Wings of the Goddess Completion

[Babekeke]

The rewards for WoTG were terrible. I completed the missions, but only because I play SMN as one of my main jobs, and I was sure that new avatars were going to require WoTG completion. This was before SE even said that next avatars would be Cait Sith and Atomos.

[Retsujo]

What does your job preference and future outlook for avatars have to do with the rewards from WotG?

That being said, I can agree with the lackluster reward. It's not really SO bad for the level, but the fact that they're augments notes that we won't really be able to upgrade them in the future like they're planning with all the other expansion rewards.

[Zarchery]

Not contributing anything to this discussion, but I would like to announce that I have just finished the Bastok line of quests for Wings of the Goddess. Having done this, I finished the entire mission line and all 3 nation quest lines. It was one of my goals for a while, and when I started this endeavor back in April, the whole thing seemed impossibly daunting. I had to start a static from scratch. I had to deal with scheduling conflicts and unreliable people who sadly I had to kick from the static. I had to fill in some spots with new people along the way, and for the last two missions I picked up 2 extra people from Jeuno yelling, one of whom joined me for the Sandoria and Bastok quests.

All in all a frustrating at times but rewarding experience. It got a lot easier when I realized I didn't NEED 6 people to do this stuff, and that even with 3 or 4, most fights were easy (though Darkness Descends was a challenge with 4 at level 90).

Overall, Windurst had the most interesting story line. The cutscene after Howl from the Heavens was the best cutscene I've ever seen in FFXI. Sandoria's story line was pretty boring. It's a shame because I thought their nation missions had a really interesting story. The Bastok missions were probably the hardest, but that was mainly because of all the crawling through Xarcabard [S] and Castle Zvahl [S] that we had to do. None of the fights were particularly difficult, though the last fight for Windurst was a shocker when Fenrir used Astral Flow and killed the whole party (NPC and BST pet ended up finishing the fight while we raised and waited out weakness).

Wings of the Goddess itself had a nice storyline, but I still liked Chains of Promathia best of all.

Now I just need to work on Crystalline Prophecy, Moogle Kupo d'etat, and Shantotto Acension....

[Zarchery]

What does your job preference and future outlook for avatars have to do with the rewards from WotG?

I think he was saying that he thought new avatars would require WOTG completion, like how Alexander requires TOAU completion and Diabolos requires a certain level of progress in COP.

Also, the atma you get from finishing WOTG Windurst quests looks pretty nice for SMN.

[saevel]

The real problem is that you can't assist unless your on or have beaten that particular story lines mission. So if I need assistance with a particular fight I can't just grab anyone willing to help, I need to get someone who is beat the sandy mission line. Makes progressing annoyingly difficult.

[Tohihroyu]

Getting any assistance in the wotg missions is like pulling teeth (well anything thats NOT Abyssea), my alt is now currently (possibly permanently) stuck on "A Journey's End" been shouting for almost an hour...just just like before abyssea, only difference being I didn't do any of the nation quest in Sandy, just Windurst .-. wont be surprised if I end up having to get a merc.

And before anyone says anything Yes I did try to solo it... :/

[Zarchery]

Getting any assistance in the wotg missions is like pulling teeth (well anything thats NOT Abyssea), my alt is now currently (possibly permanently) stuck on "A Journey's End" been shouting for almost an hour...just just like before abyssea, only difference being I didn't do any of the nation quest in Sandy, just Windurst .-. wont be surprised if I end up having to get a merc.

And before anyone says anything Yes I did try to solo it... :/

Yikes! Too bad you're not on Carbuncle or I'd help you out. Only other reccomendation I have is do what I did and try to build a static from the ground up.

[Dragoy]

Getting any assistance in the wotg missions is like pulling teeth (well anything thats NOT Abyssea), my alt is now currently (possibly permanently) stuck on "A Journey's End" been shouting for almost an hour...just just like before abyssea, only difference being I didn't do any of the nation quest in Sandy, just Windurst .-. wont be surprised if I end up having to get a merc.

And before anyone says anything Yes I did try to solo it... :/

Stumble upon Fenrir and I'll help you out... if you want, that is. :V

[whmsyrup]

Getting any assistance in the wotg missions is like pulling teeth (well anything thats NOT Abyssea), my alt is now currently (possibly permanently) stuck on "A Journey's End" been shouting for almost an hour...just just like before abyssea, only difference being I didn't do any of the nation quest in Sandy, just Windurst .-. wont be surprised if I end up having to get a merc.

And before anyone says anything Yes I did try to solo it... :/

if I see you shouting this thursday, I'll help you out :3

[Kikorimo]

Would love to finish the missions myself, however I need to find some people to do them with in order for this to likely happen. I did some solo, and the story seems interesting so far... I'm just concerned with not being able to handle the rest of the way solo so am holding off until I can find some others to do the missions with.