The Flame Geode Thread...... Again.

[Kitkat]

You aren't forced to rely on weather, you can do fire day as he said. Just like with weather/day trials, you could do weather(counts as 5 kills; geodes common drop) or day(counts as 1 kill; geodes rarer drop). I've made 3 99 STR magians and it's not a big deal.

Missed the point cause you only skimmed the response. When a person has to move around their daily life schedule to get kills on days only to expedite the process then it is going against that lovely screen you click away before logging in.

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I think that rearranging my sleep or rushing to get home, or leave late is a significant impact on real life. It goes against being even remotely player friendly to people in similar situations I am in. By your reasoning they should remove weather dependencies all together so that they only drop on days since that is all a player should need to complete these weapons. Extreme redirection, yes, but if it doesn't apply to other geodes to this extent then it shouldn't be an excuse as to why they can't amend fire weather occurrences. This doesn't just apply to the geode stage, but all stages period since there should be the option to work on it even if you can't manage to get on when the day is up.

There shouldn't be an absolute reliance for casual or time restrictive players to have to rely on AH to get the items when others are steadily, and constantly, raising the price. Not when similar rare weathers actually do occur more frequently due to being able to go into instanced areas, or just hang out in Mire/xarc(s)/vhazl(s)/glacier(s) and still complete these on a more casual play time.

[Yarly]

I think that rearranging my sleep or rushing to get home, or leave late is a significant impact on real life. It goes against being even remotely player friendly to people in similar situations I am in. By your reasoning they should remove weather dependencies all together so that they only drop on days since that is all a player should need to complete these weapons. Extreme redirection, yes, but if it doesn't apply to other geodes to this extent then it shouldn't be an excuse as to why they can't amend fire weather occurrences. This doesn't just apply to the geode stage, but all stages period since there should be the option to work on it even if you can't manage to get on when the day is up.

There shouldn't be an absolute reliance for casual or time restrictive players to have to rely on AH to get the items when others are steadily, and constantly, raising the price. Not when similar rare weathers actually do occur more frequently due to being able to go into instanced areas, or just hang out in Mire/xarc(s)/vhazl(s)/glacier(s) and still complete these on a more casual play time.

Why would you be rearranging your sleep schedule or rushing to get home? Does SE require you to finish your weapon in a certain time frame? No. Take as long as you want. You chose to do those things that alter your real life situation/schedule, not SE. You wanted the item faster, SE didn't force you to create it so fast. Casual playing is just that, casual. Don't try to act like you're a casual player when you're willing to make unnecessary sacrifices for a video game, then blame the creators for making you do so. Can't make the next firesday? Wait for the next, or the next, or the next, etc.

[Hashmalum]

For Altana's sake, just make the volcanic zones near-constant fire weather already. It would not just fix the fire trials/geodes problem but it WOULD ACTUALLY MAKE SENSE. Seriously, the existing weather frequencies suggest that areas with RED HOT MOLTEN LAVA aren't any warmer on average than a beach with a town on it (Valkurm/Selbina) and that is just ridiculous.

[Gippo]

Are the devs not seeing the issue here?? When I'm doing a LS event, and people scream out "Flame geode!" , something is wrong....

We are not complaining about the price of the geodes, we are complaining of the bad drop mechanics, because since fire weather is non existant... you have to farm on the day, and drop rate is much lower on the day. It's so low in fact, that doing 2 STR axes for my bst mule, has netted me 6 geodes, total, and im on the stages asking for 15 x2...


casual players? just ...no.
ugh...

[Fupafighter]

Go do dynamis for 2 days and profit. Yeah they're rare, but who cares. 4 mil seems worth it for that good of a weapon. Grind it out. Se won't do anything about this for along time. I finished 2 str weapons in a week. Just doing fire days and an occasional dyna. This is really nothing to be complaining about. You have the option to buy.

[Unaisis]

Guys~ SE said its "Balanced". this thread is over~ lol

[Yarly]

I hope SE neglects the rest of the game JUST TO PLEASE a bunch of casual failures who can't be assed to farm the gil for geodes. SOA? Push that back to 2020 please. The UI update? PLEASE don't even give it to us, just trash that idea.

What's more important here is making flame geodes for lazy people!

[Mostfowl]

I hope SE neglects the rest of the game JUST TO PLEASE a bunch of casual failures who can't be assed to farm the gil for geodes. SOA? Push that back to 2020 please. The UI update? PLEASE don't even give it to us, just trash that idea.

What's more important here is making flame geodes for lazy people!

I think you mean employed ppl with friends and family outside of game who look at their inventory and wonder why they have so many of 7 types of geodes and so little of 1, not to mention the one they need, when they are mostly fighting on that day/weather.

Oh wait sorry. Voices from the real world can be scary. My bad.

[Yarly]

I think you mean employed ppl with friends and family outside of game who look at their inventory and wonder why they have so many of 7 types of geodes and so little of 1, not to mention the one they need, when they are mostly fighting on that day/weather.

Oh wait sorry. Voices from the real world can be scary. My bad.

Are you trying to imply that I'm unemployed or that employed people don't have time to play FFXI in ways they don't want to play it? I happen to be both a university student and a part of the workforce. That really doesn't leave much time for FFXI for me, probably less time than you have, if you even have a job.

Making gil is a part of the game, sorry if that doesn't suit your play style but that's almost as stupid as buying a game for the mac and trying to run it on your PC or vice-versa. Making 4million gil really only takes about 4-5 hours of your time and you can login to do it whenever your life allows you to.

Join a cruor party or make one yourself (since this is an MMORPG and interaction with other players is unavoidable) and then turn the cruor into gil. Then buy the geodes. It would have taken you much longer than that to farm all the flame geodes yourself even IF SE decided to add perpetual fire weather in every zone in the game.

If you don't like farming for gil, I'm sure you know how else to get gil fairly quickly since you seem to be siding with the group of people who are employed.

Insulting people to get your point across is very pathetic and makes you look like an idiot when you find out that I didn't just call people lazy to insult them.

[Connavarr]

I hope SE neglects the rest of the game JUST TO PLEASE a bunch of casual failures who can't be assed to farm the gil for geodes. SOA? Push that back to 2020 please. The UI update? PLEASE don't even give it to us, just trash that idea.

What's more important here is making flame geodes for lazy people!

Making a STR Magian actually shows that a player isn't lazy since, ya know, they can only really do it on Firesdays. Meaning, they're not getting the +5 weather bonus.

Also, tweaking the drop rates and/or fire weather is just sooooo much work, right?