Quote Originally Posted by Mavrias View Post
Doing skirmishes and CEs in each of the three zones nets you the three kinds of memories you need for the first step, killing mobs nets you the bitter memories for the following step, and Castrum (which you need for loathsome memories) spawns faster if lots of Skirmishes and CEs get done.

Helping spawn things via mob farming will make your relic building in Bozja go much faster.
Skirmishes and CE's earn you basically nothing in terms of essences. Also, like I said, Skirmishes and CEs are always running non-stop in SF; I've never had any downtime between skirmishes to sit around killing trash. If anything there was always more of them going on than I could ever reasonably do, so stopping to kill trash would only slow me down.

Also, let's not ignore the fact that it's MUCH more efficient to do all of the steps before DR outside of Bozja. For relic hunters the most efficient way to do everything is to ignore cluster/fragment farming, and that's entirely by design.