Quote Originally Posted by Olor View Post
yeah they really muffed up by putting lacklustre gear in Ouryu fight especially. I see people shout for Tenzen (assuming for the ilevel SAM bow) but NOT 1 shout for Ouryu. If it dropped some tales and maybe 1 piece of gear which wasn't mediocre people would do it.

I mean, I'd totally like that gear but my LSmates who are better geared don't see it as an upgrade so they don't want to do it.
The one piece from Ouryu that's good is the body piece. That body is the best Enfeebling body in the game for all jobs including RDM and even beats our RF1+1 Tabard in every stat except INT/MND by 4 points, but the MAcc/Skill more than make up for that. It's also a great melee mage body. The issue is that Enfeebling Magic and melee maging are both crap. It's the one good upgrade I see in that fight and it's not nearly enough to motivate people to do it, I'd have to solo the fight to obtain the drops and I'm not going to submit myself to 100+ fights spending 2000+ merits for that body, no.

Quote Originally Posted by Bayohne View Post
As the drops that you can receive from the Ark Angel battlefields are closely tied to that boss it would be a bit strange to suddenly have them dropping from other locations. That is why we have chosen to begin by first adjusting Rem's Tales and continue to monitor the changes. Also, as Camate mentioned, we'll be lowering the cost of Phantom gems for other high-level battlefields to 10 merit points in the June version update.

However, with that said, I did want to let you all know that we are considering having the Divinator and Seraphicaller available from additional locations in the future. When details have been confirmed, we'll be sure to let you know!
Are there any plans to make the other Merit Point fights more desirable?

Right now they rely on nothing but gear as incentives while Ark Angels have both pages and gear as incentives. AAs also have Divine Might where you can get a ton of drops in little time with a good group, something none of the other instances have no matter what they look to obtain. I expect an 'Apocalypse Nigh' battlefield in the future which may help address the Celestial Nexus and Stellar Fulcrum instances being so deserted for gear in the same way Divine Might does, but the fact that Tenzen and Ouryu have no sort of joint battles means that their gear is likely to be nearly unobtainable for most of us.