Allow us to buy Sands of Time with Soldiery

[Marcu18]

If I’m doing something wrong, i don’t know what it is.

[Purplenum]

7 a day

[Senfei]

If I’m doing something wrong, i don’t know what it is.

If you are getting 7 a day your problem is you are actually doing the daily hunts on the hunt board, not roaming around with a party and killing the hunt mobs that spawn. You get seals for those, 5 for B rank, 20 for A rank, 50 for S rank. Ignore the daily hunt board, do your weekly.

[Mjytresz]

Want sands, don't like hunting? Run coil. Can't run coil? Sorry, you don't get end game ilvl110 gear that you don't even need because you don't run coil.

So our options are:

1) Zerg Rush for hours a day for a handful of seals that are easily exploited because of bad design
OR
2) Run Coil once a week and pray

Those don't seem like options. I've seen a lot of options in my day and what you said looks nothing like an option.
On that note, if Gear was given on an on-demand basis, you wouldn't have to buy them. They'd just scale with whatever content you're doing.
On that note, what about the people who spammed Hunts for i110 gear and don't run any hard content?

[Thayos]

So our options are:

1) Zerg Rush for hours a day for a handful of seals that are easily exploited because of bad design
OR
2) Run Coil once a week and pray

Those don't seem like options.

There's also a third option:

3. Ignore hunts and coil until sands or i110+ gear is available through other means.

[Black91CRX]

Ignore the daily hunt board

This is a HUGE problem. Why they made the reward so piss poor is beyond me. They should have been at least 5 seals per mark.

[Purplenum]

snippity wippity I'm just mad about hunts because I'm bad

You've got a real bias against hunts. You can easily get 1 sand per day doing hunt, if not more, not just a "handful" of seals. It's not easily exploited either, and it's not bad design, hunts are a first come first serve sorta thing. Just be in a full party, have everyone in the party hit it once or twice and bam you get full credit.

There's a clear distinction between people who don't run any hard content but have i110 gear and the people who do run "hard" content. People who actually run the hard content can get their BiS and the allagan / high allagan weapons.

[Senfei]

So our options are...

Yes, those are your options right now. How many options do you want to get access to the highest ilvl gear? Should you get allied seals from mining? Should you get them from obliterating the kraken in hullbreaker that you outlvl by 50 ilvls? Should you get them for mandervilling in front of a moogle? Sheesh.

[Mjytresz]

You've got a real bias against hunts. You can easily get 1 sand per day doing hunt, if not more, not just a "handful" of seals. It's not easily exploited either, and it's not bad design, hunts are a first come first serve sorta thing. Just be in a full party, have everyone in the party hit it once or twice and bam you get full credit.

There's a clear distinction between people who don't run any hard content but have i110 gear and the people who do run "hard" content. People who actually run the hard content can get their BiS and the allagan / high allagan weapons.

It is bad game design. Allow me to explain.
How did you get sands before now? Oh right, probably running Coil?
Let me guess, coil had a limit on how many times you could run it right?
Just from that, we can assume there was some sort of, i dunno, limitation on how fast you could get i110 gear, right?
Then hunts come out and that limitation is blown away with 1 simple mechanic that obviously wasn't thought through too well, considering how well it overshadows almost every other option in the game.
ps the limitation on coil is still in place. better spam hunts lel

I'm not mad. I have no desire for i110 gear. I just play with friends for fun. The problem is the blatantly obvious bad design approach. I quite like this game and would hate for it to follow the same horrid decision making most other games employ.
I'm sorry that you feel accomplished for how high your avatar hits with its pixel weapon.

Yes, those are your options right now. How many options do you want to get access to the highest ilvl gear? Should you get allied seals from mining? Should you get them from obliterating the kraken in hullbreaker that you outlvl by 50 ilvls? Should you get them for mandervilling in front of a moogle? Sheesh.

I'm sure you were one of the many (lel) people posting on the forums complaining that buying i90 straight from the NPC was a bad choice.

[Jandor]

Hahaha, people are being elitist about hunts. Oh, that is rich.