Quote Originally Posted by ManuelBravo View Post
First de synthesis is very easy to level and cheap, gear you probably throw away or find in dungeons. Second people have forgotten that while it is a glamor, and skipping first step of fate grinding in the anima saga, it is meant to be a grind. Atmas are basically raining now in fates, Books can be done unsynced, fates have been made to appear faster, number of mobs to kill is only 3 instead of the original 9. Alexandrite maps have gone from 1 to 5 drops per map now. Lights have been improved soooo much I feel cheated of the time I spend doing my Zodiac weapons. I think they have been over generous with the Zodiac nerf. Now if this is still too hard, you can always go for raid weps. Now if your saying you don't have a high enough level or gear that sounds like a commitment problem.
I *have* better gear, and in fact have a zodiac weapon I worked on when it was current. My take on zodiac weapons is purely as a glamour weapon. My viewpoint is that, as something literally only useful for glamour these days, there's no reason it should take months to complete. I support the nerfs and feel that people who come later shouldn't need to jump through all the same hoops everyone that came before did.

My point is, while the rest of the relic quest has been nerfed a fair bit, this one single step has remained more or less the same in terms of costs.