[request] increase Alexandrite fate drop rate

[Mature]

^Thank you

Considering that you can get a i110 weapon from scratch in a couple of days now ( less if you really want it asap)

I\\\\\\'m working on my second relic I only started on Saturday last week and I\\\\\\'m finishing my last 3 books for animus. Even thou at a books are long and tedious , I find them fun. Same as lights and doing the last quest. My problem with Alex\\\\\\'s is that you NEED 75 of them which this is the worst grind of all. And to top it up you need to either be rich to have a perfect novus , the materia prices are outrageous atm (400k for IV SAVAGE AND AIM ) I do not mind doing fates as I\\\\\\'m constantly active looking g forward to something but the amount of Alex needed is ridiculous. I cannot to reduce the amount of Alex you need but allowing NEW people to reach and catch up others on their relic will be a fair point for newcomers

[Ashkendor]

but allowing NEW people to reach and catch up others on their relic will be a fair point for newcomers

Atma drop rates were raised significantly. It used to take hours on end to farm a single atma unless you were truly lucky, but I ran a full set of twelve yesterday in a few hours. Animus books were 1500 myth apiece back when myth was a thing; their cost has effectively been cut by 2/3. Alex maps were 800 myth back then too, so their cost has effectively been halved. Alex drop rates from fates has been increased significantly, to the point where you actually CAN go farm them from FATEs. To top it all off, Nexus lights have been doubled from what they were on release.

I guess I'm just not seeing to how they aren't allowing newcomers to catch up here.

[Niroken]

Alex drop rates from fates has been increased significantly...

Exactly how much from what?

[Aurora-Pendragon]

I\\\\\\'m working on my second relic I only started ... for newcomers

I totaly agree. I'm at the alex step as well, only 31/75 so far. I'm doing it casualy because I already have a better weapon. To be honest, I was only doing my PLD relic for the novus skin, maybe nexus if I find the motivation. I won't even have a good novus because I don't have money to afford DET IV, and no, I'm not doing the braindead spiritbounding in Urth. I play for fun, and actualy, I find alex a bit more fun than books because I can get maps from Ex roulette or just by playing the game with my friends and spending memos. And I can equip the weapon I want. Something I couldn't do with books.

[Mature]

realistically you can get up to 6 Alex a day guaranteed by farming 2k solds and 1 exdr. But it would be nice not only for me but for other people doing their 1st relic to tone down the Alex grind. No the whole zodiac just the Alex one.

Doing hunts , doing A marks will give you around 600 seals IF you join the full train. And that only happens every 3 hours. Sounds like a lots of Alex but realistically it just doesn\\'t happen know people pulling early and missing marks.

Like I say nerfing a bit the Alex drop FROM FATES ( it gives us another option to get them a bit easier. No just the brain mumbling sold farm. ) I don\\'t know how I managed to do brayflox day in and day out back in the day.

[Mature]

Atma drop rates were raised significantly. It used to take hours on end to farm a single atma unless you were truly lucky, but I ran a full set of twelve yesterday in a few hours

On my second relic after the nerf I got all 12 atmas within 2 hours. That's why I thought it was viable to do Alex grind from fates. But it seems the drop rate it's not equal. which it should be , knowing that you NEED 75.

The rest of the nerfs are just balanced. the Alex Fat Grind is not for now. That's why the request on increasing the % drop

[LaurelinKementari]

Frankly getting the Alexandrite, tedious as it is, isn't the big problem for the Novus step. What they need to do is eliminate the RNG aspect of melding the materia. It should never have been there to begin with. "You can customise your stats with Novus! Oh, but we forget to say that only the richest amongst you will be able to do the best melds because who doesn't love losing 500k gil per failed meld of a tier IV materia? You know, for casuals!"

[Violyre]

I think we should get 75 alexandrites per fate.

[Mature]

I think we should get 75 alexandrites per fate.

Maybe 150? For a second relic just in case so we don't miss a chance.

[Violyre]

Maybe 150? For a second relic just in case so we don't miss a chance.

Nah, maybe they can do 975 per fate post expansion.