Umbrites are terrible.

[Faliandra]

Already on 5th relic here for Sand and umbrite, and I mainly use minimal time on it do to two jobs and school. It's just a matter of how you approach it.

Im farming light for my 6th relic now and people call me "crazy" and "No lifer" all the time. It happened last night again.

"Omg so many relic, u have no life!!!111"

Wow. Always makes me think "clueless/jealous/lazy much?"

It's actually quite insulting. As for me, I make a bit of gil crafting stuff and I bought tons of IV materia when EVERYONE
ran into the diadem upon release, resulting in the market board being flooded with cheap materia (cos undercutting n stuff...).

And as someone already mentioned,getting encased vilekin w/e from leves is another nice way to get a bunch of sands.

Heck, Ive gotten 6 relics through the umbrite step, 4 of them pre-nerf + changed 3 completed relic's stats pre-nerf (thats even MORE sands).


You could also always get on your Botanist or Miner and turn in collectables for gatherer scribs which then can be exchanged for tokens which again
can be exchanged for sands. Dont have BOT/MIN? Its worth investing a bit of time in. Its kinda tough to accumulate gil in this game without
DoLs/DoHs anyways. And in my case, I can just BUY my sands instead of GRINDING them...so talk about efficient time management.

YEEES! Farming light on relic #2 and it is the WORST! It is making me miss mahatmas... at least I was able to tell what my progress was on each of them. Now I'm just kinda guessing what the intensity of the glowiness is...

Open your party finder, filter your search results by clicking the search button on the upper right side and limit results to "Raids" ->" Fist of the Father (savage)" only.
You should pretty much always find a "a1s light farm" party there. If theres none, make one yourself.
Otherwise...your search filter will stay active for as long as you like,so you can check throughout the day whether theres some farming going on...and once the bonus light window is active,
you will know cos ppl will add "BONUS!!" to their PF description. So if its driving you crazy, check throughout your free time and just go in during bonus.
Bonus means it will give you double the amount of light, resulting in only having to spend half the amount of time farming it.

The tomes you get per clear are also a nice bonus as you can turn them in for gordias accessories which you could use for lvling desynthesis or turning them in at your GC for seals.
This is the beauty of this game, you can almost find a use for EVERYTHING....