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

Originally Posted by Xellos2099

TBH the relic grind is easy compare to the original stage where we need to farm up 75 alex and 75 materia.

Somewhat a matter of opinion.

The alexandrite themselves was easy; if all you did was run an expert dungeon each day, even without spending any of your tomestones on additional maps, you'd be done in 75 days. Those same 75 expert dungeons wouldn't even get you 10% of the way through the final anima quest.

I know that, for me, making the gil for the materia (or spiritbonding for them) was a lot easier and faster than the other 90% of the anima quest would be.

in the same way with Alexandrite also is the beast tribes bare in mind, 80 days gets you all 80 tokens providing you do them once a day and have them at rank 3 and above , thing is. its not fun. where as you was going to do expert for alex anyway for your tomes, where as beast tribes you get nothing but rep if not leveled.