Anima Relic

[The_Last_Dragoon]

You say that as if you could do all of those in 1 day. I'm 28/80 on the Unidentified items after about 2 weeks. I'm sure by the time I am 80/80 I will have the gil to buy all 16 HQ crafts from the MB. I simply do not have time to do anything BUT:

All roulettes that provide Eso/Poetics
beast tribe dailies

Before it gets so late I need to go to bed or I run the risk of going to work on just 5 hours of sleep. The beast tribe dailies don't payoff for me either since I just came back to the game and never touched the ARR ones, so I can't even buy anything good from them still though I nearly have the HW ones maxed out now.

Hands down, Gordias and the Beast Tribe quests are the slowest way to grind out these items, but they are also the "easiest" with a low expectation of gear and skill level. Doing the Hunt is probably the fastest if you can find a group for it since you can net around 5-6 items in 2 hours. lv50 roulette and Main Story roulette are great for poetics, especially if you end up getting a first timer. You can always go back to farming the Praetorium too, which I believe will net you a base of 120 poetics for every run, and that's technically the fastest way to get progress on this if there isn't a hunt group.

[Falar]

I hadn't really seriously considered hunts as at a glance they look slow. 500 centurio seals per item and the hunts give a small amount of seals. I think I will give this a try now, 5-6 unidentified items in 2 hours sounds unreal. Right now I'm getting like 4 PER DAY.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

I hadn't really seriously considered hunts as at a glance they look slow. 500 centurio seals per item and the hunts give a small amount of seals. I think I will give this a try now, 5-6 unidentified items in 2 hours sounds unreal. Right now I'm getting like 4 PER DAY.

As long as you know what you're doing and most of the hunts are up, then yes (5-6 items in 2 hours is best case scenario and that would normally mean an end to the hunt for 2-3 hours). I'm also pretty certain that you need 1000 Allied seals per item, and the Centurio don't actually work towards any of the unidentified items. This means that it's probably a good idea to do ARR Hunts + their dailies & weeklies if you want to stay productive. The point is that if you have a legitimate "Hunt" going on, then you can normally knock out 12 or so marks every hour, and S ranks will give a ton of seals & tomes.

Also keep in mind that you can still do the Roulettes & Beast quests as well since the Roulettes give great tome value for the time you put in, and Heavensward Beast Tribe items can be turned into any of the items (meaning that you can essentially stock a ton of them and wait to turn them into an item until you figure out which ones you need).

[Falar]

As long as you know what you're doing and most of the hunts are up, then yes (5-6 items in 2 hours is best case scenario and that would normally mean an end to the hunt for 2-3 hours). I'm also pretty certain that you need 1000 Allied seals per item, and the Centurio don't actually work towards any of the unidentified items. This means that it's probably a good idea to do ARR Hunts + their dailies & weeklies if you want to stay productive. The point is that if you have a legitimate "Hunt" going on, then you can normally knock out 12 or so marks every hour, and S ranks will give a ton of seals & tomes.

You're right, it is 1000 allied only. I guess I will give it a try but I seldom see hunts in the PF.

[The_Last_Dragoon]

You're right, it is 1000 allied only. I guess I will give it a try but I seldom see hunts in the PF.

I would also try to get into a few "current" Hunt linkshells. Normally just asking in Idyllshire or Mor Dhona will probably net you a few invites. It's possible on your server that a good amount of people who still do the Hunt aren't using the Party Finder.

[Maero]

Well they introduced crafting at the last stage of Zeta if i recall (yes i had 2 of them but do not remember) and was hoping they would move away from the needing crafting... but nope
Best bet is to gather the mats and get someone to craft for you, or just buy from the mb like i have done

[Nyalia]

Well they introduced crafting at the last stage of Zeta if i recall

Second to last step. The last step was more light.

[Neophyte]

I hadn't really seriously considered hunts as at a glance they look slow. 500 centurio seals per item and the hunts give a small amount of seals. I think I will give this a try now, 5-6 unidentified items in 2 hours sounds unreal. Right now I'm getting like 4 PER DAY.

An A-Rank gives now 0.099 (old) or 0.07 (new) ui items. So old ones are almost an alexander run, which is worth 1/10 of an item and new ones as much as a single beast tribe quest, which is 0.075 ui items (i almost always skipped those new hunts and did old ones only).

S-ranks give almost 0.3 (three runs of Alex!!!), new ones still 0.19 ui items.

So yes... Hunt are quite fast

[Zari]

One thing I've been thinking about trying with the first 2 unidentified items is possibly grinding out extra poes with ARR hard mode primal new player bonuses since I seem to get those fairly often when I go in to them
Only issue really is it isnt necessarily reliable