Quote Originally Posted by t-a-l-a-n-m-e-r-c-e-r View Post
A good solution would be to make the steps post atma doable at the same time. So when you start gathering animus books you could gather alexandrite, gain zodiac light and do the dungeon quests at the same time. They would have to tweak the quest so that it's the zodiac glass gathering light and not the weapon itself. I think it's a good compromise, nothing is directly made easier. Just a bit of multitasking.
You can already do that for every single step except for Nexus light, for 2nd relic and beyond. Alexandrite can be stocked up forever and the Zodiac quest items are stackable too so you can basically have those 4 repeatable quests active forever in case you get roulette'd into a required dungeon and have a chance at the dungeon drop.