So.. How are the zodiac quests now?

Just wondering if things have been sped up, kind of want excalibur for glamour.

Everything has been increased according to the patchnotes. Light increase, dungeon drop rate increase, etc.

According to patch notes, everything has been (further) nerfed - but the materia infusions for Novus. Then again, materia prices are pretty much wrecked now (at least from what I saw on my server), so there's that part to it....

I spent a lot of time to get all Alexandrites and now you get 5 from one chest x] Now I have too much.

I'm curious what the ATMA drop rate is like now, because while just about the last thing I want to do right now is run around doing low level FATEs all day, I have half a set of ATMA in a retainer's inventory and might as well put the set on a weapon and free up the inventory space. If I had to run more than three FATES for each ATMA I think that would suck considering all the other ways I could use the time.

I'm still getting light for my pally gear but it seems to be between 25%-50% faster there.

Keep in mind there is no reason to get the best materia for a glamor weapon.

What about the books?

As far as I recall... only the enemy count has been reduced in books. So instead of 10 of each 10 monsters, it's only 3.

Every thing else is the same. Though FATEs respawn time is between 30 minutes to an hour now and with the Underparty feature you can get a Level 50 - 60 player to help you and burn through the old dungeons like nothing.

Oh nice! I've been wanting my zodiac staff for a long time now.

Well, about the ATMAS, i got like 8 in an hour. Its almost like 100% drop lol

Going to see if I can get all 10 Zeta Weapons now.

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Originally Posted by Buff_Archer

I'm curious what the ATMA drop rate is like now, because while just about the last thing I want to do right now is run around doing low level FATEs all day, I have half a set of ATMA in a retainer's inventory and might as well put the set on a weapon and free up the inventory space. If I had to run more than three FATES for each ATMA I think that would suck considering all the other ways I could use the time.

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In some space time I miraculously found, I spent 40 minutes in East Shroud doing low level fates with a mild AFK break somewhere in there. No Atma yet. Gonna wait until 60 to try again since I'll probably have an easier time soloing the dungeons for atma books and zodiac drops

Btw can anybody confirm if you still get Light for clearing undersized dungeons?

Do we buy books with poetics now?

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Originally Posted by NintenPyjak64

In some space time I miraculously found, I spent 40 minutes in East Shroud doing low level fates with a mild AFK break somewhere in there. No Atma yet.

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I spent 45 minutes at East Shroud to get my first Atma. But later I got 3 in 30 minutes.

level 4 materia is selling for 20k on my world lmao considering what i paid for mine i should of waited XD

Glad to hear they nerfed the books, I really hated killing 10 of each mob.

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Originally Posted by stardrifter

Glad to hear they nerfed the books, I really hated killing 10 of each mob.

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Kinda wish they did more nerfs to the books, but with the whole Under Party feature for Dungeons and FATES having shorter respawn time it does appear more bearable now. Though the Leves... still got to wait for allowances on those if you used the Temple Leves but I stopped after the first 3. There's no bloody point to them, I thought they are more challenging and gave out more EXP.

Alex maps yield 5 Alexandrites instead of 1 now.
Books are waaaay easier to do now. Jesus. Like, nerfed to hell. Haha.


They're really nice glamor, anyways :3.

I'm curious with Zodiac quest, is the drop become more often and easier because we can instance go to dungeon?

W-what about light farming!?

There are no more Light Farming parties anymore ... and i dont even know the new rates per light.

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Originally Posted by VirusChris

Kinda wish they did more nerfs to the books, but with the whole Under Party feature for Dungeons and FATES having shorter respawn time it does appear more bearable now. Though the Leves... still got to wait for allowances on those if you used the Temple Leves but I stopped after the first 3. There's no bloody point to them, I thought they are more challenging and gave out more EXP.

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The Temple Leve quest do give out a little more EXP, but it's not that much of an increase

Well maps dropped to 75 poetics and chests have been dishing out 5 alexandrite. I've gone through maybe 4 ~ 6 maps (didn't keep track of numbers and fate's), and capped of a mahatma relatively fast, start to finish. That part is speed up so who knows hopefully the previous light portion had its rate speed up as well. Given the speed up and ease of farming poetics. I'd like to know what is worth using bloodsplatered logs and unmarked logs on now.

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Originally Posted by Eul

I'm curious with Zodiac quest, is the drop become more often and easier because we can instance go to dungeon?

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Before early access, I had 5 out of the 16 dungeon drops. Then two days into early access I decided to try it out, and got the remaining 11 in the same day. 8 of them dropped on my first run through the designated dungeons, 3 of them dropped on the second run.

It's harder to come away empty handed now. You should probably get most of your drops with only one try.

Oh and lights and resonance are doubled, but you don't get any of that from 3.0 zones except on FATEs. You can get light and resonance from FATEs in the new 50-60 zones. Not in the new dungeons nor trials.

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Originally Posted by Zfz

Before early access, I had 5 out of the 16 dungeon drops. Then two days into early access I decided to try it out, and got the remaining 11 in the same day. 8 of them dropped on my first run through the designated dungeons, 3 of them dropped on the second run.

It's harder to come away empty handed now. You should probably get most of your drops with only one try.

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Sweet thanks for the info :)

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Originally Posted by BreathlessTao

According to patch notes, everything has been (further) nerfed - but the materia infusions for Novus. Then again, materia prices are pretty much wrecked now (at least from what I saw on my server), so there's that part to it....

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For now. I'm holding onto my Tier IV's for a few months. I just assimilated i133 gear and got Tier III materia for it, so... prices might ascend again.

just started collecting Nexus lights and it still slow as hell.

why do I have to use an outdated and weak weapon like that for so long? nobody does ARR content anymore and HW content don't give light.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

For now. I'm holding onto my Tier IV's for a few months. I just assimilated i133 gear and got Tier III materia for it, so... prices might ascend again.

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Prices are dropping only because there's nothing to use it for. Although gatherer and crafter materia most likely will climb first due to the nature of the design. Then in 3.1 when the new crafted gear and new relic quest comes out, materia prices will probably sky-rocket. I'm saving all my materia for 3.1.

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Originally Posted by Zfz

Prices are dropping only because there's nothing to use it for. Although gatherer and crafter materia most likely will climb first due to the nature of the design. Then in 3.1 when the new crafted gear and new relic quest comes out, materia prices will probably sky-rocket. I'm saving all my materia for 3.1.

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I bought materia super cheap the first day of early access when prices dropped really low, and melded them onto a few of the quest reward accessories and gear that I actually used. I put some INT IV materia on my SCH's new healing accessories since there wasn't INT on them already... why not at the rock bottom prices I bought them for? And I bought a bunch of VIT IV materia for super cheap and put those on a few aiming/casting accessories that replaced some that were only i110. It will all spiritbond quicker and an extra 21 or so VIT distributed across a few otherwise empty materia sockets never hurt.

And from a relic perspective I bought some Spellspeed IV materia at panic sell prices that have since gone up, b/c that stat matters a lot more to Summoners now.

Does anyone have a link to the primary source that zeta will not be continued in 3.1 and will only receive a slight advantage over people who haven't done it?

Cause I don't feel like they would model a new zeta weapon just for 1 upgrade and toss it out for a whole new model.

They won't continue the 2.x relic weapons lackofwords.

It will a brand new questline :)

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Originally Posted by Shamirah

They won't continue the 2.x relic weapons lackofwords.

It will a brand new questline :)

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Does anyone have the primary source on this information?

I meant is it going to be brand new weapon models for everyone?
Zodiac was 5 upgrades for same weapon model.
Braves was 2 upgrades for same weapon model.
Does that mean 3.1 weapon is going to be brand new weapon models for every other upgrade?

So whats the nexus light nerf cause so far its still slow as hell and giving little light. Or is the HW fates the one giving the boosted light?

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Originally Posted by lackofwords

Does anyone have the primary source on this information?

I meant is it going to be brand new weapon models for everyone?
Zodiac was 5 upgrades for same weapon model.
Braves was 2 upgrades for same weapon model.
Does that mean 3.1 weapon is going to be brand new weapon models for every other upgrade?

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its already been confirmed its going to be a whole new weapon.. theres mention of those who completed zeta get a slight benefit when new relic comes around but doubtful its going to be anything substantial.. my money is on a minion or somethin lol

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its already been confirmed its going to be a whole new weapon.. theres mention of those who completed zeta get a slight benefit when new relic comes around but doubtful its going to be anything substantial.. my money is on a minion or somethin lol

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A minion would be more than enough actually even better than a progression boost. Imma have to push it really hard. If only we knew about the actual nerf.

They seem fine as far as atma, alexandrites, zodiac books etc though I still consider the light gathering phase to be very annoying. I think still takes around 40-50 ST light gathering runs to pass the novus stage.

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So whats the nexus light nerf cause so far its still slow as hell and giving little light. Or is the HW fates the one giving the boosted light?

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I don't think can gain light in any HW content though that's just a guess.

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I don't think can gain light in any HW content though that's just a guess.

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I heard fates give light but nothing out of the ordinary. But dungeons give none.

they need to make lights drop in HW content and also make them drop without having to equip the weapon.

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Originally Posted by Evangela

they need to make lights drop in HW content and also make them drop without having to equip the weapon.

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Defeats the whole purpose of your grind, imo.