Provenance Watcher~

[svengalis]

What did you expect them to do?

Work on content that you can repeat as much as you want and give you the best drop rate ever.

If you were getting the items you wanted you probably wouldn't be repeating it...

[Elexia]

I'm going to be blunt. I love SE and FFXI but...let's take a retrospective....

Step 1 - Complete Voidwatch in the 3 Nations from tier 1 - 4...
Step 2 - Complete Voidwatch in Jeuno Tier 1 - 6....
Step 3 - Complete Zilart, CoP and ToAU Voidwatch if you want more Temps etc...
Step 4 - Get a bunch of cutscenes inbetween, some lasting a rl hour if you don't time it correctly (whats the purpose of this?)
Step 5 - After you've vendored all of your billions of logs, rocks, gems and kitrons, obtained your fancy armor 1/320 on every tier NM..sold millions of heavy metal plates and rift sand..you come to the land where vanadiel was created and will be destroyed, fighting more caturaes....and fighting the manifestation of the mothercrystal....

I THINK WE'VE EARNED THE FU***** RIGHT NOT TO GET A GOD DAMN LOG OR FU**** RED ROCK ONTOP OF A LOW DROP RATE TO A UNIVERSAL POOL WHICH COULD ALSO COME FROM PERSONAL LOOT (it doesn't) FOR A REWARD IN THIS INSTANCE.

Excuse my german. Seriously though, no. Get these logs and rocks out of this loot list.

If you were getting the items you wanted you probably wouldn't be repeating it...

No my dear, if I was getting the gear I wanted and the fight was fun you can be damn sure I would repeat it of my own free will. I'm repeating things now because I have to if I ever want to see something...but it's almost not worth the trouble of doing this.

They should just let you use 1 pertifact as an entry to this fight..not like the rewards are any different and saves newer players or those who missed the VW train the trouble of trying to get clears for almost no reward >.> People are indeed GETTING LUCKY with this and going 1/1 or even 1/12..but the mere fact you defeat all creation and get a fuc*** log? REALLY?

[scaevola]

If you were getting the items you wanted you probably wouldn't be repeating it...

The thing is, Voidwatch really is pretty rewarding given the time investment via cruor rewards and is pretty fun besides, so I could easily see people continuing to pugfarm mid-tier stuff like Kaggen or Qilin or stuff with worthwhile rares like Lamorak or Belphoebe long after they get their ultra-rare drops, just like they did with every other NM except now you can warp right to the pop area, kill four times, and get out with 50k cruor + whatever else in a half hour. The great irony of Voidwatch's problems is that the event really is quite rewarding, but it's totally undermined by frustrating the players' natural inclination to set goals for themselves.

I agree that Provenance Watcher specifically would probably rot, though.