My only issues with Occult Crescent

Honestly it's pretty much what I expected, CEs are a LOT faster so t here is 0 downtime, but as a result, I have 2 real complaints.

1: the rate of CE really makes it feel like you have to CHOOSE what you want to do. really cant do it all. trying to do a Magic Pot chest AND make it to the next CE is such a trial. but, willing to live with that one, since again, they pop SO frequently, the next one is 5 minutes later... so it really just becomes a "aw shucks" moment. but that brings me to my ACTUAL gripe...

2: Gold Coin armor upgrade items cost way too much for the time investment needed to farm them. this is obviously an Opinion, but I think the cost of Armor upgrade items through gold coins is too high, should be half the price. the Job stones, the glamour items, thats all fine, single unlocks SHOULD be a staggering price... but 1600 gold coins for an item that you need 15 of for ONE set is... thats 24,000, thats a HUGE sink to me. but, I know its not impossible, just daunting.

thats all really.

It seems like gold is intended to be a max level grind to give you stuff to keep doing in the game, past the soul shards everything is just a choice of aesthetic or completionism. Besides you can farm 5k gold coins in like what seems like 30 mins with a full party doing high level enemy chains. I was in agreement with the gold costs at the start when im chaining 20 or so enemies at level 13, but level 27,28 enemies give like 14 each from the start, not including thief steal or ninja Dokumori the rate is probably at pace or faster than silver through CE's.