Patch notes up and no adjustment to Alexandrite acquisition/Hunts

[RiceisNice]

The thing, you're looking at only hunts for obtaining alexendrites, which you shouldn't.

Yes, hunts is slower for obtaining alexendrites. But everyone can agree that on 2.3, hunts were overpowered for their rewards in regards to how much myths it rewarded.
Yes, the amount of soldiery you get per dungeon run is relatively the same in regards to the reduced tomestone cost for alexendrite maps.

But this is what you're missing, the roulette tomestone bonuses are better in this regard. In 2.3, a full day of roulette would only get you around 400 or so myth tomes, out of the 800 needed for a map. 2.4, a day of roulette gets you around 330 soldiery out of 400 needed for a map. This isn't even factoring first time bonuses (which are unchanged, they give +60 for heroic tier, and +100 for trials)

People need to stop looking at only hunts, because this is far from the only way to receive tomestones/alexendrites. It was pretty overpowered and ridiculous so it had to beknocked down a notch, but getting your tomestones from daily roulette and first-time bonus is a faster process than it was with myths.

You also brought up IV materia as another gate to novus; While it's good to have, is not mandatory or required to finish a novus. 1~5 secondary stats are hardly gamebreaking unless you're hard core min/maxing for world firsts. Not to mention you can still get IV materia from level 46+ gear, albeit at a lower rate. The spirit bonding thing was also in 2.3 (or at least during that period), not 2.4. I'm not sure why you'd bring this up as a problem now.

As for other options being more easily obtained, this is only true for the unweathered weapons...and has been the case since 2.3, moreso in 2.35. Unless you're telling me as of right now, you can waltz into final coil and get a tomestone there (which then renders this point moot, but thats the final content as of this patch).

Tl;DR : Saying that "it is harder/more time consuming" to get alexendrites as a whole is utterly untrue, because it's significantly easier to get it through completing roulette and getting first time bonuses (~330 soldiery from roulettes versus ~400 myths from roulettes). Obtaining alexendrites purely through dungeon rewards is unchanged for the most part, and hunts were nerfed.