this event, no fun at all

-arrive at fate spot
-start killing
-come zerg
-zerg rush killing
-show middle finger behind the screen wall of computer

honestly, i just return subscribe 2 days ago just for this event and to enjoy the fun... now i kinda regret it, its better to support steam/valve...

i know, i know people will say... if you see drk cast aoe why dont roll drk
if blue can cast doom, why dont roll blue...
thats just plainly stupid statement....

now with flying in arr... this event become more no fun at all

It's not really any different from past events that involved fate grinding. Personally, I didn't find it particularly fun before and I still don't now. The only reason I'm still doing this event is because obtaining the required medals is relatively fast, except for yours Shogunyan...dear lord that was rough. Either way, such is life when it comes to grinding fates. They seem heavily invested in this system so I don't see them going anywhere.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

It's not really any different from past events that involved fate grinding.

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Wouldn't even limit it to FATE grinding. This is true of basically all content day/week 1. Literally everything is chaotic at the start, full of players trying to rush through.

The lesson here is, if you don't enjoy the chaos, just wait until the chaos dies down. The event will be active for months. Come back next month when all the rushers have had their fill, and you'll find an entirely different landscape.

It's a marathon, not a sprint. You only have yourself to blame if you're tripping over everyone right out of the gate.

I won't say anything like this, I will say instead that maybe you should wait about 2 weeks before starting the event. We may like it or not, but players community tends to rush every single content we have here (and then whine after that they have nothing to do after being online for straight 48 hours without sleeping, but that's another topic). After initial hype falls down, there will be just few people running around doing the fates, and the closer it will be to 5.4, the lesser will be the amount (with another activity explosion right before new patch drops). Going into fates right now is equal to dooming yourself to see them being finished in 10 seconds. It's always like with every single event we have (and it was like this for 1st and 2nd Yokai-Watch runs as well), and I doubt there is anything we can change about it, because developers cannot change the way players consume the content without placing very hard restrictions like "playing 10 hours per day at max" and "can get only this amount of medals per day", which.... is a solution, but imagine the uproar if it ever happens, considering that people don't like weekly/daily restrictions as it is already.

Thinking you can solo Fate's during and event that requires players to farm them will just not happen. The event will go until 5.4 drops but you are not having it nearly as rough as players who can't yet fly in ARR zones.

The Yokai Watch event isn't the only thing in the game. In fact I skip the event every time it comes to FFXIV. There's so much other stuff that you could be doing you might as well forget the event is even a thing.

I say the same as i did in FC chat, there are 4 months or smt till the next patch hits MONTHS. If you decide to rush it now then its your choice... Its the same as on Hunt trains which go full speed atm and wont wait for anyone or anything - just do smt else and give it some weeks^^

Wait about a week, event will die off, zerg will be gone, most will prolly move on into the ishgard stuff.

Honestly, if BLU were subject to the same conditions as every other class in the game regarding low level fates (cannot use certain abilities that is, or have them nerfed to level accurate) then it would be a bit more fun, but seeing BLU show up in low level zones using primal moves from lvl 60 primals and stuff from the lvl 60 dungeons, it seriously makes me want to change zones every time I see them because even though I'm running MCH for these fates, if they're too low and I can't access my AoE, then I'm automatically having to play catchup with a BLU that's spamming say the two Chimera abilities.

Hopefully it does die off soon, I'd neglected this event the past couple of times but want to get it sorted this time, and would rather have a decent chance at silver or better without having to worry about some group running a BLU zerging fates down before I can even get to them, even with flying.

lol of all the things you could have resubscribed for it was the YOKAI EVENT!! Did you seriously type that?!??!

I don't think it is worth the time since the weapons and minions are ugly AF.

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Originally Posted by Puremallace

lol of all the things you could have resubscribed for it was the YOKAI EVENT!! Did you seriously type that?!??!

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im not a raider/or ex dungeon fan or whatever dungeon 80+ because i come here to play not come here to remembering my rotation or whatever,(and im not even white mage)

/inb4 PLH2PYCMF
/inb4 TAGOYAE1S/E2S OR WHATEVER E3/4/5S

so if i done story quest, i wanna do event, like hell i care about raiding...about gear i just bought treasure map and sell the mats and i got the money to buy neo-ishgardian gear

and yes im seriously done with dungeon mode and the people who act pro
im not a religious preacher who can remember all things and yet pro ask me to remember the skill rotation wtf?

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Originally Posted by Zebyxus

Honestly, if BLU were subject to the same conditions as every other class in the game regarding low level fates (cannot use certain abilities that is, or have them nerfed to level accurate) then it would be a bit more fun, but seeing BLU show up in low level zones using primal moves from lvl 60 primals and stuff from the lvl 60 dungeons, it seriously makes me want to change zones every time I see them because even though I'm running MCH for these fates, if they're too low and I can't access my AoE, then I'm automatically having to play catchup with a BLU that's spamming say the two Chimera abilities.

Hopefully it does die off soon, I'd neglected this event the past couple of times but want to get it sorted this time, and would rather have a decent chance at silver or better without having to worry about some group running a BLU zerging fates down before I can even get to them, even with flying.

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If you have access to it I suggest Dark Knight for the event as their aoe is level 6 and don't forget tank stance everytime you high enough to use it as aggro generation is a way to contribute to a fate.
The only fates Dark Knight will be useless are the low level ones where mobs spawn away for fate area like the lamb in noscea as you don't have range attack yet and ranged player will zerg them before they can be hit by any skill.
Also remember grit needs to be reapply every single time you sync.

I would agree about the flying in terms of the event but I like the event overall.

Was not fun then, no reason why it would be fun now.
I heard they buffed it a bit, which is great because I don't think people could handle the grind that it was back then anymore.
But SE forgot Blue mage existed so... yeah...

Just wait until it dies down and then do it, it's not going anywhere. Wait until you want to come back for either crafting stuff or the relic weapon then go out and do it on your own. You should like you're an extremely casual player so I don't know what you like doing in this game but there's plenty of time between now and 5.4.

Also Dynn, the new ones aren't too ugly. And Gunbreaker and Dancer actually get glam for once....

I'd suggest to do it while people are still farming it. It's the 2nd day and already the number of people dropped compared to the first day.

You don't want to wait too long or else you might end up farming fates solo. I did that in previous event for my last couple of weapons. It was horrible.

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Originally Posted by LittleAsian

-arrive at fate spot
-start killing
-come zerg
-zerg rush killing
-show middle finger behind the screen wall of computer

honestly, i just return subscribe 2 days ago just for this event and to enjoy the fun... now i kinda regret it, its better to support steam/valve...

i know, i know people will say... if you see drk cast aoe why dont roll drk
if blue can cast doom, why dont roll blue...
thats just plainly stupid statement....

now with flying in arr... this event become more no fun at all

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I went to the HW AND SB zones. not a complete zerg fest in those zones like the ARR zones.

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Originally Posted by LittleAsian

im not a raider/or ex dungeon fan or whatever dungeon 80+ because i come here to play not come here to remembering my rotation or whatever,(and im not even white mage)

/inb4 PLH2PYCMF
/inb4 TAGOYAE1S/E2S OR WHATEVER E3/4/5S

so if i done story quest, i wanna do event, like hell i care about raiding...about gear i just bought treasure map and sell the mats and i got the money to buy neo-ishgardian gear

and yes im seriously done with dungeon mode and the people who act pro
im not a religious preacher who can remember all things and yet pro ask me to remember the skill rotation wtf?

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Oh god why....

Doing this as a tank (with tank stance always on of course) makes it a lot easier to get a silver, and even a gold, in FATEs. I got all the minions, 4 weapons, and the normal sperm mount in like 2hrs, and i wasn't even in a party. Sure, there were many FATEs i wasn't able to reach before stuff got melted. But, as others already said, there's plenty of time before the end of this event, and also things will start to go slower next week, once those zergs get what they want

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Originally Posted by NanaWiloh

Thinking you can solo Fate's during and event that requires players to farm them will just not happen. The event will go until 5.4 drops but you are not having it nearly as rough as players who can't yet fly in ARR zones.

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This is rough. I have an alt that I was hitting up FATEs with to level Grand Company ranks but they don't have flying yet. I've pretty much given up on doing FATEs that don't spawn right in front of me.

I'll live, of course, it's just kinda funny seeing locusts descend on the map suddenly.

I enjoyed it then and now. I jump into a group and joke around and have. Best is grouping with my friends and fc mates and jump into VC and have some fun.

I still feel like it could be nice if they let treasure chests, beast tribes, and perhaps even leves give some related reward too. Still in the open world, still likely to see others, but also part of systems that allow far more planned spread and ownership of the content so you're not wrecked by blue mage, mass train, or flying when you can't fly. I separated blue from mass train because even once the content gets quiet a blue mage could still send certain FATEs into the gutter.

So you want to do an event that lasts for 3 months?
But you don't want to join the week 1 zerg?
Well do the math.

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Originally Posted by Wilford111

The Yokai Watch event isn't the only thing in the game. In fact I skip the event every time it comes to FFXIV. There's so much other stuff that you could be doing you might as well forget the event is even a thing.

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I can always imagine players seething, staring at their screens while screaming and bashing their hands on their desk as they would a steering wheel's horn because they can't get what they want the way they want it.

Adapt or die.

i'd rather kill myself then do fate farming with friends where 1 friend can get 10 legendary medallions in 10 fates while you've gotten 1 in the same party,
No thank you not for me.

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Originally Posted by MrSigy

i'd rather kill myself then do fate farming with friends where 1 friend can get 10 legendary medallions in 10 fates while you've gotten 1 in the same party,
No thank you not for me.

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Almost reminds me of atma farming lol

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Originally Posted by MsMisato

Almost reminds me of atma farming lol

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Atma farming before the nerfs...

https://media.giphy.com/media/14f7i886ytj56/giphy.gif

I was never the same after that.

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Originally Posted by MsMisato

Almost reminds me of atma farming lol

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Let's be real here. Atma farming was worse.

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Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth

Let's be real here. Atma farming was worse.

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A sh*tload of times worse actually. Pretty much the same for the Luminous Crystal farming. Drop rates for this event are nice and the amount of medals per weapon is very very fair

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Originally Posted by lolicon09

Drop rates for this event are nice and the amount of medals per weapon is very very fair

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I really wish I could agree with you... but having been farming Azim Steppe for the last 3 hours I am still 2 short on the GNB weapon. Drop rates in lower areas seems fine but in the Stormblood regions, the drop rate is absolutely atrocious!

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Originally Posted by ElianaGoldstein

I really wish I could agree with you... but having been farming Azim Steppe for the last 3 hours I am still 2 short on the GNB weapon. Drop rates in lower areas seems fine but in the Stormblood regions, the drop rate is absolutely atrocious!

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I got my dancer weapon from the FATEs in The Lochs and it didn't took more than 30 minutes. Just RNGesus being RNGesus, yet still better than in other situations