Ishgardian Restoration events

[tdb]

Okay, a full level is a sizable amount. Still, I would like to offer some perspective with the crafted turn-ins which are always available.

The Lv70 turn-ins give 2 million EXP at the lowest tier (which is trivially attainable with basic gear) and 4 million EXP at the highest tier (which can be a challenge even with good gear). Levels between 71 and 80 require 12 million to 37 million EXP. That's between 6 and 18 crafts per level, assuming you only get enough collectability for the lowest tier. One craft takes half a minute with a macro, so that's between 3 and 9 minutes per level. The fates seem to take around 5 minutes to complete, so the effort required is similar.

Crafting requires materials. The fastest way to obtain them is from the market board. Up to Lv70 each item needs 15 Diadem materials, which are priced between 10-80 gil on my server. They also need one non-Diadem material, which can go for a couple thousand gil. That's maybe 2000-7000 gil total per item, or 12000-120000 gil per level. You can of course also gather the materials yourself, which is more effort but you get levels for your gatherers too.

Finally, don't forget that there's only maybe 20-30 fates available in this patch, but a total of 790 levels to obtain for your crafters. So doing some crafting to level up is inevitable. As such I don't consider missing out on the EXP rewards to be that big an issue. I'm more concerned that players won't get to experience the fates. While they may not be terribly glamorous, they still give a feeling of participating in the restoration. I would have liked for this to be more like the Doman Enclave reconstruction where each player was able to progress at their own pace.

[Seraphor]

Even now that the progress has slowed down a bit, they're nearly always taking place in the middle of the night for me.

[DrWho2010]

tell your server to plan things around your schedule then lol

[Goona]

Even now that the progress has slowed down a bit, they're nearly always taking place in the middle of the night for me.

It's the same on Excal. Super bad design. Unless the aim is to NOT have people participate.

So last phase the problem was TOO much participation (from server visits); this phase, too little. Fix one problem, create another.

[Jojoya]

It's the same on Excal. Super bad design. Unless the aim is to NOT have people participate.

So last phase the problem was TOO much participation (from server visits); this phase, too little. Fix one problem, create another.

There's still plenty of participation, even if it doesn't seem that way with the stockpiles requiring more contributions for completion. I don't see this as a problem. It means the content is going to last a good part of the 5.2 patch cycle instead of being completed in 5 days like it was last time.

[Seraphor]

There's still plenty of participation, even if it doesn't seem that way with the stockpiles requiring more contributions for completion. I don't see this as a problem. It means the content is going to last a good part of the 5.2 patch cycle instead of being completed in 5 days like it was last time.

I don't think the stockpiles require more contributions, I think contributions have slowed right down since the season rankings ended and everyone has already got what they want from scripts. Especially as it seems progress is very sporadic now. I've noticed it takes about 2-3 days to climb to about 70/80%, and then suddenly it surges late one night to clear that last 20% in a couple of hours. I'm guessing everyone is rushing to proc it while they're still on that evening, but don't quite make it, and it ends up procing in the middle of the night where only those with no real daytime commitments get a chance to do it.

The EU isn't that wide a range of time zones either, if it's in the middle of the night for me, it's also the middle of the night for everyone else, or at least very early morning.

They either need to give every stage an extra turn 8 hours later (which has only happened once this season) or even two extras 8 and 16 hours. Or put in more stages and significantly reduce the contributions required so they cycle round with more variety in timing.

[tdb]

I'll honestly be so glad when this "event" is over. It's so aggravating to log in multiple times per day to check on the progress, only to finally find out that you missed the fate by maybe as little as an hour. Worst limited time event in the history of FFXIV.