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I used to farm Xarc but the math showed I'd take most of the year to get all the currency for a Relec, start to finish. So I only farmed it for relecs, relec exp trial, and Hope. With that said I also only recently soloed all the nightmare zones on pup last September.. Skirmish gear helped but it wont protect you from really bad breath. Treasure hunter is not needed unless your trying to farm, pops, relecs, accessories, -1, and forgoten parts. Even in Xarcabard you can duo/micro party the stronger demons on the cliff for more currency and upgrades or pet pull them to the ramps.

Between Relec/Mythic/Emp weapons.. Relec is generally the easier and cheaper of the three if you spend the time to farm the currency. Time spent is going to dynamis daily for about 3.5 months. In the end you could have about 50% of the currency left over to finish a second Relec or you could just sell the hundreds off for gil.

Mythic on the other hand, isnt just the 10k alex, theres: Duties Tasks and Deeds quest. Before that quest you need to have climed to floor 100 in nyzule, unlocked the weapon skill, and then make it to captain rank. Only then would you need to redo every assault mission once as captain (including rescue the impereal agent). Not to forget gaining titles by destroying all the chariots once, defeat Odins Chamber, Kill all three beastmen lords in Ahturgan, then buy really expensive items using special currency from Einerjar, Salvage and Assault. Only then you can begin trading 10k alexandrite, and hopefully you were collecting them while farming gear, currency and chariots in salvage. Finally you can take it to the BC and battle a NM in a story line battle to unlock the final lv 75 stage.

So apart from getting to captain rank and redoing every assault missions again. The Devs did recently make it so you can enter and solo Salvage, Nyzule, and Assault. Those mobs are still capped around lv 80 ish. In a way farming up a Mythic might take much longer than a Relec..

As for Emps, the only restriction was access to the nm's. You had to be in a alliance of some sort to farm pop sets then the NM's that droped the items needed. Then there was figuring out a way to split the loot in the end. This would require more friends helping each other than the previous two. Also they were increassing level caps at this time, so mobs were much stronger. That's why the weapons only started getting good once you got to lv 80 and the Emp gear started to really increase damage and the functions of various job abilities. Void Watch/Walk was all intergrated with with magian trials for Abyssea expansions.

In a way the weapons paths were reflective of the current gaming environment. When levels were increased to lv95, that's where many people just threw their hands up in the air with Emp weapons. The majority of emps were left at 90 as the universal average for their function. While the hard core bought, fought, and farmed for all 1500 Hmp despite the low drop rate. Then they did it again for the lv 99 upgrade and then afterglow/aftermath. Those who already had relecs went and upgraded them to 95 and many gil farmed so they could buy the marrow to go to lv 99... Infact one could say that by design its harder/restricted to farm 5 marrow for a lv 99 relec than it was to farm 1500 hmp in that game environment. Today its the reverse, farming ADL is more like farming Emp to lv90 than farming HMP to get Emp's to lv95. Hopefully all while farming hopes, currency, etc to fill in the down time in dynamis.. Meanwhile those who had mythics went and slowly farmed those up to 99..

Now with the iLev reforging: Plu,Rif, Beitsu are at the same drop rate. However more people had relecs at lv 99 than mythic and Emp. More people had lv 99 Mythics than lv 99 Emp. More people had Lv 90 Emp's than people with lv75 Mythics and Relecs. Farming HMP is slow and if you dont get max lights for loot it'll take even longer. That is why Plutons cost more, while the only folks buying Beitsu and Riftborn Boulders were those who already had Mythic and/or Emps at lv 99. Otherwise they're so saturated on the bazars. The M/E upgrades are starting to go for 10k and 20k and still move slowly.

Therefore the only work around on Emp's since Dynamis and Mythic requirements have already been re-adjusted, is to either lower the HMP/Riftdros cost or increas the means to aquire them. Considering the link of VoidWalk/Watch to Abyssea and Walk of Ecoes. One would assume HMP or Riftdross would be added to the higher teir walks. Like FLux 15 or the one with that one dragon. It would be efficent and a quick and repeatable means of farming with out the need to form large perfect parties. While expanding single HMP to Ironclads and Chariots in WoE and Abyssea, with Riffdross on the Cature's in aby and flux 15 in WoE. The drop rate could still be the same despite having more than one path to farming them. Then you can have pouches of hmp found only in VoidWalk/Watch (howabout making it easier remember which is which).