Chapters 1-5 for 109 upgrades need more/updated methods of acquisition. If possible.

[Olor]

It would also help if Adoulin mobs only gave sacred seals - I was farming spells in Marjami last night and was getting kindred crests or whatever... really rotten when a seal worth only 1/3 of the seal you need takes that time-limited slot.

[Alhanelem]

I am currently farming Tenzen VE for the bow. I am frequently aoe burning for merits. It takes around 20 tenzen runs to get 1 orb worth of seals.

You should be able to solo this with 5 trusts on a difficulty higher than Very Easy.

Also, personally I have sparks coming out my ears, I haven't even done any BCs recently to get pages 1-5.

[Mookies75]

You should be able to solo this with 5 trusts on a difficulty higher than Very Easy.

Also, personally I have sparks coming out my ears, I haven't even done any BCs recently to get pages 1-5.

I can yeah. That fight is fickle though. After he eats the riceball you can get 1 shot at any time on N+ if something goes even slightly wrong.

Right now I'm attempting D runs on BLU/NIN. Will get it eventually.

[Kensagaku]

To add to the list of useful sparks options, take your trusts, jump on a job with moderately fast attack speed (I like using BLU for DW etc) and go fight the Qutrub Voidwatch mob in Arrapago Reef. He has a massive amount of HP, but he also takes a huge amount of extra damage to the point where you will never be less than 500 damage per hit. Most jobs besides BLU you can take Koru-Moru for Haste II (Arciela/King also work but they'll actually attack the mob) combined with one or both bards for Marches. Bring a healer or two and go to town on him. It's fantastically easy to cap sparks there. I haven't timed it so I can't say it can be done in an hour without finding out myself, but I know it's a tried-and-true method.

[Zarchery]

They give those Sacred Kindred Crests and others like candy. 30 login points for a Sacred Kindred Crest. If you log in every day during 1 campaign, you can get 153 crests, enough for 7 runs. Not to mention that you can exchange other types of seals for them. Or buy the seals with sparks.

Square Enix is already throwing ways of getting these at you left and right... no need for them to fix something that's not broken.

[Mookies75]

It's pointless arguing with someone who is only here to troll.

[Zarchery]

What happens when the login events stop? Why should you be forced to use something like that on seals? Maybe if the seals were sendable in mailbox and I could do it on an alt, I'd see your point.

There are two ways to get pages 1-5. Sparks, Seals. I guess that could be left and right if you assign one to each.

Is it really such a big deal to add a blanket merit KI for the 1-5 fights so that we can use our seals on other stuff, and not have to spend hours grinding sparks?

The login events have been happening every month for over 2 years.

And you aren't in any way forced to spend login points on seals. It's an option. You should, however, be forced to spend login points on Sacred Kindred Crests if you want Sacred Kindred Crests.

Sparks and Sacred Kindred Crests are so ridiculously easy to get that if you find their acquisition to be some unbearable grind, you REALLY need to find something else to do because you clearly don't have the patience to play this game. How can you have been active since June 2011 and be so hard up for seals and crests?

[Mookies75]

I really need to focus more on the people who posted positive input and suggestions. Why give negative people all of the attention? I'm an idiot.

[Zarchery]

Seriously, why comment here if you don't read other posts?

Why should I be forced to only spend login points on seals?

You aren't. You can get whatever you want with the login points. Seals are offered, very cheaply, with login points, but because it isn't exactly the thing you wanted, you did what people do in these situations and said "that doesn't count because reasons"

That is moronic, especially when there are other limited time items that people are going to want. And I'm not just talking about myself, I'm actually taking other people into consideration. People who work, have lives, etc, who can't log in every single day for the points, like you can I guess.

Logging in for login points takes all of 10 minutes a day. This is an especially ridiculous application of the "I can't do something because I have a life" argument.

What would you actually do if the Rem's Chapters were handed to you on a silver platter the way you want? Since apparently you're too busy to login for even 10 minutes to collect points, and have such a difficult time farming sparks or seals which are ALSO ridiculously easy to get, I can't fathom how you have any time to do anything else.

I think I seem to recall someone else in this conversation gave you a detailed guide on how to get a lot of sparks quickly. A guide which seems to have mysteriously disappeared.

[Zarchery]

And players arguing against making it easier for folks on a lower gear tier to be able to catch up is just going to hasten the end of the game. What does it matter to you if some poor guy that missed the 3 week window where people were actually doing these fights can get a break so he can 108 his gear? I don't really understand the mindset of people that argue against helping folks further behind them so that maybe they could play with other people.

Prolonging the longevity of the game is not just a matter of getting extra players. It's getting quality players. You can get a new person to join, for maybe a month or two, but if that person doesn't have the patience to deal with even the slightest thing not going their way, or put the slightest bit of effort into the easiest parts of the game, he's just gonna quit soon after anyway. I am SO tired of hearing every dumb suggestion peppered with "you simply must do this thing to bring new players!!!!"