Grindus Weapon

[Raiya]

Atm Ive got all my Relics at atma except my gae bolg animus. Atm casually gathering alexandrites from daily quest and occasional hunts to upgrade to the gae bolg novus while doing books for thyrus animus.

Honestly I wish theyd nerf the book stage (either 1 of each obective per book OR cut books from 9 to 4 instead) and alexandrite stages (either less alexandrites per upgrade or make alex drop rate the same as current atma rate from fates) since its easier to obtain a soldiery 110 weapon now at the very least expecially with ANOTHER quest coming soon for the relic.

I do like the general idea of the quest I just wish it would be easy enough to do to complete each step in a day or 2 per weapon EXCEPT the recent 2 stages (at this time the nexus and zodiac stages) so its easy for newer players to catch yp to the current stages or make it easier to keep up with multiple relics. Also would like it like this as the more jobs theyll add more than likely the more relics well need too.

[Skyl1n3]

I originally main'd DRG and at the time got it up to Nexus stage:



Then 2.4 hit and I made the switch to NIN and ground that up through the Relic stages and finally surpassing my DRG into Zodiac:



The Nexus and Animus grind was way worse the 2nd time round but Zodiac was actually quite nice compared to some other stages heh

[Anneliese]

I have a Lilith Rod and a Veil of Wiyu Novus. The grind is tedious and boring, but without it I'd probably never log in outside of raid hours.

[Kiara1]

I hate the book stage soo much... I already got one zodiac weapon but I want to get one for my summoner too. Not sure why since the books almost made me quit the game and now _I'm feeling that feeling again.
Sitting for hours to wait for a fate is not playing the game, and the game design is something I really disagree with. I disagree with it so much that I was about to end my sub cause I don't want to pay for something so incredibly stupid.

Ive been camping a fate, Surprise in upper la noscea, went to the bathroom, it popped, came back saw it had popped and some other were there to kill it too. So I was gone for 3 minutes and I ended up getting silver on the fate and it didn't count for my book. So now I need to camp it for another 3 hours...
I hate fates so much im not gonna get the expansion if they have fates in them

[Themis]

I hate fates so much im not gonna get the expansion if they have fates in them

There's nothing wrong with FATEs as a thing, only requiring that you stand around waiting on a specific one to come along. At least with dungeons in the books, you can do other things whilst waiting on them. FATEs, though, are definitely the worst thing to wait around for because there's no clue or guarantees as to when said FATE will appear.

[StouterTaru]

I hate fates so much im not gonna get the expansion if they have fates in them

I can imagine the zerg of overgeared 50's leveling up with fates, and it makes me laugh.

[Amiantos]

Progressing right now. Starting to burn out as I did all 75 alex in a week and the light farming as DPS is hit or miss with the ques.

[MasamuneBranford]

Progressing right now. Starting to burn out as I did all 75 alex in a week and the light farming as DPS is hit or miss with the ques.

Out of curiosity - what was your strat to get it done in a week?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Out of curiosity - what was your strat to get it done in a week?

Hunts and fates

[DoubleEcho]

3 - Stopped at the point of almost finishing my 3rd book when I realized that 2/3 FATEs for my book were FATEs that took sometimes 6 hours to spawn. I don't have that kind of time and being only 1/3 of the way into the books, that's kinda bullshit.

However, I plan to pick it up once SE nerfs the Animus grind. Oh, you don't think they will? I told people from the start of Atma farming when people realized the horrible drop rates that SE would nerf that and they never believed me. Sure enough....

Just like with the Coil nerfs when the next levels are patched in, basically the way to play this game as a casual is just to be patient and get the content when it becomes easy. I work 8 hours, I lift for about 2 hours a day 3-4 times a week and I don't want to spend my time waiting for FATEs.