No more undersized, unsynced tank mount farming in a few days. Your thoughts?

Requiring a full-sized party for tank mount achievements is a bad idea. The notes say a full party will be required, which likely means Undersized Party must be disabled, and therefore you must sync at 50.

This is a bad idea because:

1. Those achievements never encouraged many people to start playing tank jobs in serious content anyway. They just rewarded players who already did.
2. It hurts people farming ponies and doing WT. It's hard enough to get and keep pony farming groups together already.
3. No one does synced EX primals, and there's no reason to try to make people do it synced. The rewards are outdated and are just for fun.
4. The time investment to get these mounts is long enough as it is, especially for people going for all 3.
5. And finally...there's no incentive for ANYONE to do synced EX primals besides tanks. SE has just killed primal tank farming for level 50 duties and hurt people making groups for EX primals for ponies and WT.

i think it's because they want to prevent solo tank mount farming at lvl 70 in 4.0

This is likely a mistranslation though. Japanese, French and German patches only state that these duties are the ones needed for the achievements requiering the completion of full party duties. Especially, they use the same sentences as in all the other patches before.

Some people in Reddit are saying that it's mistranslated when compared to other languages.

Doesn't it count for any 8-man content? If so, people will just unsync the hard mode versions for tank mounts.

You're kidding right ?

Every person that wanted those mounts went to unsynch content and they remove this from the achievement ?

That stupid and won't encourage players to play actively a tank.

Hell i need to get those mounts fast.
When does this change gonna happen ?

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Originally Posted by Watachy

You're kidding right ?

Every person that wanted those mounts went to unsynch content and they remove this from the achievement ?

That stupid and won't encourage players to play actively a tank.

Hell i need to get those mounts fast.
When does this change gonna happen ?

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After the next maintenance on (I think) Monday. But people are saying it's a bad translation in the English notes. Dev confirmation would be nice.

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Originally Posted by Edyth

After the next maintenance on (I think) Monday. But people are saying it's a bad translation in the English notes. Dev confirmation would be nice.

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God if this happens im gonna be pissed.

Was leveling War to get this lovely bear but i couldn't hit 60 fast since my play time has been reduced :(

EDIT: im gonna check the French notes, brb

It only says full party. That only means you need 8 people. It doesn't say it needs to be synched...

*Groan.*

Well, guess I'll never get that warbear then. Most people don't wait for full 8 man parties anymore. Assuming it's not a translation issue, perhaps this was done with the implementation of the cross server PF.

a lot of people do synced extreme primals in duty finder, but nobody does primal training fights in raid finder.

Pretty sure you can still unsync probably just means it has to be with a full party.

Tank mounts are pretty easy to get if you just tank the normal version of the raid (so Creator right now has fast queues), they count.

Don't people read when others tell them it's a mistranslation? They'd have no reason nerfing this now anyway.

It's definitely too early to be doomsaying. Even if the worst turns out to be true, and unsynced parties no longer allow for tank mount farming, there's plenty of legitimate duties for farming tank mounts that are not too difficult - Alexander Normal being the best example. Also recall that tanks were farming Coil 4 long before WT or undersized parties were a thing. Also, let's be real here: Tank mount grinding is a BABY grind. Just 200 wins? Relic grinders would laugh. Probably hysterically.

If it turns out that unsync still works but you still need a full party of eight, the answer is easy: Make the party yourself, and don't leave until you fill up. If others in the party aren't patient enough to wait for a full party of eight, they're welcome to leave. Be sure to state in your PF message that it will be a full party of eight - this will serve a double purpose of ATTRACTING tanks to your party, and also ensuring that no one is surprised when you don't queue up Ifrit as soon as the party has a handful of members.

As for my personal feelings on this... I'll admit I'm a bit disappointed. Not because I'm losing an easy way to grind tank mounts, but because I LIKED experimenting to see what duties I could do with as few members as possible. Fights like Coils 9, 12, and 13 actually have a bit of fight to them when you do them with four members or less, and it was nice to be able to get tank mount credit at the same time.

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Originally Posted by Fonkyama

Don't people read when others tell them it's a mistranslation? They'd have no reason nerfing this now anyway.

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Originally Posted by RaijinSupreme

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I'm sorry, what? I didn't quite catch that. ;)

It's mistranslation. It's just an update on what counts towards the achievement now