Adoulin: Scrolls of Instant Protect

[Hawklaser]

[QUOTE=Umichi;452726]

you can't compare cost effectiveness to field manuals as they are not readily available all around the gaming world.. but if you wanna compare grabbing your first tabs for a protect when your just starting out takes just about as long as running to the nearest biouvac and back again for the points for a protect scroll, and tabs later on take mayhap a bit longer longer as you have to find mobs that rank EP (or is it DC?) and that requires even more traveling ^^

I don't think these scrolls were intended for your everyday use albiet they can be if a person puts the time in to invest in a bayld stock

You can compare them, main differences between them is portability, travel time, effect, and resource cost. If you do any XPing outside of Abyssea prior to 99 tabs are really easy to accumulate. The instant scrolls are not readily available for obtainment either, difference here is can delay activation of them until in the area you need them for. It only takes EPs to count for pages, and there are numerous pages that involve EPs at 99, there are even a few with ones using T mobs, and those pages grant an average of around 150 tabs for the first completion. Really though, most people are not going to go out of their way to obtain GoV buffs or instant scrolls for protect/shell unless they are doing very specific events solo, and at those times I think they are going to opt for the stronger version the Books grant instead of a scroll unless the event wipes buffs on entry.

[Babekeke]

you can't compare cost effectiveness to field manuals as they are not readily available all around the gaming world.. but if you wanna compare grabbing your first tabs for a protect when your just starting out takes just about as long as running to the nearest biouvac and back again for the points for a protect scroll, and tabs later on take mayhap a bit longer longer as you have to find mobs that rank EP (or is it DC?) and that requires even more traveling ^^

I don't think these scrolls were intended for your everyday use albiet they can be if a person puts the time in to invest in a bayld stock

Due to the fact that you can get a warp directly from the same book that you're buying your protect buff from, you can be just about anywhere in Vana'Diel within 5 mins of obtaining protect buff from GoV. Personally If I need protect for a solo event, I'll either grab a scroll of instant warp from NPC in Jeuno then head out to use FoV, or I'll OP warp to Qufim, zone into delkfutts and get it there, then use book warp back to adoulin. From adoulin you cna either warp to most areas in Adoulin, or back to Jeuno, or if it's really obscure, to a waypoint throughout the older areas.
If you warped to Jeuno, you can then run out to Rolanberry fields and VW warp to wherever you wanted to be, though if doing this, you should have got book protect before using VW warp anyway.

Pre-VW, it took a while to get to a lot of places. Now, it doesn't. Book pro/shell are your friends. Scrolls are only useful if your event will last longer than 30 mins and there's not another book where you're going.

However, scrolls are still way over-priced.

[Godofgods]

There is a reason that warp/RR scroll were lowered in price drasticly before ppl really started useing them...