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

[Reiterpallasch]

So current market value of flame geode is 70,000 gil, which would mean for the 55 you need for a weapon trial, would cost you 3,850,000 gil.

ITT: 3,850,000 is somehow a lot of gil.

[Karbuncle]

ITT: 3,850,000 is somehow a lot of gil.

While its not super Expensive for some players, for a lot of average joes, Thats a high amount. You also have to consider some players have to do Multiple, I personally have 4 Fire Weapons i want to complete... Axe, Sword, Katana, and Dagger.

Its roughly 16mil Gil to complete these, Which Is a tad silly, and absolutely out of reach for a lot of players, Who don't have great ways to make gil. While a lot of them could do Logwatch, the chance of them striking it rich in LogWatch is quite low, Even on good days most people will go 20~40+ Qilins or What have you without a HMpouch being seen.

You also have to consider a lot of players who chose Flame path over say, Relic, Or Empyrean, Are likely more casual players who don't get to play that often, and they view this as a tangible goal to reach, and the level 90 Weapons are actual decent in themselves.

So, While it may be easy for you and me, Our experiences aren't always the norm or the most common.

[Kristal]

While its not super Expensive for some players, for a lot of average joes, Thats a high amount. You also have to consider some players have to do Multiple, I personally have 4 Fire Weapons i want to complete... Axe, Sword, Katana, and Dagger.

4 mil is not a high amount, unless you're sitting in your moghouse waiting for stuff to fall into your lap. Which is indeed the average joe approach, so you are right there. AJs are lazy.

Anyone can get that amount in a week, two if they are unlucky. Ofcourse, question remains if you can actually BUY that many of the AH even if you have the money.

Increasing droprates of geodes would help, but SE also needs to remove the geode recipes and/or replace them with avatarites. (Remove gems from geode HQ3, add them as avatarite HQ3) Otherwise goldsmiths just buy the geodes right from under your nose.

[Modoru]

ITT: 3,850,000 is somehow a lot of gil.

I think 2STR daggers would be half a relic at that point.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

There's an easy answer to the drop rate issue. Add geodes as regular drops to their associated elementals like cluster.

ITT: 3,850,000 is somehow a lot of gil.

Excuse me for not being a 1%er in the game.

I'm not seeing what the problem is with flame geodes drops or price. Whenever I go to farm them I end up with a pretty gold haul of them.

This is a lie and/or egaggeration. A "good haul" farming geodes on an associated day is 5. I've been out numerous times on days withteh same weather even and the average ammount is 3.