Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
Maybe if you did it now. He's talking pre-nerf. Definitely worse.
Even post nerf, those books for the ARR relic are brutal. Nothing has been done to nerf those, but at least you can fly in ARR zones now, and can steamroll everything solo now so long as you don't need the weapon equipped; and since you do for most things involved with the steps, it is actually still a hell of a grind.

Also, light farming is the offspring of Major Drag.