<Odin Rant> Ridiculous....

So Odin spawned almost 72hr hour ago so I had the window narrowed down from 7:30pm 11/12/13 from then till 2:30am. I decided to step out for 20min and he spawns and gets killed....

This is just awful.. He always spawns either when I'm asleep, at work or apparently when i'm afk.

I just want the Barding, I'm willing...just let me actually have a GD chance.

EDIT: About to sub my 3rd month and I have a grand total of 1 mantle

It took me 2 1/2 years to get Lizzy's boots in FFXI. I must have killed her 200 times before they finally dropped.

It's an MMO. It's part of the game. It's aggravating. It's frustrating. But it is what it is.

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Originally Posted by Naberrie

It took me 2 1/2 years to get Lizzy's boots in FFXI. I must have killed her 200 times before they finally dropped.

It's an MMO. It's part of the game. It's aggravating. It's frustrating. But it is what it is.

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Your post has no structural support to explain why it has to be that way, no outlining reasons or any merrit of support.

But by Gosh darn if you didn't take the words right out of my mouth. Back in my day we had to farm card drops at 0.01% and it was a pain, but when you get that card... if ever... it's all too glorious.

I use to camp Lizzy alot. Got the drop like 2 times in my 3 years of playing. The week before XIV came out, I reactivated my FFXI account and first thing I did was camp Lizzy. I got the boots again went to camp Emperor, killed him didn't get the drop. Went to Jueno and loged out of the game. Have never went back again.

IMO the respawn time needs to be a bit shorter for this fate and Behemoth too.

Agreed. 16-20 hours would be nice

You as well as most people probably want that particular piece of companion equipment due to its novelty factor rather than the looks. You do understand that by making it more easily available undermines that very aspect of the item, right?

People in MMOs always want to show themselves off in various ways and be unique at least in some sense. I personally think it's fine that some of the items would be very difficult to get because of this. With everything progression-related being as linear as it is on ARR people are already struggling to be something more than just another [Insert job here] amongst the masses.

Then again the massive campfest that Odin and Behemoth are feel really silly. For the current system to work properly the world (as one option) would probably need to be bigger and a little bit less instantly accessible, and a good deal more of these rare NM type monsters should be added in.

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Originally Posted by Moontide

You as well as most people probably want that particular piece of companion equipment due to its novelty factor rather than the looks. You do understand that by making it more easily available undermines that very aspect of the item, right?

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Not true. A lot of us want the item just to have it. Stuff can be unique without being rare, and rare isn't always what is sought after. However, before I even consider what item I want as a reward I have to overcome 2 hurdles: actually being able to participate in the fate when its spawn time is random and the incapability of getting gold regardless of what you do. More than any item reward I just want my achievements for those two fights.

I've been playing for two months now and have never even seen Behemoth.

I have 2 Mantles from Odin out of the 5 times I faced him, but have yet to get the achievement.

I really really wish these two FATEs were made into server instances, like Chimera and Hydra. Either that or make them spawn more often and at better times. Last time I faced Odin was at 5am EST and the less than 40 people participating where just getting slaughtered left and right. It wasn't pretty.

The first time I completed Odin, I was throwing DoTs and him and just doing some AoE healing because it was SO laggy. Somehow, I got silver doing that. However, he spawned the other day and I was there doing much concentrated DPS as SCH with Cleric Stance, while throwing out AoE heals again. Bronze. I was there for the whole fight, did a lot of healing, kept my DoTs up. I do not understand how you are supposed to get Silver and Gold?

Behemoth spawned once. I could not see him, empty screen. AoE still killed me. Stood beneath him and he flickered on and off the screen as I moved around. I got the Behemoth Horn but rewards look EXACTLY like the CE Barding. What is the point?

The FATE system is very unreliable if you are not a DPS in a GROUP. If you come along just to HEAL your group (and people are always asking for healers) you get nothing as well. This shocked me. Why penalize someone for trying to be a team player and keeping their FATE group alive?