Sortie - Owning a tier 4 Prime weapon punishes players

[leia]

Thank you for your quick fix and time to reply, However Sortie issues it is more of Job than a game, +2 earring rare to drop and even if they drop not garunteed with high augmentations. also, 6 months or more for ultimate weapon is too much and unreasonable on the current state of the game, which is people are quiting cause of lack of creativity and recycled content with randomness that is called diffculity(V25).

[Zattano]

2) The drop rate of +2 earrings is still unreasonably low. Are there any plans to improve the drop rate, implement +2 cases with guaranteed +2 earrings inside, or implement some sort of earring trade-in system?


Thank you very much, and I hope you continue to implement improvements to make Sortie more enjoyable and rewarding content.

Kind of off topic…
I’ve been gathering data on JSE earring augment rate. With the rarity of +2 cases being factored on top of the augment rate appearing to favor lower augments, and having all this land on the job of choice, it’s pretty painful to see thus far. When I have a larger data pool I’ll post on Ffxiah.

I would like to see the drop rate improved, or the augment results narrowed from 7-15 on main attributes, for example, to 11-15 or something along those lines. Considering the amount of time used to obtain one, these earrings should be better for their jobs targeted sets, not have a chance of being better if you get a good augment.

[RichLester]

Still hasn't addressed the basic gaining of gal, like enabling us to trade the stacks of sapphires/eikondrites we now have for gal.

[ragnarzero]

Still hasn't addressed the basic gaining of gal, like enabling us to trade the stacks of sapphires/eikondrites we now have for gal.

Sadly that will not change any time soon I fear. I know the Devs want to draw this out and make it take time.
But I feel like they overlook the fact the game is not like it used to be, and if these weapons are so great, a lot of people play multiple jobs and like to gear out their jobs. If it took a lot less Gali and like 3 months to make one (still a decent amount of time to make one IMO, you can knock an Empyrion out in a days, or even a mythic in less then a week) people would make multiple. taking close to 1 year for me to make one, i'm either going to get bored, or burnt out before I finish it and I feel like I am an Average player. People that play solo, or less then i do will take much much longer if at all. but If it took less time/Gali i'd consider making 2-3 for my favorite jobs (BLU, COR, SAM).
I agree something needs to make Gali farming easier, but I really fear it will be some time before that happens.

[RichLester]

I agree & I also mentioned in another forum under General Discussion, we are now in our 30s/40s. No longer in our 20s when we had plenty of time for this game. People have jobs, family, life & other games to enjoy. We have hardly any time for this anymore. I only pop on mainly to do the monthly objectives/ROE4 NMs & Sortie for 1-2 hrs each evening. Even the developers have now moved onto other things, which says something in itself. All I want is 2 or 3 for my DRG, BLU, BLM/SMN but 3 years to get them plus getting the empyrean gear to +3, I may aswell just wait for the prime weapons until the empy+3 gear I want is done. It took a while to get to 99 sapphires/99 eikondrites so I don't see any harm in selling them for gali. It won't harm the balance of the game, either. It's just another way to get gali, whether we want to go with a party or solo due to not being able to form a party or wait for party members to show up for Sortie.

[Sp1cyryan]

Still hasn't addressed the basic gaining of gal, like enabling us to trade the stacks of sapphires/eikondrites we now have for gal.

Because it very likely isn't happening, so how many times do you need to keep asking? The goal is to have you farm it more, not less. They have made that clear so throw away the stones or horde them, it doesn't matter.

[jasnekholin]

having now read that 4gamer interview, i do wish the design philosophy for prime weapons was different. maybe they thought that in order to justify the costs of replacing server hardware instead of ending service that they needed to make the grind extra long to retain players, but so far as i can tell, its having the exact opposite effect because the process is too harsh. people are quitting the game left and right.

[RichLester]

I read that 4gamer interview & it isn't good reading. Also to remind, Sortie is only an hour long per day so we can only get fixed-ish amount of gali each time we go in. If I feel getting a prime weapon to octahedrites 1mil level is a waste of over 1/2 a year of my time, even I may think of heading off to play other games like FFXVI & I've been on this since 2006, with a few long breaks. all missions completed & deliberately left quests outstanding for end end of the game for entertainment.

[VoiceMemo]

Well you could form a static with 6 to get more gallimufry so it would take less time. SE is trying to promote group play as this is still a MMORPG. 6 months to get 1m comes out to about 5.5k a run for 180 runs, I'm sure you could get more if you team up.

[RichLester]

True but also depends on where you live. I'm UK so 5 to 8 hours ahead of USA so for me, it does depend on who's around at the time. I know it's meant to be an MMO but eventually, numbers will dwindle down when people get bored of doing sortie farming all the time, just to get 1 or 2 prime weapons & find there's other games to play and things to do.