Pony farming

The title of this thread speaks for itself. I just wanted to ask was it just me or does all of the pony farming parties nowadays seem to end up failing every single time in PF? I\\'ve held +50 parties and people either rage quit, carry a bonus, don\\'t know what they\\'re doing, blame people who are actually doing things right, etc. I\\'m not calling people out, I just feel like these farm parties aren\\'t what they used to be. I haven\\'t been able to get a single pony from any primal since I started farming EX, not even Garuda or Ifrit which are pretty much the easiest ones in my opinion. Anybody feel me?

Excuse the escape symbols, I typed this thread on my phone

Dem low rolls. The struggle is real... And it's always the guy who joins that wins the pony in the first fight he wins with the party.

I just recently got my Kirin. The only advice that I can offer is to be blunt about what you expect from party members upon their joining. If you're in an awful party don't be afraid to reform. It's always a good idea to be fair to people because you will probably run into the same people if they are actually capable of pony farming and people will remember you if you loot and scoot. Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Kitfox

Dem low rolls. The struggle is real... And it's always the guy who joins that wins the pony in the first fight he wins with the party.

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Right? We went into DF last night at 5/8 or 6/8 and got a WHM that was on their first clear. We told him what to do but he still insisted on dragging Searing Wind into the middle of the party several times, killing a few DPS. We limped through the fight and just barely cleared it... and he rolled a 95 on the pony. Somewhere, RNGesus is still laughing his ass off.

I just went 20 Ifrits in a row without seeing a pony drop. Forget winning lots; can't even get one to drop.

Just got my first pony ever last night (Leviathan Ex). DF attempts were utter failures or at least 3+ wipes per clear. Made a PF with the help of a few wonderful folks from a LS I'm in, we got it done probably 15 or so times and only wiped once. Had a blast, most people got ponies early on until Leviathan started being stingy towards the end of the party.

So unless this party was an exception to the usual, no, most PF groups down it. Our PF wasn't even the typical "know the fight or be kicked" type, and we still walked all over Levi.

Edit: And just to be clear, we had 4 LS people in the party (including myself). So half of the other people were pickups from PF.

On Jenova I've been able to join only one or two successful farm teams through pf. They always seem to have at least two or three people trying to sneak in under the radar. Or people that cleared it once and think that makes it farm status. When you join a Shiva farm and it has 5 dps who cant burn the adds down in time despite being full 130...

Tbh, I have much better success rates with DF parties. That or LS is the way to go I think.

I made a PF for Ruda Ex pony farming. I wrote specifically be able to do enough dps to kill Garuda b4 last phase(basically kill ruda during the phase where the spiny appears the first time). I set up for 6 dps 1 tank 1 heal. We get in. Tank cant hold hate. DPS going same speed as a normal party overall. The 2 sisters come down in the begininng finally and the ranged that got aggro on Chirada doesn't move to the other end to reduce stacks. Wiped.

I was looking at my screen like "what...the hell..is this..."

Im about ready to give up. Honestly, only pony I care about is Ramuh and I got it(hearing that epic ramuh theme voice). On top of that, probably going to fly with a dragon or the griffon in HW. Then we'll have new dailies with new flying mounts added onto that. Plus from people who have Kirin I hear the theme isn't unique so it's like...meh. :/

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Originally Posted by Kuroyasha

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Lol!

Thankfully I got the pony I want most. The others I can do without, though may come back to them one day. Now if only I could get Shiva's or Ramuh's music to play for Leviathan's pony x_x I guess that's what YouTube is for.

Since the latest boost to mount drop rates, I've seen more parties actually stick through to the end, meaning everyone gets a horse.
Before the droprate increase people would leave almost as soon as they got theirs instead of helping others.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Since the latest boost to mount drop rates, I've seen more parties actually stick through to the end, meaning everyone gets a horse.
Before the droprate increase people would leave almost as soon as they got theirs instead of helping others.

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Yeah I've been in many parties where everyone gets their ponies :3

You have to cut off Ifrit's tail for there to be a higher chance of the Pony dropping at the rewards screen. I think for Ramuh you have to break his beard? Not sure but yeah that will increase your chances of it dropping.

I got into a Titan Ex dungeon yesterday and everyone but 1 person walked away with a pony. Feel terrible for that one guy but we ran about 15 times for him and it just wasn't happening.

I gotta say though - It was pretty funny.

We had at first started the run - shaky and one guy flat out called out some people for being bad - and after wiping a couple times Left...

- we rebuild - and then magic happened and 7/8 people got ponies.

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Originally Posted by Adire

Just got my first pony ever last night (Leviathan Ex).

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.... ORZ....
One day i will get it.... ONE DAY...
Might need to wait and see for a PF tho cause DF is not the way.... this was our 4th attempt i think

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Originally Posted by AceHunterIce

.... ORZ....
One day i will get it.... ONE DAY...
Might need to wait and see for a PF tho cause DF is not the way.... this was our 4th attempt i think

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Yeah...if you don't have any luck with DF (like me), it can't hurt to try PF. Good luck on your pony though! I love ocean themed things <3

But im not gonna lie tho i felt capable of doing a ifirit pony farm... the guy set it to i115 and I kinda got salty for awhile but i can understand to a degree why.

I haven't been lucky enough to find any parties that actually farm the instance until all 8 people get ponies. And since I always roll like crap, I'm usually one of the unlucky ones who doesn't get a pony before the group disbands. I did about 70 clears of Levi EX before I got the pony. But they were at least good parties. I only left one party because they were not actually capable of farming.

Been trying for ponies for months, got a few. My main experience is parties where about 5 people get ponies. 1 person will have to leave then nearly everyone else who had got a pony uses it to escape and they suddenly discover that they have a really urgent thing to do and the party breaks. Then you get to start again with 7 new people to roll against :( if you have luck like me it takes forever. My longest streak of loosing roles is 64 :(

I gotta be honestly. RNG gods were in my favor for pony farms. I went from having 0 ponies to getting all of them (including Nightmare) in the span of a 2 weeks. All rolls 80+. 7 ponies out of the 12+ I've seen drop.

I ignored the pony farming in the beginning, i rarely do stuff trough PF at all. But since my raidgroup only play twice a week right now and when we do its either savage or fcob farming if we're missing someone i figured i'd give this a shot to kill some time between raid days and also to farm poetics. I was planning on tanking it to get the achievements but realised early that i was more needed as dps or as a dpsing healer due to average dps in pf groups being lower then when we first did these fights to farm i90 acc/i95 weapons etc.

I'm at 4/6, all of them from PF with levi and ramuh left. After doing ~200 levi's with no luck it still amazes me how bad some players joining farm groups are. Normally its just a couple of <200 dps that's getting carried (and wins the ponies that drops ofc) but yesterday we had an i130 paladin that didnt say a word (he was french), stayed on the head, ignored adds, ignored orbs and used hallowed ground on the first whirl thingy, luckily the WAR realised this and adapted. but if you're decked out in full (poetic) i130 gear and join an farm group how is it even possible to be so clueless. After some bathing this paladin then left the group and still never said a word.
Shiva was the easiest one to pug for me, might just have been luck with groups though.

Overall it's been a bad experience, there is way to much carrying in these groups and the language barrier on EU-servers makes it a lot worse. I really wish that they would make french-only server(s).

With that said, once in a while you come across a good group, normally with an base of 3-4 ppl that's in the same FC. This often leads to a completly different atmosphere and successrate, its almost... fun to farm then.

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Originally Posted by SummonerSenah

I haven't been lucky enough to find any parties that actually farm the instance until all 8 people get ponies. And since I always roll like crap, I'm usually one of the unlucky ones who doesn't get a pony before the group disbands. I did about 70 clears of Levi EX before I got the pony. But they were at least good parties. I only left one party because they were not actually capable of farming.

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70 clears >.>
Was farming levi for the AXE damn fricking AXE for my collection around 150 runs lost loads of ponies but mostly bc farming via DF.... got last week pony with FC clear for a member... 2-3 runs after I ran with 2 friends my daily "farm" aka one clear and got my axe I CRIED!! (and it was only 2nd time in all those runs the axe dropped at all)
Now only axes I lack are Rammy n Dreadwyrm... at 120 rammy clears so pony n shortly after axe inc :S (Took me alone 40 clears to get first rammy loot n 60 + a friend that only lolheals as coheal to get healring back then) tell me sth bout odds....

Yeah I actually got all of the Levi EX weapons (and five mirrors) before I got the pony. It makes you wish you could select how rng is going to be nice to you. I keep getting Triple Triad cards from dungeons I'm trying to get Zodiac drops from, wish I could be like "Instead of TT Cards give me Zodiac drops". That's rng for you though.

Yeah the TT card is the levi thing I'm still missing after all that ;) HAIL RNG
And managed to get 3rd set Zodiak drops finally.... avg 10 runs/drop \o/

sae multiple shiva ifrit and ruda ponies last night..couldnt roll higher than 38 except one time where someone else rolled 88. I wanted to flip a desk

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Originally Posted by AceHunterIce

But im not gonna lie tho i felt capable of doing a ifirit pony farm... the guy set it to i115 and I kinda got salty for awhile but i can understand to a degree why.

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Honestly, with Ifrit, setting a high ilvl sounds like a terrible idea. More than once, I've run into overgeared groups that just can't seem to understand that Ifrit, you know, kills us all if we push him to 9% before clearing the nails? You know, Ifrit's most basic mechanic, that even level 20 Trial Mode Ifrit wouldn't let you ignore?

25%: Okay, guys, nails are about to pop. Be ready!
20%: Nails are up! Take them down!
15%: Uh, nails...?
10%: Okay, well, good to see you're working on the nails now. Shame about those dots on the boss, though. This isn't gonna be pretty.
9%: Srsly, gais? Gais. Srsly.

Another 5 hour ramoo pony farm last night. Saw a good few people get theirs then the party inevitably split so I have to start again. I didn't roll above 35. :s <huddles in corner>

I'd say it's a mixed bag. I've read farming horror stories, and I've been in one or two Ruda farming parties that were awesome - like we were a well-oiled, single machine.

FC mate was recently in a Garuda farming party that was downing her like water. Single healer setup - burned in roughly 3 mins or less, each go.
Wish I coulda gotten my BRD in on that happiness :< lawl (I'd logged in after they'd joined it. Boooo)

I've seen a Farming party where in a single fight at least each tank and dps died at some point.. Then someone started rage quitting even tho the player died on their own.. It's a shiva pony farm where in the the description said that everybody gets a pony but the party maker decided to party disband everytime he saw someone not up to his standard then reinvites his friends and players who were up to his standards back to the party.. Then after a few fails and wins, he suddenly said that he'll reformed the party and kick some players to get his girlfriend and friends in, be the pony dropped or not.. No whistle dropped in any of those fights.. I really feel sad for the other healer who left politely..

On another day, i joined titan pony farm as a tank, while the party's dps were bad, 5/8 stayed until everybody got a pony..

Finally was able to obtain Levi mount, 2 nights ago. What was more shocking than receiving my final horse was winning with a 67... I always had to roll 90+ for the others, and then still, someone would've rolled 1 higher. -.-

Back to topic, I created a temporary static party for Ramuh so that all 8 people would be able to obtain Markab (because whether you're in a JP or EN server it's the least likely to succeed in DF). The party itself is amazing (though a little shaky to begin with, it's Ramuh xD), but irl time schedules conflict and 2 people still need the horse (feeling super guilty they don't have one yet ><).

Usually PF on Ifrit is really good. Mostly anyone who joins knows exactly what they're doing, especially EX trials. Though sometimes you run into an odd occasion where 1 or more people make too many mistakes they will apologize profusely and respectfully leave after 2-3 wipes (JP server, might be why).