Fortunately, it's a lot easier to cleave these days between trusts and Sparks gear as a starting point. If your class isn't individually good at building azure, use some BLM trusts to do it for you. Just weaken for them and turn away. And of course, resting will show you your current light status if you didn't know. From there, once you're like 180+ blue, target some easy mobs that work well with your job's method of killing. If you're using a magical WS like Aeolian Edge, things that don't give gold lights would be best. Physical ones like Fell Cleave wouldn't want red types. BLU has it pretty good here, as they can AoE nuke or physical for blue or red lights, and the former obviously won't hurt your TE gathering. All this in mind, you're going to want pearl lights just to better guarantee chests do appeal, which means melee kills. Easily popped NMs can help things along since their light yields are amplified. Also, if you are AoEing, light values gained only count from the initial target.
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