augs for skirmish armor

[jbtexan]

how many of us have spent millions and millions of gil on stones or skirmish pops, only to get the wrong augs for that job? i have heard of players having to use 50-70 +2 wailing stones to aug 2 pieces of armor the way they want. i would definitly like the developers to consider some kind of choice or pathway option on skirm augs. that is the most frustrating thing ever to try and aug hag armor for a blm and get augs for a smn or blu, especially when i dont even have those jobs unlocked. and the more i spend on trying to get MaB augs instead of pet" augs, the more it makes me wanna say screw it. anybody else absolutely hate the current skirmish aug system?

[Selindrile]

Probably will never happen but certainly should've been the case from the start.

[Singforu]

I like it. It's like getting Christmas presents over and over and over and over again. LOL.

[Selindrile]

Except what you get 99% of the time is stuff you throw away, and cost you gil to get, so, you know, not at all like Christmas presents, more like gambling with a very low chance of winning.

[dasva]

Yeah there is already a big enough gamble with the ranges as is no need to add random stat in there too. I once threw 40 or so +2 stones at some Iuitl Wristbands and like 10 of those augments were MDB... <.<. Finally on the last one I finally got the snapshot I was looking for and wouldn't ya know it I only got +1. So yeah basically 20 mil down the drain just to get the minimum value on that... and that doesn't count all the +1 stones I threw at it which mostly resulted in no secondary stat at all.

Needs to at either be able to chose the stat or at least choose a smaller pool of potentials

[Jedd]

Yeah I don't care for the augment system at all. Skirmish itself is decent enough, but these random augments just ruin it. When they announced Alluvion, everyone I knew just groaned at the thought of more lottery BS.

They had the right idea with the various stone types in Alluvion, but they had to give it the ol' SE Touch and make those stone types not a guarantee. I used four Leaftip +1 stones (the ranged augment type) on my Doomsday and got: Cure Potency +1, MDB +1, Haste +1%, and some other non-ranged stat. Really?

I'd vastly prefer being able to choose the augments we want and having to trade in stones as points towards them (with stuff like Double Attack needing more points, etc.). Sorta like Delve's Airlixirs. I wouldn't even care if it took longer. As long as I know I can work towards a guaranteed result.

[dasva]

The monstrosity augment system is pretty good.. sadly it's tied to bad gear and having to do monstrosity

[pretre]

maybe im just lucky but 90%+ of the time when I aug hag gear and im on smn I get pet augs

[Singforu]

i think SE did it this way because you get the gear ridiculously easy and fast. Otherwise the event would be over in a week. Need those time sinks.

[dasva]

maybe im just lucky but 90%+ of the time when I aug hag gear and im on smn I get pet augs

I get them a lot too but I do play smn lol

i think SE did it this way because you get the gear ridiculously easy and fast. Otherwise the event would be over in a week. Need those time sinks.

Don't really need it to this degree though. Picky the stat or a smaller set of stats and still having it range would grant it longevity without a giant FU. Plus this is more of a gil sink than time