Grounds of Valor / Brown Casket Feedback

Put simply, time is money. If I could make 200k gil elsewhere, those 35 hours I collectively spent could've been converted to 7 mil. Great for the items that can be bought, but for those that can't be, gil does no good. You also need to consider that a lot of these locations are simply "out of the way" from normal play, thus the main reason people go to them is largely for these items. Even if it is something that can be sold, these people are unlikely to want to farm multiples if it took them hours upon hours for their first. I made the comparison to low-drop NMs earlier because they were at least a better chance at getting what you were after instead of killing a mob, hoping for a brown chest, hoping you get good enough clues to unlock it, and then hope the item itself is in it... which is a lottery I certainly hadn't won.

There's nothing wrong with wanting the chests themselves to have valuable items in them, or little bonuses on the side. However, that's certainly not achieved with little things like kazham peppers, flint stones, and so on. Things like the odd piece of Errant gear I found in the Oubliette could at least be NPCed for a few k, or AHed for a bit more. Those make at least trying to open the chests worthwhile. Ultimately, I feel like each "trash" drop should have a minimum NPC value relative to the zone that scales the higher the minimum level range of the initial regimes are.

A potential compromise idea:
Allow us to keep our buffs when we leave the zone and come back with the following restriction:
* Prowess Buffs are reset if you activate a book page in a different zone from where you accumulated your buffs.
* Prowess Buffs are only active while you have a page active (which will force players to interact with the book in each new zone, so they can't bypass the system.)

i got my prowess doing chest in zerhun with just kupower killing random mob.
the next kill dropped another ring...trashed...

but im 0/lostcount on pup attachment -_-

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Originally Posted by Francisco

Treasure Caskets
- I would also like the hints provided by caskets to be adjusted somehow - without making it "too easy". It's pretty wretched when the hints start as follows: "Second Digit is 2, 3 or 4", "Second digit is odd", "one of the digits is 3" ... giving us a pretty low chance of guessing correctly. Maybe allow us to select the type of hint we get once per box?

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Think this would require too much effort on their side.
One simple thing that they could probably do to partially address this is to allow us one further attempt? Currently there are like... 6 if I recall? Make it 7, and it should be okayish imho.

I think it is terrible how the current system seems try it best to make people stay in the same zone for hours and hours.

Personally, I would prefer a static exp amount per page, and just let that be somewhere in the middle of the current min/max values. Either that, or keep the bonuses (or at least keep like half of them) until you activated a tome in a different area.