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

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Back on subject, over the weekend, I got 6!!!!!! Flame geodes. Luck?

If it took you the entire weekend to get 6, that drip is extremely low compaired to the rest.

1.Fire-No Where
2.Earth-Mount Zhayolm/Altepa/Batallia/Eldimine Necropolis[S](Near Constant)
3.Water-Pashhow(Near Constant)/La Theine
4.Wind-Buburimu/Grauberg(Near Constant)
5.Ice-Beaucedine(Near Constant)/Xarcabard(Near Constant)/Uleguerand(Near Constant)
6.Thunder-Qufim(Near Constant)/Vunkerl
7.Light-Nyzul Isle(100%)
8.Darkness-Beaucedine/Xarcabard

You forgot one.

[Demon6324236]

Fupa just doesn't want people to have nice things.

[Theytak]

People. Please use your and you're properly. It's disgusting to constantly read. I'm saying he feels empy/relic/mythic are out of reach. Ok so he had bad luck and probably bad kill speed, which resulted in no geode drops. NEEDS TO BE FIXED GUYS.

Until you answer my question, which I've posed to you several times, you're really in no position to play grammar nazi. I agree that it's irritating to see people use shitty grammar, but it's even more annoying to see you blatantly trolling and acting like you're not.

So once again, how would improving or easing the ability to obtain flame geodes negatively impact you in any way, that you're so fervently against it? Do you not have an answer for this question? Are you ignoring it because you feel your answer should be obvious? If the latter's the case, you're not nearly as skilled at subtext as you seem to think. I'd like to hear an answer from you about this, and this is the final time I'm going to ask it. If you continue to ignore it again, I'm going to take it as fully admitting that you're doing nothing but openly trolling this thread.

[Fupafighter]

1. Answered your question, via I said it would not harm anything except for people that farm them for gil. 2. If you think a fire path weapon is impossible, you need to reconsider playing this game. Casual players on FFXI can accomplish making a relic in 3 months if they set their mind to it. That's TWO hours a day. To me that's pretty casual on FFXI. IF you play less than that, I'm sure the dev's are not concerned with pleasing the people who are more than likely not going to stick around. You can accomplish alot with 2 hours in FFXI. Stop complaining this is "impossible". Me having common knowledge of a game makes me hardcore? Dude I play 2 hours a day on average and like once a week I sit down and game for a day. That's hardcore? No. It comes down to understanding what to do with your time and how to have fun with your time. If you can't farm the damn geodes, shout for them or camp the auction house. UTILIZE WHAT YOU'RE GIVEN. STOP ASKING FOR THEM TO MAKE IT EVEN EASIER. It's called stupidity, not bad design.Also if they have the knowledge to login to these forums to bitch about it, they could also look up ways to obtain gil and ask the actual hardcore gamers on sites such as ffxiah.com or wiki.bluegartr.com for information on how to be more successful on FFXI Have a nice time. Done with this thread you lazy panzies. GO dev's for stickin it to the idiots.

[kewitt]

Casual players on FFXI can accomplish making a relic in 3 months if they set their mind to it.

That's if that's the only thing they do for 3 months. That saying to hell with being social all or helping other IG.

I log in 2 days a week on the weekend normally.. That's it unless there is some one off or stocking AH and that's all I log in and do. I play for 5-10+ hour on the 2 days I log in. So that gives me 4 hours a week x 16 your saying I could get my relic done.

At 150 Dynamis -money a day... thats 300 a week so that's 3 100's a week.. x 16 weeks... ok so that get me to.. lets think.. 45.. I'm still short 100 100's Sorry relic in 3 months for casual I think not.. So now to finish my Relic I need to spend another 4.5+ months. So that is 7-8 months for one item I think that's hardcore.

That almost means I have to skip out on social LS events. +1 and +2 emp gear farming, Also maybe getting my Fire weapons would make it easy to hit that 150 Dynamis money a day. I've only done neo-Dynamis 3 times. 1st time my hubby and I lasted about 40 mins before my hubby died and forgot a RR items. The next time 2 times it was to farm gear and help a LS member who IS hardcore go after there 3rd Relic weapon.

By all means I'm not a totally casual player if you look at everything I have done mission, level and crafting wise.
http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Shiva/Kewitt
All of the missions but WoTG where done before 75 cap raised.

UTILIZE WHAT YOU'RE GIVEN. STOP ASKING FOR THEM TO MAKE IT EVEN EASIER.

We aren't asking it to be easier per say, we are saying it's not even, and if they would increase the Flame geode drop rate all elemental weapons equal diffidently to get vs flame geode being many times harder vs all the others.

[Fupafighter]

That's if that's the only thing they do for 3 months. That saying to hell with being social all or helping other IG.

I log in 2 days a week on the weekend normally.. That's it unless there is some one off or stocking AH and that's all I log in and do. I play for 5-10+ hour on the 2 days I log in. So that gives me 4 hours a week x 16 your saying I could get my relic done.

At 150 Dynamis -money a day... thats 300 a week so that's 3 100's a week.. x 16 weeks... ok so that get me to.. lets think.. 45.. I'm still short 100 100's Sorry relic in 3 months for casual I think not.. So now to finish my Relic I need to spend another 4.5+ months. So that is 7-8 months for one item I think that's hardcore.

That almost means I have to skip out on social LS events. +1 and +2 emp gear farming, Also maybe getting my Fire weapons would make it easy to hit that 150 Dynamis money a day. I've only done neo-Dynamis 3 times. 1st time my hubby and I lasted about 40 mins before my hubby died and forgot a RR items. The next time 2 times it was to farm gear and help a LS member who IS hardcore go after there 3rd Relic weapon.

By all means I'm not a totally casual player if you look at everything I have done mission, level and crafting wise.
http://www.ffxiah.com/player/Shiva/Kewitt
All of the missions but WoTG where done before 75 cap raised.




We aren't asking it to be easier per say, we are saying it's not even, and if they would increase the Flame geode drop rate all elemental weapons equal diffidently to get vs flame geode being many times harder vs all the others.

Neo dynamis is how you make a relic in 3 months. Not farming cities with your perle gear. Farming +2 gear is not a LS event. I would love to be able to sit down uninterrupted for 5 hours a day. That could farm me potentially 4 million gil atleast. I'm trying to actually give advice on how to farm geodes and gil easier and all I'm getting is "WELL HOW WOULD MAKING IT EASIER HARM YOOOOOOOOOOOOU FUPA". That's seriously how I picture you saying it, like patrick from spongebob. Saying you failed neo dynamis is no excuse for not having a relic and it now becomes SE's problem that you weren't competent enough to solo easy prey monsters and bring reraise? And why should the better magian weapons be as easy to make as the non used ones? Example being fire vs wind. Wind is not good, it's decent, but offers nothing in almost all situations now. Opposd to Fire, which offers str attack and helps cap pDIF on monsters, potentially boosting your DPS. Why should the fire be as easy to make as that wind path one? Now I will apply this to empyreans. Ukon is harder to make than Masamune by far. Ukon is better than Masa. Get my point?

[Vold]

1. Answered your question, via I said it would not harm anything except for people that farm them for gil. 2. If you think a fire path weapon is impossible, you need to reconsider playing this game. Casual players on FFXI can accomplish making a relic in 3 months if they set their mind to it. That's TWO hours a day. To me that's pretty casual on FFXI. IF you play less than that, I'm sure the dev's are not concerned with pleasing the people who are more than likely not going to stick around. You can accomplish alot with 2 hours in FFXI. Stop complaining this is "impossible". Me having common knowledge of a game makes me hardcore? Dude I play 2 hours a day on average and like once a week I sit down and game for a day. That's hardcore? No. It comes down to understanding what to do with your time and how to have fun with your time. If you can't farm the damn geodes, shout for them or camp the auction house. UTILIZE WHAT YOU'RE GIVEN. STOP ASKING FOR THEM TO MAKE IT EVEN EASIER. It's called stupidity, not bad design.Also if they have the knowledge to login to these forums to bitch about it, they could also look up ways to obtain gil and ask the actual hardcore gamers on sites such as ffxiah.com or wiki.bluegartr.com for information on how to be more successful on FFXI Have a nice time. Done with this thread you lazy panzies. GO dev's for stickin it to the idiots.

If someone is farming these for income then they are seriously doing it wrong. So, either you are one of those farmers or you're just trolling. "Just deal with it" is not a valid view point to have here by anyone whom is not trying to lol farm flame geodes for gil. The truths of the matter are known and well documented. Fire weather blows and SE in all their wisdom decided to give geodes two uses: Trials and Goldsmithing. It was an issue perhaps "fixed" by not including GS applications for the newer versions of these items after they saw the chaos with geodes(maybe they do now, I don't know), and if that is the case they certainly have done nothing to solve the geode problems. Their answer is an remarkable "deal with it, it's the way of things" although I shouldn't be too surprised because that has often been their stance through out the years.

They'd be partly right. Fire weather was always rare and obviously meant to be so. If they provide aid in this case they'd have to provide aid in many cases just to be fair about it. The reason I say "partly right" is that they already went there when they raised the level cap. The game has changed a huge deal since that decision was made. Perhaps it's time they go all in and say goodbye to "the way of things." They gave us the trials and geodes. It's on their heads to make things right and balanced. If they don't then it's just hypocritical to nerfbalance everything but what they don't want to. If you're going to balance then balance fairly, and not selectively. Perhaps pointless to point out with a new chief in town. We'll see in the near future whether he'll be about status quo or positive change...

[Camiie]

1. Answered your question, via I said it would not harm anything except for people that farm them for gil.

Then there's no reason NOT to change it. Even the most outspoken opponent admits it. There ya go devs. Time to get to work.

[Fupafighter]

Then there's no reason NOT to change it. Even the most outspoken opponent admits it. There ya go devs. Time to get to work.

Lol I never said it harmed anyone in anyway. I was just pointing out your laziness. Also they should drop heavy metal plates to every kill too. Won't harm anyone either.

[TMG]

Basically, SE loves their "balance" and people are complaining that it's not balanced. The drop rate is supposed to be the same as anything else but after numerous attempts to farm geodes on Firesday with no weather I don't believe it. Plus there's the complete lack of fire weather most of the year. You could retrace and zone into Grauberg (S) nearly any day of the year and find wind weather. Most every other weather is plentiful. If you see fire weather during the summer months in one of the few zones that have high enough level mobs to drop them, it's gone in 5 minutes. It's definitely possible to farm them with some planning and a lot of extra time to set aside for it, but it's just not balanced compared to the other elements.