Elemental Trials - Fire/Light

[Seriha]

And arguably one should not be forced to look up third-party sites to do something, let alone make a plan they can't even be sure they'll be able to follow. Planning your life around a video game is not A Good Thing(tm). Certain weather just needs to be more common, that's it.

[RAIST]

And arguably one should not be forced to look up third-party sites to do something, let alone make a plan they can't even be sure they'll be able to follow. Planning your life around a video game is not A Good Thing(tm). Certain weather just needs to be more common, that's it.

make mountains out of mole hills much?

No one is required to use third party tools--it can all be done by simple math. 1 Game day is 57:36 real time, 25 game days to 1 RL day. 30 game days=1 game month, 12 game months = 1 game year (360 game days in a game year).

If you log in, pull up current time (via menu or /clock command) and see it is around the first of March, and you want to hit seasonal weather known to be common starting in July, then you have around 4 game months till that time frame: (30 X 4)/25=4.8 RL days. So, 4 days later, you log in and check current time and adjust accordingly. You see it is 15-24 game days till it hits July, so you know your window is opening within the next 24 hours and you start checking for it. It's not exactly rocket science. It's just that having the calender apps or online calendars make it easier to look it up without crunching the numbers.

As for the question if the targets pop in areas with light weather--that is a moot point. Only certain areas with certain mobs get auroras/glare--changing the frequency of the weather is not going to make trials with other targets any easier to do, they would still have to do it via day kills only.

And that brings up antoher point--I have yet to see any trial that REQUIRES light weather to be present to complete it--they are DAY/WEATHER trials. The only trials restricted to weather only have at LEAST 4 weather types you can use, and have had their kill count reduced drasticly to make them easier to do. As has been stated before, in some cases you actually do better by teaming up and killing on the specific day regardless of weather. I have duoed and tripled 150 kill trials in just one or two day cycles in abyssea. Did a 250 crab via pet kill on the day in Grauberg (A) as a duo in just 4 game day cycles, may have been only 3 but we didn't catch the full day on some of them and only got about 60 kills in.

Again, weather is not REQUIRED to do these trials...all it does is make them easier than they already are--you can put them off and wait for the weather, or you can just head on out and do them by the day only. Time spent is not a factor of difficulty, it is just a matter of time until they are completed. The diffrerent requirements of take down an NM multiple times versus killing 300 EP members of the Beast family in Ice day/weather---THAT is a difference in difficulty, not the difference between if it is done with matching day or matching weather.