Nexus Vs Relic

[Taei]

Now that Nexus is out, after thinking about it for a bit, it seems to be a pretty pathetic addition to the novus quest.


I wanted to make this post to compare the content between Nexus/Novus vs Relic.


Relic Content
-find the timeless weapon
-craft + meld weapon
-Hydra
-Chimera
-AK dungeon run
-killing 24 mobs
-killing 3 HM primals


Conclusion: Hydra, Chimera are unique content for Relic only. There's an element of crafting involved, there is a decent 24 mob kill grind, and then at the end, there are 3 boss challenges. Pretty nice conceptually.


Zenith/Atma/Animus/Novus/Nexus (btw when will you run out of names? :P )

Zenith – pay Myth (by grinding old content)
Atma - grind FATEs for Atmas (old content)
Animus – dungeons, FATEs, Mobs, Leves (old content)
Novus – infuse 75 materias onto scroll then onto weapon (by grinding Daily EX DR, Myth, basically old content)

Nexus – do content (do any of the current + old content!)

Does that sum it up?

tl;dr Everything after Relic has no new content. Is this some project for a group of interns?

[Fynlar]

That's pretty much been the point of relics. A means to get people to keep running the old content and keep it relevant, so that the newer players that actually need this older content for progression have people to run them with.

If you want to do "new content" to get top-tier weaponry, that's what Allagan weapons have been for.

[Barboron]

Well the Nexus gives us flexibility at least, choice. On top of that, it only increases the weapon damage, it's the equivalent of the Animus. Upon reading the patch notes, there's mention of getting back your scroll for the next stage of the relic so I reckon it will be the same as going from Aniums>Novus. Another reason to be able to farm alexandrite from FATEs and not just for redistribution of points.

[Altena]

Biggest problem I have with the nexus addition is the time involvement.

25x ST runs got someone 1% progress.
Assume ST takes roughly 40-60mins.
This is roughly 2000 hours of grinding recycled content.
If you were do to this back to back, no sleep, no food, no work - you would be running ST for over 100 days straight.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

The fact that Nexus is just a color change for the glow AGAIN makes the team designing the gear look lazy or just plain don't care. You'd think with everything we threw into our relics (blood, materia, souls, etc), said relics would at least change in shape.

[Nicco]

The fact that Nexus is just a color change for the glow AGAIN makes the team designing the gear look lazy or just plain don't care. You'd think with everything we threw into our relics (blood, materia, souls, etc), said relics would at least change in shape.

from what i gathered on patch notes, stat bump as well >.>

[CoolCat]

Biggest problem I have with the nexus addition is the time involvement.

25x ST runs got someone 1% progress.
Assume ST takes roughly 40-60mins.
This is roughly 2000 hours of grinding recycled content.
If you were do to this back to back, no sleep, no food, no work - you would be running ST for over 100 days straight.

1% how were they able to tell? Does the portrait through the Zodiac start looking a little different?

[Altena]

1% how were they able to tell? Does the portrait through the Zodiac start looking a little different?

Some guy on reddit. Possibly a troll, as I can't imagine someone completing that many ST runs since the patch went live.

[myahele]

So nexus doesn't give stat increase?

[EdwinLi]

They mentioned currently Nexus will be slow progress since it is still in new release stage. As time in FF14 goes by the amount of points gained from performing content to obtain a Nexus will increase making it easier to obtain a Nexus.

However, i don't think they mentioned how much increase it was nor the time it takes for the Nexus points to start increasing.