Cosmic Exploration - Great for DoH, Stressful and Unpleasant for DoL

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Supersnow845

What is your current stat distribution

If you went hard on 7.2 legendary nodes you might have a bit too much GP. I pentamelded after 7.2 had already slowed down a bit so I went low on GP and high on the other two stats, I don’t have no DT materia. Just I went 12/12/11/9/9 rather than 12/12/12/11/11

Maybe I accidently hit a high breakpoint pumping too much into gathering

---

I'm using the current recommended 7.2 high tier set, 5345/5173/930, which is specifically designed to enable a 1000 GP rotation. So yeah prolly too much GP and not enough of the other stats for this particular content.

And lol I thought you meant you didn't use any DT materia period rather than just for the overmelds. With you using 12s for the normal slots I can see you possibly surpassing the current high tier set if you are using less GP melds

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by SkankyRoe

I'm using the current recommended 7.2 high tier set, 5345/5173/930, which is specifically designed to enable a 1000 GP rotation. So yeah prolly too much GP and not enough of the other stats for this particular content

---

Yeah seems to be a stat mismatch which is definitely frustrating especially when you pay for a high tier set

It could also be the fact that since the next planet isn’t till 7.31 they are trying to partially future proof the moon against 7.3 gear since this is the only planet that will cross two gear tiers for the crafters and gatherers

But yeah I get why that’s frustrating

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Supersnow845

Yeah seems to be a stat mismatch which is definitely frustrating especially when you pay for a high tier set

It could also be the fact that since the next planet isn’t till 7.31 they are trying to partially future proof the moon against 7.3 gear since this is the only planet that will cross two gear tiers for the crafters and gatherers

But yeah I get why that’s frustrating

---

It's severely frustrating because I find the Gatherer missions more engaging, but the apparent incompatibility of my pentamelds with the content, paired with stressful time limits and my sudden bad luck streak just have me completely put off for that side of the content for now. But I also realize it was more or less unavoidable, this is brand new content so the experts really didn't have any way to figure out a pentameld set that would be more compatible with it for the 7.2 sets. I have high hopes for the Gatherer experience to feel much better with the 7.31 installment, the 7.3 pentameld sets will likely have Stellar Missions factored into their spread, and hopefully player feedback will result in some rectification of the more glaring issues like the between-mission GP situation.

I would be fine with DoL's tighter timers if GP insta regen'd after you finished the mission. Popping a cordial, missing gold by a hair, and then having to wait for my GP to fill back up feels pretty bad

Bumping this because the lack of agency on GP recovery rate outside waiting for Cordials and/or switching jobs is real.

Finishing BTN as my first relic on 3rd day was definitely a ride. Hah hah hah…

/playdead

I'm currently not a fan of the cosmic exploration from a DoL standpoint. If the ultimate goal is to allow you to level up and achieve a goal as a server, making it so the tasks from level 50 onward so punishing, what's the point? Color me super confused when I was a few ilvls below 690 (I'm a VERY casual gatherer/crafter) and it alerted me that my ilvl was lower than recommended for what's supposed to be level 50 tasks? Excuse me? And then as I do more talking if you aren't basically pentamelded you can forget even getting close to level 100 nodes. This makes me not even want to do it. It should have been done the way firmament was handled for rebuilding ishgard. That was fun. You weren't "punished" for not being a pentamelded omi-gatherer. This whole zone essentially is just for high level omi gatherers and crafters and locks out the casual player that may have stuck with it.
This was a bad design and I hope they adjust it so casual players can actually participate.

So here's my complaints about DoL in Cosmic:

- GP Generation is miserable, as many others have mentioned but I need to add Cordial cooldown is also ugly, most A rank missions require the use of Cordial to get gold, so I would ask not only ask for GP generation on mission start, but also reset your Cordial CD.

- The mission list is frustrating in how limited it can be, there are 14 different missions, but the game will offer 4 at a time, I understand the goal is to try to enforce variety, but the system is incredibly easy to work around anyhow, as you can simply accept and abandon missions repeatedly until the one you want shows up, so it makes a core gameplay "loop" to repeatedly accept and reject missions until you get the ones you want.

- Walking, so much goddamn walking, running around a bland, grey surface, the railways do help, but they are a bandaid that don't even fully cover the wound, I have never missed flight so much as in there.

FSH mission "Absolute Specimen" should be renamed to "Absolute pain in the backside". Getting silver on it is easy but for gold you have to catch the !!! fish and sometimes it just refuses to bite I have caught it a total of four times. First time it was too small. Second time I got it just as the timer ran out. Then I got lucky and it was the third bite and it was big enough. Then I gave it another go and failed in the same fashion as the second catch.
This is the mission that introduced me to the accept/abandon trick to get a specific mission to appear on the list.
BTN and MIN feel similarly frustrating but I haven't encountered a mission like this yet.
DoH on the other hand were just too easy. I can take any DoH mission and with 100% success rate finish it within 1:30-1:50.

I'm also capped at lvl 90 so my experience is limited up to that level. I have no idea what Class A missions for DoL are like and I feel like I don't even want to know..