That part feels like such strange and poor planning. Instead of constantly rewarding people to do it over time for multiple relics, you have to rush through it multiple times ASAP (because you want to get on with the next relic step) and then never touch it ever again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth
Make it a permanent "run once per relic" and encourage people to want it in their alliance raid roulette.
Or run all three for bigger prizes. Have them drop different-coloured memories for the first step of the relic (5 or 10 per run?) so all are permanently populated. A much more useful first step than the current competition over getting to FATEs, which mostly leaves me feeling annoyed at other players.
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10-13-2021, 10:34 AMIscah
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10-13-2021, 10:47 AMUnholychinchillaTime to start working on the Wings of Steel and Wings of Flame titles. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Poporito_Popoto
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10-13-2021, 12:09 PMMoonPhaseAlphaSounds good! If this does end up being the case I'll be spamming that dungeon for awhile. Put on some Netflix and let the Trusts do most of the work lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa
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10-13-2021, 12:37 PMFawkesPretty sure it's just the shirt underneath that dyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rayne6665
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10-13-2021, 07:29 PMLianaThorne
Forever waiting to see Primal mounts that aren't this bunch.
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10-14-2021, 04:19 AMRayne6665Oh well thats a bummer lol i was hoping we could dye the sleeve part xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
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10-14-2021, 06:43 AMDarnath
Agreed.
Especially starting next week.
*Queue Alliance Raid*
Gets LotA/Sycus Tower : Dull'ish, but getting Relic token and mooglestones.
Gets Nier : At least a coin for augmenting Cryptlurker (although gonna be able to do that for 100 poetics in about a month's time) [edit, forgot to close paren's]
Gets Mhach or Ivalice : /shrug.
Really wish they'd have done something to keep Ivalice and Mhach relevant post the one time 18 of each raid/FATEs step. Hell, let them have a 60-70% chance to drop ..whatever memory is from DR (100%) or PotD (better chance of scoring 1 correct # at Jumbo Cactpot). Especially as PotD starts to fade once you get all your jobs to 60 and DR's gonna be a bitch to fill outside Discord'ing when Endwalker's out. -
10-14-2021, 08:57 AMEtheriusNotaDragon
I will most likely buy the kamuy and maybe some misc stuff. I like most of the rewards except the mounts: ARR beast tribe mounts - 30 each, Xanthos (Garuda) - 30, Enbarr (Leviathan) - 30. These seem a tad overpriced and also underwhelming. Being the nice guy that I am maybe an Ixion for 100 and some more birds for 30 would have been nice.
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10-14-2021, 09:12 AMTheMightyMollusk
Probably buy the Dark Lanner and the Kamuy so I don't have to bother actually farming them. Don't think I have those minions, either, so there's those to go for. I'll wait and see how the jacket dyes before I decide on that.
Maybe I'll take another swing at PVP this time. Could go for marks for some dragoon glamour. -
10-14-2021, 12:15 PMlezard21Do the Nier raids give Irregular Tomestones?Quote:
Originally Posted by Absurdity
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10-14-2021, 12:18 PMIscahNot this time apparently. They did for the previous event but the list changes around.Quote:
Originally Posted by lezard21
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10-14-2021, 10:32 PMICountFrom0
Looks like my goal is 207 tomestones this time.
Daily run of MSQ roulette for (7/10).
Amorat runs as tank.
Heck, maybe I'll even try some pvp again. Not that I know what I'm doing with wings.
Then if I have anything left in me, all blue runs of Binding Coil T2 to get maps, followed by running maps. -
10-15-2021, 05:28 AMAbsurdityI know what you're trying to get at and I consider the Nier raids to be pretty bad. A story that managed to be both convoluted and completely forgettable unless you really wanted fanservice, mostly uninspired environments, less than riveting gameplay.Quote:
Originally Posted by lezard21
But purely from a gameplay perspective, as in what you're actually doing in the raid, Crystal Tower is still worse due to the sole fact that it syncs you down to your barebones level 50 kit and you ignore 50-80% of the mechanics. -
10-15-2021, 05:34 AMTheMightyMollusk
Crystal Tower is boring because of the horrible gear inflation that renders most of its mechanics irrelevant, but it's a big part of the game's story (especially now that 5.3 made it mandatory).
The Nier raids are at least more interesting to run (the Tower's dull visual design aside), but the story is basically a non-sequitur to this game, and doesn't really add much to the Nier verse, either. -
10-15-2021, 05:39 AMAbsurdityNot just due to gear inflation but also due to the job changes over the years. Ilvl 130 is the gear you would've most likely had in World of Darkness back then anyway, but we still completely steamroll the raid nowadays because all jobs have significantly higher potency attacks than they did in ARR.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk
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10-15-2021, 05:46 AMMoomba33I'll be spamming Seal Rock myself. Still need about 80 wins for the coat....I don't expect to get them all done during the event but at least moogle tomes make the losses less frustrating.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne
I don't really need anything from the event.....I guess I'll grab the jacket since it's unique then spend the rest on the maps and mgp cards. -
10-15-2021, 06:30 AMFawkesActually I was wrong it looks like the flames on the sleeves dye tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Rayne6665
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10-15-2021, 08:00 AMRayne6665Neat! Ty for showing it! :) i was hoping the entire sleeves was dyeable tho xD but i can deal with it ^^Quote:
Originally Posted by Fawkes
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10-15-2021, 10:34 AMIscah
Not much good having the sleeves dye if the back is still red and yellow, though. It would look cool if you could dye the whole pattern whichever colour you like. Blue or iridescent colours would look good.
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10-15-2021, 05:34 PMAbsurdityIn a perfect world we'd have multiple dye channels.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iscah
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10-19-2021, 05:41 PMIscah
It's on! Time to get some cool stuff!
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10-19-2021, 06:52 PMJin-
Bit bummed that Praetorium doesn't give you 20 tokens like in the last time.
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10-19-2021, 08:02 PMIscahThat was just a special rate for the Fan Fest event – all the rewards were doubled from their usual amounts that time. Praetorium has always been worth 10 tokens every other time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jin-
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10-19-2021, 08:32 PMKageTokage
Seems like the meta for tomestone farming this go-around is spamming turn 2 of coil with BLU as runs can potentially be under a minute if everyone knows what they're doing.
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10-19-2021, 08:38 PMIscah
Looking through the duty finder now, it seems that Zurvan is included in the list of duties even though it wasn't on the website, so I'll add that into the original post. I'll try to remember to double-check the list when I'm on my main character with everything unlocked.
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10-19-2021, 08:53 PMDeverynThe choice of dungeons and raids is meant to highlight major story points leading to Endwalker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Derio
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10-19-2021, 08:54 PMDuskanebasically spam t2Quote:
Originally Posted by KageTokage
more blue mages the better
missle/lvl 5 death the first couple bosses
then just buff up and final sting last one
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10-19-2021, 09:01 PMRein_eon_Osborne
I’ll need about 280 tomes if my brain doesn’t fail me with their math…
I’ll still use FLs considering I still have plenty of achievements to work on there. -
10-19-2021, 09:06 PMJettinson
If you wanna spam RW as well do it but be mindful to expect one sided losses along with victories. So do not go there with the happy goal of winning every match for the mounts
My first RW after so many months was awful, got me thinking I should just do FL on daily reset and do other duties lol.
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10-19-2021, 10:02 PMJin-Oh I know that. It was more humane tbh xDQuote:
Originally Posted by Iscah
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10-19-2021, 11:40 PMMynxLynx
Just ran Amaurot with trusts and did indeed receive 5 tomestones, very happy I can gather them in different ways!
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10-20-2021, 06:44 AMKaoru_NagisaHa, someone beat me to it. Also just finished up Amaurot with my Trusts and got the tomes.Quote:
Originally Posted by MynxLynx
I'll just add screenshot proof for posterity!
https://i.imgur.com/f0GCDPx.png
This'll be a good way to multitask when Voice of Cards releases next week. Just double pull and let them kill things while I play on my Switch. -
10-20-2021, 08:24 AMShougun
I feel given the /insane/ rate that blue mage can earn the tokens that they should make the buffed rate of the previous event the default for all, applicable, DF content. Then PF, trusts, or whatever, like honestly just whatever lol, is this current rate. Maybe add previous events at 1.5x - 2x cost (not all at once just like "this event" + 1 other from the past, and have them go through a big cycle).
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10-20-2021, 05:08 PMVoidedge_Ragna
Its kinda ironic that they gave us the jacket because the community team managed to clear a blue mage challenge (pretty sure we would've got it anyway as the jacket was already done and they would've not tossed the files because the community team flopped ... but could you imagine)
And it comes back to blue mage being the goal to achieve mental rates of tomes per hour, we managed to get 101 tomes in 40min with FC last night ... some of them were missing spells so its not like you need BIS and all spells either.
It is now more efficient to unlock and level blue mage to 50 and get the basic spells then just doing the other stuff. To put it into perspective if your one of the folks who spam prae, you would get 10 times more tomes then if you did T2.
This event will however have a backlash at us i believe, similar to what happened back in Byakko ex in which a phase was more or less negated in a unintended way. SE is not going to remove any of the tomes/access for bluemages but they will very likely keep an eye on how blue mages can weasel through content for tomes.
And yes we did before but it was never THIS effective. So what do we take from this? Level blue get about 1200 tickets turn them into MGP and buy most of the mounts, unless you win cactpot you will never get them this easy again.
Side note, if your a purist who despises the act of this, at least don't run prae its consistently one of the worst ways to get tomes. I enjoy the Rival wings pvp, even though I'm shite at it pops really fast as well during mog tomes. -
10-20-2021, 09:27 PMJettinson
Wow, I do not normally use PF and usually with BLU it tends to be awful to organize but ended up racking a decent amount of tomes in T2. Probably because the spells required are simple to get.
But never had issues with any PFs too, all smooth!
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10-21-2021, 01:41 PMShougun
Just a thought, add bonus moogle tomestones to the roulette(s) first time bonus. Helping those casual players grind, valuing the DF a bit more for everyone, but leaving blue mage like concepts alone in the end for those who just want to grind it out 'right now'.
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10-21-2021, 05:11 PMMilkieTea
So I've never touched blu before today, but I spent a day and racked up like, 51 spells and ended by going into T2 for two hours. Got 200+ tomes. Haven't got everything I want so I'll probs spend another day or two farming and whatever's left over I can spend on MGP to get MGP mounts that I don't have.
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10-21-2021, 05:27 PMkaynide
@Iscah: thanks!
Stupid request, but possible to list how these items can be gotten otherwise?
(Copy pasted/edited what you wrote)
@most players:
Just for reference, a lot of the stuff here can be gotten easily other ways.
CHARACTER STUFF:
Inferno Jacket - 100 (New to this event/exclusive)
Bonewicca Whisperer - 15 per piece (Dungeon drop; Swallow’s Compass)
"Styled for Hire" hairstyle - 50 (PVP Reward; 18,000 Wolf Marks)
MOUNTS:
Auspicious Kamuy (Byakko) - 50
Dark Lanner (Nidhogg) - 50
ARR beast tribe mounts - 30 each
Xanthos (Garuda) - 30
Enbarr (Leviathan) - 30
Ala Mhigan Barding (Peaks FATE) - 30
MINIONS:
Griffin Hatchling (Hunt reward, 400 Centuro Seals)
Aurelia Polyp (Submarine Voyage; Bozja Southern Front)
ORCHESTRION:
Battle (Alphascape v1) - 50
Flibbertigibbet (Sylphs)
Piece of Mind (Gnath)
CARDS:
Hrodric Poisontongue (Drowned City of Skalla dungeon)
Diabolos Hollow (Dun Scaith raid)
Shinryu
HOUSING: (30 each)
Tree Slice Tower (crafted)
Botanist's Dried Herbs (crafted)
Steppe Kitchen (crafted)
Marimo Lamp (crafted)
Fat Cat Sofa (crafted)
MISC:
Ostensibly Special Timeworn Map x 2 - 30
MGP Platinum Card - 30
ARR Riding Maps - 10 each
Magicked Prism (Job Mastery) - 1