There should be other ways to obtain the Field notes.

Just wondering if there is a guide I could look at anywhere? saying what ones drop where.

I have some but I know I am missing quite a few of the rarer ones. It does seem to be RNG would love to be able to buy with coins.

Thanks :)

There are 3 in each zone that are very rare but are 100% dropped with duels. I'm okay with that. Makes the bike a bit more work to get, you either gotta grind til you get lucky or do harder content to complete the duels.

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Originally Posted by Luluna

Just wondering if there is a guide I could look at anywhere? saying what ones drop where.

I have some but I know I am missing quite a few of the rarer ones. It does seem to be RNG would love to be able to buy with coins.

Thanks :)

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I use this one.

Thank you for the help ^^

That post is very limited on its info, I would recommend https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/C...y:Field_Record instead, it has a more complete list of source Skirmishes. You can also use ffxivcollect or lalachievements.

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Just wondering if there is a guide I could look at anywhere? saying what ones drop where.

I have some but I know I am missing quite a few of the rarer ones. It does seem to be RNG would love to be able to buy with coins.

Thanks :)

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I use the ffxivcollect one
https://ffxivcollect.com/records
also handy with being able to mark what I have and all

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I use the ffxivcollect one
https://ffxivcollect.com/records
also handy with being able to mark what I have and all

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This one I found most useful. I use that site to track everything that I can track on it. And since the minions/mounts are all auto-tracked, it makes it easier. Plus, you can filter out the ones you already own so you aren't looking at a flood of everything. And the Orchestrion roll tracking is great.

I see some conflicting information on two sites. Can anyone confirm if Field Note: 37 Llofii Pyr Potitus also drop from the FATE: An Immoral Dilemma.

I have been waiting all day for From Beyond the Grave to pop and it's still not. Think I kill like a hundred Infantry already.

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There are 3 in each zone that are very rare but are 100% dropped with duels. I'm okay with that. Makes the bike a bit more work to get, you either gotta grind til you get lucky or do harder content to complete the duels.

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Would be okay, if not for the fact the duels pop rarely in a given period, and can get stuck behind other CEs spawning (especially that damn math robot). The system they put in gureentees a spot in the duel eventually, but it can still be frustrating to even get an opportunity to.

Meryall is my last one. I've spawned and completed her skirmish chain several times now and not gotten it. Meanwhile many of my friends got her while leveling through the zone and not actively farming for it.

On the flip side I have been fortunate enough to get all the CLL and Dalriada notes within 15 runs of each. One of my unlucky friends is up to 35 runs of the Dalriada and has still not gotten Menenius page 2.

RNG can be cruel. I can see SE adding a coin exchange option sometime in the future but for now I feel like they're going to leave it to keep people grinding until Endwalker.

As an aside I farmed the Southern Front ones back when the content came out just because I like lore and collecting things. With the mount boosting the general populations interest in collecting them it's funny seeing the world at large know the pain of farming for Dyunbu. :p

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One of my unlucky friends is up to 35 runs of the Dalriada and has still not gotten Menenius page 2.

RNG can be cruel. I can see SE adding a coin exchange option sometime in the future but for now I feel like they're going to leave it to keep people grinding until Endwalker.
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I'm about that number of runs and i haven't got any drop for lyon or menenius.

I noticed in my last run today 2 people from my party leaving before last boss. This is very worrying and i hope the note farming will not develop into that. There is still people new to the instance and beside the frustration i have every time i open the Lyon chest i do enjoy the complete run. Unsure what my feeling will be in 5 months time and still no note tho because yea, bad luck is a thing that can stick to you for a long time (looking at my over 100 The Ghimlyt Dark run before the TT card finally dropped)

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I'm about that number of runs and i haven't got any drop for lyon or menenius.

I noticed in my last run today 2 people from my party leaving before last boss. This is very worrying and i hope the note farming will not develop into that. There is still people new to the instance and beside the frustration i have every time i open the Lyon chest i do enjoy the complete run. Unsure what my feeling will be in 5 months time and still no note tho because yea, bad luck is a thing that can stick to you for a long time (looking at my over 100 The Ghimlyt Dark run before the TT card finally dropped)

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I'm closing in on 20 Castrums so far and I just completed my 10th Dalriada run last night. Nothing from Lyon in Castrum, but I did manage to get the Menenius notes from Dalriada on I think my 8th run. I feel fortunate to have been THAT lucky, but Lyon's Castrum drop feels like it will forever elude me. I've settled on one run a day for each place. Hopefully it will happen eventually. lol

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I'm about that number of runs and i haven't got any drop for lyon or menenius.

I noticed in my last run today 2 people from my party leaving before last boss. This is very worrying and i hope the note farming will not develop into that. There is still people new to the instance and beside the frustration i have every time i open the Lyon chest i do enjoy the complete run. Unsure what my feeling will be in 5 months time and still no note tho because yea, bad luck is a thing that can stick to you for a long time (looking at my over 100 The Ghimlyt Dark run before the TT card finally dropped)

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Why would someone leave? That's a waste of mettle going that far, not to mention you give up a chance of the raptor mount dropping at the end.

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I'm about that number of runs and i haven't got any drop for lyon or menenius.

I noticed in my last run today 2 people from my party leaving before last boss. This is very worrying and i hope the note farming will not develop into that. There is still people new to the instance and beside the frustration i have every time i open the Lyon chest i do enjoy the complete run. Unsure what my feeling will be in 5 months time and still no note tho because yea, bad luck is a thing that can stick to you for a long time (looking at my over 100 The Ghimlyt Dark run before the TT card finally dropped)

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I have seen people left after Dawon boss fight in Dalriada too. I can understand the sentiment. As someone who's farming for notes only, not mettle nor relic. The last boss seems obsolete once you know you don't get the note.

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I have seen people left after Dawon boss fight in Dalriada too. I can understand the sentiment. As someone who's farming for notes only, not mettle nor relic. The last boss seems obsolete once you know you don't get the note.

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Haven't seen anyone do this in the JP server yet, but yea I can understand why ppl doing this. And who should be blamed for this situation? The one who set the drop rate to this unacceptable extremely low rate :)

been a week now of this and i literally had bad headache of returns and back and fort for the fate for note 14, like it literally ruin my health physically and mentally, i don't mine atma or even another eureka run without getting sick, but this "Steel of Flame" ruin my health completely that at certain point yesterday i gotta stop playing because my head and eye start hurting because of it

i love grinding fate, but this is really inhumane, people dont have 4 hrs of just waiting and waiting, even waiting it might not even pop for 2hr+, im sorry but please add something for me to be engage for it, people went insane inside and frustrated by it

- sincerely by the person who loves your game

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Why would someone leave? That's a waste of mettle going that far, not to mention you give up a chance of the raptor mount dropping at the end.

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the raptor price will drop and not everyone wants 10/10/10 valor or care for mettle

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the raptor price will drop and not everyone wants 10/10/10 valor or care for mettle

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I mean... It's still a waste. Just stay the extra time. Also gil is gil.

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I'm closing in on 20 Castrums so far and I just completed my 10th Dalriada run last night. Nothing from Lyon in Castrum, but I did manage to get the Menenius notes from Dalriada on I think my 8th run. I feel fortunate to have been THAT lucky, but Lyon's Castrum drop feels like it will forever elude me. I've settled on one run a day for each place. Hopefully it will happen eventually. lol

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Sucks that is something out of your control and I hope at some point SE put a fail safe, all I can tell is that eventually stuff drop. Hope you get lucky soon.

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I mean... It's still a waste. Just stay the extra time. Also gil is gil.

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it could also be a waste of time cant really bank on raptor dropping.

I totally agree with this. Im only missing one field note and its Menenius sas Lanatus II. I have ran Dalriada over 50 times now, I cant keep track anymore because I got the title achievement already.. The game only gives me Lyon II note whenever or if the boss drops any. I got Lyon II three times already and not a single time Menenius sas Lanatus II. This is really frustrating and making me feel not to play this game anymore. I dont mind grind but this one is not fun at all. It just feels like this one note doesnt even exist in my game at all or is bugged.. Increase the drop rates or let us buy them with platinum coins etc... This wouldnt be a problem if there would be some sort of pity system or something like with extreme mounts. After 99 clears you will get it at last or way before if lucky enough.

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I totally agree with this. Im only missing one field note and its Menenius sas Lanatus II. I have ran Dalriada over 50 times now, I cant keep track anymore because I got the title achievement already.. The game only gives me Lyon II note whenever or if the boss drops any. I got Lyon II three times already and not a single time Menenius sas Lanatus II. This is really frustrating and making me feel not to play this game anymore. I dont mind grind but this one is not fun at all. It just feels like this one note doesnt even exist in my game at all or is bugged.. Increase the drop rates or let us buy them with platinum coins etc... This wouldnt be a problem if there would be some sort of pity system or something like with extreme mounts. After 99 clears you will get it at last or way before if lucky enough.

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At least not dropping the 5 stars note again once we get it. It's just cruel. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

Right, after doing this content almost exclusively since patch launch I am pretty much done with FFXIV. I need Lyon, Dabog and Sartauvoir and no matter how many times I do the skirmishes and Castrum I get no reward for my effort. I've even soloed MDK in a dead instance (with my MCH) and nothing. Oh and please don't tell me to just do the duels, I cannot. I don't have the skill to do it, its that simple. SE ruined FFXIV for me.

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I totally agree with this. Im only missing one field note and its Menenius sas Lanatus II. I have ran Dalriada over 50 times now, I cant keep track anymore because I got the title achievement already.. The game only gives me Lyon II note whenever or if the boss drops any. I got Lyon II three times already and not a single time Menenius sas Lanatus II. This is really frustrating and making me feel not to play this game anymore. I dont mind grind but this one is not fun at all. It just feels like this one note doesnt even exist in my game at all or is bugged.. Increase the drop rates or let us buy them with platinum coins etc... This wouldnt be a problem if there would be some sort of pity system or something like with extreme mounts. After 99 clears you will get it at last or way before if lucky enough.

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I'm giving up it's just depressing

same, been loving ffxiv since started on SB, but this thing make me felt down for ffxiv like a full 180°, not because the inhumane long wait, it hot me Ill irl so definitely something wrong, hope they patch it before more people lose their sanity

Definitely agree that the field notes should be purchasable with Bozjan coins from the instances they drop from + the drop rates for the notes should be increased. This would give those who are farming the notes multiple avenues to obtain the mount for gathering all field notes in a reasonable time + add an RNG protection element like how Extreme mounts have currently with the totem system. The duels have excellent rewards as is with unique and rare titles; field notes/lore shouldn't be locked behind them. With the skirmishes/FATEs/Castrum/Delriada spawn rates as they are currently, it would take a *lot* of time afking or attempting to spawn skirmishes to obtain these field notes with no guarantee of them dropping which feels like wasted effort.

If vendors were to be added to sell the field notes, this would help the zones be much more active. It would generate more activity by players participating in skirmishes/critical engagements in order to generate the currency they need to obtain the field notes. It would increase the longevity of the content in a more genuine manner rather than artificially with players AFKing in the instance until their target skirmish spawns. It'll also allow players down the road a chance at getting their mount as well when the content isn't current.

At this point, I'd even suggest allowing field notes to be purchased via Bozjan clusters if the coins aren't possible to be used.

I got done with my Dalriada run for today and was about to wait for a Castrum run when I realized that I was probably just wasting my time as things currently stand. I'll give this grind a rest. Hopefully they can improve things relatively soon because I really don't think I can keep this up. Skirmish drops? Fine! I'll grind them ad nauseum if I have to. But man, these Castrum and Dalriada drop rates are terrible.

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I got done with my Dalriada run for today and was about to wait for a Castrum run when I realized that I was probably just wasting my time as things currently stand. I'll give this grind a rest. Hopefully they can improve things relatively soon because I really don't think I can keep this up. Skirmish drops? Fine! I'll grind them ad nauseum if I have to. But man, these Castrum and Dalriada drop rates are terrible.

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I'm pretty sure the drop rate is 1% across the board. What is depressing is doing a perfect run with one group of 7 (with a tank) and one group of 6 (without a tank) and getting nothing. Not one player got the notes. It's demoralizing, and hell, I don't even have a job yet. Imagine how people feel who can only play a few hours a week.

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I'm pretty sure the drop rate is 1% across the board. What is depressing is doing a perfect run with one group of 7 (with a tank) and one group of 6 (without a tank) and getting nothing. Not one player got the notes. It's demoralizing, and hell, I don't even have a job yet. Imagine how people feel who can only play a few hours a week.

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Considering there's a fair number of people based on this thread and in game chats who have gone 50+ clears so far and haven't even gotten one...yeah, 1% sounds about right. Might even be lower. lol

this will probably just end up being like EX mount farming. drop rate increases will come later in all likely hood. just take a break from it if you don't want to get burned out on it.

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it could also be a waste of time cant really bank on raptor dropping.

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While you are right, it's still beyond annoying towards the other people in the instance for someone to leave. Just stay and finish, get mettle, and wait for the next one. You can fit 4 Dal runs in a single instance time of Zadnor (if you enter Dal with a low timer it gives you more time to do it). There are at least a handful of people every time that's run it that are new, and that's unfair to them if people just leave.

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Right, after doing this content almost exclusively since patch launch I am pretty much done with FFXIV. I need Lyon, Dabog and Sartauvoir and no matter how many times I do the skirmishes and Castrum I get no reward for my effort. I've even soloed MDK in a dead instance (with my MCH) and nothing. Oh and please don't tell me to just do the duels, I cannot. I don't have the skill to do it, its that simple. SE ruined FFXIV for me.

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..... I understand the frustration but there's other content in this game. Take a break and hope that they fix it in the future.

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I'm about that number of runs and i haven't got any drop for lyon or menenius.

I noticed in my last run today 2 people from my party leaving before last boss. This is very worrying and i hope the note farming will not develop into that. There is still people new to the instance and beside the frustration i have every time i open the Lyon chest i do enjoy the complete run. Unsure what my feeling will be in 5 months time and still no note tho because yea, bad luck is a thing that can stick to you for a long time (looking at my over 100 The Ghimlyt Dark run before the TT card finally dropped)

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I'm not surprised at all it already started happening. I'm at the point that I don't have any more weapons to get without going back to DR so the only thing I get from the last boss in the Dalriada is mettle and I'd be lying if it wasn't tempting to just leave after Lyon/Whathisface chest.

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I got done with my Dalriada run for today and was about to wait for a Castrum run when I realized that I was probably just wasting my time as things currently stand. I'll give this grind a rest. Hopefully they can improve things relatively soon because I really don't think I can keep this up. Skirmish drops? Fine! I'll grind them ad nauseum if I have to. But man, these Castrum and Dalriada drop rates are terrible.

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You know, after countless runs of Delubrum for the hairstyle (that I finally got with coins in this patch), and far too much not-fun-time spent in Bozja/Zadnor for the last two notes I lack (Lyon I and II, no surprise), I just I saw the light, like you. I rather do something else before these drop rates make me hate the whole FFXIV, a feeling that I thought nothing could provoke and now I see looming over me.

I sure hope the Japanese players are complaining about this too, maybe the dev team will actually listen to them. I really wish there was a way to make Yoshi P, or any of the devs involved in this content, sit here for as many hours as we have, forced to watch the players fail, fail, and fail again to get these then stomach the angry/disappointed things being said. Some people get them instantly, others of us are here 2 weeks later trying, and will be here a month later trying.

This is not fun content. Whatever happened to that quote of Yoshi saying something along the lines of "if it isn't fun we aren't doing our job right" or whatever it was. This dev team keeps getting further and further away from reasonable expectations of the player base as it grows and time goes on. We need multiple layers of RNG on top of RNG to keep the player base engaged and subscribed eh?

You would think they learned their lessons with previous terrible experiences like this in the past, but I guess its just too much to ask for. Keep making the same mistakes, but its OK according to the white knights here cause we have 5 months till Endwalker. Like those 5 months couldn't be spent doing anything else.


EDIT and for the record, I complained about this same exact issue back in October before there was ever a mount reward attached to these notes.

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I sure hope the Japanese players are complaining about this too, maybe the dev team will actually listen to them. I really wish there was a way to make Yoshi P, or any of the devs involved in this content, sit here for as many hours as we have, forced to watch the players fail, fail, and fail again to get these then stomach the angry/disappointed things being said. Some people get them instantly, others of us are here 2 weeks later trying, and will be here a month later trying.

This is not fun content. Whatever happened to that quote of Yoshi saying something along the lines of "if it isn't fun we aren't doing our job right" or whatever it was. This dev team keeps getting further and further away from reasonable expectations of the player base as it grows and time goes on. We need multiple layers of RNG on top of RNG to keep the player base engaged and subscribed eh?

You would think they learned their lessons with previous terrible experiences like this in the past, but I guess its just too much to ask for. Keep making the same mistakes, but its OK according to the white knights here cause we have 5 months till Endwalker. Like those 5 months couldn't be spent doing anything else.

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I have no idea if they are talking about this or not. Did try to look earlier out of curiosity with a japanese auto translate on my browser but couldn't come up with anything. I'd like to know their take on this though.

i respect the people who finished it or got the mount, we know we heard lot about "just do duel" by you, but with all people with their parents want the same note its almost difficult to get into, plus the fate pop like every 2hr even none at all, cant duel if it ain't pop.
mad respect the people who got it but uses it outside on gangos so they dont stress the people who hasn't got em, also dont bring the mount on the skirmish location please, you just make more people lose their sanity with how you rubbing on their face

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I sure hope the Japanese players are complaining about this too, maybe the dev team will actually listen to them. I really wish there was a way to make Yoshi P, or any of the devs involved in this content, sit here for as many hours as we have, forced to watch the players fail, fail, and fail again to get these then stomach the angry/disappointed things being said. Some people get them instantly, others of us are here 2 weeks later trying, and will be here a month later trying.

This is not fun content. Whatever happened to that quote of Yoshi saying something along the lines of "if it isn't fun we aren't doing our job right" or whatever it was. This dev team keeps getting further and further away from reasonable expectations of the player base as it grows and time goes on. We need multiple layers of RNG on top of RNG to keep the player base engaged and subscribed eh?

You would think they learned their lessons with previous terrible experiences like this in the past, but I guess its just too much to ask for. Keep making the same mistakes, but its OK according to the white knights here cause we have 5 months till Endwalker. Like those 5 months couldn't be spent doing anything else.


EDIT and for the record, I complained about this same exact issue back in October before there was ever a mount reward attached to these notes.

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There actually r some, well, lets call it suggestion in the JP forum but not this many like in here. I really doubt if the dev will listen to those voice. U know if they ever listened there probably wont be this erueka 2.0 whole thing again.

I don't want to sound like the devil's advocate here (I am still grinding for the mount as well) but I feel like there are way harder (as in more grindy) mounts to get in game, like the Triceratops/Centurio Tiger from Hunts or the Astrope you get by doing 2000 mentor roulettes.

The patch came out 2 weeks ago and we still have 5 months left until Endwalker comes out. Just take it easy, do a couple Dalriada/Castrum runs a day and you'll have your mounts in a couple months at most.

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I don't want to sound like the devil's advocate here (I am still grinding for the mount as well) but I feel like there are way harder (as in more grindy) mounts to get in game, like the Triceratops/Centurio Tiger from Hunts or the Astrope you get by doing 2000 mentor roulettes.

The patch came out 2 weeks ago and we still have 5 months left until Endwalker comes out. Just take it easy, do a couple Dalriada/Castrum runs a day and you'll have your mounts in a couple months at most.

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Actually the Dalriada/Castrum is still okay for at least they r popping up really quick these days, the really annoying ones are the fate and ce ones with rarity like 4 or 5 stars especially the "Of Steel and Flame" one which u need to do mob farming and a lot related skirmish to get it popped up. And the worst part is there is a hard cool down for these fates like an hour or more.