Thread: The Current Status of FFXIV Patch 3.1 and How to Address it Moving Forward

Depends on what you want from it, really. I personally just want something enjoyable and worth doing long term in the game and for it to be properly accommodating to its lifespan. Some people want that from glamour and bragging rights, some people want raid weapons; I just want something that I can do at an enjoyable pace. And I don't think this is anywhere near enjoyment.

In fact, the actual utility is that it isn't for dummies, it's to enable non-raiders to have more powerful weapons and perhaps with some effort, hone themselves and defeat difficult content. Except there's then no real tie-in between the two to actually even do so, despite SE claiming it to be part of the design effort, and to put it so far out of reach so late in the cycle... I don't think that's good for anybody except those who can dedicate vast amounts of time already to the game.

Originally Posted by Arashmin

Alahra, as I mentioned I did all but the last two steps pre-nerf, so including the alexandrite grind. 23 days to do it, about a week before HW hit when it became 5x Alex per map.

I'm a bit confused as to when you did your Alexandrite, but if you finished that part about a week before HW, it had already become a lot easier to acquire. The maps cost half as many tomestones if I remember correctly (400 Soldiery), and Soldiery was available at roughly twice the rate that Mythology was when Novus was first introduced (for an effective cost of 1/4 the Tomestones per map). If you got Alexandrite from FATEs, they had also by this time significantly increased the drop rate. So it might have taken you 23 days to do it, but you weren't doing it when it was at its most grueling (whereas you're discussing Anima when it is at its most grueling).