Ark Angel Merit cost

[CaptainCrunch]

15 merits per trigger would make more sense, so you can farm two pops at a time.

Re; congestion at the BC, I can confirm multiple instances of unscrupulous players doing Cut-Ins to the BC queue, most notable when our party was next to enter and we had waited over an hour for the previous parties to finish, a new party arrive, duo PLD and RDM, ran in and started doing the high-speed head-jerking at the BC-point which suggested they were using either extremely fast hand-speed / webconnection or some kind of popbot. In anycase they got in before us and they were on duo and took ages to clear it.

Hopefully when the AA craze dies down and new content arrives, the congestion and Ahole factor will disappear too.

All 5 BCs share the same 3 instances, so a line for one AA doesn't really matter because someone will can enter at one of the other 4 anyway and lock you out.

[Vasch]

We're sitting at the mithra waiting to enter now, been over an hour. :<

[MarkovChain]

Imagine what It would be if they allowed 15 merit per bc. The Arkangel BCs should not be soloable to begin with, they should let soloers collect theirs rem chapters from record of eminence only. Leaving easy and very easy mode as is is fine, but they should put a minimum limit of 6 to enter the bc (and they should also prevent external buffs, but that's a different issue).

I laughed a little inside when someone from another forum claimed that gil was raining from the bc because they could farm boxes at will.

[Twille]

The merit cost is fine where it's at.

[Camate]

Greetings,

Below is a comment from Akihiko Matsui regarding the merit point cost for accessing high-tier mission battlefields.

Matsui here.

In regards to the amount of merit points required for entering high-tier mission battlefields, we had originally planned to decrease the amount needed as new battlefields are added; however, considering that congestion is continuously occurring, we have decided to hold off on the cost reduction for now.

As a way to disperse players a bit more, in the January version update we will be adding artifact armor reforging materials to other battlefields, and once we see how this goes we will look into the proper timing to reduce the merit point cost.

[Glamdring]

while I think this is the right call (the congestion really IS attrocious, especially considering the number of dirtbags who won't wait their turn when there are several parties waiting), considering the fact you can accumulate the necessary merits for reentry in .5-1 hour it isn't much of a way to alleviate the congestion. However, considering the old practice of gilsellers in Dynamis could be applied here of just using multiple accounts to keep up a constant spam I don't know what else you can do.

[Camiie]

I think you're going to need to spread the love to more battlefields than just Stellar Fulcrum and The Celestial Nexus. I assume that's 3 more instances each. Yeah 9 is better than 3, but I wager it's still not going to be enough. Even with the populations as they are you can't funnel all your top-end players into a single "raid" (essentially what the new AA and DM fights amount to) in this day and age without the technology to support dynamic instancing.

You either need to start co-opting the cloisters and battlefields from other expansions even if it doesn't make sense, or you need to give us alternative content like more Delve. Ideally you'd do both and have the players spread out as far and wide as possible. If your servers and game engine can't be made smarter, then you're just going to have to work harder. Sorry, but that's just how it is.

Also, it would help immensely if battlefields were searchable from the search menu. I don't know why they were ever excluded. I'm sure you had some reason for it, but I have a feeling those reasons are no longer relevant if they ever were.

[Demonjustin]

Skirmish is being updated in Feb, I hear Delve is as well but I have seen no word from SE saying so, so I leave that as questionable, either way it should help congestion, though to an extent it would be better if they were all implemented at once rather than spread out in this way if the goal is to help congestion issues.

[Sapphires]

Until you add other battlefields that make it easy to obtain pluton boxes/cases en masse, don't expect congestion to be relieved anytime soon

[Demonjustin]

Well they did say that these new ones would be distributing those rewards the same way, so people who currently farm them via Ark Angels should likely find themselves doing the new fights in a similar way all the same.