Farming Nexus

When they released Nexus it sounded incredibly easy to get. But now that I finally got my Novus, Nexus proved to be the most difficult and almost impossible upgrade to do.
Used party-finder during primetime and after waiting almost an hour only 3 people joined. And even they left after getting tired of waiting.

People who did Nexus when it just got released had a HUGE advantage over people who are doing it now. There were tons of farming parties they could join whenever they wanted. So yeah, I have no idea how to get my Nexus now. Doing regular dungeons and primals is out of the question, since the waiting times as DPS are ridiculous and you never know where the good light is.

I was fine with other relic upgrades, since you could do them all by yourself. With Nexus I totally have to rely on others. So, how did you do it? Any suggestions?

Well while you wait for wherever your DF might take you for your light, you could do fates. Fates give feeble light so with 2000 fates you would have your nexus so that is an option for you to do.
I know it doesn't sound fun but it gets the job done, another option is to do alexandrite maps they give 2 light per map just throw up a PF saying your help any one with those maps.

Just play the game the way you would do so without a Novus. You'll get light, it might just take you a month to get Nexus. But you wouldn't have to go out of your way to get it.

My last 400 light was harder than the first 1600. The patch basically killed light farming and you're now stuck grinding ST until your brain melts. Good luck.

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Originally Posted by Coatl

Just play the game the way you would do so without a Novus. You'll get light, it might just take you a month to get Nexus. But you wouldn't have to go out of your way to get it.

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As someone who plays a variety of classes and takes whichever is needed for the occasion, Nexus was definitely the worst step in the relic quest for me. You either grind it out or force yourself to play 1 job for everything you do.

Hi, didn't even try now, will try with ninja later but.....

Hm.. Is it really so difficult? How does it work? I saw people getting it just in two days or less, so I guessed it was the easiert upgrade after all (HAving in mind it is only 5 ilvl difference helped me to think it was easier upgrade)

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

Hi, didn't even try now, will try with ninja later but.....

Hm.. Is it really so difficult? How does it work? I saw people getting it just in two days or less, so I guessed it was the easiert upgrade after all (HAving in mind it is only 5 ilvl difference helped me to think it was easier upgrade)

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You need 2000 points towards your Novus to upgrade to Nexus. Every single thing you do minus hunts adds points to your relic. It's literally the only relic where you do whatever and its handed to you. No farming stupid 700 monsters, no camping 2 hours for a fate to spawn, no saving 10m for materia and hope you're lucky. Just play the game and its yours.

Granted it takes awhile to get. But that's how the relic line has always been. *shrug*

Then those who took only few days did it spamming dungeons? And what's the bonus light? I can't understand that >.<....

(But seems funnier than indeed doing fates all the time, then doing useless dungeons and waiting for fates or killing monsters where there are only three on the map and you have to wait for 4 refreshes [Gigas Bhikku, Raging Harrier, Hex Harrier, bla bla...) and then hunt hunt, maps, spiritbond...

Farming ST for lights and upgrade items (sands, oils or unknown allagan tomestone) is possibly the fastest way atm since lots of people are doing it for ninja and alt jobs. Better jump in while it's the current fad. Queue is still longer for dps but it's not bad during prime time and weekends. I suggest daily roulettes and squeeze in as many ST runs as you can while players are farming it right now. It won't last once they get most of the items they want/need. You can also squeeze in some quick low level fates for feeble lights while you are in queue.

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Originally Posted by Adrian74

Then those who took only few days did it spamming dungeons? And what's the bonus light? I can't understand that >.<....

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The ones who did it within few days spammed primals. The advantage of that is that they had a full party with well geared people with novus. They also didn't have to wait in DF since they could re-enter instantly.
And about light, this post explains it all:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...t_information/

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Originally Posted by BillyBones

When they released Nexus it sounded incredibly easy to get. But now that I finally got my Novus, Nexus proved to be the most difficult and almost impossible upgrade to do.
Used party-finder during primetime and after waiting almost an hour only 3 people joined. And even they left after getting tired of waiting.

People who did Nexus when it just got released had a HUGE advantage over people who are doing it now. There were tons of farming parties they could join whenever they wanted. So yeah, I have no idea how to get my Nexus now. Doing regular dungeons and primals is out of the question, since the waiting times as DPS are ridiculous and you never know where the good light is.

I was fine with other relic upgrades, since you could do them all by yourself. With Nexus I totally have to rely on others. So, how did you do it? Any suggestions?

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Just go with a partial party next time. As soon as you get a tank or healer, your queue improves.

In any case, Nexus is probably the easiest step of the relic quest so far. You can just play the game as you normally play it and eventually your relic will upgrade. I did roulette, coil, ST, maps, fates, and Primal/dungeon farming for desynth fodder. It took me a few weeks to get it, but I really didn't go out of my way to do so.

Those that got it within a few days did a nonstop Cape Westwind grind.

The only issue with Nexus is character lockout, for those of us who like to play different classes.

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Originally Posted by Alukah

The only issue with Nexus is character lockout, for those of us who like to play different classes.

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You couldn't play other character classes and get credit on Animus books. This is no different. *shrug*

I basically sucked it up and tanked almost non stop till my Nexus was finished.

Plenty of time to play my other classes once it's finished.

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Originally Posted by BillyBones

The ones who did it within few days spammed primals. The advantage of that is that they had a full party with well geared people with novus. They also didn't have to wait in DF since they could re-enter instantly.
And about light, this post explains it all:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...t_information/

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Waoh! thanks.... It does really seem long except if doing super party for it... I guess people had luck back then...

I mean.... You'd have to do... 166 Syrcus Tower... or 2000 fates..... I really thought it was super easy after seeing so much people with it just few days after patch with it came. (I have never done more than 7 ST with same character..)

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

You couldn't play other character classes and get credit on Animus books. This is no different. *shrug*.

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It's very different, for animus you had to do the objectives as the class, but you could farm for myth as any class, back then in 2.2 I'd do all my daily stuff as any class I wanted and only did the book as one class, and I'd only have enough myth for books every few days, but for nexus I have to do every little thing as one class if I want to progress.

Hi Billy,

I'd say hang in there. 2.4 introduced a TON of new stuff for people to do, and IMHO, the DF "emptiness" you feel now will go away with time.

The majority of players I know have been busy with leveling Rogue / Ninja, working on Shiva Extreme, Final Coil, some lucky ones bought a House and are busy just "gearing up" the house (furniture, styling it out, etc.).

And then there are those busy with Crafting and Gathering Recipes / Gearing those up.

It'll straighten itself out in a bit. :)

Also, as others have said, for now, while it's not "the best" you can still get Light via:

* FATEs (every FATE yields light for you) - And there are ton of FATEs being done by all the Rogue / Ninjas leveling. :)

* Treasure Maps

* Try asking a FC/LS/Friend to go Healer and/or Tank for you, and your DF Queues will go much faster.

* Frontlines: If your Server is big into PvP you can have fun joining those runs for Light.

* Syrcus Tower: ST runs are still pretty popular (at least on my server).

I noticed your Avatar lists you as Marauder. If you're going for Axe Nexus as Warrior, your queues should be decent (but get a Healer to join you for the fastest queues).

Another thing is that lots of Rogue / Ninjas are desperate to get some Dungeon Runs. Even Low Level Dungeons can give Bonus Nexus Light, so that might be worth queuing for as well. :)

Ultimately, while getting 2000 Lights for Nexus seems grindy (it is), when put in perspective it's definitely one of the most *flexible* / friendly portions of the Relic Weapon quest:

* Essentially by doing *whatever you want* / normally do, mostly, you WILL get Nexus Lights and make progress towards the Weapon. It's really nice. :)

It doesn't force you to wait for a Rare FATE to pop (sitting around for 2 hours), or have to do XYZ; you can just go about doing your Duty Roulettes, or general farming for FATEs, Treasure Maps, PvP, Syrcus Tower, End Game / Coil runs, Primals, even fun Story stuff like Gilgamesh (Battle on Big Bridge), or new content (Shiva, Ultros, etc.), and you WILL continually get Light and make progress. :)

I do all roulette's every day. Followed by hunts (To gear my alt), then I keep an eye on PF just in case someone needs help with Alex maps, and then I run a few times ST. I see the message brilliant light, blinding light many times, and sometimes feeble light, only once I saw new born star.

And it shows after two weeks a distinctive amount of aether activity.

Yeah, this is something I'm not expecting to finish any time soon.

I would rather grind atmas, and that took forever for me. Nothing like doing dungeons/primals for weeks on one class only (pretty much ignoring all the other jobs I enjoy playing) then checking the zodiac glass and it still gives the same message. Novus/Animus grind were so much better. At least I could go different jobs on ex dungeons/hunts to get myth.

As tank I prefer to farm T4 (besides normal activity) - almost instant queue, beatable with every group for 3-5min, you can even spiritbond. As bonus to Light I have: Allagan mats, Gear to desynth/GC, Mount achievement, Recommendations.

It's not supposed to be easy. I have two Nexus relics at the moment and soon (need 25 more melds for my Bravura Axe) will be farming light for a third. Hopefully by then the Ninja Madness will be over.

I use both these sites for information.
http://ffxivlight.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...sle=true#gid=0

If grinding Nexus is obnoxious - don't grind it. Presuming that you're doing things the game expects, like accumulating Tomestones by running Roulettes once per day, you'll build up points as a side effect. Just make sure you do those activities on your Nexus job. DPS queues may be obnoxious, but if you're only running one or two Roulettes per day, that shouldn't get in your way.

You have "free" 2nd coil which always give Blinding light (at least it always did when I tanked t6 and 7 while it was still weekly-locked. t8 i always went DPS so idk but guess it's the same)

You can also farm Shiva EX. A good shiva ex farming party can do it in around 6 minutes, which is about the time you need to kill Ramuh HM and Gilgamesh.

They initially had stated that this progression is supposed to take a long time. They said it before it was released and only the diehard ones that pushed on and grinded the whole day through primals and other methods got their Nexus early. At this time, it's a matter of efficiency versus enjoyment:


Either you focus on one character with their Novus and reach the Nexus goal by doing a combination of ST, Dungeons, Maps and other things that gives Light

Or you just do what you normally do daily and don't worry about getting your Nexus weapon too quickly.

Depending on what they are planning, I have to presume the next level upgrade for the Relics will probably not happen until 2.45 which will probably be in two months. So you still have that much time before you should feel even "slightly" pressured to get your Nexus.

But no, I would definitely say, this isn't a questline for all your classes unless you've got an immense amount of time to dedicate for it. You're better off getting the weapons that will be available by other methods instead. not like you absolutely need the relic for current content anyway; the 110 weapon should let you beat T9 fine until you get the 115 weapon from it, and go do the Final Coil.

It`s a question of just how badly you want the weapon and for what purpose. But in the end: don't let the weapon grind ruin the game experience. I'm not pushing myself crazy on it and just do what I normally do daily on my Paladin and get the lights. I'm at the third stage now since its release and I could care less about how I see a select few with the awesome glow of Nexus.

Frontlines if you don't mind PvP and the queues in your data center for your GC isn't ridiculous.

Kill people on whatever job you want, return/respawn when the match is about to end and change to your novus job to get the light.

Tome rewards are pretty good, too.

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Originally Posted by aerolol

You have "free" 2nd coil which always give Blinding light (at least it always did when I tanked t6 and 7 while it was still weekly-locked. t8 i always went DPS so idk but guess it's the same)

You can also farm Shiva EX. A good shiva ex farming party can do it in around 6 minutes, which is about the time you need to kill Ramuh HM and Gilgamesh.

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2nd coil is brilliant (6), not blinding (12) in this patch

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Originally Posted by zar

As someone who plays a variety of classes and takes whichever is needed for the occasion, Nexus was definitely the worst step in the relic quest for me. You either grind it out or force yourself to play 1 job for everything you do.

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This is what makes me hate the nexus quest. I am at 50% and I got it the day the patch was released for it.
I hate playing one and only one class, and now since I feel a little bit forced to play my main because of nexus I ended up almost never playing on it.
They made the nexus feel like a second job to me since I was always so fast getting the other relic upgrades and I wanted to keep up with my pace.

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Originally Posted by Vaer

Frontlines if you don't mind PvP and the queues in your data center for your GC isn't ridiculous.

Kill people on whatever job you want, return/respawn when the match is about to end and change to your novus job to get the light.

Tome rewards are pretty good, too.

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I found out about this after I had played more than 250 frontlines games, had I known from the start I'd probably have nexus now :(

I got mine yesterday, Took me about 10-12 days. No PF used only DF(Tank so slight advantage i guess)

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Originally Posted by Alukah

It's very different, for animus you had to do the objectives as the class, but you could farm for myth as any class, back then in 2.2 I'd do all my daily stuff as any class I wanted and only did the book as one class, and I'd only have enough myth for books every few days, but for nexus I have to do every little thing as one class if I want to progress.

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This is the worst part of it. Would be nice if I could do most of the *grinding* on any class, and only have to switch to the Nexus class for specific trials or tasks. Makes it much less of a grind.

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Originally Posted by Blitzace

I got mine yesterday, Took me about 10-12 days. No PF used only DF(Tank so slight advantage i guess)

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What were you running. I have my nexus for my tank already and have been casually doing content for my DRG. I'm not in any rush, but the advancement is painfully slow. Been on the same light window for over two weeks now. It doesn't help that literally every single roulette I do is outside of the bonus. Spending 20-30min in current expert roulette for a brilliant light (6 units) is the suck.


It's disappointing there isn't a daily bonus for this. Animus had daily bonus to myth to help buy the books, Novus had the daily alex map quest and daily bonus myth to help buy more maps. Also it's unfortunate that there's no bonus for helping first timers since the bonus SLD you get is useless for the Nexus.

Once the hype of ninja calms down more people will be doing Nexus more than it was before. All the ninjas are going to need tanks and healers to primal farm more than ever in just a few weeks/months. Patients.

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Originally Posted by Kerwin

Patients.

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Patience .

I stopped at Zenith when I heared all these people complaining in our server Siren.
Higher Upgrades of these weapons are just a BIG waste of time and effort. <,<;

I just stick with those way easyer to get lv110weapons! o-o

They just need:
1300 Soldy tomes + 1 Un. Allegan tomestone + 1 Sand of Time.
^13 Soldy marks ^Both to get in Sycrus Tower^

Without the time sand(it Upgrades the weapon) its a lv100 weapon.

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Originally Posted by zar

Patience .

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Patience. You seem to have an extra space between your word and your punctuation.