Fix the LOVELY alexandrite maps

[AlyssaFhey]

Honestly, I think these maps are impossible for some classes? If you're a Dragoon or Monk? Good luck man. Might be about to do two or three of the variations. But I've encountered some (the one with the multiple bombs comes to mind) that are just stupid. Each blow up for 1500-2000 damage and there are six of them? Even with a chocobo healing you, you're dead. No two ways about it.

That being said, this grind is better than atma and animus, I just don't like the idea of calling for help once a day. It's annoying to do that.

[Nekodar]

Honestly, I think these maps are impossible for some classes? If you're a Dragoon or Monk? Good luck man. Might be about to do two or three of the variations. But I've encountered some (the one with the multiple bombs comes to mind) that are just stupid. Each blow up for 1500-2000 damage and there are six of them? Even with a chocobo healing you, you're dead. No two ways about it.

That being said, this grind is better than atma and animus, I just don't like the idea of calling for help once a day. It's annoying to do that.

You're supposed to kill the bombs before they blow up. Both Dragoon and Monk have AoE skills to help beat them down. Or do them one by one as they have really low HP.

[Rjain]

Why do people keep soloing these? It's as if the first death or sign of raging didn't get the message through lol. Bring friends or FC members to help with maps. 3-4 people assisting you should guarantee safety.

[AlyssaFhey]

You're supposed to kill the bombs before they blow up. Both Dragoon and Monk have AoE skills to help beat them down. Or do them one by one as they have really low HP.

The TP costs on those skills are stupidly high and they don't do nearly enough damage. Bombs aggro and blow up before I kill enough of them. It's clearly a balancing issue.

@Rjain

ever do any of the other maps in this game? They give you an idea of how many people are suggested. This doesn't give any such indication (which implies that they all should be soloable).
Not everyone is ok with spamming help requests every day. I personally don't mind since I decided to collect 3 maps before doing them.(one with each retainer and one on person)

[Rjain]

@Rjain

ever do any of the other maps in this game? They give you an idea of how many people are suggested. This doesn't give any such indication (which implies that they all should be soloable).
Not everyone is ok with spamming help requests every day. I personally don't mind since I decided to collect 3 maps before doing them.(one with each retainer and one on person)

Yeah, I do them regularly. But this is common sense. "Hm, a rare item I cannot get very often that I put effort in to receive. I'd better bring backup!"

All of them are soloable. But being that this is an i110 weapon, your gear/skill is probably going to have to be a lot higher than previous 1-man maps (which were for i50 people). If you don't want to risk it, bring friends. Simple solution.

[TomTom1968]

I take the Novus ride easy this time. I will do the Expert Roulette (maps afterwards always with help of 1-2 from my FC, the enemies can be tricky) when I am online and if I catch a map doing a random FATE for tribe quests or something, that's fine. But no 800 myth horse race and no FATE grind anymore to get it. Been there to get the Animus and done with it. This will take almost three months but that's fine with me. This time I rather do it slowly instead of getting mad at the grind trying to get it really quickly lol.

[Xenor]

I'd rather the maps be harder, but the difficulty isn't what people are complaining about. People are complaining that you lose your map when you die. That has absolutely nothing to do with difficulty and everything to do with poorly designed content.

[Nekodar]

I'd rather the maps be harder, but the difficulty isn't what people are complaining about. People are complaining that you lose your map when you die. That has absolutely nothing to do with difficulty and everything to do with poorly designed content.

The map is used up when you open the chest to spawn the enemies. You even have to confirm this.
Die and be raised in the same zone and you can still finish it before time runs out.

The problem is more about players expecting everything to be faceroll easy.

[Hik0]

team up with friends for expert roulette=> do maps for every team member, if you're DPSyou'll be done before you'd enter roulette taging solo

[Tyrial]

It's pretty simple. Don't list content as solo friendly if not all of it is solo friendly.

Why does this mislabeling and lack of logic remind me of how SE lableled /check mobs in FFXI?

Every single map I've come across is solo friendly. Just because somebody isn't skilled enough to beat it doesn't mean it's the fault of the content. The only map I've come across that gave any trouble at all was the Morbol map and even that was minimal.