Island Sanctuary.... hmmm

I was hopeful to see an update, until I realised have to get to level 12 with practically nothing to earn XP except gathering. 42000 xp at 10 a pop? 4200 items to get to 11, lord knows how many for 12... No quest to assist?


Does SE really think this is engaging gameplay? Banging things 8-10 thousand times?


someone please tell me I'm wrong and I am missing something.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

someone please tell me I'm wrong and I am missing something.

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You gain exp more or less passively by caring for your animals, plants and the workshop.

It is not meant to be grinded out just by gathering.

But of course you have the option to grind to get the new stuff immediately.

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Originally Posted by Tint

You gain exp more or less passively by caring for your animals, plants and the workshop.

It is not meant to be grinded out just by gathering.

But of course you have the option to grind to get the new stuff immediately.

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Crafting items (traps/feed/etc) can also give you some additional XP.

It's time to eat them summit's rocks, comrades!

(I'm rank 11 now thanks to that and saving 3 days workshop)

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Originally Posted by Tint

You gain exp more or less passively by caring for your animals, plants and the workshop.

It is not meant to be grinded out just by gathering.

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I have those on auto, but not to get too excited they only offer 20 xp a piece and a limited amount per day, just a few hundred extra XP. I had no idea you got XP from the workshop though, thought that was just the cowries.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

I have those on auto, but not to get too excited they only offer 20 xp a piece and a limited amount per day, just a few hundred extra XP. I had no idea you got XP from the workshop though, thought that was just the cowries.

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It's a first and foremost source of exp. Half of a level in one day, and that's without gathering in a wild. Just gathered animal and crop materials and grabbed my sweet cowries from C5-C7.

IS ranks are earned slowly over time by doing stuff on the island, you're not supposed to max the whole thing in a few hours. Sure, you can gather thousands of mats if you're impatient, have fun with that, lol.

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Originally Posted by Tint

You gain exp more or less passively by caring for your animals, plants and the workshop.

It is not meant to be grinded out just by gathering.

But of course you have the option to grind to get the new stuff immediately.

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Not when the collection is automated ><

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

I was hopeful to see an update, until I realised have to get to level 12 with practically nothing to earn XP except gathering. 42000 xp at 10 a pop? 4200 items to get to 11, lord knows how many for 12... No quest to assist?


Does SE really think this is engaging gameplay? Banging things 8-10 thousand times?


someone please tell me I'm wrong and I am missing something.

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For those looking to relax, it is engaging gameplay. They'll get their levels a little at a time as they feel like working on their Sanctuary.

For those who like to rush to max level then complain about a lack of things to do, Island Sanctuary was never intended to be satisfying content. As YoshiP said, some players have no idea how to relax.

There's no need to rush through this content so why rush?

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

For those looking to relax, it is engaging gameplay. They'll get their levels a little at a time as they feel like working on their Sanctuary.

For those who like to rush to max level then complain about a lack of things to do, Island Sanctuary was never intended to be satisfying content. As YoshiP said, some players have no idea how to relax.

There's no need to rush through this content so why rush?

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Oh here we go again. IS is such a barebones gathering/clicking simulator that it's just not fun for many people. Heaven forbid we get in and out as quickly as possible so we can move onto things we actually do enjoy.

You don't get to decide what is relaxing to me, YoshiP doesn't get to decide what I consider relaxing, *I* get to decide what is relaxing to me.

Anyhoo, I got my shinies, so I guess I'm off to go complain about a lack of content now! ::eyeroll::

Is there even anything worthwhile in the new 2 ranks?

If the island doesn't expand, I'll probably ignore it.

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Originally Posted by ThaCa

Is there even anything worthwhile in the new 2 ranks?

If the island doesn't expand, I'll probably ignore it.

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There is a new tool that lets you gather a few new items and a new landmark you can build eventually, but no expansions. As for rewards, those are gonna be subjective, but they are:

• 3 new outfits (2 beach garb sets from cowries, 3rd is from a quest at rank 12)
• A new mount
  (alligator)
• A new landmark item (but no new location to put it)

There were also several new items to purchase with cowries that should be available at rank 10, so be sure to check the mammet :)

Workshops are your best source of XP for your island. Just set up a weeks worth of crafts, come back to after the 5 days of crafting to claim the cowries and XP, then setup next weeks crafts.

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

Does SE really think this is engaging gameplay? Banging things 8-10 thousand times?

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Isn't that what every roleplayer on Balmung does?

There was no content update for Island Sanctuary.

You buy all the rewards with your cowries that you saved in advance. Then return to passively clicking "collect" a few times for materials once a day and loading up teamcraft to tell you how to set up your workshop. The gameplay is identical to previous patch. Levels, materials, new things to gather, they all add nothing.

Would anyone be willing to please tell me what the new gathering items are? I'm missing one and not sure what it is. I hit every tree I could think of but am still missing one. Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Amariel34

Would anyone be willing to please tell me what the new gathering items are? I'm missing one and not sure what it is. I hit every tree I could think of but am still missing one. Thank you.

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Coconut, resin, beehive chip, wood opal. All from the existing types of different trees.

There’s also the flowers that require flying.

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Originally Posted by Amariel34

I'm missing one and not sure what it is.

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New materials are from:

Tualong Trees, Palm Trees, Apple Trees, Mahogany Trees.

+ new flower; found some south, requires flight.

I think the flowers might be just on all of the ledges that require flight? I found them on the Small Spring ledge on the mountain.

Ah, it must be the flower I'm missing. Thank you all. :)

That place is so boring, I still haven't set foot back in. Plus the rewards this time around are mostly ugly. The visor ruins the one thing that could have been nice too: the glasses.

Do we get a new glam at lvl 12?

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Originally Posted by SturmChurro

That place is so boring, I still haven't set foot back in. Plus the rewards this time around are mostly ugly. The visor ruins the one thing that could have been nice too: the glasses.

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I've changed my stance on the visor. I didn't love it when I was only previewing it on EC, but I actually kinda like it on my character. I would still love to have those sunglasses as a standalone item as well though. :P

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

I've changed my stance on the visor. I didn't love it when I was only previewing it on EC, but I actually kinda like it on my character. I would still love to have those sunglasses as a standalone item as well though. :P

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Maybe for a joke glam. The glasses would be best as a standalone item. If it was just the visor, it wouldn't be so bad, but they ruined a perfectly good pair of sunglasses!

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Originally Posted by SassyAssassin

Do we get a new glam at lvl 12?

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There's a set called "Isle Shepherd" that is a quest reward, so I assume it is from finishing the upgrade here.

https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/g...isle-shepherds

Regrettably nice and I may be tempted to run this dreary content on more characters. This is a miserable place to pin so many glamours to.

so far am a rank 10 master of my island with over 200k in cowies and halfway to rank 11 my island covers the rest of the exp i need to rank up.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

There's a set called "Isle Shepherd" that is a quest reward, so I assume it is from finishing the upgrade here.

https://ffxiv.eorzeacollection.com/g...isle-shepherds

Regrettably nice and I may be tempted to run this dreary content on more characters. This is a miserable place to pin so many glamours to.

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That looks really nice actually!
Besides the annoyance now to level up again, island sanctuary really only takes a few minutes for only one day of the week once you get everything rolling and let your mammets do the work, you won’t even need to gather anything yourself anymore and you can make a profit or even just keep a bunch of goodies for yourself such as materias and dyes. Really annoying at first but super easy after.

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Originally Posted by SassyAssassin

That looks really nice actually!
Besides the annoyance now to level up again, island sanctuary really only takes a few minutes for only one day of the week once you get everything rolling and let your mammets do the work, you won’t even need to gather anything yourself anymore and you can make a profit or even just keep a bunch of goodies for yourself such as materias and dyes. Really annoying at first but super easy after.

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This, really. I am not a fan of the systems they have in place for the island, but once you hit level 10 initially and have all the upgrades, it's pretty easy to get to a point where you can automate the full thing and rarely have to leave your base camp, possibly never depending on how hard you are going on the cowrie farming.

There is an IS discord group that is tremendously helpful and has guides for setting up a mostly hands-off system (you would need to set the workshop every two weeks), or if you're wanting to max out things, they have recommendations/guides for that as well (to the point where they will give you the daily req for the highest gain, no thinking needed!).

But yeah, there are plenty of other threads discussing the quality of IS, and this post isn't meant to address that...just trying to let you know there are resources out there that can help make farming up that outfit far less painful in the long-run.

What are the two new vegetable seeds? They're the only new materials I'm missing. I'll get the three new animals if I'm on my island at the right times.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

What are the two new vegetable seeds? They're the only new materials I'm missing. I'll get the three new animals if I'm on my island at the right times.

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I can't recall what they were off-hand, but both of the seeds are purchased from the mammet.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

I can't recall what they were off-hand, but both of the seeds are purchased from the mammet.

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The two new ones? Do you have to be rank 11? Cause I know they don't appear at 10.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

The two new ones? Do you have to be rank 11? Cause I know they don't appear at 10.

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Yes, sorry! They do require being level 11.

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Originally Posted by Skivvy

Yes, sorry! They do require being level 11.

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Ahh ok so as long as I remember to poke my island I'll unlock them at some point. It is odd that they gave us yet another monument but no place to put it. Course I still would like to move the two worskshop/granery buildings to where last workshop/granery + monument is and have that area be taken up by the moved monument. As I'd actually think of making the water fountain if it could be in the "plaza" area. I do like the handicrafts menus change. It's so much easier to figure things out if you want to do that on your own.

Finally after alot of eating rocks, I got rank 12 and got the Alligator. It's so big on Roegadyn :eek:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...qcT5oHKZgK.png

this shit content makes me want to bot. even something as simple as giving ten xp per material gathered would make it less of a chore (and give a sense of progression besides as they give us better tools).

also lol, rock salt is still a miserable grind

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

Finally after alot of eating rocks, I got rank 12 and got the Alligator. It's so big on Roegadyn :eek:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...qcT5oHKZgK.png

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Look at that majestic beast. ( not talking about the mount btw)

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Originally Posted by Wyssahtyn

this shit content makes me want to bot. even something as simple as giving ten xp per material gathered would make it less of a chore (and give a sense of progression besides as they give us better tools).

also lol, rock salt is still a miserable grind

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It's less of a grind when you let the mammets handle everything. I'm at ~32 / 42k towards 11 today from mostly workshop and two crop harvests. I'll be damned if I don't make use of all the stuff I've been collecting from them. :D

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Originally Posted by XiXiQ

Does SE really think this is engaging gameplay? Banging things 8-10 thousand times?

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https://i.ibb.co/856gJmH/roshi.png