[dev1018] Which Seals?

[Korpg]

Actually, this update is garbage, the only thing this update really helps out is MNKs which SE have seemingly been giving everything to. Lets take an overall look at the population shall we? The majority of people do NOT care at all about kings. Only MNKs do. Now I know people will try to argue with me but thats the fact, the only people that really care about this at all are the people that leveled MNK.

In my honest opinion it would have been better for AF seals+2 items because I'm sorry to say to the dev team, they SUCK at making balanced drop rates. They can not try to tell me that the seal drop rates on NMs are balanced. I will break it down for one very simple factor, People in this game will always take the shortest easiest road to obtain the items they need. So regardless of how many NMs drop seals people in this game will ALWAYS farm the easiest one to kill. They don't care at all if a small group is trying to camp a NM, SE expect them to move to a stronger one for their target seal? No, they wont they will just over camp you. I have seen this happen a LOT so no one can try to claim it doesn't.

Also another thing Gukumatz for example is Over camped by people farming sobek so if someone needs seals from that NM a lot of the times the LS killing it wont even let them have the seals and will down right ignore requests for it.

So I think it would have been much better to include at least an AF3+1 seal exchange of a similar kind.

Very little of the population cares about seals/crests related to BCNMs.

A) Its garbage because it doesn't effect you and won't hurt/hinder you at all, but might help somebody else? Did I get that right?

B) I didn't realize that one particular seal dropped from one NM ever. I could have sworn that seals drop from at least 3 NMs, and from other sources (quests for one).

C) It gives reason for "outdated" content. I mean, if people didn't care anything about BS/KS, why would they store it in the NPC? Why not just toss it and be done with it?

[Siiri]

Great little feature for those who care and collect seals. My social linkshell runs about a 25% drop rate on black belt items from KSNM99s over time. (Years, not one day) It is the way all our monks get their black belts as we are a social. Also, we have been running the new Kindred Crest battles once a week, its a nice break from Abyssea. Not sure why so many people complain about every little thing. I think SE has made a bunch of new tweaks that has made the game more enjoyable. Good job, SE.

[Kari]

Reading what people have to say on these forums often hurts my head.
First off, awesome update, anyone who says otherwise is just derp because they're all "QQ I wanted to exchange my AF3 +1 seals because they're SOOO hard to get!"
And those complaining about the drop rates from the whole ground kings situation, they're not that bad.
Sure, I miss the old way of just camping them since it wasn't all that difficult to do, but the new way isn't extremely terrible.
My LS, with about 6 people participating, managed to complete the Behemoth KS99 twice for 2 NQ pops, did that NQ twice with a THF for TH [only got to about TH6/7], got one pop for HQ, killed HQ and got a tongue.
The KS99 also dropped a tongue when we did it for pops. We had two happy MNKs that day.

[Tazz]

Ahh darn I was so hoping to trade the useless seals I get from Dominion for the pieces I already have upgraded for seals I actually needed. very sad now Maybe this could be added in the future because nothing is more frustrating than getting a seal for an item you already have or dont even need ><

[Ravenmore]

Me and my rdm friend can farm seal just fine. Me on blu him on rdm enough healing to not need a whm got enough yellow procs so its not that bad. Kill speed is fair seeing how not having a mnk tank enfeebles can be used allowing for me to only use one eva atma. Seals really are not that hard to get.

Back on topic, I have 100bs that not doing anything with bout 500 KC/HKC (thrown more then that away) I can now turn those into KS. Sure there are many other p[eople that have large amounts of other seas they have no plans to do anything with. On top of if you go out to farm KS seals now getting a BS is no longer a waste of a drop, and you can pick up KC/HKC in exp or TE farming anything else you can think of doing in abyssea.

The devs are reponding to hot topics on here thats was brought up many times the lack of KSs. I didn't agree with it bur none the less it was a big items for a while on here. Them even doing this is 100x more then they did before, it shows they listen to us we might not get what we want or the way we want it but they are doing something.

[wildsprite]

I agree, this is a total waste of time, I dont do BCNMs, I dont like them, I consider them a waste of time, would be nice if I could trade the beastmen seals, kindred seals, kindred crests and high kindred crests to something useful like gil or Emperean Seals but I wont hold my breath for that....