I was standing hundreds of hours combined in Dragon's Aery waiting for Fafnir or Nidhogg windows to open...
I farmed 2 years to get my first relic in 2006 (Kikoku) and another 1.5 years for my Mythic (Nagi)

The tears of the TL;DR "I want everything given to me now!"-generation are too delicious.
Please SQEX, what you're doing is the right thing, keep at it.

Faithfully,
- FFXI Master Race Player