are hunts the only way to obtain allied seals?

I've never bothered with the allied stuff before, but seen a nice gear set I want to save up for. The problem is I never seem to get many seals :s Thank you :)

The best way to get Allied Seals from hunts is to join a group. Otherwise you'll get so few.

Go to a major city or Mor Dhona and shout politely asking if anyone has a linkshell for hunt sightings.

Be proactive and hit every rank A and S you can while also making the regular hunts part of your daily activities.

Gathering hunt currency is a slow process, but this is the best I can think of to help make the grind manageable.

Why the prices of allied gear haven't dropped yet I'll never know.

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

Why the prices of allied gear haven't dropped yet I'll never know.

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"Yet" is the key word here.
Either the prices will drop or the amount we're rewarded will probably increase with 2.5.

I hope they offer more ways to get Allied Seals, such as that system for managing a Grand Company unit they mentioned in one of the Live Letters.

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Originally Posted by Ametrine

"Yet" is the key word here.
Either the prices will drop or the amount we're rewarded will probably increase with 2.5.

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Long overdue considering it mostly used as vanity anyway. It takes over 8 months of doing the weekly A rank to buy a single weapon. That's insane.

I always thought it was a bit insane to offer very expensive vanity gear with the same currency used to purchase myth gear (20 levels better and astonishingly cheap) and upgrades for (at the time) top tier gear. Even when everyone was hunting all the time it was no small feat to get enough seals for a vanity set, never mind that seals could (and can) be used for useful things.

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

Long overdue considering it mostly used as vanity anyway. It takes over 8 months of doing the weekly A rank to buy a single weapon. That's insane.

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That if you do the weekly yes, But hunting daily A ranks im pretty sure you get a weapon less a week.
But i really i think need change B ranks to Daily a hunt. Weekly can be A rank randomly one that still give you 20 but bonus 50+ ifs an weekly hunt mark.

I just want the alexandrite price to drop to 50 or 20 seals even.

Just started going after allied seals, and my first thought is "Why is the i100 gear cheaper than the i70 gear?" Is it just because it's your GC?

I even started going after the seals because I saw there was a difference in gear between the GC's, so I switched GCs and started hunting! I was thinking "Go with the pirates" when the choice first came up, but went with Ul'dah because I started there! *sigh* If I had only known they had gear that wasn't basically the same! :(

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Originally Posted by Thistledown

I just want the alexandrite price to drop to 50 or 20 seals even.

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Oh yeah they'll drop it into easy mode sooner or later. Make it easy on the people complaining about it.....

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Originally Posted by Thistledown

I just want the alexandrite price to drop to 50 or 20 seals even.

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They halved the price of it via Sol, why not do so on alexandrite side also. Meh, I'm speaking as a current alexandrite grinder, but i guess it's not so bad lol.

I actually initially thought the GC gear was iLVL 110 or something when I first discovered it due to the cost verses the Sol gear. It really should be around HALF the price it is for the sets to have some validity for the kevel they are.

Hunts are just terrible things right now, I almost wish they were handled more like levequests then open-world enemies. Before I switched to PS4, they were barely even possible to participate in.

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

But hunting daily A ranks im pretty sure you get a weapon less a week.

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That still gonna take killing over 80 A ranks in that "week". Considering most people have limited play time per week, it ends up a ridiculously long grind. That's all I'm saying.

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

That still gonna take killing over 80 A ranks in that "week". Considering most people have limited play time per week, it ends up a ridiculously long grind. That's all I'm saying.

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still not that terrible. IF you have few hunting ls and those 80 hunts arent gona be an problems.

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

still not that terrible. IF you have few hunting ls and those 80 hunts arent gona be an problems.

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Pretty much this. On Leviathan, most A hunts are on a relatively set and unified spawn time. When you join an A rank group, chances are there's going to be another spawn within 10min... then another... then another. The downtime after all of them are down before the next spawn happens is maybe an hour or so. Sure, not everyone is going to have the time to do every one of them, but who said you need to? Just doing a few A hunts a week alone will reduce those 8 months by more than half.

Honestly though, I don't understand why the idea of vanity costing a lot of time/effort to get is lost on people. Think about it... cash shop = vanity. Nutkin, Fat Cat, etc pets all costing more than any progressive gear (combat, crafting, gathering). Unlike actually useful gear for combat progression, there is no impending rush on vanity that's (for all we know) going to always be there.

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Originally Posted by Noshpan

The best way to get Allied Seals from hunts is to join a group. Otherwise you'll get so few.

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Close, but not so true. You can still get Full credit going solo. The trick is to keep dots up on hunt at all times, be high on the hate list and never stop dpsing, and be over geared for the hunt. Its hard but not un -do-able.

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Originally Posted by FranSeara

Close, but not so true. You can still get Full credit going solo. The trick is to keep dots up on hunt at all times, be high on the hate list and never stop dpsing, and be over geared for the hunt. Its hard but not un -do-able.

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Depending on server population, dots might not even be worth using.
Going tank and generating as much enmity as you can is the best way to get credit. (Though, if you're alone, don't get top enmity or you're probably going to die lol)

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Originally Posted by FranSeara

Close, but not so true. You can still get Full credit going solo. The trick is to keep dots up on hunt at all times, be high on the hate list and never stop dpsing, and be over geared for the hunt. Its hard but not un -do-able.

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I think she was referring to finding the actual hunts. But, you are correct, but its a bit much on some A ranks and S ranks in general.

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Originally Posted by Thistledown

I just want the alexandrite price to drop to 50 or 20 seals even.

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OT but i'd love for Alex to be a currency to trade and acquire materia. I've got a full stack of the stuff. I'd love to use it to help me get some materia to do my second zodiac, that way I can actually do the maxed out version instead of the cheap mans version. I did the maxed out one for my WAR, that was one hell of a trip. SBing 24/7 for a long time ugg.

Little closer to topic, as far as notes rewards. They need to just put sands/oils of time in the damn hunt vendor, and get rid of this blood-log crap. Why add a extra step, when there is already redundant steps after you acquire the stuff? Get allied notes> trade for blood logs > trade for sands > trade to upgrade weapon/armor. Really? smh They need to go back to how the first gearing up worked. Philosophy for Darklight/Ilvl70, Myth for Ilvl90. Upgrade process is just convoluted imho, and can be very confusing to new people. Hey new guy that's right you got to talk to 4 separate npcs in order to get your gear...

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Originally Posted by CGMidlander

Depending on server population, dots might not even be worth using.
Going tank and generating as much enmity as you can is the best way to get credit. (Though, if you're alone, don't get top enmity or you're probably going to die lol)

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Yeap, you might die if you pull hate of the tank. Playing Bard in hunts ,you wanna keep your dots up just to stop other players from placing their dots. Hunts have a limit of dots they'll take, if I understand this right. If all else fails "Pull first" and hope you dont die, otherwise no Seals for you. I dont recommend doing this if you wanna make friends....lol

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Originally Posted by Welsper59

Pretty much this. On Leviathan, most A hunts are on a relatively set and unified spawn time. When you join an A rank group, chances are there's going to be another spawn within 10min... then another... then another. The downtime after all of them are down before the next spawn happens is maybe an hour or so. Sure, not everyone is going to have the time to do every one of them, but who said you need to? Just doing a few A hunts a week alone will reduce those 8 months by more than half.

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Huge difference between 4 months and one week. He was making it sound like it was just that easy. It's not. Back to my original point, the cost is simply too high for stuff that old and only i70.

I'm hoping they move all the hunt items to GC items. How many types of currency does one game need?

Just add a GC rank, put them all there, and make hunts drop GC seals.