Gukumatz - Please help fix this

[Nikia]

This is getting to be a huge issue, this NM is always camped 24/7 and it is the only NM really stopping people from doing Sobek for Empy and +2 items.

A few Solutions:

First ALL ??? and any time spawns need to be lowered to repop a few seconds after said NM's names fades off screen after their death.

Second for Gukumatz you could either have 3 pop at once OR ??? spawn like the other two KI NMs.

Third possible solution is make KI drop to entire PT that way fewer kills needed.

I understand Empy weapons are fairly easy and Very well made items however this game's difficulty should be based around the NM fights or game related content. Having to fight other players over a pop spawn is annoying. I for one have NO LS at all and usually make pickup groups for anything i cant low man with 2 friends. Which puts people like myself at a huge disadvantage when a LS is claiming every single timed spawn NM.
I am at 10/50 Skins and I know I will finish the hard way but really the accomplishment isnt that the NMs are hard or the fights have a ton of planing they are just out pulling others and Hoping that the people you are with do not mess you over by logging once the have a popset you helped them make.

I love the game, just hate that most the so called time consuming or difficult things have to do with player competition and nothing to do with NM or game difficulty.

There are so many possible solutions out there, would love to see something done about this. Please. Thank you.

[RAIST]

They've already taken action on Gukumats KI, as well as others:

•The key items obtainable from the following notorious monsters are now available from Sturdy Pyxis.
Tunga / Amun / Gukumatz / Heqet / Lord Varney / Hrosshvalur

from the 5/19 update notes here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Update-(May-19)

[Nikia]

They've already taken action on Gukumats KI, as well as others:



from the 5/19 update notes here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/th...Update-(May-19)

I am aware of this action you know it took me and THF friend 2 hours to farm 1 KI from gold... should have taken us 25 min with repop if people didnt camp this so hard. Gold was a nice attempt but a half hearted one.

[Garota]

Wish I could find a way to tell everyone to cut it out and stop being so damn emo about making empyrean weapons...

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I like how people go there during rush hour and then claim a NM is camped 24/7. I never see it camped, ever. lol

Funny anecdote. I just happened to be walking past the lizards the other day and some blu flipped out, thinking I was there to take it. In doing so he agro'd 10 of the others and died. Horribly. So I figured I'd live up to his expectations and took it.

[Ihnako]

I for myself can understand the OPs concern. Just to give you an impression - I'm no NEET so I've to work to earn money to live. So it's only natural that I play at the primetime and since the servermerge it's primetime 24/7 since you can't play at JP primetime, EU primetime or NA primetime. Those NMs are simply overcamped while the droprate from gold chests are insanely low (took us round about 3h for 1 KI with and without THF while other KI's like that for Bennu droped like hell in Altepa [A]).

[Aleste]

... could just add a pop item and a single ??? to the piestes Guk spawns in; then make the drop-rate on it rather low.

Though, I still think that there is 1 timed NM per empyrean upgrade NM was intentionally put there to slow down progress on empyrean weapons.

[Ihnako]

Yes they are (IMHO) intentionaly designed to slow down the process - but the way it is right now you'll get a relic from the scratch to the last stage faster than this. And all you have to do for a relic is to spend money (quiet easy) kill 2 dynamis NMs and do the last Kill-Trials.

[Glamdring]

I like how people go there during rush hour and then claim a NM is camped 24/7. I never see it camped, ever. lol

Funny anecdote. I just happened to be walking past the lizards the other day and some blu flipped out, thinking I was there to take it. In doing so he agro'd 10 of the others and died. Horribly. So I figured I'd live up to his expectations and took it.

Good for you! Proud of you!

And for the record, SE LIKES time-sinks, it's why you keep coughing up monthly fees, so I doubt they'll make this any easier to do. Personally, I've never had issues with Guk and I play during NA prime-time. Maybe I'm just a better claimer.

To make this fair, what they really need to do is make the other pieste link-from long range, then mostly groups would do him, and it would alleviate some of the congestion. But that hurts easy and we can't have that. What the playerbase on here wants is one of those feeder systems where the NMs pop solely for them the second they show in zone and keep popping like they're being shoved out of a Pez dispenser.

[CapnSavaHoe]

I am aware of this action you know it took me and THF friend 2 hours to farm 1 KI from gold... should have taken us 25 min with repop if people didnt camp this so hard. Gold was a nice attempt but a half hearted one.

Just because the KI is available in gold boxes does not mean you will get it every time. But, if you max out the correct lights, you should be able to pull a bunch of mobs and just kill them in bunches and get the KI rather quick.

Makes no sense to state that if no one camped it you would get it every 25mins... that's like saying you are the only one with rights to the mobs. There will always be people there, the issue was the amount was so high it got ridiculous. But also keep in mind that even you competing with one single PT of 6, makes your chances very slim of getting it every time; just my 2 cents anyways.