Farming Nexus

[Alukah]

The only issue with Nexus is character lockout, for those of us who like to play different classes.

[Ashkendor]

The only issue with Nexus is character lockout, for those of us who like to play different classes.

You couldn't play other character classes and get credit on Animus books. This is no different. *shrug*

I basically sucked it up and tanked almost non stop till my Nexus was finished.

Plenty of time to play my other classes once it's finished.

[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..)

[Alukah]

You couldn't play other character classes and get credit on Animus books. This is no different. *shrug*.

It's very different, for animus you had to do the objectives as the class, but you could farm for myth as any class, back then in 2.2 I'd do all my daily stuff as any class I wanted and only did the book as one class, and I'd only have enough myth for books every few days, but for nexus I have to do every little thing as one class if I want to progress.

[Kiara]

Hi Billy,

I'd say hang in there. 2.4 introduced a TON of new stuff for people to do, and IMHO, the DF "emptiness" you feel now will go away with time.

The majority of players I know have been busy with leveling Rogue / Ninja, working on Shiva Extreme, Final Coil, some lucky ones bought a House and are busy just "gearing up" the house (furniture, styling it out, etc.).

And then there are those busy with Crafting and Gathering Recipes / Gearing those up.

It'll straighten itself out in a bit.

Also, as others have said, for now, while it's not "the best" you can still get Light via:

* FATEs (every FATE yields light for you) - And there are ton of FATEs being done by all the Rogue / Ninjas leveling.

* Treasure Maps

* Try asking a FC/LS/Friend to go Healer and/or Tank for you, and your DF Queues will go much faster.

* Frontlines: If your Server is big into PvP you can have fun joining those runs for Light.

* Syrcus Tower: ST runs are still pretty popular (at least on my server).

I noticed your Avatar lists you as Marauder. If you're going for Axe Nexus as Warrior, your queues should be decent (but get a Healer to join you for the fastest queues).

Another thing is that lots of Rogue / Ninjas are desperate to get some Dungeon Runs. Even Low Level Dungeons can give Bonus Nexus Light, so that might be worth queuing for as well.

Ultimately, while getting 2000 Lights for Nexus seems grindy (it is), when put in perspective it's definitely one of the most *flexible* / friendly portions of the Relic Weapon quest:

* Essentially by doing *whatever you want* / normally do, mostly, you WILL get Nexus Lights and make progress towards the Weapon. It's really nice. :)

It doesn't force you to wait for a Rare FATE to pop (sitting around for 2 hours), or have to do XYZ; you can just go about doing your Duty Roulettes, or general farming for FATEs, Treasure Maps, PvP, Syrcus Tower, End Game / Coil runs, Primals, even fun Story stuff like Gilgamesh (Battle on Big Bridge), or new content (Shiva, Ultros, etc.), and you WILL continually get Light and make progress.

[RyujinUzikin]

I do all roulette's every day. Followed by hunts (To gear my alt), then I keep an eye on PF just in case someone needs help with Alex maps, and then I run a few times ST. I see the message brilliant light, blinding light many times, and sometimes feeble light, only once I saw new born star.

And it shows after two weeks a distinctive amount of aether activity.

Yeah, this is something I'm not expecting to finish any time soon.

[CYoung187]

I would rather grind atmas, and that took forever for me. Nothing like doing dungeons/primals for weeks on one class only (pretty much ignoring all the other jobs I enjoy playing) then checking the zodiac glass and it still gives the same message. Novus/Animus grind were so much better. At least I could go different jobs on ex dungeons/hunts to get myth.

[TheoVi]

As tank I prefer to farm T4 (besides normal activity) - almost instant queue, beatable with every group for 3-5min, you can even spiritbond. As bonus to Light I have: Allagan mats, Gear to desynth/GC, Mount achievement, Recommendations.

[LaylaTsarra]

It's not supposed to be easy. I have two Nexus relics at the moment and soon (need 25 more melds for my Bravura Axe) will be farming light for a third. Hopefully by then the Ninja Madness will be over.

I use both these sites for information.
http://ffxivlight.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...sle=true#gid=0

[LineageRazor]

If grinding Nexus is obnoxious - don't grind it. Presuming that you're doing things the game expects, like accumulating Tomestones by running Roulettes once per day, you'll build up points as a side effect. Just make sure you do those activities on your Nexus job. DPS queues may be obnoxious, but if you're only running one or two Roulettes per day, that shouldn't get in your way.