God damn umbrites!

[TaleraRistain]

Don't forget the crystal sand part. >.< Thank goodness I'm a gatherer.

[Vexander]

Crystal Sand isn't that bad. I just farm chests from HW leves for Amber-Encased Vilekin.

That said I do agree, the Umbrites are crazy in the fact that there is no other way to attain them besides Lore. When I started the relic a few weeks back I was surprised to learn I wouldn't need to concern myself with the Tome Grind for Unidentified stuff. Already had 5 jars of Aether Oil from Crystal Tower runs for music rolls, triad cards, and minions. It was a nice feeling to go from just starting the relic to Hyperconductive in less than a week. Then I got slapped with Umbrites. Just had to remind myself I more or less skipped the last tomestone grind thanks to beast tribes selling the unidentified stuff.

[CrystalRainbow]

They need to nerf that step hard~... Like ... 2.5k lore to finish

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Just take it one step at a time. I'm currently working on the umbrite step for my third relic weapon, which I'm combining with the light farming step on my first one while getting the pneumite for my second and clusters for my third. Rather than actively grinding, I'm just running whatever content I feel like running. Much, much healthier.

I do find the crystal sand part to be more annoying, but I just buy demimateria, elemental materia, and moonstones, because lazy. It's not like Gil is actually useful.

[Dzian]

Try not to make the relic your main purpose to play the game.

For example, I'm currently playing a lot of PvP. When my tomes get close to 2000, I go to Idylshire to get 6 umbrites. It's like I'm getting these umbrites for free because I didn't even try to farm it.

While I get what your saying and I typically agree I've been pretty relaxed about relic even though I'm halfway through my 4th on umbrites.

The lack of content in game often means relic is the only thing to do.

Once my tomes and scrips were Capped and had my Alex loot that was me done for the week. Only thing left was relic or random party finders for tails stuff.

All though now it's 3.5 it's pretty much once my tomes and scrips are Capped and I've got.my weekly gear from dun Scaith I'm done for the week. Only thing left to do is work on relic. Either grind lore or grind aether for the current step.

It's hard for it not to be the main goal as there's really nothing else.

[Chiramu]

They need to nerf that step hard~... Like ... 2.5k lore to finish

I'm surprised they haven't already nerfed it. It has been ages, the old ARR relic always had parts to it nerfed while people were still doing it.

[Jas710]

One thing to note. Although it's not as often as I'd like, during the second bar of the umbrite phase, you'll randomly "crit" and get a +1, +3, etc bonus thing.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

I'm surprised they haven't already nerfed it. It has been ages, the old ARR relic always had parts to it nerfed while people were still doing it.

There's no need for any nerfs to this step. At all.

[SDaemon]

There's no need for any nerfs to this step. At all.

I completely disagree, if not outright nerfed they need to at least offer other ways to obtain umbrite besides lore.

[Altanas]

They need to reduce lore by half so its comparable to the next step's shining clusters, or add a daily/weekly for umbrites, or add them onto Hunt-seals. Or they could add a "wonderous tails log" of sorts just for umbrite, each week a different set of tasks for an extra 5-10 umbrite.

Doing all roulettes for lore each day is exhausting, impossibly time consuming, and only leads to between 15-20 umbrites a week. Thats a month of playing every evening for hours on end non stop.