Fastest Way to get Unidentified Items

[Ruri]

Hey, I'm with you on this, my method might be slow for some ppl but its more fun doing a mix of content

I have only been doing roulettes, hunts, beastquests, and a few alex runs here and there. Im 48/80 atm. It's adding up pretty quickly with minimal effort while still keeping it somewhat interesting not spamming the same thing over and over.

[Immut]

Absolute fastest way, if you have an insane amount of gil, is treasure maps.

After that, The Hunt for the sheer number of tomes you get. Seals are just a bonus, feel free to grab that sweet elite gc gear.

Do your beast tribes and roulettes daily.

[StouterTaru]

Absolute fastest way, if you have an insane amount of gil, is treasure maps.

With drop rate on maps, you'll get them just as fast spamming Alexander. I'm at 5/80+ on map drops.

[MicahZerrshia]

Absolute fastest way, if you have an insane amount of gil, is treasure maps.

Let me see, its been about 3 weeks since 3.15, lets just say 20 days. I do, at minimum, 2 maps a day and have gotten 3 drops so that's 3 out of about....50ish.

So...nope lol.

To me these are bonuses and frankly I could care less about the relics this time around anyway so I am putting nearly no effort into it. I'm still bitter over all my hard work and gillions spent and 6 zeta being reduced to glamour gear when we were specifically told the relics would always remain relevant. So I don't see a point of really putting any effort into them. I take the drops as they come and will do the crafted items when the cost for them plummets hard.

[Sollux]

Absolute fastest way, if you have an insane amount of gil, is treasure maps.

I can agree with this. Wyvern drop Shells, and Dragon drops Ore. Using Alex runs as a base, Shells and Ore take the longest to grind out given the average DF party, so I viewed every Shell/Ore I got from a map as 60-90 minutes of Alex I didn't have to do. I was also free to do Hunts in-between maps, and they also give 10-30 Law each which helps towards more Ore/Seeds.

I recommend duoing Dragonskins with a friend and just alternating Ore drops. Dragonskins seem to have a much better droprate than Wyvern, which may be attributed to the fact that they are technically meant to be done in 8-man parties. For those interested, here are my drop rates (I did not do many Archaeoskin):

Archaeoskin: 0/10
Wyvernskin: 16/172
Dragonskin: 21/112

[FunkyBunch]

I don't know about the fastest, but I prefer the Level 50 dungeon and expert dungeon roullette along with Vanu quests (because until you max out Vanu there are some days you can get 1/3 of an unidentified with them) and it's certainly more fun than running Alexander variations 800 times. Shoot me in the face if I do that. I'm doing 10 of each floor, but I certainly find the Alex grind the most boring.
I'm at about 20/80 and I'm not even trying with just the roullettes/beast tribes and 10 runs of A1.

I'm leveling my crafting so I'm not farming anything outside of my dailies.

[Ageofwar]

I don't know about the fastest, but I prefer the Level 50 dungeon and expert dungeon roullette along with Vanu quests (because until you max out Vanu there are some days you can get 1/3 of an unidentified with them) and it's certainly more fun than running Alexander variations 800 times. Shoot me in the face if I do that. I'm doing 10 of each floor, but I certainly find the Alex grind the most boring.
I'm at about 20/80 and I'm not even trying with just the roullettes/beast tribes and 10 runs of A1.

I'm leveling my crafting so I'm not farming anything outside of my dailies.

sound like you are in the non-boring crowed raither than find the most optimal crowed, and no the 2 are not the same thing

[FunkyBunch]

sound like you are in the non-boring crowed raither than find the most optimal crowed, and no the 2 are not the same thing

The question is though, how do people plan on getting through the ACTUAL hard part? The other items are the difficult ones. They're absurdly expensive.
By the time I can afford/make 3 of them them I'll have the 80 unidentifieds. I'll bet most of the people grinding the unidentifieds will still be stuck, when they have all 80, at the crafting portion.
Not many people have 15 million gil to throw around on the HQ mats/hand-ins.

And with the bonus law/poetics you get regularly it's pretty efficient. I'd argue at least as efficient as grinding. If you want it fastest, I'd wager that Grind+Dailies is better than Grind.

Optimal is based on how much time you can spend grinding per day. If you only have 2 hours say, Dailies+Beast Tribes+a few Alexander runs is way better than just Alexander as you can get close to 1/2 an unidentified per Daily which is about 1/3 of a an item in Alexander farm time.

[Ageofwar]

Not many people have 15 million gil to throw around

While I am getting my 80 items, I'm monitoring the MB on Hyperion watching for the price of HQ items to crash to 200k per item. In the mean item mining maps to sell for 60K to 100k

Easy peasy

[FunkyBunch]

That's a pretty big IF lol.