Can something be done about light farming?

[Niwashi]

And since your relic stats aren't important if you're just building it for glamour, so you can rather cheaply fill your relic with only grade 1 and 2 materia of assorted types.

The only thing I could see them making easier is to remove the 80-60% meld chances the grade 1 and 2 materia end up suffering, so you don't burn through as many materia. Maybe make all grade 1 and grade 2 melds 100% chance so you are guaranteed to finish it with exactly 75 materia.

It's not like you need those crit/det melds for spamming light farm, and the ilevel 125 upgrade doesn't even require you to have the weapon equipped while farming. Only my retainer knows that my Zeta bow has spell speed on it.

Except that not everyone wants it for glamour. (In fact, once I get it I'll probably be glamouring my Zeta to look like something else for most jobs.) The stats are very important, as much so as they've ever been, for everyone who's going to be using the weapon, which is still the strongest level 50 weapon available (well, ok, tied with Dreadwyrm for strongest).

As for how to make it easier, I'd thought of either making spiritbonding itself quicker or else improving the chances that gear conversion will give the more highly desired materia types, but your idea of improving the meld success rate is good too, maybe better than mine.

[Dante_V]

Except that not everyone wants it for glamour. (In fact, once I get it I'll probably be glamouring my Zeta to look like something else for most jobs.) The stats are very important, as much so as they've ever been, for everyone who's going to be using the weapon, which is still the strongest level 50 weapon available (well, ok, tied with Dreadwyrm for strongest).

As for how to make it easier, I'd thought of either making spiritbonding itself quicker or else improving the chances that gear conversion will give the more highly desired materia types, but your idea of improving the meld success rate is good too.

The Zeta is stronger than the Dread weapon due to the way the secondaries can be allocated