Feedback related to Vana'Bout

[Alhanelem]

I have about a billion seals of all types from rarely ever doing BCNMs, so... it really wasnt much of a problem.

[Zenion]

I mean... I'm literally capped on a couple of seal types because I hate running around to actually do Up In Arms, but I still don't want to be told that I'm using some for that or else.

Maybe just a little category reorganizing would help? I'm pretty sure the BCNMs were on the same slot, but then login point items were on two of the others? Maybe it would be better just having a spot dedicated to the daily pay-to-play fight so nothing of value is lost if you leave that one to go stale.

Now that I'm really thinking about it though... this probably isn't feasible, but imagine if instead of a daily roster of objectives, you just had a whole pool to choose from. Vana'Bout category A, B, C, D, and E; choose any one of these five options in each category, but you can only clear one per day that pool's been open. I'd say just one per day period, but letting you do four on day four of the cycle would be a great actual catch-up mechanic. Renew the pool every four days, so if there's a single objective players just can't stomach, it's freely skippable. Make most objectives once-per-cycle, but have some that can be chosen multiple times, to avoid having one list look like "Monster Rearing, Monster Rearing, Monster Rearing, Galkan Sausage, Monster Rearing."

But eh, what do I know. That's just me being a selfish western player, wanting to do things for enjoyment, not out of obligation, right?

[Zenion]

So this April Fools' thing, with the Shami's key... having that running from April 1 to April 8 is basically giving us that event as a little bonus in the campaign extension days from the latest Vana'bout.

That's a nice reward. I, for one, would like to see that make a return on future Vana'bouts: if the goals are met to extend the monthly campaigns, the monthly campaigns are extended and Shami's key is available to obtain and use in just those extra three or six days at the end.

[Alhanelem]

It would be nice if Shami was put in a better position to easily interact with him though. if you tab target you'll get the chests first.

[Zenion]

Yeah, I don't like that about the situation. You can't really catch Shami with F8, and with the crowd of people around, you'll really want to. If Shami stayed in his usual spot but the boxes remained where they are, that would probably be less of an issue.

[Alhanelem]

Please remove Monster Rearing from the possible vanabout objectives. I never unlocked this, have barely ever visited the mog garden. And if you get that objective in this situation, that's just lost plaudits- you're not unlocking that at the snap of a finger- You have to visit the mog garden daily for a fair while to unlock it. And I'm hardly the only one who never bothered with this. Most of the other objectives don't require that much to access/unlock if you haven't done them before. Even the Ballista one, even though many people never did Ballista, you didn't actually have to unlock it in order to get that done, you could just join someone who has unlocked it to complete it.

Meanwhile, I doubt I'll have Rearing unlocked before the next vana'bout hits.

[Zenion]

Might as well ask for Sinister Reign to be struck from the rotation while you're at it. Oh, sure, let me just casually speed run the entirety of Seekers of Adoulin in just two days so I can get those 30 plaudits.

This is where I'd offer some kind of suggestion on how I think this could be made into less of a problem, but man, I'm burnt out on shouting into the void about Vana'bout. Instead, let me offer the sage advice I always seem to hear when I bring up problems with how it works: "Just don't do that one then, there are loads of objectives, it's not that hard to hit the top reward tier, stop complaining."

[Alhanelem]

Might as well ask for Sinister Reign to be struck from the rotation while you're at it.

The difference is you're far more likely to naturally do that over time as you play the game. Mog Garden has been out for years and I never found a compelling reason to use it. collecting 1-2k of vendor trash a day is not enough to convince me to check it every day, while the reward for completing SoA is compelling.

And in all honesty, yes, I wouldn't remind if they removed SR either if I'm being honest with you, but that doesn't require weeks and weeks of daily check ins. it definitely takes longer to do than completing the SoA story.

Really, I think you just made that post because you've seen me say something similar before, though when I did it, it was more tongue-in-cheek.

[Dragoy]

The difference is you're far more likely to naturally do that over time as you play the game. Mog Garden has been out for years and I never found a compelling reason to use it. collecting 1-2k of vendor trash a day is not enough to convince me to check it every day, while the reward for completing SoA is compelling.

I think having the additional items sold by the Green Thumb Moogle can be convenient, and there are those cheers for a movement speed bonus, zanshin, capacity points... etc., and so I did rear every single creature available so far on three characters (soon) on three different servers.

On one of them I got all the titles too, which took rearing no less than 2000 creatures... because titles are important!(¿)

And in all honesty, yes, I wouldn't remind if they removed SR either if I'm being honest with you, but that doesn't require weeks and weeks of daily check ins. it definitely takes longer to do than completing the SoA story.

Pretty sure unlocking rearing takes less time due to the imprimatur requirements... maybe?

Really, I think you just made that post because you've seen me say something similar before, though when I did it, it was more tongue-in-cheek.

Quite sure the reason was that having Sinister Reign included is just not a very good idea. :]

Just like including Monster Rearing is not a good idea, but hey, at least this time it wasn't on the very first day, and since Vana'Bout still for some reason starts /not/ at the Japanese day change, which resets rearing monsters, many would often do that before Vana'Bout starts... so there's that, I maybe guess! Might be the only positive thing I have to say this time on the thing in general.

That written, my feedback for this round is mostly the same as it was for Feedback 2025-02.

This time, however, I am going for the perfect score for the title, so that I will never have to do it again I suppose. That is only happening though because of one very good motivation friend to do it with.

Otherwise I would be ignoring the event again this time, but I do have hopes for it getting better in the future!

The Ambuscade Gallivantry points was probably always the biggest obstacle, but I found we could do the Intense thing on Normal this time, so that's nice... but I think the requirements for those are still way too high.

1000 points max, maybe.

Yes, yes.

[Catmato]

I think having the additional items sold by the Green Thumb Moogle can be convenient, and there are those cheers for a movement speed bonus, zanshin, capacity points... etc., and so I did rear every single creature available so far on three characters (soon) on three different servers.

Doesn't it take months of checking multiple ???s every day just for a bunch of vendor trash just to start monster rearing or anything interesting in Mog Garden?