Feedback related to Vana'Bout

[Alhanelem]

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

imprimatur requirements for what? I don't recall being required to do a ton of coalition assignments to complete the main mission line.

If you're talking about getting the +1 versions of the rings... That's far, far beyond just completing the story and not what I'm referring to.

[Alhanelem]

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?

Well, this is exactly my point. While I dont come anywhere near checking the mog garden regularly, I do occasionally go in there (only to be disappointed obviously). Even now my gathering points are all rank 2 and they need to reach rank4 I think to get a combined total of 20. It definitely can't be done in just a week or two.

at least this time it wasn't on the very first day,

I've gotten it 4 times so far, so that's 4 objectives that are entirely impossible for me to complete.

SR is my second most hated objective, because I can't quite do it solo even though you can certainly enter it solo. #3 are the event battlefields which have a 3 person minimum. Which is itself annoying just because the fights are very easy. It's less that I can't find people and more that I don't like asking someone else to do otherwise trivial/not useful content.

[BobbinT]

For more feedback with current VB, on my end would be about the Siren's tears VBD @ north Gustaberg, it was quite exhausting trying to nab tears when there's so much ppl doing same thing & worse, already camped the predetermined pop spots. There's a time I just had to give up that quest for a day since it'll be carried over next day where I can finally do that with much lesser competition.

Also for the one time Lost Chocobo, not really much, but it would be better to be able to do the one's related with Windurst since all would avoid that city at all cost due to it being near-impossible to carry out within default 30 mins without actually investing in special chocobo gears that adds the timer, added the fact that a failure will lock players out from redoing it until another weekly tallies. Not really big deal since one can just do on other cities & avoid Windurst related by resetting the quest, but it would be better if can do without the tricks & do quest by default.

[Alhanelem]

You can just teleport to a different city for the quest to get a different route.

[Zenion]

Windurst to Jeuno is very doable inside the time limit; I'm not sure why anyone would choose to accept a run between two starter cities since there is always a run to Jeuno on the table somewhere.

[Alhanelem]

Windurst to Jeuno is very doable inside the time limit; I'm not sure why anyone would choose to accept a run between two starter cities since there is always a run to Jeuno on the table somewhere.

Bastok/Sandy is multiple zones shorter than either one to Windy and takes less than 20 minutes. Jeuno/anywhere or Kzham/Norg are all faster of course. I don't think sandy/bastok to windy can be done within the default time limit. I tried once and barely reached saruta.

[BobbinT]

Windurst to Jeuno is very doable inside the time limit; I'm not sure why anyone would choose to accept a run between two starter cities since there is always a run to Jeuno on the table somewhere.

lol yea, anything that leads to Jeuno ofc would be a huge boon, only if one can reset enough to get lucky getting that destination. Other than that, there's no really fault having destination between main cities, as long as it's not Windy coz anything related to that one sadly is not possible within default 30 mins, not without additional timer buffs from some equips that's very rare or need to grind high enough crafting skills, not to mention getting those means more hogging your space as well. ^^;

Besides, my original post intention is to be able to do anything with Windurst related, sans Jeuno, without having very tight time limit. It's like that particular VB objective hates Windy so much, & I'm Windy citizen which makes me kinda a bit sad.

[Zenion]

only if one can reset enough to get lucky getting that destination.

There's no luck involved. At any given time, each city has a specific preset destination it will ask you to go to, and one of those is always Jeuno. There's a tracker you can use to see which destination is tied to which city at any given time: http://www.mithrapride.org/vana_time...racetable.html

I thought you could just decline in one city and try the next, is that really not an option? Does declining a long run actually lock you out for the... looks like 57 minutes and 36 seconds each set of pairings is valid for?

[BobbinT]

There's no luck involved. At any given time, each city has a specific preset destination it will ask you to go to, and one of those is always Jeuno. There's a tracker you can use to see which destination is tied to which city at any given time: http://www.mithrapride.org/vana_time...racetable.html

I thought you could just decline in one city and try the next, is that really not an option? Does declining a long run actually lock you out for the... looks like 57 minutes and 36 seconds each set of pairings is valid for?

Didn't know about that, good to know.

Still, to reiterate again: my intention is to be able to do this objective even from/to Windurst without Jeuno involved & by default as in not using any kind of timer buffs, in case this wasn't really clear. And yes, I can decline & recycle the request till I got within desirable time, but that's not what I meant. Please read again.

[Zenion]

Okay, so, on reading all that again, my question is, what does that have to do with Vana'bout? It's trivial to bypass the issue by just not choosing to do the quest in the worst way possible. It's not preventing you from getting other objectives. If this is making it difficult to earn plaudits, that is 100% on you.

It sounds like your concern is with the quest itself, and there's a whole other forum section where you can go offer up your feedback on that. I'm not sure what exactly you think can be done about it - what you're asking for would require chocobos to be faster, rental chocobo riding time to be longer, or zone geometry to be different, all of which seem like pretty big changes to make just for one quest that people are only doing however many times a year Vana'bout runs anyway.