Give us more Pop triggers

[Mordanthos]

I don't know about you, but have any of you wondered why the actual emp item bosses are the only ones here with 3 pops? It makes no sense to me. All i do is day after day pound my head against my desk as me and my party constantly fight over who has the best macro to pop this thing before this other group does.

And don't even get me started on these emp trials that have 1-2 time pop NM's within the trigger conditions (Glavoid cough, cough,). Idk who thought this crap up, but this is by far the dumbest thing ever. A popular event due to everyone wanting these emp weapons, 3 pops at the end...great, 1 pop at each previous NM (constant fighting over popping, 100's of minutes wasted because of it) and 1 Pop on a 10-15 minute timer... (what are you fricken stupid).

Look, you need every single NM inside Abyssea to have 3 pops to it. Idk how many times now since the merge, i went to do something that "Normally" isn't already being done, or figured that just maybe, at midnight or something its gonna die down, but when i get there, either 2 other groups show up and then its just a battle and waste of time, or there's already 1-2 groups there. It wouldn't be so bad if all this did wasn't make people fight and cuss each other out. But its just getting over excessive.

Short version of this- We need all NM, pop NM, and NM on 10-15 minute timer to have 3 pops/copies. Too much fighting going on in Aby, a lot of cussing, and a lot of wasted time.

[Vlorsutes]

Considering that all the NM key items you're arguing they need to add have multiple sources for their acquisition (the NM itself or through sturdy pyxis farming), there's really no need to add additional question marks or additional copies of those NMs. Empyrean weapon farming for the most part is insanely easy already, given how readily it is for people to get the required KI for popping their NMs, there's no need to make it even moreso.

The only thing as far as Empyrean weapons they should consider adjusting is Fistule, since that still has the same single timed spawn its had since its inception. All the others though are easy enough as they are.

[rendeznousgilga]

you're jokin right ? the pixie farming is a totally bad idea, i'm doing my nin empy solo, going through pearl and amber lights, bam i'm out of time, this is not an option.

(let's just not talk about the KI you'll have 10 times before you get that last one you need and cry over all this waste)

I aggree that all those nm should have more pops, damn i really miss gilgamesh. this merge has made me rage so much since it happened.

[Eeek]

you're jokin right ? the pixie farming is a totally bad idea, i'm doing my nin empy solo, going through pearl and amber lights, bam i'm out of time, this is not an option.

(let's just not talk about the KI you'll have 10 times before you get that last one you need and cry over all this waste)

This is simply the risk taken when farming KIs solo from gold boxes. You've done it. I've done it. It's annoying when the KIs/Augmented Items you want just will not load in Gold boxes. But that's life.

If you keep at it, you will eventually get all the KIs and Empyrean Items you need. It just takes time and effort.

[rendeznousgilga]

i have no problem with shit taking time to get done, but constantly having to fight to pop some nm's, now i have an issue with that. It's like all forced pop are gukumatz, you camp the pop and spam your macro.

But still i won't try gold chest again, there's just too much stuff you can get from gold pixies, when you only want 3 KI, i don't think gold pixie is the way to go. (That would be fun to have proper statistics about the drop rate of gold pixies once you have capped lights, see how many KI you get, and the probability to get the KI you want, i don't even think there's enough decimals in the world to put after that 0. to get a close estimation)

[Korpg]

I only go the gold pyxie route when I am soloing and nobody in my shell is online. Even then, I'll only do stuff that I want or will get a friend's emp weapon faster. Like Sobek or Glavoid.

[rendeznousgilga]

what job do you solo on ?

[Korpg]

BLU.

I can get capped amber, azure, and pearl in 45 minutes. Just get a clear abyssite and spam the heck out of T1 VNMs for pearl. Find a mob that gives amber (anything pretty much, except in the canyon, you have to go to turtles for them) and kill them with Sanguine Blade. I don't think I need to tell you how to cap azure though.

Can spend about 2 hours for 3 KIs though.

[rendeznousgilga]

well, i went nin, but i guess i can get the dust off my blu and give it a shot. just have to be lucky with vnm, so much people hunting them too ><

[Zatias]

Considering that all the NM key items you're arguing they need to add have multiple sources for their acquisition (the NM itself or through sturdy pyxis farming), there's really no need to add additional question marks or additional copies of those NMs. Empyrean weapon farming for the most part is insanely easy already, given how readily it is for people to get the required KI for popping their NMs, there's no need to make it even moreso.

Some NMs KI can never be found in Sturdy Pyxis (hai dar Minax Bugard) and are cluster fucked like no tomorrow (y u neva up guku). These are only examples, there are many more overcrowded NMs.

Also, many other people farm gold pyxises, and there is a maximum count for them in each zone. What does this mean? We can't get the KI normally off NMs, and we can't pyxis farm because the people not bothering with NMs are all farming them too. More often than not, I also see multiple unopened gold boxes circled around a fell cleaver with a leecher too lazy to destroy them. What is this?

Bottom Line: Time sink does NOT equal difficulty. It equals a pain in the butt.