[Dev1003] Abyssea Adjustment - ((Idea for +1 Seal Acquisition))

I proposed this idea in another thread earlier this week (not "officially" though) and it received some positive feedback from other players, so now that we have been shown how to properly propose ideas to the Development Team, I will now "officially" make the proposal.


Do you happen to have a lot of seals clogging your inventory? Do you continuously complete quests to assist the poor citizens of Abyssea with their plight only to be rewarded with nothing? Or maybe the seals you want come from Notorious Monsters who are too difficult for your small group of adventurers to defeat? Seals that you don't need, yet you keep in the hopes that they can still somewhat be useful to your cause? FEAR NO MORE! I propose to you, citizens of Vana'diel......the "Seal Traders!"

The "Seal Traders" are citizens of Abyssea, who are available to assist adventurers from Vana'diel with their seal woes! They will accept unwanted seals from adventurers in exchange for one seal that the adventurer wants. In order to maintain some balance, the NPC will accept seals for Head, Legs, Feet and Hands at a 5:1 ratio, and a 7:1 ratio for Body. You must also trade seals to the NPC that correspond to the same gear slot for the seal that you want. I will provide a couple of examples on how this will work.

Example #1 - I am looking for Creed Seal: Legs seals. I am currently 7 out of 8 to complete the upgrade and need one more, and I've had horrible luck recently getting that last seal, whether it be from an NM, or through a quest! I currently have 2 Ferine Seal: Legs, 1 Caller's Seal: Legs, and 2 Cirque Seal: Legs that I do not need. The "Seal Trader" NPC will take those 5 seals and in return, give me one Creed Seal: Legs. I'm now able to complete my upgrade!

Example #2 - I require just one more Savant's Seal: Body to complete my Scholar
+1 Empyrean Body armor! But my linkshell has stopped killing the NM that drops it!! I have been valiantly fighting for the citizens of Abyssea by participating in Dominion Ops but have had no luck obtaining that final seal. However, over the course of a few days, I did receive 2 Ravager's Seal: Body, 1 Caller's Seal: Body, 1 Creed Seal: Body, 1 Ferine Seal: Body, 1 Navarch Seal: Body, and 1 Orison Seal: Body. I can trade those 7 seals to the "Seal Trader" NPC and in return, obtain the final Savant Seal: Body to complete my upgrade.

Any feedback from Development and other players is greatly appreciated.

Thank you, Devs!

Well, you kind of most the post annoying to read, but you made a good point and a good idea.
I'll give props to that.

I think that's a fair balance trading them in at 5:1. Would they have to be 5 of the same seal for 1 seal of choice? Or 5 of any seal to get 1 seal of choice?

your idea is good but there is a little problem :

a lot of morons, regardless if there is some people who really need a type of seal, will appear and will lot to each seal they can

and i dont really understand why the ratio for hand is 7.1 instead of 5.1, like other parts (except body) which also need 8 seals

I'd be happy with just being able to store them to some NPC.

I wouldn't mind storing the seals until I had them finished...but I suppose trading them could be useful also

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Originally Posted by Futan

I'd be happy with just being able to store them to some NPC.

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^ this

Seals aren't so difficult to obtain that we really need a trade system, imo. I've completed a lot of +1's for jobs I don't have and don't particularly plan on leveling - but since we have the porter moogle system to store away the +1's, there's no reason not to complete them.

I'd be happy with a seal storer or with a seal trader either way can solve may inventory problem ^^

Ok I don't think people are using dev tags properly:

Please be sure to utilize the "dev tag" system when commenting on subjects from the "In Development" forum.

The last topic was "Corsair Phantom roll ability" So I when I click on a thread that has a dev tag I'm assuming it's a new topic posted in the "in development" section. Which this isn't...

@ Eadieni - 5 seals from any job, but they have to be for the same gear slot. 5 PUP leg seals for 1 MNK leg seal.

@ Futan - I'd also be happy with having an NPC available to store seals, as this would free up....oh.....about 42 spots in my Mog Sack.

@ Ackman - You're right. The hand seals should also be at the 5:1 ratio since 8 are required to upgrade to +1. My bad, and I'll edit the OP as such. And regarding the "Village Idiot" who will lot seals regardless.....I'd simply kick them, or at least run with LS members.

Seal trading with NPC does not work: this will make everyone to go heavily camp easy NMs for whatever-seals to trade. You will end up complaining again.

What we have now is acceptable except that the drop rate is definitely off. Given my example for Athams, by the time I only got 5 nin seals I already have 15+ mnk and thf, and 10+ for dnc. SE states there is nothing wrong with the drop rate then please make all seals drop evenly.

You all complaining because the seals you wanted is not dropping and that's because SE made it that way.