What is the fastest way through the Zadnor portion of the relic grind?

[Krotoan]

I ground at it for a while tonight. I'm maybe... 1/4th of the way done. It's not in any way enjoyable, but it's not death, either.

On a semi-related topic (without starting a new thread): I have never done any of the Eureka content. If I started, say, tomorrow, how long (hours-ish) would it take me to get a weapon to stage 4?

Depends.. if you can get some Fate grinding parties when you play it goes by pretty quick, probably.. like.. 70-80 hours on the outside? The problem is you have to unlock the new areas, not necessarily the mats. It's constant grinding, but what I'd suggest is at least put in the work for the challenges every week, you should get there by Endwalker I believe, maybe sooner if you can burn some days farming NM's.

Stage 4 being Elemental (pyros level) right? Cause that's what you need to unlock the Elemental armor.

[TeraRamis]

Depends.. if you can get some Fate grinding parties when you play it goes by pretty quick, probably.. like.. 70-80 hours on the outside? The problem is you have to unlock the new areas, not necessarily the mats. It's constant grinding, but what I'd suggest is at least put in the work for the challenges every week, you should get there by Endwalker I believe, maybe sooner if you can burn some days farming NM's.

Stage 4 being Elemental (pyros level) right? Cause that's what you need to unlock the Elemental armor.

Yeah, stage 4 is Pyros. Wow, 80 hours? Maybe I won't bother.

[Krotoan]

Yeah, stage 4 is Pyros. Wow, 80 hours? Maybe I won't bother.

I could be wrong.. I'm hoping someone else might have a different experience, but I did Anemos when it first came out.. but I hear it's pretty dead now (could have changed with all the new people) and solo leveling SUCKS. And then I've done Pagos Pyros and Hydatos whenever I got REALLY bored or nobody else I knew was on and I just got my Elemental armor +1 like.. last week. I did level to 60 first and then took a break and came back to farm the "mats" to unlock stuff.. but it took quite a bit.

Each one is pretty much only levelable at a decent rate by getting into NM farms. Solo you can pretty much just work towards challenges. Popping NM's and doing them by yourself is pretty butt and slow as hell.