Obnoxious FC Chest locations.

Hello there, I have a grievance I'd like to try and address.

I don't have many grievances with this game, moreover ones that I'd want to try and address by posting on the forums. I want to bring it to SQENIX's attention that for four expansions we haven't gotten a city that has an FC chest. Forcing anyone who would like to access an FC chest who doesn't have a house which we all know is an extremely expensive, time-consuming, and unrealistic goal for the overwhelming majority of players to achieve; to pay full price to teleport to Ul-Dah, Gridania, Limsa Lominsa, or Kugane. Now up until recently, this hasn't been a horribly bad problem with the rates of teleportation being reasonable. As of now with level 2 FC buffs, it's costing 1200 Gil to teleport to and from Old Sharlayan. I'm genuinely not sure if this is an oversight or an intentional design, but it seems a little ridiculous to make the FC chest so arbitrarily inaccessible unless you own an personal, or an FC house. I'm really not sure if I've posted this in the correct forum, if not I apologize, but I just am really looking for an answer as to why every single new city in the game post-ARR Doesn't have an FC chest.

Side note: I'd also like to see an addition of an FC chest in the Firmament, as it has market boards, and summoning bells as well, but that's a 2nd priority to just having one accessible in the primary markets.

I think you can buy GC teleport for seals, something like 2k per one ticket.
https://i.imgur.com/S3m1gqt.png

For 500k you can get an apartment and place an fc chest that only you can access. Not the perfect solution, but it works the same as you individually going to a town to get into your fc chest at a grand company. Costs the same to tele to that as it would an fc house or house in which ever housing district.

Also Kugane has an fc chest. But yuck, Kugane

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Originally Posted by Miracle_Diva

I think you can buy GC teleport for seals, something like 2k per one ticket.

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The GC Rank required to buy these seals is quite high, it's First Lieutenant and it's not always the most easily farmable content. Particularly at the higher ranks. First Lieutenant requires you to have A rank 3 adventurer squadron, which is just not very accessible at all.

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Originally Posted by Sauteed

For 500k you can get an apartment and place an FC chest that only you can access. Not the perfect solution, but it works the same as you individually going to a town to get into your FC chest at a grand company. Costs the same to teleport to that as it would an FC house or house in whichever housing district.

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Yeah, this is still a really high pricepoint to require a player to buy into being able to have access to their own FC Chest, and still returning to Sharlayan costs 1200 Gil per run. You can only return once every 15 mins. The whole point of this is making the FC Chest accessible. I just don't see a reason not to put one in Ishgard/Crystarium/Sharlayan

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Originally Posted by Sauteed

Also Kugane has an FC chest. But yuck, Kugane

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I didn't even notice this. It seems even more arbitrarily obnoxious knowing that for some reason, that Kugane has an FC chest. The only thing that I can think of is the fact that it has a housing district, and it makes it equally accessible for players who can and can't buy a house. Kugane and Ishgard are Cities from over four years ago. Just make FC chests more accessible for everyone. There's absolutely no reason not to.

Why not TP to your FC?

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Originally Posted by Seraphor

Why not TP to your FC?

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Did you read all the posts and responses? I definitely answered this question in my quote replies. From my perspective, it seems to me like you're missing the point. No offense intended. Maybe elaborate on what you mean exactly?

You have 1 free teleport destination and 1 free return every 30 minutes, on top of the 3 (4 if you register for the app) favorite destinations that offer discounted teleportation fees.

Assign Limsa as your free teleport and then use return to teleport back to Old Sharlayan. Doesn't this suffice?

Inaccessible?
That would mean that the player would have to go drastic lengths to get to one.
You simply have to TP to a town and then walk/run/aetheryte to get to one.
it's not inaccessible by any means.

You can:

1. Register a Reduced Rate destination at the place you access your FC chest from (click the main aetheryte and it should be below Set Home Point; edit, it's called Register Favoured Destination).
2. Perhaps use Reduced Rates FC buffs.
3. Sorry if I didn't see this in previous responses - if your FC has a home go to the Travel menu button -> Teleport -> Free Company Estate whose teleport is quite cheap. Probably could put the chest there.
4. Use aetheryte tickets. You can get those for GC Seals (2,000) or with Recruit a Friend (RAF gives 99). One of the level 40-50 weekly Squadron missions give Priority Aetheryte Passes if you succeed which reduces teleportation costs.
5. Got any Waking Sands teleports left? :p

There is one in Rhalgr's Reach as well, it's over near the scrip people. Kind of behind them near the hill that leads to the Fringes. Somewhat out of the way, but it's there, not too far from a retainer bell.

Edit: Also, if the 1200 cost for teleporting to the chest is a bit much, if you have excess hunt seals you can get aetherite tickets to offset the cost. Not to mention doing a roulette or two a day will keep you in positive gil gain. Do your Doman Enclave stuff and you get 40k a week just from handing in trash items(Allagan Silver pieces give 1k each once it's maxed out, so only need 40 of them a week...which is easy if you send retainers on 18hr ventures if you won't be on for that long), as well as challenge log, and basically any content. You shouldn't be going negative unless all you do is sit there and stare at the market board without being actively trying to gain gil

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

I want to bring it to SQENIX's attention that for four expansions we haven't gotten a city that has an FC chest. Forcing anyone who would like to access an FC chest who doesn't have a house which we all know is an extremely expensive, time-consuming, and unrealistic goal for the overwhelming majority of players to achieve; .

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You can put a fc chest in an apartment. You don't need a house. I'm not saying 500k is cheap but apartments are easily available on every server. The only thing stopping you is your own gil.

EDIT: teleportation to residences is still quite cheap from the EW zones. Far cheaper than teleporting to the cities near those residences.

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

The GC Rank required to buy these seals is quite high, it's First Lieutenant and it's not always the most easily farmable content. Particularly at the higher ranks. First Lieutenant requires you to have A rank 3 adventurer squadron, which is just not very accessible at all.

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So you want an easy solution then?
1200 gil is not that much, unless you love to stay by your chest and TP like 50 times or so, our FC is so cheap we agreed to keep the TP buff on most of the time, reducing the fee by a bit. You can set destinations as favorite, also reducing the fee. Register your companion app and get one more favorite slot.

I highly recommed you start working on your squad. Have them train for "free" every hour until they reach level 50.You will also get emotes from doing this. And a team of NPC to take your dps jobs to level without queue, altough slightly slower.

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Originally Posted by Xrystofer

You have 1 free teleport destination and 1 free return every 30 minutes, on top of the 3 (4 if you register for the app) favorite destinations that offer discounted teleportation fees.

Assign Limsa as your free teleport and then use return to teleport back to Old Sharlayan. Doesn't this suffice?

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This is probably the best solution so far, but it seems like a lot of loading screens. This is currently what I do, but I still find it's a pain in the booty. I think this solution is unnecessarily cumbersome, requiring the players to occupy their favored teleportations only to access an FC chest rather than to access out-of-the-way content that's playable at a large range of levels.(PotD/Hoh, Firmament, Etc.)

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Originally Posted by Evergrey

Inaccessible?
That would mean that the player would have to go to drastic lengths to get to one.
You simply have to TP to a town and then walk/run/aetheryte to get to one.
it's not inaccessible by any means.

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This reply seems to be contradicting itself and doesn't take any of the specifics I've mentioned in my post into account. You don't seem to understand that I'm simply asking that an FC chest be added in each major city including Ishgard, Cystarium, and Sharlayan (as someone earlier mentioned there is one in Kugane) for ease of access to people who Don't have houses. Because I find it difficult only to access FC Chests in Ul'Dah, Gridania, Limsa, and Kugane.

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Originally Posted by RobynDaBank

You can:

1. Register a Reduced Rate destination at the place you access your FC chest from (click the main aetheryte and it should be below Set Home Point; edit, it's called Register Favoured Destination).
2. Perhaps use Reduced Rates FC buffs.
3. Sorry if I didn't see this in previous responses - if your FC has a home go to the Travel menu button -> Teleport -> Free Company Estate whose teleport is quite cheap. Probably could put the chest there.
4. Use aetheryte tickets. You can get those for GC Seals (2,000) or with Recruit a Friend (RAF gives 99). One of the level 40-50 weekly Squadron missions give Priority Aetheryte Passes if you succeed which reduces teleportation costs.
5. Got any Waking Sands teleports left? :p

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1. A previous post made this suggestion and this is the current solution I have already implemented. This requires a lot of loading screens and that takes a lot of unnecessary time. I really think the optimal solution here is adding more FC Chests in all the large major cities as it makes sense to do so.

2. I do use reduce rate FC buffs, it still costs 1200 Gil to go from Sharlyan to just about anywhere and
You guys really need to read things before you reply.

3. I've already established parameters that my FC doesn't have a house, and I'm trying to make the FC chest more accessible for the large player base that doesn't have access to the housing market. Please be respectful and conscientious when leaving replies. It's really rude to just throw things in, and ignore the actual attention I'm trying to give this issue.

4. I've already mentioned that the 2k seals from the GC require a rank of First Lieutenant with the GC which subsequently requires the player have an adventurer squadron that is rank 3 which is takes a lot of time to unlock and again, isn't Acessible.

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Originally Posted by PharisHanasaki

So you want an easy solution then?
1200 gil is not that much, unless you love to stay by your chest and TP like 50 times or so, our FC is so cheap we agreed to keep the TP buff on most of the time, reducing the fee by a bit. You can set destinations as favorite, also reducing the fee. Register your companion app and get one more favorite slot.

I highly recommed you start working on your squad. Have them train for "free" every hour until they reach level 50.You will also get emotes from doing this. And a team of NPC to take your dps jobs to level without queue, altough slightly slower.

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Sure I can do all that, and it's a valid solution. It just still doesn't really answer the question as to why FC Chests are so difficult to access. Why do you have to have a house, or get your adventurer squadron up to rank 3, and do all these things? It's just a Guild Bank. You should be able to access your guild's bank in any major city bare minimum. I've played other MMO's and this is the only one that unusually makes Guild Banks so difficult to access.

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

Sure I can do all that, and it's a valid solution. It just still doesn't really answer the question as to why FC Chests are so difficult to access. Why do you have to have a house, or get your adventurer squadron up to rank 3, and do all these things? It's just a Guild Bank. You should be able to access your guild's bank in any major city bare minimum. I've played other MMO's and this is the only one that unusually makes Guild Banks so difficult to access.

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You don't have to get your squadron up to rank 3, or do anything out of the ordinary to access your chest. Not even owning a house.

You are asking for solutions to your problem of the teleport fee. You got them, but now were rude for not giving a satisfactory answer. Use your return spell on a major city with a chest, and save Old Sharlayan as your favorite destination to get a discount when going back.

There's no chest in the Crystarium for obvious plot reasons. Ishgard is the same.

There is a ferry for 300Gil to Sharlayan from limsa. Teleport to the arcanist guild and it's right there past the ferry counter on the right as you exit.
There is a free teleport to Thavnair from Sharlayan in the house west of the main Aetheryte, talk to the lady who sent you on the experimental teleport in the beginning.
There is a free teleport to the final zone from Labyrinthos, if you don't wish to fly all the way there it's 70 gil to teleport to the nearest Aetheryte from the labyrinthos destination when taken from Sharlayan


You can reduce your teleportation prices if you wish, you just have to plan routes and be willing to spend a few more seconds flying.


Any other problems?

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

There is a ferry for 300Gil to Sharlayan from limsa. Teleport to the arcanist guild and it's right there past the ferry counter on the right as you exit.
There is a free teleport to Thavnair from Sharlayan in the house west of the main Aetheryte, talk to the lady who sent you on the experimental teleport in the beginning.
There is a free teleport to the final zone from Labyrinthos, if you don't wish to fly all the way there it's 70 gil to teleport to the nearest Aetheryte from the labyrinthos destination when taken from Sharlayan


You can reduce your teleportation prices if you wish, you just have to plan routes and be willing to spend a few more seconds flying.


Any other problems?

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That really does help reduce the cost without having all my teleports revolve around banking. I still think that having to take a boat to another city and go back and forth between the loading screens is unnecessarily complicated and that it could be streamlined with a QoL change where u just have FC chests in all major cities. A change like this wouldn't have like deep implications either. It wouldn't profoundly change the markets and stuff. Just makes things streamline and acessible. Any city that has a marektboard and a summoning bell, definitely should have an FC Chest.

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Originally Posted by PharisHanasaki

You don't have to get your squadron up to rank 3, or do anything out of the ordinary to access your chest. Not even owning a house.

You are asking for solutions to your problem of the teleport fee. You got them, but now were rude for not giving a satisfactory answer. Use your return spell on a major city with a chest, and save Old Sharlayan as your favorite destination to get a discount when going back.

There's no chest in the Crystarium for obvious plot reasons. Ishgard is the same.

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In order to purchase the GC aetheryte tickets, yes you do. In order the buy the 2k aetheryte tickets to your GC HQ. You must be the rank of First Lieutenant, and first lieutenant requires a rank 3 squadron.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...m/eed05181c31/

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Grand_Company

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

That really does help reduce the cost without having all my teleports revolve around banking. I still think that having to take a boat to another city and go back and forth between the loading screens is unnecessarily complicated and that it could be streamlined with a QoL change where u just have FC chests in all major cities. A change like this wouldn't have like deep implications either. It wouldn't profoundly change the markets and stuff. Just makes things streamline and acessible. Any city that has a marektboard and a summoning bell, definitely should have an FC Chest.

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I figure there is a reason, otherwise the FC chest would be there. It's possibly because it's another connection to FC information which may not have been a great idea or possibly they WANT people back in certain cities most of the time for things.


But off the top of my head, if we're just talking "why not have one" , I can't personally think of a reason... but I have spent a lot of time figuring out the cheapest ways to get places as well as the best "free" destinations to register, so it's a non issue for myself. I'm not playing this game on second to second margins. I can afford a couple loading zones and it's not really all that inconvenient... in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

In order to purchase the GC aetheryte tickets, yes you do. In order the buy the 2k aetheryte tickets to your GC HQ. You must be the rank of First Lieutenant, and first lieutenant requires a rank 3 squadron.

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General purpose (non-GC) Aetheryte tickets are far more affordable at 5 Allied seals each. You can get 100 for ARR Elite bills which were trivially soloable at 80. If you're a hardcore traveller, spin up BLU to the point where you get the weekly log.

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Originally Posted by Krotoan

I figure there is a reason, otherwise the FC chest would be there. It's possibly because it's another connection to FC information which may not have been a great idea or possibly they WANT people back in certain cities most of the time for things.


But off the top of my head, if we're just talking "why not have one" , I can't personally think of a reason... but I have spent a lot of time figuring out the cheapest ways to get places as well as the best "free" destinations to register, so it's a non issue for myself. I'm not playing this game on second to second margins. I can afford a couple loading zones and it's not really all that inconvenient... in my opinion.

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I think that depends on your hardware. Loading screens are really bad if you have sub-par hardware. I don't necessarily think there is a reason, I think it's just an oversight TBH.

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Originally Posted by GeminiReed

General purpose (non-GC) Aetheryte tickets are far more affordable at 5 Allied seals each. You can get 100 for ARR Elite bills which were trivially soloable at 80. If you're a hardcore traveller, spin up BLU to the point where you get the weekly log.

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I'll look into these, although Maxxing blue still seems a little inaccessible, But the allied seals may not be so inaccessible. I'm glad people have provided so many useful and creative suggestions. Ultimately I would just like to be able to use my FC chest at any major market, and I generally think that it would be just better.

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Originally Posted by GeminiReed

General purpose (non-GC) Aetheryte tickets are far more affordable at 5 Allied seals each. You can get 100 for ARR Elite bills which were trivially soloable at 80. If you're a hardcore traveller, spin up BLU to the point where you get the weekly log.

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I agree with this. It is super easy, only have to do it once a week (or really whenever you feel like it after a point).

It's what I've been doing. Occasionally hit up all the B rank hunts(AAR, HW, SB), then turn all the seals you get for those into aetheryte tickets(at your GC, or in Ishgard). I haven't touched any of those hunts for over a month now, and I still have over 400 aethreyte tickets, and I use them on basically anything over 500g.

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Originally Posted by J3WD4Z

This reply seems to be contradicting itself and doesn't take any of the specifics I've mentioned in my post into account. You don't seem to understand that I'm simply asking that an FC chest be added in each major city including Ishgard, Cystarium, and Sharlayan (as someone earlier mentioned there is one in Kugane) for ease of access to people who Don't have houses. Because I find it difficult only to access FC Chests in Ul'Dah, Gridania, Limsa, and Kugane.

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It's not contradicting itself however.
I simply clearified that it's not, as you said in your post, inaccessible.
Inconvenient perhaps but not inaccessible.
And it's not difficult either.
Not sure what's so difficult to TP and run.
Doesn't even take a minute.
And if they were to add FC Chests in any of the other major towns you'd still have to TP and run just like you do now.
What this all boils down to is the Teleportation costs.
Not that it's either inaccessible or difficult.

I've always thought it odd that FC chests aren't in all the locations which have MB and summoning bells. For me, it's Foundation and the Crystarium that really stand out and it would be great to have chests there.

It's interesting that Rhalgr's Reach has one because that seems so random, considering the larger cities where they chose not to place them. Kugane makes sense, though.

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Originally Posted by SugarPuff

I've always thought it odd that FC chests aren't in all the locations which have MB and summoning bells. For me, it's Foundation and the Crystarium that really stand out and it would be great to have chests there.

It's interesting that Rhalgr's Reach has one because that seems so random, considering the larger cities where they chose not to place them. Kugane makes sense, though.

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Me too, I really think the Firmament could stand to gain one as well.