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

[Aldora]

Thoughts on this? These were buried in the patch notes and I have not seen much discussion.

Isn’t this, in essence, what you were asking for in another thread?

Proposal: Earning a Novus Unlocks Zodiac Quest Dungeon Drops

However, I think we can all agree that it is not as easy (by easy I mean quick) to earn a nexus weapon as it once was. Number of reasons why I am making this proposal:

1) In a month or so - players will be slowing down the entire group if they are intentionally using their item level 110 novus and not their item level 130 tomestone weapon (an item level 110 weapon won't even be viable for expansion content)
2) Trial burn nexus parties are now rare to find (used to be commonplace)
3) Trial burn parties are boring as all heck


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I think this is fair due to the fact that nexus trial burn parties are very hard to find and an item level 110 weapon is not going to be viable in expansion content. Early nexus adopters had the benefit of being able to cap tomestones / weekly content (utilizing an item level 110 weapon) without any questions being asked. Players still on the nexus stage at expansion time won't be able to use their novus for reaching weekly expansion content cap and thus will be required to spend an enormous amount of additional time earning their nexus.

Personally i wouldn’t expect the amount of “Nexus Light” you get from the duties to increase by a lot (like getting 20 Light for a low level roulette), but any increase would be welcome for the players who haven’t started on their Nexus yet.

If, for instance, a Garuda Hard Mode run would give a continuous 4 light instead of 2 and 6/8 Light as the “Bonus”... That would make the farming process quite a bit faster already.