The Aurum Vale requires the Darkhold quest is a bad idea.

I'm sure once 1.21 goes live, you'll see a bunch of people doing Darkhold to get to Aurum Vale.

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Originally Posted by Forlorn

I can't say I'm even close to doing any type of raid in FFXIV but I do know from experience raid attunements are a bad idea.

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Personally, I love attunement requirements, but maybe I'm a sucker for punishment :P

I'm sure some ppl will do DH to farm some seals, I'd rather blast through DH with 4ppl in 20~30min. and farm the drops to trade in for a quick 1.5~2k company seals rather then spam that mindless 100point leve for an hour. Also I know there are a few linkshells looking for members on Rabanstre I think the leaders are not as active in the last few months leading to 1.21 its just been very empty. If you shout as an R50 for endgame group after 1.21 hits you will get some groups who are looking.

xD It's not punishment so much (generally) it just leads the way to adding story related content for example, kinda like in FFXI how you could only access Al`Taieu by going through the CoP storyline up until Chapter 8 and you got the sense of "HELLLLLLLL YEAH" when you finally seen the cutscene of your character gazing into this beautiful location after getting your ass handed to you for 7 chapters and most likely 3 weeks worth of work.

"attunements" work perfectly fine in the long run of the gun rather than leaving it out just because a group of people haven't done it/chose not to do it. Most people who've been playing XIV has done it numerous times and they know this.

The needs of many and all that. When 2.0 launches this won't at all be a problem because it'll be released on a new platform which means new players (still quite a large MMO audience who are console gamers) so SE is clearly looking toward the overall future, who knows there may be a story reason as to why you need it cleared? Kind of like there's a story for Toto-Rak before you can enter it, that's a prerequisite.

Darkhould runs are coming again

I say only:
Verdant Shortbow = 1,600 seals

Obviously I will try making my own group but if its anything like trying to make a lv25 Ifrit group it could potentially take hours to get 3 other people to join.

The Darkhold Quest portion can be completed now with a group of 4. Take a healer, a tank and 2 damage dealers. Should not be too hard even with a public recruit.

I've seen a ton of pickup groups going on for Darkhold in the last few weeks, since 1.21 was nearing. I imagine there are those trying to gather U/U dungeon items to trade for GCs. It's not like no one's doing it anymore, especially now that it's a requirement.

There are a few resources out there for finding a ls and there even seem to be a couple recent recruitment posts under Rabanastre's section of the forums. Or you could start your own ls, I did that in xi and after a few months of filtering I had a terrific core group that played together for yrs.

There is also the incoming server merger that will bring more ls and ppl if you start your own.

Regardless DH is a cake walk now and even if it takes you a few hrs to put together a pt just remember at least you dont have to worry about the annoying "wait until jp midnight" to advance :D

no one do anything anymore in my server :( .