[request] increase Alexandrite fate drop rate

[LaurelinKementari]

Well, of course you get to customise the stats, but apparently that's too much effort for you as well.

I did Novus twice, hun, up to a near max-meld for my Gae Bolg. Doesn't mean I have to think the quest is well designed or worth it, or that I won't advocate changes to it. Nexus is no longer bis, the work no longer matches the reward, especially with Diamond weapons around. It is time for it to be changed. People will still struggle to get their Zodiac, so I don't get why you're so allergic to Novus and Nexus being put on equal footing with the other weapons of their ilvl. I'm not advocating SE adds a 'free Nexus' button, as people always accuse people pro-nerf of. I'm proposing reasonable changes to a weapon that is outdated content. Scrap the RNG of the Novus melds and the weapon will have some appeal again over its ilvl 110 counterparts, besides just glamour.

[LordHadi]

Relic should not be made trivial to make. I'm making a second one now after all the buffs it has been given and I find it amazing that people really think it needs to be nerfed more. People who complain about wanting it to be made even easier should be forced to do it in the un-nerfed manners because it's hilarious how easy and fast it is now.

Says it all, thank you.

[Ymal]

From what I'm reading the people complaining about the relic quest don't even like the relic weapon or find it useless. If you don't have time to farm and you don't have the money for materia, then why do you even want to do it?
I don't understand your logic of bashing a piece of gear and yet you ask to make it faster/easier. Just go get your FcoB/Shiva weapon if you don't want to work on a useless relic for so long. I've made my two Zodiac before anything was nerfed and it wasn't difficult to make back then. But if it's too hard for you still then really just go get another weapon.

[SummonerSenah]

On a somewhat related note, if you do view them as just vanity then technically it should be easier since you don't have to use tier IV materia. Split it into three or four stats and glamour that Novus over whatever better weapon you probably already have.

[Ashkendor]

Relic should not be made trivial to make. I'm making a second one now after all the buffs it has been given and I find it amazing that people really think it needs to be nerfed more. People who complain about wanting it to be made even easier should be forced to do it in the un-nerfed manners because it's hilarious how easy and fast it is now.

Right? The nerfs came while I was most of the way done with my second one (I had around 60% of the light and most of the Zodiac drops) and seeing how easy it was prompted me to start another one. I got through atma in a single day and am most of the way through my first animus book, along with having a few zodiac drops now. It's something to do, a pretty easy long(ish)-term goal for my spare time.

[Yumi_umi]

Can we just nerf map costs for sol tomes?
U can easily get max tomes and only get 4 done due to each costing 500 tomes each.
Or even better, use GC seals for alexandrite purchases as i\\'m pretty sure you guys farmed a lot passively due to farming fates in hopes of getting alex.
So that way we can speed up the process and take out the rng factor of hoping u get drops from fates.
Cuz doing the daily at this point is pretty lame if ur going to tough it out 75 days from now. Then u gotta light farm ^^ then do more dungeons for drops and get desynth materials etc.
by then you\\'ll be still behind and probably won\\'t catch up till 3.0 lol
Then 3.0 comes around and ur like wtf just let me buy the damn thing cuz i just want it for glamour as the relic wep will make this obsolete etc.

[Yumi_umi]

But hey rng is half of this game\\'s life span. If they take out rng then a lot of ppl will qq there\\'s nothing of value to accomplish as they have finished everything on the first week.
Rng the double ended sword,
Makes ppl suffer but lets other ppl rub their ego just cuz they
"Worked" for it.

Also a lot of ppl r using " i " cuz it worked for "them" BUT it doesn\\'t mean "others" will be as fortunate.

[MiniTofu]

apparently is 10% right now . Should give an increase to 25%

huh,

I got about 10-20 in a day and I have not touched any F.A.T.E. at all.

1. F.A.T.E. Drops
2. Hunt for Allied Seal (200 per Alexandrite)
3. Hunt and Dungeon for Allagan Tomstones of Soldiery (400 per 1x Mysterious Map = 1x Alexandrite)
4. Daily Expert Roulette dungeon (1x Mysterious Map = 1x Alexandrite)

Maybe stop sticking to F.A.T.E. only?

[Ashkendor]

Can we just nerf map costs for sol tomes?
U can easily get max tomes and only get 4 done due to each costing 500 tomes each.
Or even better, use GC seals for alexandrite purchases as i\\'m pretty sure you guys farmed a lot passively due to farming fates in hopes of getting alex.

Alex maps are 400 each, which is effectively half of their original cost. It's been nerfed already.

If you can buy alex with GC seals, that's news to me and I would've been doing that all along.

[Neri]

But the thing is... if se did decide to increase it to 20% and well...you know how unreliable rng in this game is, and some people ended up not getting them again, what will you do? Ask it to increase to 50% ? I think it's best to not really rely solely on fate for the Alex.