Fix the new scrolls issue

[Siiri]

Upping the drop rates on stuff will just turn this game into a rift/WOW clone where you do things once then never do it again cause things are like 99% drop rate. Game will get boring fast, and we'll beat content faster than they can impliment it. Do you really want that? It's very boring.

This is a change for SE. That is the point. Other times the events were for gear. This time the events are for spells. Even at the worse you could drop 1 million and get any spell in game. Now its 5 million and only hope is through the event. SE apparently has lost the ability to design anything but side grades of gear so they have to make spells a 1% drop rate to get people to do the events. Funny thing is most people are so burnt on abyssea and were aching for WOE to be fun, which it is, that they didn't need need every black mage spell to be ridiculously hard to get. My only thought in complaining about the WOE drop rate, is take all the old spells out of the confluxes 8-11. My link shell has been spamming it all week and all we ever get is Valor Minuet V, Blizzard V, Firaja, etc. Loosen up a bit SE.

[Greatguardian]

Are you really so impatient?

Comet will be sub-500k in two weeks, tops. On top of that, tons of spells used to cost upwards of 5 million gil back in the "glory days" of FFXI. I bought Erase for 1.5M, and Raise III for nearly 2M, back when sitting around and farming for hours on end was how most people made their gil.

Christ, get over it.

[Siiri]

No, I am not that impatient. I am discussing the low drop rate. I too played in the old days. I took 3 months off from leveling black mage back in 2005 to mine in gusgun mines and goldsmith for enough gil to buy HQ staffs. It is no biggie, I am just stating a fact. Relax. This is a discussion forum we are allowed to state our opinion.

[Camiie]

All of the new spells can be obtained in either WoE, HKCNM, of Voidwatch. There are 3 sources per spell already =/.

At no point did I utter the word "new."

[Greatguardian]

Is the supply of existing spells really that much of a concern though? =/ Aside from Raise III, which is really only a matter of no one doing the content. Kirin should be easily doable by any 6 people at 95, considering it was duoable at 90 with well geared players.

[Camiie]

Yeah for some spells it is a concern. Especially the quest only ones.

[Siiri]

I don't see how you can complain about questing for a scroll. It's a quest, do it and enjoy. The sleepga II quest storyline was great, and the pre-reqs for Warp II with the curses foiled a golem, etc were awesome. (May not have it exactly right, not going to wiki it right now.) I think a lot of us black mages would be fine with a series of quests that took a couple weeks over the course of it if Comet was the reward. I think SE missed out designing some lore with Shantotto or something with a spell like comet. I hope Meteor gets a grand quest. That would be awesome. If you did the quest and sold it thinking you would never level the job just farm the gil and buy it. Abyssea is super easy place to make gil.

[Economizer]

I don't see how you can complain about questing for a scroll.

Ever quest Mage's Ballad? There is a difference between an interesting quest that has a lot of walking involved and a pointless grind quest.

Making Meteor questable is a good idea. It is really too bad that we won't see another expansion before this happens, it could be tied into something truly epic. Who knows? Maybe the quest will be epic anyways.

[Greatguardian]

Shantotto is crafting an ultimate spell to destroy the world. Undermine her efforts, and steal the scroll before she has the chance to unleash her fury-wury upon the land.

[Siiri]

Shantotto is crafting an ultimate spell to destroy the world. Undermine her efforts, and steal the scroll before she has the chance to unleash her fury-wury upon the land.

That would be awesome. Hope SE does something like this.

Also, I had forgotten about the bard quests because I have never unlocked the job. You are right though, I have had friends agonizing over gathering the people etc. I imagine it has gotten a lot worse. So I guess I will amend my post to I don't think people should complain over well designed quests. It seems SE has tried a bit on that front, adjusting the taru cards quest for sleepga II so you can get a new set every week or whatever it is.