Incentive to Kill Dungeon Mobs Fast

Firstly, I apologies if this idea or a similar one has already been posted.

I think it would be an interesting idea to have mobs leading up to bosses in dungeons reward players with Allagan Tomestones (Philosophy / Mythology) if the party can reach a certain chain in killing the mobs. This could get players to have a new challenge to kill the mobs leading up to bosses in a fast but risk taking manner. In addition, this would make these mobs feel much less of just a grueling task.

I'd just be happy with an incentive to kill them full stop.
All your idea would do is encourage stricter gear requirements on who people run with.

It would be nice to be rewarding with Tomestones of Mythology for acquiring a chain in a dungeon, but it dances on the edge of creating more problems. If there were issues with people not wanting to run it fast, imagine how many problems there would be if people couldn't chain quickly. Gear issues would be even more profound and the elitism would pop up even more.

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Originally Posted by JayvirDeforte

It would be nice to be rewarding with Tomestones of Mythology for acquiring a chain in a dungeon, but it dances on the edge of creating more problems. If there were issues with people not wanting to run it fast, imagine how many problems there would be if people couldn't chain quickly. Gear issues would be even more profound and the elitism would pop up even more.

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I think people looking to do an extra challenge would be more inclined to make parties with people they know on their servers. I would hope people who want to take a dungeon to the next step would not consider queuing on duty finder alone as a great option.

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Originally Posted by Adlitim

I think people looking to do an extra challenge would be more inclined to make parties with people they know on their servers. I would hope people who want to take a dungeon to the next step would not consider queuing on duty finder alone as a great option.

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I'm not trying to insult you but, that's a rather naive hope.

Am I wrong to think elitism should not prevent new optional challenges from being introduced?

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Originally Posted by Adlitim

Firstly, I apologies if this idea or a similar one has already been posted.

I think it would be an interesting idea to have mobs leading up to bosses in dungeons reward players with Allagan Tomestones (Philosophy / Mythology) if the party can reach a certain chain in killing the mobs. This could get players to have a new challenge to kill the mobs leading up to bosses in a fast but risk taking manner. In addition, this would make these mobs feel much less of just a grueling task.

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No. Just ... no.

What needs to happen is that the mobs should drop things that make it useful to run the dungeon, not some other esoteric reward. There are things such as a single potion that comes out of chests which makes it completely non-lucrative to grab them, save for the CHANCE to get some Allagan coins. Rather, the chests need better material drop rates, large stacks of hi- or max-potion/ether, etc. Mobs need to drop more of the esoteric crafting ingredients, with higher regularity. Wading through ten mobs to have ONE drop A piece is not enough. There also needs to be a way to close the holes that allow players to skip trash. Such as sneaking behind guards in Castrum. Seriously, being able to skip the content is NOT the point of the dungeon, else why put the trash there.

Make the final boss drop list changes depend on how long it took you to clear the dungeon. For example, if there is 90min left, boss will drop lv 70, if 80min left, boss drop lv 60 .... You need to fine tune the number of course.

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Originally Posted by Sterob

Make the final boss drop list changes depend on how long it took you to clear the dungeon. For example, if there is 90min left, boss will drop lv 70, if 80min left, boss drop lv 60 .... You need to fine tune the number of course.

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No thanks, that's an even worse idea to make people stoop to even lower levels of douchebaggery in duty finder.

Sounds like you'd end up with a lot of groups/people choosing to exclude various classes once they found a "optimal" way to farm everything in the fastest amount of time. Maybe if there were optional side-bosses that dropped those things, but had more mechanics or were more of a challenge? Mob-wise, I'd think just having them drop the occasional allagan piece, or a wider variety of materials (or bundles of them), would improve the reward for killing them. At least that way there won't be as much "LFG, ___, ___ and ___ need not apply."