Thread: Nexus Light Grinding in 3.0

Originally Posted by Gunspec

If it is something you really want to grind out, it takes 500 fates. Middle La Noscea is one of the best places to fate grind, because the fates are easily soloable by most classes.

To be honest, if I was crazy enough to do 500 fates for Nexus, I'd just stick my arse in Northern Thanalan and watch Netflix or something.

Originally Posted by Adrasteia

To be honest, if I was crazy enough to do 500 fates for Nexus, I'd just stick my arse in Northern Thanalan and watch Netflix or something.

At 60, North Thalanan is a bit slower than middle La no, even with good fate parties. And if you are 53-56ish, Churning Mist is probably the best place, since the xp is a lot higher now than North Thanalan. I guess it depends on which you want more of, light, xp, or GC seals.

Originally Posted by Daralii

Yeah, the 80k seals you need for Zodiac is awful. Better than light, but having teeth pulled is better than light.

I was able to knock out a stage every ~4-6 hours spamming whichever trial was the window. It's repetitive and boring, but I preferred it to killing what would probably have been thousands of 2-8 mobs in Middle La Noscea.

I did middle la nosea fates for my nin. 1400 light (already had 600 from 2.0) and all 12 mahatma for zeta....it is very very boring but extremely easy. I finished those 2 steps in about 4 days of grinding it. My ninja went from 50 to 52 which is almost 2 million xp total doing lvl 3-12 fates....

Anyways, the weapon is still relevant to my nin for another 3 lvls and I'll probably use it for glamour later down the line

Originally Posted by Gunspec

I really doubt farming primals with light bonus is anywhere near as efficient as it used to be. The only reason to nexus grind right now is for cosmetic purposes, while a tremendous number of new players are running primals either for the first time, or to earn poetic tomes. You're going to end up in a garuda hm that takes too long to enter, and you'll be paired with players who are too weak or inexperienced to do a quick kill. Maybe if your server has lots of people that want cosmetic relics, you can party finder it, but on my server that would be highly unlikely.

If it is something you really want to grind out, it takes 500 fates. Middle La Noscea is one of the best places to fate grind, because the fates are easily soloable by most classes. If you are still leveling to 60, you might want to try equipping your novus while fate grinding in churning mists, since all of those fates count as well. The ilevel 110 weapon isn't the best choice for those fates, but it isn't too unreasonable.

And no, google is not your friend for MANY aspects of FFXIV, since things change considerably over time. Most of the articles about light farm are from a time when lights was 1/4th the current rate, yet everyone was grouping to get it done.

OP dont listen to this. I just finished my light grind. Go to the light window page on reddit (the first google result with ff14 light) and start spamming the easy primals when the bonus windows open. As a healer I got instant queues and 4 minute garuda kills. Add a minute or two for other primals. As soon as that light window opens the df gets flooded with players that can easily carry any new people with little to no loss of time.

Originally Posted by Rin_Kuroi

OP dont listen to this. I just finished my light grind. Go to the light window page on reddit (the first google result with ff14 light) and start spamming the easy primals when the bonus windows open. As a healer I got instant queues and 4 minute garuda kills. Add a minute or two for other primals. As soon as that light window opens the df gets flooded with players that can easily carry any new people with little to no loss of time.

Why have Garuda kills slowed so badly? :\

Was 2.5 minutes when I did my relics in ARR