Sightseeing...

[Mysteltain]

I love the idea, but yeah, this wasn't implemented well. Honestly, I don't see why every location requires a very specific time of day as well as weather, especially when the clues will hint at one or the other, rarely both, and sometimes at neither. Just as an example: how the hell was I supposed to know to go to Seasong Grotto at dawn for the third location? The story is very specific about everything else: the spot is in a cave, it's raining, and the previous visitor paid his respects to the dead. That tells me location, weather, and heavily hints at which gesture to use, but it never once tells me the time. Turned out it was dawn because... search me, they never mentioned time of day.

This also applies to the first and second locations. The second story tells of a drunkard who got into a bad situation with some pirates, and found himself hanging by his ankles come morning. So I know that he was on a pirate ship, it was morning, and he was facing Limsa which was to the east. I assume that the weather should be either clear or fair since he was awakened by the rising sun, but heck if I know which one works until the weather actually is either of them. Even then, it could also be during the nighttime as well, since the story mentions how he came upon this ship during the "dead of night", at which point I have a time but no clue as to the weather. If it was a 50/50 chance at day or night, then it'd be interesting to see which worked, but as it is there are just too many variables to justify which one works best.

The first story does this as well: the merchant sees three warships below him with red sails under the blue sky. I know what to look for, that I'll be at a high vantage point, and that it's daytime with clear skies. But it's not actually clear skies, it's "fair" weather that I'm looking for, as I heard from a few others who were waiting in the same spot. But knowing that still doesn't solve the issue that this only works at a specific time of the day; does 'daytime' mean from sunrise to sunset? Or does it mean between morning and evening? I guess it's the latter, but that doesn't change the fact that both types of weather and both interpretations of 'daytime' can apply, but only one works.

I really think it was a good idea for them to add this, and I love puzzling through each story to figure out the clues, but the actual requirements to succeed in this are just far too specific. I honestly hope that they change this a bit come 2.3, because this really could be so much fun...

[Skivvy]

They took this from GW2 lol. It was fun there because it was awesome to look at so many things and it had huge maps.
We have tiny zones and stuff..I already seen just about everything lol.
Nalien's idea seems like it would of been a lot better.

Also, you could actually be killed by things out in the world in GW2. Made it more fun than just "run here, wait for x-weather". Oh well :9 New minion!...if the weather permits

[KoujiMoreno]

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For some reason, I imagined this as you having a 'List of things to do before I die', with 'visit Great Wall' on it. So you go to the Great Wall of China, stand at the top of it and pull out your pen to cross it off the list but the pen doesn't write. Then this happening:

[TohruHonda]

The new minion eats fish? So this is SE's solution to the retainer venture "problem".

[Heavy01Mk2]

What's the reward for finishing this?

baby t-rex bird

[stanrir]

hopefully they can look through this thread and see that weather time thing is a bad idea, and fix this so it will be fun like it was suppose to be

[Dels]

Yes, I hope so too...It would have been fun to go around and explore and find these locations, but now that I know it won't count unless the clouds are in the right spot or its "fair" instead of "clear" I have no interest in it. What a disappointment.

[Kat_Manx]

This is not fun.

[Atreides]

It's okay to visit the place at a certain time, but the weather is just too much.
Or just let it either be weather or time but both is ridiculous.

[Victor]

Many fish, especially the big ones, are even more difficult to catch than most of these sightseeing locations. It's really not too bad.

Does anyone know about the other 60 locations that aren't in the log yet but are required for the achievement? Do they appear after you complete the first 20?