Farming Nexus

[BillyBones]

When they released Nexus it sounded incredibly easy to get. But now that I finally got my Novus, Nexus proved to be the most difficult and almost impossible upgrade to do.
Used party-finder during primetime and after waiting almost an hour only 3 people joined. And even they left after getting tired of waiting.

People who did Nexus when it just got released had a HUGE advantage over people who are doing it now. There were tons of farming parties they could join whenever they wanted. So yeah, I have no idea how to get my Nexus now. Doing regular dungeons and primals is out of the question, since the waiting times as DPS are ridiculous and you never know where the good light is.

I was fine with other relic upgrades, since you could do them all by yourself. With Nexus I totally have to rely on others. So, how did you do it? Any suggestions?

[Arkane]

Well while you wait for wherever your DF might take you for your light, you could do fates. Fates give feeble light so with 2000 fates you would have your nexus so that is an option for you to do.
I know it doesn't sound fun but it gets the job done, another option is to do alexandrite maps they give 2 light per map just throw up a PF saying your help any one with those maps.

[Coatl]

Just play the game the way you would do so without a Novus. You'll get light, it might just take you a month to get Nexus. But you wouldn't have to go out of your way to get it.

[zar]

My last 400 light was harder than the first 1600. The patch basically killed light farming and you're now stuck grinding ST until your brain melts. Good luck.

Just play the game the way you would do so without a Novus. You'll get light, it might just take you a month to get Nexus. But you wouldn't have to go out of your way to get it.

As someone who plays a variety of classes and takes whichever is needed for the occasion, Nexus was definitely the worst step in the relic quest for me. You either grind it out or force yourself to play 1 job for everything you do.

[Kiara1]

As someone who plays a variety of classes and takes whichever is needed for the occasion, Nexus was definitely the worst step in the relic quest for me. You either grind it out or force yourself to play 1 job for everything you do.

This is what makes me hate the nexus quest. I am at 50% and I got it the day the patch was released for it.
I hate playing one and only one class, and now since I feel a little bit forced to play my main because of nexus I ended up almost never playing on it.
They made the nexus feel like a second job to me since I was always so fast getting the other relic upgrades and I wanted to keep up with my pace.

Frontlines if you don't mind PvP and the queues in your data center for your GC isn't ridiculous.

Kill people on whatever job you want, return/respawn when the match is about to end and change to your novus job to get the light.

Tome rewards are pretty good, too.

I found out about this after I had played more than 250 frontlines games, had I known from the start I'd probably have nexus now

[Adrian74]

Hi, didn't even try now, will try with ninja later but.....

Hm.. Is it really so difficult? How does it work? I saw people getting it just in two days or less, so I guessed it was the easiert upgrade after all (HAving in mind it is only 5 ilvl difference helped me to think it was easier upgrade)

[Coatl]

Hi, didn't even try now, will try with ninja later but.....

Hm.. Is it really so difficult? How does it work? I saw people getting it just in two days or less, so I guessed it was the easiert upgrade after all (HAving in mind it is only 5 ilvl difference helped me to think it was easier upgrade)

You need 2000 points towards your Novus to upgrade to Nexus. Every single thing you do minus hunts adds points to your relic. It's literally the only relic where you do whatever and its handed to you. No farming stupid 700 monsters, no camping 2 hours for a fate to spawn, no saving 10m for materia and hope you're lucky. Just play the game and its yours.

Granted it takes awhile to get. But that's how the relic line has always been. *shrug*

[Adrian74]

Then those who took only few days did it spamming dungeons? And what's the bonus light? I can't understand that >.<....

(But seems funnier than indeed doing fates all the time, then doing useless dungeons and waiting for fates or killing monsters where there are only three on the map and you have to wait for 4 refreshes [Gigas Bhikku, Raging Harrier, Hex Harrier, bla bla...) and then hunt hunt, maps, spiritbond...

[BillyBones]

Then those who took only few days did it spamming dungeons? And what's the bonus light? I can't understand that >.<....

The ones who did it within few days spammed primals. The advantage of that is that they had a full party with well geared people with novus. They also didn't have to wait in DF since they could re-enter instantly.
And about light, this post explains it all:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...t_information/

[Adrian74]

The ones who did it within few days spammed primals. The advantage of that is that they had a full party with well geared people with novus. They also didn't have to wait in DF since they could re-enter instantly.
And about light, this post explains it all:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...t_information/

Waoh! thanks.... It does really seem long except if doing super party for it... I guess people had luck back then...

I mean.... You'd have to do... 166 Syrcus Tower... or 2000 fates..... I really thought it was super easy after seeing so much people with it just few days after patch with it came. (I have never done more than 7 ST with same character..)