Once 2.55 hits, they might up the drop rate of the zodiac items, everything else has been needed to hell. grinding out light is easy if you get in a farm party that's good. Getting Alex can be a singe-day thing now. So the only thing that hasn't changed is zodiac drop rates, which took me a week as blm to get, doing nothing but those dungeons. And, you even get something of a boost in the nezt questline if you get zeta(nobody has actually said what it is)