Feedback related to Vana'Bout

[Alhanelem]

Yeah, I'm fine with it staying in general, though might adjust the completion conditions for the non-miniature version.

Think most comments aimed at it on the Japanese side I've seen, have been negative though, but I'm not sure those will have any more effect than the comments on this side.

Not sure why anyone would complain. after a quest that only takes 5mins (used to take much longer without HP warps) and buying ballista points with sparks, you can complete the objective for an unlimited number of people with minimal effort. easiest 80 points ever. But for the people who want to take the event in its spirit? you get to have some fun messing around (and earning some titles if you can get at least 6 ppl for an official match). Frankly, seems like win-win to me. lol

[Dragoy]

Not sure why anyone would complain. after a quest that only takes 5mins (used to take much longer without HP warps) and buying ballista points with sparks, you can complete the objective for an unlimited number of people with minimal effort. easiest 80 points ever. But for the people who want to take the event in its spirit? you get to have some fun messing around (and earning some titles if you can get at least 6 ppl for an official match). Frankly, seems like win-win to me. lol

I suspect it is highly likely that not everyone knows about the Diorama method, though it is mentioned in the description (or that the points needed can be converted from sparks part).

I'd complain too, if I didn't.

Or they just really don't like Ballista (some comments I remember seeing was something along the lines of them not wanting to take part in PvP at all, or that it is a hassle to set up).

[Alhanelem]

I suspect it is highly likely that not everyone knows about the Diorama method, though it is mentioned in the description (or that the points needed can be converted from sparks part).

I actually didn't realize it the first time and thought it didn't count. And I did get some official matches to happen even on Shiva. But admittedly some of the JP players just AFK'd the full hour- those are the people who could have just completed it in minutes with the diorama if they wanted to (you can start a match and just end it right away and it still counts)

Honestly I think at least some people could appreciate ballista more if they just freakin' updated it-

- remove the 30/40 level caps, add 75 and 99 (no master level) caps
- remove the gear swap penalty. We have lockstyle, character blinking is no longer a big issue.
- Adjust the damage calculations for uncapped and said caps (currently damage is way too high- even on SMN I can come close to oneshotting some jobs with gate of tartarus)
- Add a second currency not exchangable for sparks and create vanity gear rewards to exchange for the currency. like 80% of the reason it never caught on outside of die-hard fans is the lack of any real rewards. ALL content in an MMO is driven by reward. People rarely will do stuff "Just for fun."
- I realize it was supposed to add in-world flavor but ditch or dramatically shorten the scripted events before/after the match. No one wants to sit through that lengthy spiel about fair play and history and crap every single time.

[Svens]

Anything associated with a daily/weekly lockout should not be in the VBD category and should only be in the VB category. The sparks objective was at least rectified partially, but the Odyssey/Omen objectives are kind of irritating when you just did your last KI run right before a daily reset and have to wait 20 hours to complete the objective.

Hopefully there's not a VBD of opening a Limbus chest in the future that shows up after someone opens their weekly cap.

[Voidstorm]

I'd like to see other Campaign Ops: instead of 2 resource procurement Ops, 1 resource procurment, 1 supply transport, 1 security, 1 supply manufacture, 1 military training.
I'm not sure if other categories aside from those have requirements of repeatedly doing Ops, or if those are the only ones. If there are any other categories that require multiple completions to unlock higher tier missions along the same chain then add those as well.

Please give us more info as to how to improve our mastery rank, if not directly, then through vana'bout as a clue.

Also, weekly lockout vanabout objectives should either be removed entirely or only be possible on weekly reset day.

[Svens]

I thought we would get a Relic+3 Kupon for the upcoming Vanabout instead of a repeat of the Artifact+3 Kupon and would eventually just rotate between AF/Relic/Empyrean. It doesn't appear to be made in error as it is also AF on the JP side as well. Please reconsider rotating the kupons, or if feeling extra benevolent, keep all the kupons as they are introduced to each Vanabout to let players decide their most pressing need.

[Dragoy]

I think it is very unfortunate that the event is set to start at the time it has been set to start, again.

It gives less than half a day to clear objectives, and allows for some of them to become impossible to clear, such as the monster rearing one if it was already done for the day, which is what many do right after the mentioned day changes.

As a work-around for that particular situation, one could of course get rid of a monster to be able to interact with another one again, but that's kind of far from fun to have to do, and the limit for that may have already been reached as well.

Quite the Vana'trap.

Why not start it at the start of a new day (Earth time) (JST), or alternatively and probably less ideally, reset the objectives at the time the event started?

[Uroah]

It will autoroll to the next day, you won't miss anything.

You can now "miss a day" and auto-rollover 24 hours without missing objectives. You just do twice as many the following day.

As for the mog garden objective. You know it may appear, plan accordingly. Don't pet your sheep until after it starts on the starting day. Not complex.

[Zuidar]

Plaudits Goal: 125% achieved
Add an Exemplar Points Bonus Campaign for five days in May
Implement Exemplar Points Bonus Campaign in May for five days.
The exemplar points earned by defeating monsters will be doubled. (Up to a total combined amount of 500,000 points)

I get that the Exemplar bonus campaign is a bonus for unlocking it after achieving 125%/150% Plaudits, but the overall total bonus gained 500,000 points for the entire campaign is just... underwhelming after looking back the first time the campaign was active. With a window of 5/10 days throughout the campaign, it could be better addressed and tweaked.

Instead of the overall 500k Max bonus for the entire campaign, turn it into 500k Max Bonus daily which resets every JP midnite.

[Dragoy]

It will autoroll to the next day, you won't miss anything.

You can now "miss a day" and auto-rollover 24 hours without missing objectives. You just do twice as many the following day.

As for the mog garden objective. You know it may appear, plan accordingly. Don't pet your sheep until after it starts on the starting day. Not complex.

Yeah, I suppose it's not as bad since they implemented that.

I still think it's a weird time to start, but I suppose there is weirder stuff around.

For my own purposes, I don't mind if I miss all the objectives every day even, since I got the title already.

I guess I still like to try and make things better via feedback (not that I really believe it goes through even).