Born again Anima

[Paah]

I wish it were 2/rune. It takes me about 10 A1s runs per rune.

Looking for something faster it takes way too long to get a party together and can't keep one together for more than 15-20 runs.

Farming a9s is about the only thing faster than a1s.

[Falar]

Now that I'm done with DRK and NIN I was unsure what to do next....then I saw pictures of Aettir! I don't even play PLD but its time to get that Anima to 270.

[ChloeGrace]

This relic step is like driving across Kansas - f***ing endless and boring as hell.
At least with umbrites, I could farm lore on any job.

[Xenos88]

I hated umbrite farming with f***ing passion. I'll take light farming over the hellish umbrite step

[Acidblood]

This relic step is like driving across Kansas - f***ing endless and boring as hell.
At least with umbrites, I could farm lore on any job.

Agreed, the lore (and other) grinds may be a bit annoying, but at least you can do them with any and all jobs, plus with bonuses for dailies, etc. it means less runs if you do it over a longer timespan (WTF, you mean you don't have to grind everything out on the first day)...

That light grind though, whole other level, and after 6 weeks of feeling like I had to tank every damn thing (why did I choose PLD??) I finally gave in and did A1S, 70 f***ing times…

It’s over now though, and I’m back to being able to enjoying the game (including tanking), but yeah, I'd give any of the lore grinds a 10/10 compared to that (Unidentified X step is still a 6/10 though, mainly because it took about twice as long as it reasonably should have).

[Onyxia]

less runs

But much more time, especially before 3.55. I spent 48k lores for my 2 animas. And I spent only 6 hours on light farming (for one anima) in a1s during bonus windows (robust).

[Thrivaios]

Light grind is so mind numbingly exhausting. I just did it for my second relic and I'll have to do it again for my next two (I've got a lot of free time clearly) but I bounce back and forth between hating it more and hating the umbrite step more. Even with the nerf it's still just ridiculous. I think the hardest part about light grinding is you basically do the same thing for hours whereas during the umbrite step you at least can do other stuffs.

[Acidblood]

But much more time, especially before 3.55. I spent 48k lores for my 2 animas. And I spent only 6 hours on light farming (for one anima) in a1s during bonus windows (robust).

True, but I would rather spend 20 hours over a few weeks doing a variety of dungeons (and some side activities) than 6 hours repeating the same mindless 2-3 minutes over and over and over...

Which is to say, if the light grind was reasonable outside of a1s / a9s I wouldn’t have minded so much, but that it takes close to 10 weeks of 'normal activity' vs. 6 hours of mindless grind is just ridicules….

If a1s takes 3 minutes for X light, an ‘expert’ dungeon, which is about the same difficultly given the gear levels, and takes approximately 20 minutes, should have given at least 4*X light.