been very informative and entertaining :> And your Miqo'te is very precious in both ingame design and digital art design, the arts you have of her are very lovely x3 Thank you for being you!
I have done two grinds that get respect even among old players. I did the pteranodon grind before it got easier, and I possess a logistics node for winning 200 Frontline matches in player versus player content. I'm currently working on the rarest of the PVP mounts, the mech suit called construct 7. That one has been frustrating in the extreme.
The books are what killed me. Just let me hold every book at one time
I was literally sitting on the book quest for like 2 years. Completed HW relic instead
Even if I could only "activate" one book at a time, just being able to hold more than one at a time would have made the book step that much smoother. Heck, I'd take only having one book per weapon at the same time. Having one book period was such a pain.
It really is JUST the books. The books require more work than the entirety of an Anima or Eureka weapon. It's ridiculous.
I did the BLM and PLD Zodiacs back in Heavensward. Then I did WAR in Stormblood, prefarming the rest and sitting on them. Quit when Eureka Pyros burned me out. Came back in 6.1, and did the rest. The friggin' books took me two days per weapon because the FATEs just took sevenever to spawn.
I have five alts. _NONE_ of them are touching the Zodiac, even though the SMN book looks nice before it starts getting glowy. No thank you. I gave the game enough masochism doing all 10 Zodiacs, all 13 Anima, and all 15 Physeos on main (Haven't touched Bozja yet in any real depth, not looking forward to it) and I have the materials for all 19 Mandervilles up to Majestic. I think I'm good.
This is an issue with ARR quests in general. I decided recently to do every side quest in the game, and the amount of quests that are a chain is so fucking annoying. QUIT GIVING ME A NEW QUEST AFTER I JUST TURNED IN THE ONE YOU GAVE ME
Zodiac relics are incomparably faster now with data travel, I remember taking like a week to finish one book because fate was never spawning in my playtime window
I'll never forget Taken in Southern Thanalan, and how many days I sat there waiting for it to spawn
omg why i didn't think of data travel
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Another thing that helps now is the rise of BLU mage. With a high level BLU mage with ram's voice and ultravibration, you can two-shot almost any boss fate and, with the flashy DPS BLU spells, you can still clear mob fates pretty fast. And if you keep speed clearing the fates this way, it will force the needed fate to spawn much faster (which can also be cleared insanely fast with BLU compared to literally any other level-syned job).
not to mention increased drop rates of the needed items(atma went from something like a 1%-5% to around a 20% and the dungeons were not a garunteed completion per run, something like 50%, so that 27 dungeon runs was easily more, and not to forget about the second dungeon step later that also was a 50/50 on wether you got the item needed at the end of the dungeon), light, decreased cost of poetic items as well as being able to solo all of the content required.
Now for the low low price of 50 Alexandrite and one extra quest you get access to the best kettles in town.
With the new Martialist shirt dyed red, you can make a good Ranma Saotome cosplay too.
So that's why he had bought 125 of it back in the day...
I damn near spit my food out when I saw my Retainers name in a random Video on UA-cam!
You bought my Vampire's Knives! I guess the premelded ones I was selling were already gone...
Little did I know what adventures those knives would see.
Congrats on the -Zodiac- Zeta Weapon!
Comparing making a relic weapon now to how it was in Arr aint possible. You have some basic things like:
- Drop rates in arr (were back in arr as low as 0.5-1%)
- Not being able to fly
- There was a limit on how many tomes you could get a week for the relic. The books also cost like 500 each
- The anima books used to have 10 of each mob, while it only spawned 3 at a time, so you would have the whole server camping the same 3 dudes...
- The respawn timers of some of the fates had up to a 72 hours of respawn time...
- Light grind was hell since it was complelty random which fight was on bonus. And you got so little light from each thing.
- Zeta atmas was.. special since it was a small chance to get your atma drop from your dungeon, and you didnt get it until the end of the dungeon, so each dungeon taking about 20 mins to do...
- Materia grind, you would break your alexandriets as well if you failed, and it was a reallyy frustrating since you only got 1 map for free each day (from the expert roulette.) and you only got 1 per map.
The list goes on.
And I see people complaining how grind this is TODAY, when there is eureka em bozja that are much worst.
@BrunoLopes-ou1gy I agree that Eureka and Bozja grinds are longer. But I do think that the ARR grind is worse because there's next to no new content for it, unlike Bozja and Eureka with unique zones, bosses, and raids.
@BrunoLopes-ou1gy Plus, Almost all of the ARR relics look bad except for the final versions imo, so it's less rewarding to recieve the earlier versions.
@@Bruiser7985 when it's a current content I agree, it could be very fun to do, at least once. But after that it's very frustrating to do because you rely on other people who probably already did that for you to finish what you want. I hope eureka become popular again with the free trial up to stormblood than I'll be able to finish it.
@@BrunoLopes-ou1gy To be fair I started Eureka this month and it's been extremely populated at when I've played. I had no issues finding prep groups and NM farm groups
The daily instance cap is exactly 100, I saw this from Blue Mage gil farming videos. The instance caps will block you out from doing solo quest duties and Gold Saucer Gates such as Leap of Faith and Airforce one as well (The stage ones and the chocobo hatchling are still fine since they are not instanced).
I think I once reached the cap through Chocobo Racing.
“You need to complete Aurum Vale 42 times.” So confirmed, Aurum Vale *is* the meaning of life
I did it in 2 days. Horrible mind numbing, but its easy to do.
Did this step change or something? I swear that wasn't the most efficient thing to do before, I thought it was one of the extremes or raids?
@@KazumiKiguma Ya idk, back in ShB I remember spamming Ifrit ex over and over again instead of Aurum Vale as it was the most efficient.
I think back in the day they said Tam-Tara Deepcroft. Because it is easy and short enough that even as an actual Level 50 player you can do it solo
The trick is to start at 7 am (or 9 hours before reset) and have the reset occur right between all the dungeon runs. There is some leeway, but timing is key.
I did PLD's Zodiac relic before I even got to HW, during EW. At level 60. On the free trial.
It was awful.
Keep in mind that "it's easier now" does NOT mean "it's easy".
Also, for those giving it a try, Garuda Extreme is better than Aurum Vale for the first light farm. Faster by two thirds, for only slightly less light. If you have two level 90 dps, you can get it done in *9* seconds. Recently helped a friend through theirs and that's how we did that step. Just spamming the quest and trying to beat the time each run. I think our lowest was 6 seconds if we got every hit off just right.
I mean, a summoner can kill Garuda Extreme in 7-8 seconds with their first GCD if they have 550+ gear.
Garuda is faster, but if you're ever worried about hitting the duty limit (if you want to do duty roulettes or cap tomes the same day) then Aurum is better.
yes it's EXTREMELY easy sweetheart lol
@@penultimania4295 I see you skipped the clarifications and went straight to "no you're wrong lol"
class act, keep it up
@@guilegale8942 no, if you're doing the relic farm before you're max level you're just stupid, it's as simple as that.
I remember back in the day I got all the ATMA in one day and my friends still talk about it to this day. I can't even complain about rng in this game because they bring up the atma incident everytime and are just like "girl shut up, eff you"😂
xD
i just did this the other day. although after doing the books i doubt ill ever use the other atma. lol but at least i have them all just in case i guess.
The *best* way I've found to farm these is to do it with 2 other people. Every book has 3 FATEs, so you just have one person sit in each zone. None of the FATEs up? Queue for a dungeon. FATE up? Everyone goes to do it and then goes back to their designated zone. Rinse and repeat. It's great.
As someone who's done half the weapons available and only got 2 book grinds left, they're fun to do in downtime when you dunno what you wanna do on any game, but to do it in 1 day you've actually lost the plot 😂
Amazing stuff though still, congrats 👏
Getting a Zodiac is essentially saying after every step, "Well that wasn't so bad how bad could it be from here?" and it just gets progressively more mentally draining than the next.
I would say it's a breeze after books, a bit grindy but interesting at least
I'm gonna feel bad saying this... but apparently the most efficient way to get light is to see which one has the bonus out of the three dungeons.
Tam-tara, Stone Vigil, and Aurum Vale.
You unsync all three of them and you spam the one that gives you the "blinding" bonus that shifts every two hours that's better than the brilliant light that you were getting spamming Aurum Vale.
...man I can't believe you actually hit the duty cap.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I also did this in one day, but never actually hit the dungeon limit thanks to the bonus light which is actually the most hidden, trash mechanic in the entire game. Actually, maybe the game tells you there is a bonus for light, but its so easily missable.
I dont think so, is the ban only for doing dungeons? Even if it isnt, ex trials, garuda and moogle to be specific, are for what i have seen by far the best way to farm light at lvl cap.
@@blkhailink5963I calculated the time required to do a few of them at the time. It's definitely been a while so I lost those numbers. Anything that required duty finder will lock you out unfortunately.
@@ShoryukenPizza thats a shame, never did the farm in a single day so i never saw it happen before
@@blkhailink5963 Assuming you don't have a fast dungeon with bonus (which would most likely be the fastest regardless), then yeah, an EX that you can clear in 2/3 the time (or same time, if the EX has a bonus) of a dungeon would break even on time, and you should be able to make even better. Another option to consider: Ifrit Normal (4-man version, not "Hard") gives 1/4 the light of non-bonus EX or 1/6 the light of EX w/ bonus, and can be killed the second the intro circle drops. At least with fast load times, this becomes very competitive with EX.
But either way, since these are trials, they do not count towards the ~100 dungeons/day limit.
The biggest thing I like about the ARR relics is that they can be used in the Heavensward relics. The idea that they are the culmination of your time in ARR, travel with you through Heavensward, and in some form they continue to grow in power is such a neat concept.
honestly i just wish they kept that in for each new relic, giving you a chance to have a set of truly personal weapons that continued to grow with you, something you really crafted yourself from the ground up. plus then youd only need to make one set of weapons, and each time you turn it in you can keep access to the replicas without hogging inventory space
I remember doing my light grind last year for my first weapon, optimising it, reporting to friends on my fastest times, declinging sanity. They at least pulled me out every now and then for raids and roulette, would have gone truly mad otherwise
you dont need to comeplete a leve, you can just pick one up and abandon it and it still refreshes the list, picking up a level changes the list not completing them
Unsynced didn't exist in ARR, dungeons were a lot harder then they are now, drop rates are improved from what they were.. In short everything is a lot easier now then they used to be.
Some of your tips helped me in my free trial zodiac journey, and after completing the first I decided I had not felt enough pain and began gathering the materials to make the other 9 relics
Great video, Rinon. I did the NIN weap myself and a BLM one and can tell you your chat definitely did you a favor. Maybe unintentionally because they wanted you to suffer but optimized you can finish Aurumn Vale with NIN in like 1:09 or even faster. And the weapon looks the best imo from all ARR ones. Even better than the Ultimate daggers of any Ultimates. With BLM it would've been major pain to farm fates AND run Aurumn AND do books. I thought you're on Light not Chaos. Thanks for the p12s guide it's pretty standard here.
Meanwhile there is me, 7 month player chilling down the game slowly, doing one book per day to preserve my sanity.
The chat to the rescue on the fate grind at the end is the most wholesome part for me. They wanted to see you succeed and put their own time in to help you. What a community.
I didn't do my ARR Relic in 1 day, but I did do it on the Free Trial. No market board access - I had to get all of the materia and crafted items manually! I worked on it slowly in the background and it took like 3 months - mostly because of the materia and a couple of craft materials that can only drop from certain treasure maps. The 300k gil cap was also a bit of an issue with regards to getting the desynth items since they only come from overpriced vendor items.
I've done like 4-5 Zetas and the last 2 were a breeze because of World travel. It makes Books so much faster it's a night and day difference. I think my last weapon I finished in 2 days.
What amazing accomplishment, ARR RELIC in 1 day!, i remember getting a PLD relic weapon right after i beat ARR when i was like lvl 62 and broke, the whole ARR relic took me like an month to complete
I enjoyed the pain so much, I did all 10 of them
For the levepart, if u hold the ones u dont want, the leves will be forced to pick the ones u want to fill the pool, making that part pretty much not RNG at all, especially handy if u do multiple relics
So the key is to start maybe 12hrs after daily reset to prevent the bot prevention mechanism.
The way I did atmas way back when was to stay in a zone until I had atmas for each weapon.
i love the defense fate in north la noscea, thats fails after arround 50 seconds. i was camping this spot for 40 min until the fate finally apeared
fun fact. You don't ahve to turn the leve in to trigger a new one showing up. You just have to complete it. this works 95% of the time, so you can actually forcably get the entire leve list from a single levemete into your quest log at once. It doenst' fix everyting but it takes a big bite out of the RNG aspect of it
When you said you did the vail 42 times my jaw dropped.. I’m so sorry. Sending you my hopes and prayers
im on my 6th ARR weapon, you can get the crafted step open as you're doing books (after the first weapon) so the dungeons you do for books also work for the crafted step
I'm on the books now in Dawntrail....and they will be what kills me because I no longer have any poetics to spend on them, so now I have to go grind poetics out just for that!
once youve got your zeta, turn it in to start your heavensward relic, that way you keep thw ability to buy the rwplicas without needing to keep the weapon
I've done two Zodiac relics so far and I still don't understand why each one needs nine animus books. We're only updating four skills by a tiny amount in the end, so surely it would make more sense to just have one book per skill for a totof four. It would still be grindy but you'd cut that step down by more than half.
Ninja is the only ARR relic i did, but synced for the first half because i didn't know better. The second half was kind of fun, speedrunning dungeons. In theory, with the move speed buff, 2 blinks, and lightning dash, plus resets from raiton, ninja would be extremely fast at running through anything.
Where's the part where you get banned?
We got clickbaited
The big problem with the books is that they dont allow you to get into the flow of the grind.
Usually, if you have a big task of killing billions of mobs you eventually just enter a zen state of mind where time flies by and you dont even notice the grind anymore.
Not so much here, with the book giving you tasks all over the world, where you must constantly travel back and fro zone after zone after zone.
This more then killing tons of mobs grinds my gears so much it becomes unthinkable to continue.
i do remember these caps were added for safety of players health. it seems odd but i do recall an interview where they explained why this exists. its not to deal with bots though but thats most i recall other than what i mentioned as possible recalled factoids.
Nah, never gonna do THAT. I would rather grind tomestones, Bozja or even Eureka again before I start doing that shit. I wouldnt mind if they rework the grind or just exchange it for tome stone grind, as well. But I'm sure a small loud minority would complain about that, as well. =)
I actually finished 4 or 5 Atma grinds over the years just randomly doing a FATE now and again as I passed thru the areas.
I’d love them to let you do at least 2 books at a time even though I’m down to 3 to complete.
The entire thing about happening to have a ton of Alexandrite and not knowing what it was for can be summed up in 3 words: "Rich people problems"
I'm currently torturing myself with the ARR Relics. I completed my WHM Relic, and then decided I'd get all of the rest before moving on to HW. Furthermore, I'm doing them ALL AT ONCE. 9 of each Atma sucked so much. I'm currently on the books, I finished Paladin, so now I'm doing Ninja. I'm in the L50s, so I thankfully have a friend that's L90 to do it with. 9 Relics, for the 2nd to last stage, require 720K Grand Company Seals, 7.2K Poetics, and 3.6Mil Gil, for everything I need. Plus more Poetics for the books (900 for each weapon), plus the final stage which requires yet more Poetics. This is gonna be hell.
Also, 42 Aurum Vale runs... X 9. I might just choose to do Extreme Trials instead, done in seconds.
why would you do that? lmao
I remember doing the atma grind when it first came out on my old ps4 account, it was miserable, took me weeks of grinding FATEs and i never did get all 12.. think i made it to 8 and just stopped playing from general burnout but im sure grinding for atma every day accelerated the progress.
Years later i got a pc and made a new account so that relic will forever be unfinished, glad to hear they've drastically increased the drop rate of atma though, cuz that shit sucked.
for materia I and II, i use crafted hq right side with slots when i gather or craft. The spiritbond really quickly and i extract materia 1s from that.
A friend grinded atmas in the area where you get "the goat" recently. I decided to join him after a while and brought my own zenith weapon and got 3 atma of the goat in the first 3 fates. And it took a long time for him to get 1 after that
I did one of these relic weapons weeks ago or more back, I would not say I gave up on it just got sidetracked and was to into the story I forgotten about it. After hitting Stormblood I decided to go back and finish it up for my White Mage Relic as I dont find White Mage my least fun it was my first choice and It was my most favorite Job in FFXIV, I already completed it with ease, my WHM was like lvl 80 sooo I tackled it with zero issues.
I never disliked fates, I like them. Plus who does not want to hear the music?
making the calculations it's like... 6 duties on the first step + 27 on the books step, +42 on the light step (dunno how many had bonuses) + 18 on the mahatma step, it's a total of 93 duties per day you can do in this game before the restriction activates xD
I see having a seemingly endless amount of Gil is how you did it 😂😂
don't forget getting alexandrite beforehand
Now that I've watched your video I think I'll give it a go!! Thanks for sharing the process XD
for light farm, I prefer 5sec ifrit normal runs. Even without bonus light its comparable to aurum vale WITH bonus light
i did this on free trial, Market Board is such a privilege i dont have
For the book step if your fate isn’t popping up I’m 99 percent sure you can just start doing the other fates in the area to get your desired fate to spawn when I’ve done this before assuming my fate hasn’t spawned yet it takes me 5-10 minutes to spawn in my experience
I just finished my second zodiac and for the final light farm and there's two things that really struck me. (books are books, nothing special here) This go around, for my final step, I bribed a friend with the inferno horns we'd find and did ifrit ex. At 30 seconds each run and 2-3 runs per mahatma, this step did not take that long. The backbreaker here is the books, and the gil step if you dont have that much. I only had 1.5 mil going into this and now I hover at about 50k. Still, congrats on your weapon! the Zodiacs are one of the best looking weapons in the game
that is basically the game telling you "calm down and go take a break" XD
fun fact: if Aurum doesn't have the light bonus when you run it, it isn't the fastest way.
I see you fell for the Aurum Vale wiki trap.
Light farming on NIN and similarly high damage burst jobs is actually faster if you alternate between King Moogle EX and Ifrit EX unsync. King Moogle takes about 25-30 sec and for some reason, Ifrit will only let you 3 sec kill him every other time you instance, both of which give you 32 light each. Compare that to spamming Aurum Vale, which takes about 1-2 minutes per run and gives 48 light.
**This is a difference between ~112-128 light every minute and ~24-48 light every minute.**
Garuda is the only other ARR EX trial that can be killed as fast as Ifrit with NIN but it only gives 16 light per kill and has the same issue as Ifrit, in that it can only be killed before RP every other instance and it seems to overlap with Ifrit's issue every time.
I finished the Nexus Light farming in about 10 minutes doing this and about 5 minutes for the Zeta relic. This also bypasses the hidden dungeon cap, as you can spam trials without issue likely because of mount farming.
Atma is the absolute worst part of this relic and there really is no speeding it up without insane fate/leve luck.
The rotations I used for each trial were as follows:
-King Moogle: Prepull Kassatsu -> Prepull Shukuchi -> Mug -> Hyosho Ranryu -> Wait for moogles to spawn -> Katon -> Wait for moogles to res -> Katon
-Ifrit: Prepull Huton-Hide -> Prepull NQ Dex pot (Instance barrier ends around here) -> Prepull Kassatsu -> Prepull Shukuchi -> Mug -> Hyosho Ranryu -> Dream Within a Dream -> Tenchijin: Ten-Chi-Jin -> Trick attack -> Fleeting Raiju (Usually died halfway through Tenchijin)
everytime i finish the 10 set of a quest , i come to this video
This brings back ptsd... I got the warrior relic during ARR, I NEVER did it again for any other job..
Good job. For the next challenge/Zodiac, try doing it old-school. No server/DC hopping, no pre-farming Alexandrites and start the run with 0 poetics :D
The moment I saw NIN was selected I though. “Hey at least he has that increased movement speed!” 😂
definitely make sure you hang onto that weapon because unlike every other relic weapon, you have to actually bring the completed zodiak weapon with you to the replica vendor to buy versions of any of the steps for glam
I... have NEVER seen a MAXIMUM amount of duties penalty. My word... even now I am learning more about the game. XD
As someone who did the Zodiac relic on content level, I don't even want to think about how much money I spent on materia for BiS stats
In today's money it could probably buy you several large housing plots
Back in ShB I saw the WHM Zodiak relic and decided, "yeah i've done a few of each type of relic already and liked them, we're in a lul til EW, I might as well get a christmas tree cane" and...god. And after that absolute slog? I went back for the SMN relic. Because I decided I needed to have each SMN relic. I don't even like the Zodiak book, it's hideous!
But now in EW, working on my last relic for all jobs til January's step, I'm considering getting the PLD one. I don't play PLD, but I'm so starved for a real combat relic that I might just do it once I get my last gatherer relic done if I don't decide to go back to the Diadem grind instead.
This relic weapon grind will always and forever be part of my ffxiv journey. Im damn proud i also got through it.
I have done Zodiac weapons (when able to no-life them) in about 3 days each on average entirely solo. I genuinely recommend using Bozja for grinding poetics and just AFK for FATEs to spawn at specific locations rather than seever hopping so you retain your sanity.
I got my Yoichi Bow Zeta before Heavensward released. It took quite a bit of effort, but having that sweet glowy boy going into the next bit of content was fantastic.
FYI just did my ARR relic yesterday (took me 3 days) but at the last step where you need to farm light 12 times me and a friend ran the trial ultima's Bane. 6 second clear time and only takes 5 runs per step. It works on the light farming in the earlier step as well and is SO MUCH FASTER than running dungeons. Finished that step in less than 1 hour.
I did all 10 relics in a few weeks. I had covid and no responsibilities and all of netflix at my disposal. I actually enjoyed myself strangely enough
Completing relics is a drug that I recommend to anyone. It feels so wonderful to put a lot of effort into something and have it completed. Go do your relics! It's amazing!
Watching people experience Pain so i dont have to do it made me realize that grinding Savage Alexander is nothing compared to 50+ runs of Arum Vale for Relic Weapons
It took me a month or two to grind out my Zodiac weapon. I had the bright idea to go out of my way to level up all my crafters to 50, gear them up (and collect all of the Supra/Lucis tools) so that I could do the craft parts on my own.
The book phase used to be the worst, you used to have to kill 10 of each listed enemy instead of 3.
you can also get a lot of alexandrite pretty quick by doing the treasure maps for them, which is a looooot faster than any of the other methods. (but still not quite as fast as already having them im a retainer I guess lol)
I have done this relic twice and and i think what kills me to with this relic is that for the 2nd half of it there is no quest what so ever, you have to go into your COMPLETED quests to keep track of what you were asked to do and for certain parts of the relic it's SUPER vague just reading what's in the quest log to try and figure out what to do. it's is not a "hard" relic to get but it is stupid grindy
all that said i would do this over bozja and eureka any day of the week.
Part of me wants to make this relic on the free trial, but that is pretty intimidating. In particular, the zodiac stage looks intimidating since it requires eight high quality crafted items. Apparently the only way to get some materials on the free trial is through desynthesis? Oh man.
do the Ultimate Kettle Nexus, what you unloc when you finish your first Zodiac Relic. :D
That Zenith step is only so "easy" because they nerfed it.
It used to take something like 900 Mythology tomes, and instead of the weekly cap of 450 we have now, we had a cap of 300 back then so it took 3 weeks to get an i90 weapon.
Not true, I got my zenith weapon back in 2013 after 12 days fate grinding for lvl 50/MSQ finished and 3 days to get Zenith. 15 days is what it took 10-12hrs a day grinding. Now to get full i90 it took roughly a month or so for a Job
@@zonedout3390 it absolutely is true. You can check any of the archives. Thavnairian Mist was 300 mythology, and you needed 3 for every weapon. You weren't getting a Zenith/+1 weapon in "3 days" because it took 3 weeks of time gate.
I think you should try this again WITHOUT having so much prepped prior to starting :P
Doing 9×12 atmas took longer than doing all books, since you can farm healer atmas during your dps or tank progress step. Hence books arent as bad.
Wow i had no idea duties had a daily limit, thats a huge shocker right there 😮
I'm currently working on the veil of wiyu in free trial, the grind is insane
I did only a Zodiac weapon and was for the Warrior Axe and tbh, the light farm was the thing that traumatized me and made me never want to step into Sastasha again. I chose to spam Sastasha because I could 1 shot most things with the relic still so I wouldn't accidentally forget to swap weapons before exiting dungeon/equipping it before the final boss.
Im not sure if Aurum Vale is truly the most time efficient way of doing the Nexus Light farm.
I did it doing King Moggle Mog Extreme over and over again, and since you can kill him with some coordination within 30 seconds or less, especially with friends, even factoring in loadingscreens you make much more light per minute/hour even though you dont get as much light per kill
I mean I have max cape in RS3 and OSRS I can totally do this, thanks for the inspo
It's crazy how much easier this game is as a streamer
sounds like a skill issue to me
@@RinBanana sounds like you should be able you do it solo and without having alexandrite ahead of time
Wow... I didn't even know there was a duty limit.
You totally skipped the cutscene where the game tries to fake you out. Gerolt is like "We're trying to do the impossible. I'd put this at a 1% chance of success..." and the game pops up an option "Would you like the continue anyway?" and if you say yes, it says "If this process fails, you WILL lose your weapon and all progress up to this point. Are you absolutely sure?"
Of course it succeeds every time, but it's such a rude troll after all that work.
Just as a note. The Atma drop rates have been since increased by a total of 200% from when it first released in Patch 2.2. This buff wasn't done in one patch though. It was raised by 50-100% 2-3 times over the course of 2.4-3.x. The grind for Atma is gated by FATEs, which you have to level sync for, so it is impossible to take advantage of the "40 levels" you so mentioned. Back then, however, a single atma drop could take 8+ Hours, sometimes more.
I would know, because I did the original iteration, three times on an old character.
Hey look taken is up.
Hey look Taken is down.
I have all the weapons, the title "The Insatiable" and everyone asks me if I'm ok....
I don't know which method of relic weapon progression I prefer. Yes Endwalker progression was mind-numbingly easy and even easier now that Dawntrail is out and you can buy everything with poetics, but this level of grind is kind of nuts as well. I think I would want something that does give incentive to do fates, but make the item you need from the fates be a possible drop from the fate but also purchasable with bicolor gemstones so if you get RNG screwed you are guaranteed to get what you need after a certain amount of grinding.
Heres the issue ARR relic was designed to be a time sync. It was supposed to give the olayers soemthing to do between Raids. It was also meant to be alternative content for people who didn't do raids.
But SE changed their stance on Relic now. Relic is not considered content anymore. Just fsrm tome, get item, upgrade relic.
The Atma farming was the worst part. It took me two weeks to get all 12 Atma. I spent a week just for one Atma to drop. The books were actually easier and took less time back in ARR.
I remember doing Atma when the drop rate was like 2%, that was hell. 😭
Ironically, Nin was also my one and only Zodiac I could bring myself to complete. Years later, mind you. I started with the monk weapon back in ARR and rage quit at the Light farm phase. Smh
At least that Sasuke blade is worth it😅
Never hit dungeon que cap tho. I think it’s because I farmed the Coil Savage dungeon which gave a ton of light and was able to finish each run in like 3mins per run.
Light is super fast from Alexander Savage 9. Takes 20 runs to max light out.
As someone with a primitive brain as mine
I only recently finished the Zodiac warr relic I had, after 3 yrs of procastanating after the Anima step
And as a Free Trial still, m ways of grinding are.... old school xD
I have since then decided in the future to get every other relic for all jobs, in all expansions
Just for the replica glam to store in my dresser to take unnccessary space
This vid was exactly what I needed to remind me of the brain damage I must've suffered to cloud out these memories and the choices ahead
Your videos have been very informative and entertaining :>
And your Miqo'te is very precious in both ingame design and digital art design, the arts you have of her are very lovely x3
Thank you for being you!
I have done two grinds that get respect even among old players.
I did the pteranodon grind before it got easier, and I possess a logistics node for winning 200 Frontline matches in player versus player content. I'm currently working on the rarest of the PVP mounts, the mech suit called construct 7. That one has been frustrating in the extreme.
Im still a sprout in Stormblood and i just got my drk relic and paladin relic, they look cool
Holy christ this has been nerfed to hell, the light stage alone was like a week of 8 hour Garuda farming, thank god I was in Uni back then