How/How'd You farm your Alex

Currently working my Novus ( SCH 37/75) and I feel my grind is moving gradually slow. I obtained my animus about 6 weeks ago (I've failed a few chest and skipped a day ) but overall I want to know how everyone else goes about getting there alex...I do materia as I go so that part isn't the big worry but actually getting the alex. I probably get about 2 a day( daily Ex quest and then I buy a map). Doing the hunts are okay but get drastically boring and grinding for 200 seals for 1 Alex is pretty depressing. Any other methods of obtaining for you and how fast they worked ?

I just do the daily quest and when I have enough Myth from Roulettes/ST I buy a map, but I don't farm anything.

Sorry to say, but Hunts are far and away the fastest way to go. Seals for the alex and myth for the maps. Nothing else really comes close.

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Originally Posted by Mercutial

Seals for the alex and myth for the maps. Nothing else really comes close.

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I was afraid of this ugh the agony of rushing to a damn mob every 5 minutes. Thanks for the input might be my only option

Break up the monotony with Trial Roulette and Story Roulette for some quick doses of Myth. They can be a little hit or miss on speed, so they're not the pinnacle of Alexandrite efficiency, but at least it gets you out of riding around razzer-frazzin' Central Shroud for a little while.

I did the same as Moqi for my Bard Novus.
Don't care for hunts and I saw no need to rush it.

I'll second Trial Roulette to break from the routine. Quick myth to be had there.

Trial Roulette is only the 110 right ?

Do the daily, farm the myth for extra maps. It takes time but I never used seals for alexandrite. Surprisingly once you get your first novus and continue to do the daily you will have a decent stack saved up.

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Originally Posted by ZhycranaDranix

Trial Roulette is only the 110 right ?

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Plus whatever Myth the trial itself drops (not very much, but still), and you'll often get a new player bonus, too.

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Originally Posted by Bixby

Plus whatever Myth the trial itself drops (not very much, but still), and you'll often get a new player bonus, too.

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Yeah if you do the story roulette and get a new player bonus that's like 200+ myth right there. Just don't rush the new player into not watching their cut scenes. :P

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Originally Posted by ZhycranaDranix

I was afraid of this ugh the agony of rushing to a damn mob every 5 minutes. Thanks for the input might be my only option

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I dont like hunting neither myself, but when I wanted to do my weapon faster (becoz a new step came and it became the best weapon), I had to hunt.
Before was doing only roulette, was going kinda slow.

With hunting, took me like 5-7 days to go from 25 to 75... This is stupid how they make that with hunt you do everything... (even oil and sands)

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Originally Posted by Artiste

took me like 5-7 days to go from 25 to 75...

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...I will hunt till im out of gil from transfers

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Originally Posted by ZhycranaDranix

How/How'd You farm your Alex

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By not posting in the lore forum about it.

If you're on a server which has a good Hunt LS/TS3 chat going I'd do my daily roulette, then spam hunts.

If I didn't I'd just do my daily roulette and then finish up with all of the other roulettes.

... By farming FATEs 'cuz I'm that hardcore.

... Just kidding ! I did the daily and patched with extra myth. Took me about 2 months. I went about it the casual way.

The daily expert roulette is probably the fastest way to get a map, unless you're unlucky enough for 3 or more S ranks to spawn while you're in the dungeon. Since it's just once a day though it's a bit lacking. I like to do the trial roulette because it's 110 or so myth in about 5 minutes (usually).

I hate hunting, but it is unfortunately (or fortunately) very fast/ practically without restriction. Some of my friends zoomed way ahead of me on alexandrite acquisition by taking a few days to hunt for several hours. Seems like any time I decide to hunt though there's a mysterious 45 minute+ downtime where absolutely nothing spawns...

I got them overtime doing the map quest from Brangwine, buying with myth I got from dungeons/hunts, and a few bought from Allied seals from hunts.
It didn't take that long to finish once I actually started putting my myth/seals towards it.

I finished my Novus in 5 days thanks to hunts. I finished mine when B rank hunts still gave rewards, though. Keep in mind, Hunts give Allied Seals and Myth at the same time.

most people i know did hunts non stop when it was raining myth and got all their alex in about a week or less.

I for one pretty much gave up on relics. the time / effort compared to reward is too bad for me to justify it.

What's the rush to get your Alex? If you don't have the gil for your materia you won't be able to finish your Novus anyway.Usually by the time I gather enough gil for a novus I have enough alexandrites to get the novus just from doing all roulletes every day + doing maps.

I just did the daily quest and all the other roulette stuff for myth tomes. Once I upgraded to a PS4, hunting got easier, so I sped up my process and only hunted for about an hour or two in the mornings when windows were popping like crazy and not a huge number of people were around. I spread it all out over a long while, though, and only just hit Novus yesterday.

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Originally Posted by Mercutial

Sorry to say, but Hunts are far and away the fastest way to go. Seals for the alex and myth for the maps. Nothing else really comes close.

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Actually Hunts were fastest way to get alexies before SE removed myths from B ranks, now its alot more slower than it used to be. Before the myth removal it was waste to use allied seals for alexies as you were getting flooded with myths(getting 5-9 maps in a day was pretty common).

I've farmed the old school way;

Daily Map
Farm Brayflox HM for myths
Buy Maps with Myths
Repeat

:D

I just do daily expert roulette.
Hunts to buy with myth/seals.

I do all roulettes except for low level and MS depends on my mood, the daily quest and any S rank that pops, hunting A ranks is too boring and I don't enjoy zerg content that much.

So yeah I'm kinda taking my time here, though this is my second Novus I also took my time for the first one, I never spammed one dungeon for myth (even when everyone was obsessed with BL HM), I prefer variety.

I am currently at 18/75 (I took a week hiatus once Super Smash Bros came out) and I've found that not going out and farming hardcore for the Alexandrites allows you to hound the market for good deals on materia. There's nothing quite like getting a piece of materia that's 1/3 of it's normal marketplace price. I normally just do the dailies and buy them with Mythology tomes, but I'm sure that at around 60/75 I'll probably end up farming the last few.

I did all roulettes a day, plus maybe a few hunts for 2 maps a day back then.
done in 40 days (failed some maps)