Originally Posted by
Karbuncle
The way i see it, This is a small improvement over the old way. You may be thinking "Oh, I only have 200 Kindred Seals" but then again, You probably camped the old kings with friends. Sooo... Ask those friends to help with KSNM99.
Say you get 5 friends, You go do 6 KSNM99s, get 6 pops for Fafnir, Kill Fafnir 6 times and (if the update is correct about 100% pop upgrade) then kill 6 Nidhoggs. etc etc. or divide them up. the KSNM99's still have a chance to drop Black Belt items as well.
You basically now, with a bit more effort, Have the chance to rapid-spawn multiple of these of these NMs, KSNM99's aren't really that hard, and I'm sure between you and ~3 friends you can probably have a fair share of pops built up. Split up between different NMs.
I Definitely think it could have had more ways to get the pop (I.E, make it drop from Multiple BC/KSNMs like the "Ouryu Orb" from multiple ENMs), but outside of that, I actually think this isn't as terrible as your all making it sound :|
Still, I see where a lot of the trouble is coming from, I think the pop item should have been a little more easily obtained. Perhaps Drop 100% From KSNM99s, and maybe ~25% from KSNM30's, and a few BCNM60+'s. Make it from Multiple locations. Forcing it into only 1 KSNM really does hurt more then help after the first ~month when everyones burned out their Kindred seals...