Feedback related to Vana'Bout

[Dragoy]

Doesn't it take months of checking multiple ???s every day just for a bunch of vendor trash just to start monster rearing or anything interesting in Mog Garden?

Right, there is the part where we need the total of the things to rank up to 20.

Would imagine I'd kind of remember how long it takes, considering I did it on a few characters from 0 after the last Vana'Bout round... I think it was, but I really can't quite remember now. And I didn't even do the Vana'Bout objective on them yet, that'll show 'em!

Kind of feel like it didn't take months, but time's a mess!

imprimatur requirements for what? I don't recall being required to do a ton of coalition assignments to complete the main mission line.

There are certain points during the missions where a certain amount of imprimaturs must have been used, or at least there was (as an example, Arciela Appears Again I think is one such point).

I don't remember if I ever actually hit that wall on the few characters I did those missions on, however, but I also had probably done coalition tasks quite a bit before those points already.

I've gotten it 4 times so far, so that's 4 objectives that are entirely impossible for me to complete.

Fun how they push the not completed objectives to the next day, isn't it? ^^;

Almost wonder if it's even working as intended. I don't see a point in it aside from maybe being an extra punishment.

Now if they pushed it to the next day, and also gave us the normal next day objective, it could work as a catch-up mechanic... but nope!

[Zenion]

Fun how they push the not completed objectives to the next day, isn't it? ^^;

Almost wonder if it's even working as intended. I don't see a point in it aside from maybe being an extra punishment.

Well, considering this gets pointed out every time Vana'bout happens and it still works like that, I have to assume that yes, it is working as intended. And hey, you know what, it's a mechanic that does a great job... of completely stifling any spark of interest or enthusiasm for the event. If you get a bunch of stuff you can't get done, and then you know that that's going to be there tomorrow too, and now you're that far behind on plaudits, what motivation is there to give it a solid effort? Just decide what reward tier is worth it, go for exactly that many plaudits, and walk away from the whole situation.

[BobbinT]

Okay, so, on reading all that again, my question is, what does that have to do with Vana'bout? It's trivial to bypass the issue by just not choosing to do the quest in the worst way possible. It's not preventing you from getting other objectives. If this is making it difficult to earn plaudits, that is 100% on you.

It sounds like your concern is with the quest itself, and there's a whole other forum section where you can go offer up your feedback on that. I'm not sure what exactly you think can be done about it - what you're asking for would require chocobos to be faster, rental chocobo riding time to be longer, or zone geometry to be different, all of which seem like pretty big changes to make just for one quest that people are only doing however many times a year Vana'bout runs anyway.

Personally I don't mind with geometry challenge, nor needing to have faster chocobos. My main issues is having Windurst felt being mostly ignored for doing this particular quest, as if it was intentionally to make players hate if having anything related to Windurst.

Kinda strange for a Taru yourself, didn't felt inclined to defend your own nation community (despite one can just chose any other nations as their main), my Hume should be a Bastok native, but I chose Windurst as my starter, same as how I chose Gridania in FF14 as my main coz its similarities.

Ofc, the day I would get my hand on Chocobo Wand for example, would annex this issue personally, but still... (again no need to point out the optional crafter gearsets which already iterated on previous posts)

And finally, you asked why this related with Vana'bout? Well, being always included in every Vana'bout rounds seems already clear enough to unintentionally (or maybe intentionally) having players who might never learn much of their own geographies to get closer on the adventure landmarks, which again came back on how this kinda miss-fire the intention if gotten Windurst related as it would be near impossible to finish the quest, not without having timer buffs. I personally enjoyed this quest, reminds me back in 1.0 days where needing to navigate my way from Gridania through Black Shrouds which back then was more like a maze to even reach Uldah.

So yea, again the tldr is to considerate making Windurst more accessible for VB rounds, & not having players to recycles objectives because hating the near impossibility to do it.

[Alhanelem]

Fun how they push the not completed objectives to the next day, isn't it? ^^;

Well it did eventually change? so I guess that only happens once per objective.

And yeah, its probably working as intended, but that doesn't mean it's (always) a good thing.