Quote Originally Posted by Xellos2099 View Post
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.