Sortie earrings of player choice

[Cherrywine]

Hello!

Are there any plans to add a system wherein players can trade NQ, +1 and +2 earrings of undesired jobs for those of desired jobs?
Perhaps a NPC similar to Coelestrox for Omen Paragon Cards or Lame Deer for empyrean footwear?

Every player would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you for your consideration!

[Velner]

I don't even open the Old Cases anymore. What's the point? Haha

[Zenion]

This would be wonderful to see, but very unlikely. The Skinner Box doesn't work if you can actually force it to issue a positive reinforcement occasionally; it has to be random and with a low chance of reward.

[Alhanelem]

Well sometimes a way of doing something like this is added later to facilitate people playing the catch up game.

[Velner]

I opened 99 Old Cases, representing 20-25 days worth of daily Sortie farming, for three +1 earrings. No +1 cases dropped in that entire time. This is atrocious.

[Alhanelem]

I opened 99 Old Cases, representing 20-25 days worth of daily Sortie farming, for three +1 earrings. No +1 cases dropped in that entire time. This is atrocious.
Sortie has only been out for two weeks, you haven't spent "20-25 days" farming it.

That doesn't mean these drop rates aren't trash, just fact correcting. :)

[Velner]

Sortie has only been out for two weeks, you haven't spent "20-25 days" farming it.

That doesn't mean these drop rates aren't trash, just fact correcting. :)

Are you just trolling? It's more like one month AND two weeks. Sortie released August 16, 2022. I popped the 99 cases on September 26, 2022. I am absolutely baffled by this response.

[Alhanelem]

No I'm not trolling, i'm just an idiot :confused: and looked at the last version update date (Yes, really) when it was actually the one before.

But it really doesn't seem like it's been that long lol.

[Cherrywine]

I'm definitely hopeful that as more pieces of Sortie are released, +1 and +2 earrings become more accessible and friendly to obtain.
Otherwise, Sortie will quickly become as unpopular as the Shinryu HTBF. What is the point of content that doesn't provide rewards?

[Sp1cyryan]

I don't even open the Old Cases anymore. What's the point? Haha

To get a +1 earring?

Honestly, anyone who doesn't care to farm the earrings can stop doing the event when they are done upgrading. The ears aren't necessary, and some are good as NQs, like THF or BLU.

It's likely that the new zone coming will see the Galli cap go up and add more earring drop chances. I'd be fine seeing only the less soloable zone dropping +1 boxes with any frequency.

[Cherrywine]

Bumping this, hoping for an official response.
Seeing as how the Devs have switched gears and are revisiting Odyssey, I'd appreciate confirmation if this is Sortie's final form?

[Gwydion]

SE should:

1.) Increase the cap for Gallimaufry to 10M.
2.) Create NNI-style Key Items like Bronze, Silver, Gold Astrarium, purchasable with Gallimaufry.
3.) The different levels of Astrarium can be used to convert Old Cases to Old Cases +1 and Old Cases +1 to Old Cases +2.
4.) For a high number of Astrarium, SE can let you choose a specific job's +2 earring.
5.) Let you use astrarium to re-roll augments if you want to try your luck that way.

With these changes, SE can end-up supporting at least 3 different (speed) play-styles:

1.) Gotta-have it: Save your currency, buy the JSE you want.
2.) Average: You can convert Cases to +2 and try that way.
3.) Casual: Use your cases as you get them.
4.) Side Note: Re-roll augments as needed, using astrarium for the gambling addicts.

[Uriah]

They aren't going to give any concession for any reason until you stop doing it. Every time you go you signal you're happy with it as is.

[Sp1cyryan]

They aren't going to give any concession for any reason until you stop doing it. Every time you go you signal you're happy with it as is.

And its not worth not going over the earring. So oh well.

[Cherrywine]

I 100% agree that Sortie isn't worth entering for the earrings. In the current state, once folks are finished upgrading their JSE, this content will be dead. They may add new prime weapon currencies to keep up activity in the future, but this isn't that conversation.
I simply bumped it hoping for an official response to the OP, as that (and only that) would guide whether I (we) keep holding onto these useless items or NPC them for inventory space.

[Shinook]

SE should:

1.) Increase the cap for Gallimaufry to 10M.
2.) Create NNI-style Key Items like Bronze, Silver, Gold Astrarium, purchasable with Gallimaufry.
3.) The different levels of Astrarium can be used to convert Old Cases to Old Cases +1 and Old Cases +1 to Old Cases +2.
4.) For a high number of Astrarium, SE can let you choose a specific job's +2 earring.
5.) Let you use astrarium to re-roll augments if you want to try your luck that way.

They aren't going to do any of these things. The entire Sortie structure around currency and upgrades is designed to keep people playing Sortie when new content comes out and people have already maxed their Empyrean gear.

I think they recognize that Sortie doesn't have much staying power and wears out its welcome after you've done it for several weeks or months. They likely saw that people were stacking 1m segments with Odyssey and didn't want people doing that for Sortie, because people could just stack a bunch of galli and then never run the content again. They put such a low cap on it because it means when you want to gear a new job, you can't just go buy the upgrade items and upgrade with saved galli, it forces you to come and redo the content over and over. For players who had maxed v20 Odyssey gear and were running Sortie from release to 25, they would have had enough storied galli to +3 all of the relevant pieces and never do it again, keeping the cap low prevents this and forces them to keep doing the content unless they already had all the upgrades done.

The earring system is a weak way of doing the same thing, but the drop rate for the +2s is such garbage no one is going to bother once they have what they need, hence why they keep the galli cap low. They figure the rarity of +2 earrings will encourage people to gear jobs around them when they do drop and the low galli cap keeps people from stashing galli and never doing it again. It's all a cheesy way of making people continue to run the content and disperse load from Odyssey and Omen, they aren't going to change this anytime soon IMO.