Increased Alexandrite Drop-rate in Fates and Increased Light Earned for Nexus

[Amiantos]

FML I'm 425 off from Nexus. I spent 2 weeks smashing my face against hunts til the point I literally had a mental shut off on New Years Eve and drank myself into oblivion. Woke up with a Novus and stories of how I tried tanking Ifrit HM as a dps. Been at the light grind since then.

[MasamuneBranford]

It's kind of funny - because the Animus phase may be the most time consuming phase after all of this. 27 dungeons (9 that are under level 50 making them a bit more time consuming). 27 Fates that can take an hour or more. 900 Enemies (many that have 3 spawns top) and 27 Leves (cake walk). Tack on 4,500 soldiery - and I guess it's debateable as to which is worse (Zodiac or Animus). I'd still say Zodiac is likely worse - but who knows - you might have good RNG runs.

[Docent]

Oh, Animus is by far worse than Zodiac.

I still think the lights are the worst, but with the newest update, I'll reserve judgement until we know more.

[TheGrimace]

Thank God. Been stuck on the light phase for my Bard for months, and now I'm at almost the same point with my Ninja. Grinding light is very dumb and I want to be done with it.

[Burningskull]

I don't really see a reason to increase the Alexandrite drop rate. My problem with getting my Novus is aquiring the materia. Been spiritbinding non stop lately and not getting a single tier 4 det or crit materia.

[Delta041]

Been spiritbinding non stop lately and not getting a single tier 4 det or crit materia.

Just finish your novus now and adjust it later.

[Fyce]

I don't really see a reason to increase the Alexandrite drop rate. My problem with getting my Novus is aquiring the materia. Been spiritbinding non stop lately and not getting a single tier 4 det or crit materia.

Since you'll be able to grab a i130 weapon from CT3's loots, I would suggest that you stop wasting your time on Tier IV (which you don't need anyway) and end your Novus here by melding a 3rd stat on your weapon.
Alexandrites being easier to get, it's arguably better to start farming light as soon as possible and remeld your Relic later down the line.

Anyway, the Alexandrites farm was really awful in itself. You had to spend every Soldiery on that (and Allied Seals), preventing you from gearing any alt job.
If you weren't into the Hunt and didn't want to spend all your Soldiery on that, it would take you 1.5-2 months to gather all 75 Alex.

So, yeah, the Alexandrite farm was kinda slow for quite a lot of people.

[Burningskull]

But at least with Alexandrite you can at least get one a day. And if you want to you have the option of soldiery, hunts, and fates to get more. Currently the only way to get materia is spiritbinding.

[Aethaeryn]

But at least with Alexandrite you can at least get one a day. And if you want to you have the option of soldiery, hunts, and fates to get more. Currently the only way to get materia is spiritbinding.

Or market board. You don't have to max out two stats either. And as previously mentioned, you can redo the stats later if it really bothers you losing a few dps. I haven't seen a good tier4 in the last 20+ sets of spiritbonding, so I can't imagine trying to do all of the tier4 melds for a novus this way. Guess some people have much better RNG on their sides, however.

[FranSeara]

I don't really see a reason to increase the Alexandrite drop rate. My problem with getting my Novus is aquiring the materia. Been spiritbinding non stop lately and not getting a single tier 4 det or crit materia.

You could go with 3 stats. If you really wanna spend 600k to 700k gil on t4 mats move to my sever and I'll sell you some. Going crit, det than acc will not hurt you very much. When you hit the Zodiac stage ALL your stats go up on your weapon to mirror a Level 125 weapon. So,you'll get a bonus on 3 stats not just 2. Good luck.