For those of us Relic Hunters

[JunseiKei]

Lore grind > crafter grind or materia grind. At least you can do other things while grinding for said lore. *PTSD from materia melding for the Zeta weapons.* Yeah, that's one step I never want to see again. The umbrite and crystal sand step is similar, but nowhere near as horrifying.

Or the light grind, only because to efficiently farm light, you needed to do specific trials for roughly 2 hours before it changed and you needed to figure out what the new efficient trial was. <-- Thank goodness this step also got two or three nerfs to it so it's stupidly easy and faster compared to what it was.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Or the light grind.

This step and the Mahatma one were two of my favorite steps to do to date, due in large part that I never felt forced to do only one piece of content that I may or may not enjoy, but instead, I had a nice, wide spread of content I could choose from to get the light I needed. The Umbrite step I like very much as well for a similar reason, that being the complete freedom to get whatever I need at whatever pace I want by doing content I enjoy. Efficiency only matters when you're one of the guys that needs to have everything "I'm first, guys!"