Billmaster doesn't have sands of time?

According to the patch notes, the billmasters were supposed to have sands and oils for trade. All I see is Alexandrite. Am I missing something?

Yes. They sell the items you turn in to Aelina for Sand/Oils.

Ah I see. I'm guessing those would be the 250 seal items?

You need 3 of those for sands and 2 for oils
From what it looks like you can get a minimum of 55 Allied seals a week (performing the marks daily and not farming extra elites)

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Originally Posted by NintenPyjak64

You need 3 of those for sands and 2 for oils
From what it looks like you can get a minimum of 55 Allied seals a week (performing the marks daily and not farming extra elites)

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So it'll take like 4 months for 1 sands? That's a bit extreme.

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Originally Posted by Raxion

So it'll take like 4 months for 1 sands? That's a bit extreme.

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I said Minimum not Maximum. If you play it as casually as it gets then yes, 4 months. But if you actively kill elite marks in the wild (please note the higher the rank the more allied seals you earn) then you could probably have all you need by the end of a day or 2

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Originally Posted by Raxion

So it'll take like 4 months for 1 sands? That's a bit extreme.

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They said minimum. You can get more Allied Seals from just killing NMs. The 55 they are referring to is from doing the dailies. There is no cap.

Oh I see! Well that's awesome then.

REALLY wish this had been simultaneous with my Atma grind, lol.

I've done more FATEs than was reasonable to do for my Atma and I'm down to 2. At least for those 2 I have a chance to get some Allied seals as well.

Cool system, love it!

So what are all the ways one can obtain allied seals? I'm not too sure I fully understand. Doing the Hunt, but then what?

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You can kill ANY Elite Mark. There are 3 per location. One's a B Rank mark, one's A, and one's S. They have differing respawn timers, but if you kill a mark, you get allied seals, regardless as to whether you have a hunting bill for the mark or not.

Having said that, it's super competitive right now... most marks are dead less than a minute after they spawn and there are multiple 120 man linkshells trying to monopolize all the hunting marks, everywhere.

If you wanna have ANY chance of getting a hunting mark, you need to join a hunting party AND AT LEAST one hunting linkshell.

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I wandered around last night for about 3 hours with just two other people and managed to gather 80+ AS.
I get that there is a lot that could be done to fix the hunts, but you might have just had some really, horrible luck...

I haven't done these yet. But, my question is, when you're wandering around, how do you recognize the monsters? Do they have a special icon over their head like the Atma book enemies?

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Originally Posted by NorthernLadMSP

I haven't done these yet. But, my question is, when you're wandering around, how do you recognize the monsters? Do they have a special icon over their head like the Atma book enemies?

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they're big with weird names.

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Originally Posted by SendohJin

they're big with weird names.

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S-rank are huge (at least the ones I've seen) (meant for zerglings)
A-rank can be big versions of existing mobs or normal sized (meant for party)
B-rank are what I can see normal sized (meant for soloing)