Please make the -ite stones a 100% drop from avatar battles.

[Camiie]

This cycle repeats roughly ever 14 days or so, so once you get in the groove with the cycles you can start planning more accordingly if you REALLY want to dedicate the time to farming them. Using the weather reporting site can help a lot too (it goes down from time to time, but when it's up it's a great tool).

The CONCEPT is incredibly stupid, but that is helpful information.

[Tile]

The CONCEPT is incredibly stupid, but that is helpful information.

Realistic weather patterns in my Video games!? how dare they.

if you look the stuff up it can make the difference for some trails, Starting a water staff trial can be annoying, but if you do it in the Mire during the rainy season (winter) its cake. also heard people complain about Evasion Daggers. just go while its the windy season.

lets you plan ahead instead of having to deal with a some random feature in the game

[Tsukino_Kaji]

To catch the fire weather on any kind of regular basis, you need to track the game calendar to know when to watch for it. It's most frequent around the Summer cycle.

Curently, we are in the Winter season and it is very rare... like once every 36 hours rare at times, even in Altepa. As we pass the middle of Spring and work towards Summer, it starts showing progressively more often until it will actually start popping on back-to-back game days and then tapers off as we leave Summer and go into the Fall season. The pattern should start picking up as we come out of this weekend (Summer season opens up late on 5/6 to early 5/7 depending on your time zone).

This cycle repeats roughly ever 14 days or so, so once you get in the groove with the cycles you can start planning more accordingly if you REALLY want to dedicate the time to farming them. Using the weather reporting site can help a lot too (it goes down from time to time, but when it's up it's a great tool).

Yes I know, but people shouldn't have to wait litteraly 6 months for the game year to cycle around, to get more favorable fire weather just so they can't get the drop they want due to it being over written by a higher level item.

[Camiie]

Realistic weather patterns in my Video games!? how dare they.

Gameplay > Realism.

if you look the stuff up it can make the difference for some trails, Starting a water staff trial can be annoying, but if you do it in the Mire during the rainy season (winter) its cake. also heard people complain about Evasion Daggers. just go while its the windy season. lets you plan ahead instead of having to deal with a some random feature in the game

I always look stuff up. I just don't think the weather should vary so wildly that I can only do my trials on certain days of the real life month. I understand we'll always be limited in how often we can do certain things in an MMO, but this is too limiting especially for what are supposed to be not-so-special weapons.

[Tile]

thats why doing thing on the day counts too, it might take alittle longer but it can be done. hell I still see shouts every once in awhile for a team ups for some trial during certain days to speed up kills. also people in my LS would also do same weapons.

[scaevola]

Honestly, literally the only thing they would need to do is make Fire weather appear a bit more frequently in Vollbow during the summer. Do that, and like 80% of the problems with the elemental trials are solved.

[Oscar71]

Awesome reponses and arguement; however, was asking for -ite's to be dropped from or be possible rewards from avatar fights. Still trying to figure out how geodes got in here.

[Hayward]

Awesome reponses and arguement; however, was asking for -ite's to be dropped from or be possible rewards from avatar fights. Still trying to figure out how geodes got in here.

I'd say include geodes to this proposal to drive down the costs. I highly doubt the Abyssea-era developers intended for these Magian trials to become yet another avenue for profiteers to squeeze other players for gil. The idiotic idea by the VW crew to jack up the quota for the level 95 weapons from 15 to 40 was the main reason for this happening in the first place.

[scaevola]

Because for fire specifically, geodes are the problem, not avatarites that people get in Abyssea like crazy despite low drop rates.

[Tile]

I've done many different weapons and elements so far and each time i've collected and had enough geodes and ites to finish the weapon, so i still dont understand why day/weather isn't enough for yall. let me guess you dont save them, you keep selling/droping them until you need them, then you dont have enough. only thing that can explain why you never have enough