Day one intial impressions of Zandor

First off i am seeing a lot of carrying over from bozja southern front for instance this area's cll and i am going to assume it doesn't reward mettle or tomestone for that matter or maybe even lost actions which so far in the instance has been an abysmally low drop rate.

Why would you repeat what you did in the southern front to zandor. You know what's going to happen. First people will stop doing it again then you'll do w/e to zandor and eventually when you realize four or five months later to put mettle, tomestone and lost actions in? Why not do that initially?? DR worked great as queing instance not depending on the zone's interest. I expect before long cll to be instanced as well.

I expected a little bit of improvement after southern bozjan front not the same repetition of mistakes.

In the future when you have instances like this and they involve lots of players maybe it best to do it outside the zone like dr. Otherwise the players not involve are left with basically dead instance.

side note on the ground cll is basically on avg 20 man. Obviously its better and faster with 40 so you really should again make a savage and normal version like dr. And speaking of DR the actions do not drop a whole lot and you basically have to cluster farm to get what you need cll doesn't seem to have that prob. I would gladly put elder essences up but they don't drop nearly enough and now i have 10 or so lost flare from the appraisals( yes i know they are from the same lost action)

Dalriada, in fact, gives tons of mettle.

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Originally Posted by Grimr

First off i am seeing a lot of carrying over from bozja southern front for instance this area's cll and i am going to assume it doesn't reward mettle or tomestone for that matter or maybe even lost actions which so far in the instance has been an abysmally low drop rate.

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Dalriada gave me ~3.3 million Mettle for completion, Mythril and Platinum Coins for the Resistance Supplier (Zadnor Gear and the Early to Rise Hairstyle), picked up a few different Fragments, pretty sure I got some Tomestones, and I've heard that it gives three Raw Emotions per clear if you have the final Relic Quest active (need 15 Raw Emotions per Relic, you can get three per Dalriada, two per Delubrum, or one from a 70 Dungeon/Heaven on High). At the very least, Dalriada and Delubrum have 100% drop rate, not sure about the other two. Either way, it gives some chunky rewards, particularly the Mettle which will be handy for gaining Merit which means the permanent Damage Up Buff which means content will get even easier as time goes on.

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Originally Posted by Grimr

Why would you repeat what you did in the southern front to zandor. You know what's going to happen. First people will stop doing it again then you'll do w/e to zandor and eventually when you realize four or five months later to put mettle, tomestone and lost actions in? Why not do that initially?? DR worked great as queing instance not depending on the zone's interest. I expect before long cll to be instanced as well.

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They didn't repeat the same mistakes. You would know this if you had done Dalriada but you haven't and you're making assumptions. It took SE a while but they did get around to fixing the problems with Castrum by adding Tomestones, Mettle, and better Memory drop rates, and they made sure that Dalriada is worthwhile right from the get go.

Other than one extremely angering run of Dalriada last night, Zadnor is a LOT better than Bozja.

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Originally Posted by Beddict

At the very least, Dalriada and Delubrum have 100% drop rate, not sure about the other two.

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Dungeons are also a 100% drop rate. HoH, however, is similar to POTD...so basically the drop rates are pretty low.

Thanks for the confirmation. I figured the level 70 Dungeons would be 100% drop rate since the level 60 Dungeons have a 100% drop rate for Bitter Memories but stranger things have happened.

As for OP, proof that the Dalriada gives some meaty Mettle and Raw Emotions. It also gives EXP according to me friend who got ~5.75 million EXP as a level 77 BLM. Not included in my screenshot since all my Jobs are level 80 so I don't get EXP, and I'm already capped on Revelation for the week so that isn't included either as I didn't get any when I was in there. Either way, point remains that the Dalriada has fine rewards and SE most certainly did not repeat the mistakes of the Southern Front as you assumed.