Zadnor - Weekly Challenge logs would have made the grind a bit more bearable

Remember those?

Those things that helped you level in Eureka? The things that SE apparently completely forgot existed in Bozja?

Since apparently we are having to gain and spend literal millions of mettle, a weekly bump would have been nice.

It could have also been a way to ensure that the Southern Front is populated or assisted in spawning CEs.

Here, I did you work for you. Simply add appropriate mettle:

"Defeat X number of rank I / II / III enemies in BSF"

"Defeat X number of Magitek enemies in BSF"

"Defeat X number of rank I / II / III enemies in Zadnor"

"Defeat X number of Magitek enemies in Zadnor"

"Complete 30 skirmishes"

"Complete 60 skirmishes"

"Complete 5 CEs"

"Complete 10 CEs"

"Complete CLL 3/5 times"

"Complete DR 3/5 times"

"Complete The Dalriada 3/5 times"

CLogs gave me a weekly goal to fulfill in Eureka and I completed it with joy.

No CLogs in Bozja, no checkbox to check, so I barely touch it.

Not specific to Bozja, but I definitely find Weekly Challenges compelling in other content. If I happen to do something that gets me 1/X or 2/X in one of my Weeklies I do tend to feel an urge to complete the challenge even if the reward itself isn't monumental. It's nice to get that extra little reward for the time spent.

grind in zadnor? what grind? i think they should have made us rank up to 25 as soon as we got the map achievement, without doing anything else




edit: or is that one of these many troll posts? they are everywhere. i cant tell anymore

I really like the idea of having a challenge log there. It would make the grinding more meaningful. Also, Creative Business Unit III please do something with the atrocious Field Note drop rate. It should be illegal at this point.

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Originally Posted by Asari5

grind in zadnor? what grind?

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^ This. lol I'd be okay with weekly challenges (heck, it's more gil so...) but I don't think they are necessary for Bozja at all.

I don't think the 'grind' is particularly bad this time around, really. I've been dipping into Zadnor for half an hour to an hour each evening, it's been less than a week since it went live and...I'm already max rank with the raid completed.

Even after going into the raid blind and dying a lot to the last two bosses the mettle gain easily offsets any losses upon successful completion.

That's not to say I would be opposed to a challenge log...I just don't think it's a necessity. Especially for content that's meant to last for the next six months.

Going from Rank 10 to Rank 25 in Zadnor is extremely quick and you could do it in a day or so. Just do 5 fates at most and you have ranked up. You really do not need a challenge log if you actually understand how easy it is.

The grind really isn't that bad, in a full time session of Zadnor I can get into two of the Daladra and do enough skirmishes/CEs to be close to a mettle turn in for the buffs.

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Originally Posted by Theodric

I don't think the 'grind' is particularly bad this time around, really. I've been dipping into Zadnor for half an hour to an hour each evening, it's been less than a week since it went live and...I'm already max rank with the raid completed.

Even after going into the raid blind and dying a lot to the last two bosses the mettle gain easily offsets any losses upon successful completion.

That's not to say I would be opposed to a challenge log...I just don't think it's a necessity. Especially for content that's meant to last for the next six months.

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Problem with after you reach max rank, proofs of mettle cost a whopping 20 million for 3 of them.

In context: That's 7 runs of The Delabria (7 hours or so) or 77 skirmishes in the rank 3 zone (at 261,000 mettle a skirmish) however long that would take you.

For 3 ranks of mettle. It has been estimated that it might take upwards of 600 million mettle to max everything out.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Problem with after you reach max rank, proofs of mettle cost a whopping 20 million for 3 of them.

In context: That's 7 runs of The Delabria (7 hours or so) or 77 skirmishes in the rank 3 zone (at 261,000 mettle a skirmish) however long that would take you.

For 3 ranks of mettle. It has been estimated that it might take upwards of 600 million mettle to max everything out.

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Between skirmishes, Dalriada and CEs it doesn't take as long as you claim per turn in. I would try doing more than one activity at once and educate yourself better as to how things work.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

Problem with after you reach max rank, proofs of mettle cost a whopping 20 million for 3 of them.

In context: That's 7 runs of The Delabria (7 hours or so) or 77 skirmishes in the rank 3 zone (at 261,000 mettle a skirmish) however long that would take you.

For 3 ranks of mettle. It has been estimated that it might take upwards of 600 million mettle to max everything out.

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The mettle buffs were never meant to be a short term grind. Though personally it's not that bad; if I really try in a instance of Zadnor that i stay the full time,I can get that 20 million or close, and that includes two runs of the Delibra so I'm also getting stuff for the last step of the relic, as well as a chance to get the raptor mount to sell/give to a friend (I got one myself) and more coins for the xii based gear. Would be nice if the weekly quest to do both CLL and The D gave more mettle then it does but the buffs are pretty much optional to begin with.

Mettle grind isn't bad but some challenge logs for defeating higher rank mobs (IV and V) could be incentivised aside fragments.

A major downside of Bozja is that it won't matter how much you fill with random non robot enemies, it does not help the monsters have no weaknesses in terms of type of damage so you mostly bring Lost Death or the new Lost Assassination.

I do not remember logs being a thing for eureka because it took awhile for them to see that grind was so bad it really needed them. Especially when you divide the playerbase for it across 4 zones.

The bozja grind in zadnor is fast, even at rank 25. I have 10 stacks of valor and I will say it doesnt take that long given that honors are a reward for sticking with the content. If they made it any easier to get them the content would be dead faster than ever.

Update to the estimate, it will be far greater than 600mil total, thats how much for a single maxed honor.

Sratch that im bad at math. In total it wilk take 30 proofs to from 0 to 10 in one which is about 200mil.

But getting mettle is still really quick regardless

I am taking my sweet time in Zadnor since this thing needs to last me 6 months and I am already rank 24. Eureka needed challenge log quest because it was a pure grind fest. Go here grind stuff...go there grind stuff.