How to make Nexus grinding entertaining?

Seriously, I'm asking. I kinda miss Atma. I don't know why I found that more enjoyable.

I know people already have Nexus, and there's people who can mindlessly grind.. but usually after about 10 Garuda HM's.. I'm burnt out on repetitive stuff.

I've done some consecutive fates... which is slightly more entertaining... but when I think that it takes 200 fates to get 1/10th of the way there it almost seems futile.

So.. anyone doing anything fun to get it done? cause I'm 3/10ths in and aside from just letting it happen on it's own, it's kinda zapped my will to play and makes me reluctant to ever play any other job :P

I have a second monitor to watch other stuff on while I grind.
Nice music helps too.

I would think that Nexus would make you more motivated to play if I'm thinking along the right lines of obtaining the weapon. I've seen people mixing it up through out all the primal battles from Garuda-Levi and Titan EX so there is def some mix up there, also the rare chance a mount/mirror drops too kind of adds to the incentive. Although I'm still grinding my Novus (37/75) I actually look forward to grinding for Nexus as well as I find myself queing for pretty much everything aside from the 1-4 Coil every day I jsut run through the menu and click the max and que up. rinse- and repeat its fun because its like a roulette and I never get the same que twice In a row. Not sure if that helped or not lol

Just do it naturally... there is no rush and a Novus will get you through all current content as it is.

Don't force yourself too much, if you push too hard you'll probably just burn yourself out instead. Frankly, the 5 iLvl improvement isn't necessary in just about anything in the game (except maybe Savage Coil), and it requires generally at least a whole 24 hours of straight grinding if you're operating at maximum efficiency (most ideal situation is around 20 hours and 50 minutes if you do approximately 2 minute Garuda HM runs all in bright window, excluding exit/re-queue times; otherwise 33 hours and 20 minutes of Cape Westwind over and over and over again assuming kill, exit, re-queue in a minute). I don't think the devs expect most people to get Nexus before 2.4 at any rate, so just take your time if you don't think you can handle grinding out hours of it at a time.

Personally, I did about 70% of my Nexus in about a week by going full on at it for hours of the day (that 8 hours of Garuda on one day helped that a lot), but I don't really recommend following that path. At the very least make sure you have your relic equipped for whatever you queue up in, every bit counts.

EDIT: To add on from a post later on in this thread:

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Originally Posted by ServerCollaps

farming mog or titan with bonus is a good way to make some money beside and made nexus farming really enjoyfull

I made millions just by increasing my alc desynth and selling primal demis (which go for 200-250k ea on our server)

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If you have desynthesis leveled you can make a bit of cash out of the grind - although it's hardly anywhere near as profitable now as it was near the beginning of the grind. On Behemoth, Inferno and Vortex Demimaterias are very close to becoming somewhat expensive vendor trash, but Crag and Demimog are still selling for at least somewhat decently.

I ran my roulette's and PF'd about 20 HM runs per day. Threw a few ST's in there and BAM, was done in 3 weeks.

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Originally Posted by Estellios

Just do it naturally... there is no rush and a Novus will get you through all current content as it is.

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This ^

Unlike atma or any other step, you can work towards your Nexus without really focusing on it, by just playing the game, only grind when you feel like it, but don't force yourself.

I had got another novus that I wanted to sink time into nexus instead. Barely hit stage one and plan to get nexus on this 3 day weekend XD

My other novus though... might be a while lol

i almost did it in 1 week, but got burnt out too :) so i kind of dragged it out another 2 weeks.
FC TS helped a lot, there's a bunch of really fun ppl.
but you know, just do it now and then, when there's some fight on bonus, and just do it as long as you feel like it.

Parse. Thats the only way.

Grind doing the Moogle Trial :3

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Originally Posted by Estellios

Just do it naturally... there is no rush and a Novus will get you through all current content as it is.

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This. For the most part I'm just going about my daily routine. I also have stuff I'm doing with friends. One of them is also on nexus, so we hit up 5-10 HM at a clip when they're in bonus. Some of my friends are grinding atma (I am too, but I'm 10/12 atm); we alternate between me going on a class with zenith and getting an atma I need and me going on my paladin to help them get atma they need while I earn light. Daily roulettes, second coil clears, farming first coil turns, farming EX primals, it all adds up. I'm at 60%, probably close to 70% by now. :3

Upgrade your weapon utilizing the power of interpretive grinding.
Slot emotes to an ability bar and everytime you use a regular ability in combat, follow it up with an emote that symbolizes how you currently feel, but you have to be truly honest with yourself when selecting what emote to use. That should make things more interesting, for better or worse.

Seriously though, just pace yourself and mix up what content you do to get light.

Two words: Audiobooks and Netflix

When you've spammed the same primal fight 73 times in the last week, chances are you've got it down so well you could do it in your sleep, so do something else while you're fighting. I alternated listening to audiobooks on my iPod to catch up on "reading" a few new books in series' I'm following, and watching TV series I missed on netflix.

I got my nexus mostly by PvPing. It's slower than grinding primals but much more fun IMO.

Step 1: Mash head into desk repeatedly for thirty minutes.
Step 2: Drink half a pint of whiskey.
Step 3: Mash head into desk for a further thirty minutes.
Step 4: Assuming you're still conscious, play the game. Everything will seem infinitely more entertaining than what you've done for the last hour.

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Originally Posted by Steady

Seriously, I'm asking. I kinda miss Atma. I don't know why I found that more enjoyable.

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I can't possibly know why someone would prefer a quest where you need to spam hundreds of fates while brutally being at the mercy of the RNG over a quest that rewards you for playing any single piece of content of this game.

Atma = killing level 3 flans for the next 30-60 hours.
Nexus = play FFXIV.

On the first one you are forced to put up with the most dumb and boring thing I've ever witnessed in my entire life. On the second one you play the game without the necessity to rush anything, trials, raids, maps, dungeons, fates, anything counts. If all that still happens to bore you maybe the problem isn't the Nexus quest but the fact you don't enjoy FFXIV as much as you think you do.

Dual-monitor and YouTube/Netflix. That's how I finished mine.

I did Garuda HM last night with my FC for nearly 2 hrs while in Mumble. Definitely makes the grind much more entertaining. There was one fight where I couldn't even tell which way Garuda was facing anymore because I was laughing so hard there were tears in my eyes.

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Originally Posted by Marael

Two words: Audiobooks and Netflix

When you've spammed the same primal fight 73 times in the last week, chances are you've got it down so well you could do it in your sleep, so do something else while you're fighting. I alternated listening to audiobooks on my iPod to catch up on "reading" a few new books in series' I'm following, and watching TV series I missed on netflix.

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Honestly, the primal fights aren't so bad to me. They melt so fast I barely notice how many I've done.

Plus, shiny things to desynth.

I actually fell asleep during Cape Westwind farm. Something about doing the same fight over and over just seems unbearable. Makes me miss atma. This is the answer to the RNG-hate I suppose.

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Originally Posted by CYoung187

I actually fell asleep during Cape Westwind farm. Something about doing the same fight over and over just seems unbearable. Makes me miss atma. This is the answer to the RNG-hate I suppose.

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Yeah... there's a reason I didn't do the Cape Westwind grind-fest. I think I would've stabbed myself.

Boring and no rewards? No thanks. I'd rather get my Nexus a bit slower and actually enjoy it.

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Originally Posted by NyneAlexander

Parse. Thats the only way.

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This and/or movies, tv, etc.

(Atma)(Full attack!)
(Animus)(I'm tired.)
(Novus)(I'm tired.)(I'm sleepy.)
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(Nexus)(No thanks.)

I refused to do such mindlessly, boring grindy contents. I used to do it but not anymore. They can't fool me anymore.
To get Atma, Animus, Novus & Nexus, all you need is time and most importantly RGN, nothing else. You don't need any skills at all, meaning not challenging, It's that fun for you?

Not me, I will stick with my High allagan weapon, and maybe do one expert duty roulette per day to get the lights.

I saw many people spent huge amounts of time on the hunt to get the sand, farm lights for Nexus, and yet they never did any coils. Full 110 soldiery equipments with Nexus, I don't understand that. What's the reason for that if you're not doing any endgame contents, so you can kill faster in Syrcus tower?
It seems people nowadays enjoy this kind of meaningless way to gear up. And don't even know why they're gearing up for.

Atma I had no trouble getting, unlike some people, I wasn't just doing the same fate over and over again because that was where the bonus was. I wasn't limited on playing a single job endlessly, so long as I had a Zenith equipped i was good. I also had a very transparent indicator of where I was in my progress.

I really don't know how people do it. I feel job locked, and while I enjoy war.. that makes me enjoy it less. Because anything I do that could give a light that I don't have War for, is a missed opportunity. But yeah as people have said.. perhaps my best course is just to not think about it.

I did PvP(and Moraby Dock Fates while I waited), also Garuda/Ramuh/Leviathan trials when the bonus windows were up. To me that was fun.

Don't grind it. When you aren't playing all you'll hear in your head is "NOWWWWW FAAAAAAAAAHHH-AHHH-AH-AH-AH-ALLLL"

I been doing Frontlines alot specially when it gives Blinding light, this way you get both light and pvp rank at the sametime but the only downside is extremely long ques. Tbh im kinda suprised that there are not many peoples doing their nexus in pvp, its easy and gives multiple benefits not just lights alone and its alot more enjoyable than spamming garuda/cape 24/7.

farming mog or titan with bonus is a good way to make some money beside and made nexus farming really enjoyfull

I made millions just by increasing my alc desynth and selling primal demis (which go for 200-250k ea on our server)

Daily expert roulette for alexandrite map -> Brilliant or Blinding
Daily alexandrite map -> Gentle
Daily trial roulette -> Gentle or Bright
The rest I keep queueing frontlines. I wanted to be rank 38 for glamours anyway, plus mount achievement. Also getting myth which I use on my blm Animus, could use it to sell myth gear for seals, mats to craft stuff or buying more alexandrite maps. You also get lots of Wolf Marks which you can buy gear (besides wearing it, which is fast to get), you can sell for seals, dysenthesis (high items, giving nice points for free and the items to buy are by choice!), and lots of Brilliant or Blinding lights. Doing that instead of farming other content over and over again (Frontlines is over and over again aswell, but every match is different at least) so I don't get burnt out on other stuff. And I'm at Intense stage, which is like 80%, only 2 steps to go. Also, you can do Frontlines on whatever class you want and switch to the class you want to receive lights on before the match ends, so you're not forced to play THAT class for everything when you like playing multiple classes.

I'd rather have to spam Garuda EX then have to look at another fate... F you atma