My server is rather small and people don't do things like the 2.0 treasure maps anymore (or even gather them). This is a problem for people who came late to making furniture (and need old items, e.g., ahriman tears), and will be an issue for people buying houses once housing resets. My question is (and I hope someone official sees this) if there are any plans to make such items obtainable through other means? Adding them to 3.0 maps? Or purchasable with grand company seals?
Then there's the primal crafting material drops. I understand ponies come from chests and TT cards come from the instance, while materials (e.g., the vortex feather) come from the primal, so undersized parties can't receive them. Could this be tweaked? Sure I can sync for old content, but finding seven other people who are willing to sync just so I can have a shiny couch is tough. And duty finder queue times for that sort of thing are atrocious.
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10-31-2015, 10:07 PMRazenHyseOld (Rare) Crafting Mats
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11-01-2015, 04:05 AMShadygrove
As to the older map items I have no idea what's going on in your server but on mine people are buying those maps.
Probably to attempt to get minions. -
11-02-2015, 12:26 PMChexMix
No joke. I've been trying to get this thing for months and the very select few that luck out with them are exploiting it for small fortunes.
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11-02-2015, 01:11 PMImmut
On exodus there is an entire linkshell dedicated to getting moogle whiskers.
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11-02-2015, 11:43 PMNekotee
On moogle each comp is around 2M
Exceptionnelle the whisker which is 5 time worse...
I join a farm whisker group...
With 4 first timer that expect to get a clear...
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11-03-2015, 01:45 AMWerhuskyThink because all want to faceroll undersize everything and I heard they don't drop in that case (cannot say for myself I only undersize to help clears or to 2/3 man stuff for the fun). Got in my whole "farm career" so far 2 Expanse Baleen, 2 Inferno Horn and 1 Diamond tear... most went to friends and to old FC though :/Quote:
Originally Posted by ChexMix
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11-03-2015, 08:09 PMNekotee
When you put the undersized party option it's clearly write than you will never loot when defeating monster (either trash or boss)
Only the chest and clear will be granted
No light, no loot nor exp -
11-04-2015, 05:10 AMKadajSynthesis
Those items are rarely put on marketboard and there is nearly no way to farm them as people just step back from party finder when it comes up to farming groups without being undersized. They all just farm ponies and tank mounts, but no way to get all those "old" items one needs for one of the few weapons with glow/effects or for all those nice furnishing items. And trying DF ends in endless minutes of waiting without a chance...
Why not put all these in a treasure chest as well? Just make it like: 100% gear drop + 10% pony drop + 10% item drop. That would be like 100% chance on 1 chest, 10% chance on 2 chests and 1% chance on all 3 chests. That would be fair and the chance to see one of those on the market would be significantly higher than now.
I mean, SE will start the housing reclamation timer with 3.1 but is unable to offer a system where there are enough drops on the market board to fulfill the new house-owners wishes? Prices will be like 5 times higher, thats what I fear - and that only in case there is at least on offer on the market, what I doubt.
On Lich most items are sold out and from what I heard from Zodiark, some prices are like 55,000,000...well, good job SE. -
11-04-2015, 05:29 AMIagainsti
+2 on Inferno Horns, but for old map items, I found I have to farm them myself. I had a lvl 50 Miner pre x-pac, but we set our FC up to do Maps on Mondays(Map Monday xD has a great ring), everyone farms 3 dragon skin maps, for a total of 24. That leaves the rest of the week for us to get old 2.x maps for our respective DoH classes( GSM myself, so I'm always farming Frosted Glass Lenses; all the lamps/Wall mount furniture sells really well on my server). My advice is save yourself some gil, and burn through your leves to at least get a lvl 45 Miner/Botanist.
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11-04-2015, 10:48 AMChexMixAgreed 100%. Some crafting mats have been dropping in chests since binding coil, and doing that would at least make it easier on those actively farming old content. Very few people still use duty finder for ex primals, and the ones that typically do are newer players. So on top of waiting in queue for hours at a time to have a minuscule shot at getting said crafting drop, you'll often be paired up with people that don't know the fight very well, if at all.Quote:
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So if any community reps just so happen to be lurking, it'd be awesome if you could tip the dev team off ;) -
11-05-2015, 12:02 AMNekotee
I completely disagree
I refuse to see the mat in chest
This is an extremely rare comp that must reward those who play correctly.
If you put it in chest, then undersized party could loot them even if they ignore 99% of the fight
I do not count the EX primals or coil i did (or PL) with more than 5 death in the fight but cleared even so...
Those mat should only be loot during sync fight where you follow the basic strat ! -
11-05-2015, 02:19 AMIagainstiAnd this is why you get no likes, Debbie. FYI, we 5 manned Ifrit for an Inferno Horn for a friend's wep this weekend, sad that we couldn't get 3 other ppl to join our PF, but this is the state of the game currently; while I do love Unsynced (Soloing Halatali HM is my ezpz Rose gold/Darksteel Nugget/ BCIII farm) it has hindered the crafting item surplus we used to see, in the same way CT irrelevance has lead to Syrcus Shard/ Throne Gems to become non existent. While I do agree with Devs limiting items in Unsynced Content, there has to be a fix when it comes to these items; lets not forget that furniture and i95 weapons( for the sake of example) are not giving others and advantage to push the envelope in current content.Quote:
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11-05-2015, 08:29 PMruskieOddly you still get card drops(I got a card when we were 3 manning undersize an ex primal) so I find it odd that the crafting mats wouldn't drop.Quote:
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11-05-2015, 10:02 PMNekotee
It's true that those have nothing but glamour purpose
(Except shiva/Lévi and ramuh for the chocobo)
You say you had a 5 char team for ifrit for the horn ? Did you get it ?
The thrones gem... God i saw one during one of my worse run...
Same for T13 saw the loot one time, but the group was perfect.
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I do regret not buying some mat before HW...
Garuda's ex comp was around 80k before
And skyrocket to 2M...
@Ruskie
Yep... I caw't define the card which still appear unsync...
Let's put the easiest answer : aether -
11-06-2015, 01:33 AMIagainstiYes, 7 runs in, if you click minimum Ilvl, you can go in understaffed. I'll admit it is challenging at i80 sync, but 2 War, Blk, and Brd make the nails easy, and our Sch healer is amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nekotee
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11-06-2015, 09:35 PMRazenHyse
Well, prayers have been answered it seems. From the preliminary patch 3.1 notes:
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Items that dropped directly from boss enemies will now drop from treasure boxes in the following duties:
The Bowl of Embers (Extreme) / The Howling Eye (Extreme) / The Navel (Extreme) / Thornmarch (Extreme) / The Whorleater (Extreme) / The Striking Tree (Extreme) / Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)