Grindus Weapon

[Xuled]

1. Finished as of 6 AM EST.
Atmas - decent.
Animus - FATEs were brutal.
Novus - Alex maps/materia weren't too bad (no breaks on Det IV's)
Nexus - worst stage. I despise all HM primals now.
Zodiac - probably the most fun as the dungeons were ones that don't get a lot of play anymore.

Fun fact: I raced against 2 FC members on this. They had Nexus right off the get-go while I had Novus still. I did the entire light grind in 6 days and this one in 2. I achieved 2nd place... by 1 dungeon (soldiery).

[Roris]

1, mostly done them all because it's another quest and another objective to accomplish, it's not like there's a lot of relevant progression stuff to do in this game so might as well try to complete everything. All have been pretty underwhelming and felt like a cheap cop out to try to keep old content in circulation so far.

[Balmung_Griffin]

2) I'm liking it so far, though I'm stuck in Aurum Vale and Tam-Tara Deepcroft Hard for Zodiac. Oh, and I hated materia melds >_<

[Dhex]

2

Chimera and Hydra were neat when they were new. Hardmodes were a challenge at i55 & i60.

Zenith was a waiting game because Myth was locked (took 3 resets).

Collected my Atma within 24hrs of them being added to the game.

Animus was Mythflox Longspam and waiting hours for FATE.

Novus was easy but cost me 3 million.

Nexus makes me loathe Turn 4 & Garuda HM.

[Nep_Nep]

1 I got mine and now I'm experimenting with colors. Glad you can dye it. I wonder if dyeing can affect future Glows since obviously this thing will glow in the future.

[Edeline]

1. on main class, 2. on secondary ones. I main healers, so I always keep both WHM and SCH with maxed relic asap (Novus times) just in case I had to switch around. I switched to SCH main in FCoB so I had my Nexus SCH progressed first and it's now Last Resot, doing a 2nd zodiac atm, probably for my BLM first as it's at Intense light, while my WHM one is at Distinct.

[Lemuria]

Kind of caught between two. I have sort of 'moved on' and gotten soldiery weapons mostly, but I also put in a LOT of hard work on my Paladin relic, and I'm (very) slowly working on it in the dim hopes that it's final form will at least have some kind of uniqueness besides looking different. It's a slim hope, but I feel I need to justify having spent so very very long working on this god-awful relic quest. Quitting now would be like admitting failure.

I hate the grind with a passion, and I loathe every single step after Zenith. I don't think the end justifies the means, and I don't think it'll be worth anything when it's done. But I'm no quitter, and by fair or foul I'll have it fully upgraded eventually just to say I've done it.

[Nestama]

3. Stopped on the Nexus phase. I wasn't having fun and that was most likely going to wind up with me not feeling rewarded for the 'effort', so I figured "Why should I bother?" and went after the Diamond Rod. Dumping my Novus onto my Retainer and dropping all the Atma's and Alexandrites I had gathered into the abyss (deleted).

[juniglee]

I'm currently on my one and only Animus weapon - Curtana/Holy Shield. I'm just taking it easy, just got my Animus last Sunday. I've already done about 31/75 Alexandrites.

In the future, if I'm bored enough. Maybe, just maybe...I might go for the other weapons. Books pretty much killed it for me though - I know I took a 2 months break from FF14 partially because of the books grind. I was on Book 3 when I took my 2 months break.

[Rocond]

1. If you only care about one weapon and have kept up with every relic patch, it's really not that bad. Starting from the beginning now though it probably looks like a rough task.