At this rate it'll take ages for me to 200-210 my relic.

[Gallus]

Thanks for all the replies. I don't feel like going beast tribes...never been into them much, only tried ixali back then in 2.0 and only because they gave good crafting stuff but I found them very very boring. I don't mind the grind but the queues are killing me and PF relic parties do not seem to exist anymore (I guess they were frequent a few months ago...).
I might try hunts, if I have to afk for half the time I play might as well afk for the entire duration...signing up for a queue forces me to afk more time than I would like to (can't do anything relevant in those 7-15 minutes of wait time but they are enough to be significant and annoying), and it adds up like hell if we are talking about hundreds of times queueing up.

[RLofOBFL]

To some of the people in this topic

They can't just hand out 230 like candy. As much as I hated the grind I an glad I have something that I worked hard for to get.

The reason any of the weekly caps/heavy grinds are put in place is bc people WILL undoubtedly grind day and night to get said items & have it all within a week, complain endlessly, quit & move on to a different game. The first 210s started popping up TWO WEEKS after release. Just before 3.2 I had gotten my relic, full 210 & geared up every class to 190, for those few weeks to 3.2 I was bored. I barely played at all. That is what SE is trying to avoid, & contrary to complaints, it actually works.

For the best weapons, there are three options: weekly lore, 7 friends for a6+, or grind for a relic. You can't just get handed the strongest stuff for instant gratification.


And doing "most" of my dailes every day, I was able to get a second relic to 230 in 3 1/2 months. Not 10.

[mp-please]

I finished my relic last week and it took me roughly 3 weeks of just doing my dailies (except pvp one) and doing the beast tribe quests everyday while waiting on queue.
If i finished those quickly enough and had spare time id do a few alexander runs to get tokens to try and speedup the process. Then i finished the last unidentified pieces (the ones that need poetics) by spamming the last 2 expert dungeons of ARR, amdapor/wanderer's keep HM are great for poetic farm as they give 100/run and are really easy to speedrun.

And this as WHM for lv60 content and PLD for <60 content. For the poetic farming i really recommend being the tank or getting a tank that knows how to speed run dungeons, you don't want to spend 30 mins on a dungeon that takes 15.

[wicked-one]

Is there any steady source of myths/esoterics or any way I'm missing I could steadily progress through this monstrous step without having to afk at least for half the time I play?

Well, it startet for me without haste.. stats on my BLM Main were not so good as the Lore Weapon to aquire on the same day, so I did the SCH Book first.

Then there was my 2nd Zeta to breakdown and I went now for my BLM, because as we now heard, we can replace the crappy stats with those we want with 3.3.

Right now... some Chocobo must have hit me hard on my head, because I did some FATEs out of boredom and poof had those 12 crystals and am now on my Dungeon Step, while sitting on 8/7/6/8 Items for it already.

And now imagine me, as i swore myself 1 (ONE!!) Relic at max for my main, and only IF it is superior to anything I could aquire at the moment. And now in my road to #3 (but that will definitely be my last).

What really helped me was to just do no pressure one me and don´t stress me with it. (besides Midas Savage, there is nothing that requieres anything beyond i210 weaponry atm... and thus can be easily bought now)

I just did, what I always do, play the game and have fun. mainly i do my beasttribes for the Materia and the roulette and thats it. Now my very most problem is to not cap the tomes and spend it soon enough. ^^

[aesteval]

7-15 minutes of wait time but they are enough to be significant and annoying), and it adds up like hell if we are talking about hundreds of times queueing up.

You do HW beast tribes during those waits. There's a world of difference in accessibility in ARR and HW beast tribes. HW tribes reward currency tokens from the start and you fly directly to target locations. You get in, you get out, done. I've periodically burned out on ARR beast tribes, but HW are about as effortless and time light as can be that I run them while ignoring that I'm doing them. It costs more tokens for the HW tribes to pick up the unidentifiables, but they're effortless.

[LaylaTsarra]

If you have gatherers leveled you can also do that while waiting and make gil towards the hq hand-ins. Multi-tasking is an asset in this game. And if you don't have gatherers leveled consider leveling one.

[Neophyte]

Especially if you're playing in the night or early morning I'd have a look into hunts:


A-Rank old is 0.12 item
A-Rank new is 0.11 item
S-Rank old is 0.34 item
S-Rank new is 0.36 item
B-Ranks are both 0.1 item
Alex run is 0.11 item
Bonus coil or ex-primal run is 0.16-0.19
3 beast tribe quests are 0.27 item
Duty roulette 50 is 0.35-0.47 (+ 0.x if bonus)
Duty roulette 60 is 0.22-0.23 item (+0.x if bonus)
Duty roulette trial is 0.11 item (+0.x if bonus)
Duty roulette expert is 0.2 (+0.x if bonus)

Just with daylies you should get like at least 1.96 items (which is like almost 20!! Alex runs) a day. Talking of 'ages', 40 days doing daylies is all which is needed, less if you do hunts, bonus runs or alex

[Whocareswhatmynameis]

The relic quest isn't for everyone. If you don't enjoy doing it, I would just not do it and do something else you enjoy doing instead. I personally didn't find it to be that bad,and it gave me something to do after capping lore for 6 weeks or so. Which is something this game sorely needs, stuff to do at lvl 60. Besides running the same 2 faceroll dungeons over and over for lore tomes.

[Vaeria]

Really not that bad of a quest...just a little time consuming if you wanna rush it. Got the (220?) part done..estoics...just from running pvp matches alone. Ran HM Amdapor (10-12 min) for poetic stuff. Seeing as the word 'relic' signifies something worth putting effort into, its pretty easy lol. Could be worse. In another place and time, we had to get attestations and do dynamis and stuffs and whore out ourselves as tarutaru children for 100 byne bills and su-..sorry..rambling.

[Oohlalaheals]

You can get your i230 Weapon much faster, just do A8 weekly for 7 weeks, and save 1000 lore tomes. This is what I did instead of Anima. Actually I almost have 2 of them. I started the Anima weapon and after doing all the fates decided the next step wasn't worth my time. I don't have much patience for grinding. I totally understand that a lot of people think its no big deal but for myself I have other things I would rather do with my time in game so I'm perfectly happy with my 230 weapon, its quite pretty also which doesn't hurt

Edit: By "faster" I mean, less total hours devoted to getting the weapon, since A8 takes 15 minutes and doing the daily roulette for tomes takes maybe 30. I realize lots of people focus on the Anima grind and I'm sure it can be done in less that 7 weeks. I could feel the disagreements coming :P