Why not have Carboncoat/Carbontwine buyable for soldiery?

[Tiggy]

All the changes to hunts have done is kill everything in duty finder

Going to have to disagree. I'm on the dungeon portion of my zodiac weapon and I've been queuing all weekend. It's been a breeze.

This is just an excuse to try and get these items in an easier way.

[Mercutial]

Haha... Hunts are the fastest way to cap Sol by FAR. Robbing from Peter to pay Paul with that suggestion.

[Elusana_Celah]

I literally max 2000 soldiery every 5 days from 'casual playing' of my roulettes and some ST runs. This is a bad idea. The solution is for the hunt system to be better designed. It wasn't designed to support zerg rushes, this isn't starcraft and those hunts are not protoss soldiers.

The zerg rushes break the system yet the system puts in 'good loot rewards' thus encourages swarms of people bum rushing them every time they spawn as well as the competitive 3rd party stuff and blah blah. FFXIV has a lot of great content with well thought out design, however Yoshi was out drinking beer with ZUN from Touhou and thought up this hunt system after his 17th round.

The following photo is a mock-up of what Yoshi was doing while thinking up the hunt system:

[Kelg]

Going to have to disagree. I'm on the dungeon portion of my zodiac weapon and I've been queuing all weekend. It's been a breeze.

This is just an excuse to try and get these items in an easier way.

Have you tried doing world of darkness/any other crystal tower? Or primal fights? It's a 30+ minute wait for tanks even on my server.

[Tiggy]

Have you tried doing world of darkness/any other crystal tower? Or primal fights? It's a 30+ minute wait for tanks even on my server.

I tried all as tank this weekend actually. Near instant queues for all. No longer than a 10 second wait. I'm on the Aether data center.

[kyuven]

Have you tried doing world of darkness/any other crystal tower? Or primal fights? It's a 30+ minute wait for tanks even on my server.

DPS here. Aether data center. Wait times are usually in the single digits of minutes for towers.

[Felis]

For 1800 soldiery or so?
That way people would actually do things outside of hunts.
Either that or make another way to get allied seals.

If you want them outside of Hunt, do Crystal Tower. Carbontwine would be add to the weekly reward in 2.51
Your suggestion would only kill CT1, CT2 and at the end of 2.5x even CT3

Also if tomes, then 1800 poetic tomes, not soldiery tomes. They are for poetic gears.

[Drako]

I wouldn't mind it being in there for soldiery or poetics. The system is so convoluted right now, and confusing esp for new players. First you gotta do hunts, then you have to trade notes for a log, then you have to trade log for carbon item, then you have to trade carbon item for upgraded item. That's really too many steps, and each npc is in a different area, so crazy imho. I think they need to get rid of logs completely at the very least, and stick the carbon item in the GC hunt vendor. And for the rare drop on S, just reduce the RNG chance of getting a carbon item directly. Also adding these items into soldiery wouldnt be too bad of a idea. Just do it like the zodiac. Make it where you can only buy them once you reach a certain progression point. First job gearing up slower, then secondary is faster. I kind of like that system.

[Elazu]

Or how about giving you a free Carbontwine every time you log in?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Or how about giving you a free Carbontwine every time you log in?

Get one for free with each character you own.