Treasure Hunting is Broken

[ArkhamNative]

Eh I don't know, I think 5myth for a few seconds battle are pretty rewarding alone...for the rest I'm also very grateful about the shards. Anything else is just...better then nothing?

It's about 3 myth per day, regardless of how short the battle is. For peisteskin maps it may be a little more, and you could do up to one map per person per day. But still, the good drops are not at all frequent. I've seen 1 blue fox hide and zero minions. On the completely opposite extreme, even new & exotic HQ mat drops are so frequent they've driven resale prices to nothing.

[Aura_Shurifon]

I've won up to 15 myth with 1 peisteskin map.
We usually loot map and do them all together with my FC (even solo lvl40 maps ^^) we let the random do its business for drops and everyone is happy. When we do 4-6 maps in less than 20 mins and get up to 60 myth, I think it's a good gift, as said before, other drops are just icing on the cake ^^

The strange thing is, some peisteskin maps have 1 solo easy boss with great loot (15 myth) and other have like 1 hard boss + 4-8 hard adds for meh loot (1-5 myth and laughable NQ materials).
By the way, the later are not that easy with 4 people, low ilvl and bad composition... You need a tank and a healer. If you go all out DPS with understuffed team, wipe is possible >__< (happened once, ashamed, we were TT__TT)

[Dozer]

Somewhat of an aside, but word on the street is that the rewards and difficulty scales to the number of people that do the fight. Has anyone heard this and/or has any supporting data?

Edit: I actually found a thread that seems to indicate party size has nothing to do with the loot drops. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Rewards/page1

[rkpost]

I use a LS in order to hunt. We collect 3, 4, up to 6 peiskin maps in row. Rewards are random, but if you do a lot of maps with a group, everybody win.

[whiskeybravo]

Yea you don't need a full party, a fairly well equipped light party will do just fine. I'm in a treasure hunting LS as well, and everyone there seems to agree that the loot drops regardless of party size, what's increased is gil. Just in the maps I've done with the FC and LS, 4-5 people get about 1600 gil, 6 or more 5000 gil each. Just my experience.

[Lemon8or]

The rewards are random. I've done plenty of maps with 8 people and sometimes it gives 1692 gil, sometimes it gives 5076 gil (3 times as much).

[whiskeybravo]

Damn RNG lol

[Tlamila]

I've won up to 15 myth with 1 peisteskin map.
We usually loot map and do them all together with my FC (even solo lvl40 maps ^^)
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The strange thing is, some peisteskin maps have 1 solo easy boss with great loot (15 myth) and other have like 1 hard boss + 4-8 hard adds for meh loot (1-5 myth and laughable NQ materials).
By the way, the later are not that easy with 4 people, low ilvl and bad composition... You need a tank and a healer. If you go all out DPS with understuffed team, wipe is possible >__< (happened once, ashamed, we were TT__TT)

Yeah, I usually always got the Peiste boss, easy and 5myth. The other day did 2 maps ina row, first was I don't remember what Alpha thing still easy enough and gave 15myth and 5k gil. To compensate after we got the Coeurl Alphs with all its adds, and while we didn't die, we ran out of time when he was almost dead <.< So a map wasted. The annoying thing is you can't retry. (Btw we are a WHM and a SCH,my chocobo is supposed to be the tank but I tank better it seems <.<)
The 3 myth....never got less then 5 myself so far.

[ArkhamNative]

A group of 5 (and 3 chocobo buddies) did 4 maps (probably 3 peisteskin and one boarskin).
For the combined total:
The good news: 50 myth & 16920 gil currency drops for each party member.
The hidden good news: Total 11410 gil plus 9200 in shards. Also 2 untradable item drops that NPC for ~150 each. May drops included lots of ~30 gil items, but some ~500 gil and a few ~1500 gil items (MB prices).
The bad news: zero blue fox hide, minion drops, or anything else rare/pricey.

Divide by 4 and you get an average per map of 12 myth & 4k gil, plus 5k gil in misc drops. I suppose that's not very broken, on average. Except the lack of minions, of course.

OT: I didn't mind the looting of gear. The party seemed to assume it belonged to the map owner by rights, and random drops to whoever got them, though people asked if anyone wanted any of the drops, including loot.

[aray0002]

Only the peisteskin maps are required to have a FULL PARTY of 8 to open the coffer.
You can not start the fight with anything less than 8.
That in mind.. Chocobo's count as members so a min. of 4 actual players are required.

Any other map : leather , toad and boarskin are all solo maps. you can decipher and dig these by yourself.

So back to the peisteskin map: So the lot of you that comment on this thread... would agree.. you join the hunt offer nothing in return other than your time and deserve to get the /rare loot? I understand that gil and other items get split among everybody.

but the /rare loot > Blue Bird minion that sells for 500,000 should be just randomly given away ? I took the time to level a Gathering class to 50 and then farmed away at level 50 nodes for sometimes 30 min or longer to get the peisteskin map to pop. Yet it's ok to lose this /rare drop to someone because they are a place holder ? Whatever..