I will never understand why people kill fruits in AV

[Kaurie]

People shouldn't be mad that other people are wasting their exp in a LEVELING roulette? You need to buck up when you que for a LEVELING roulette and prepare to help people when they're running exp. If you don't want your runs slowed down, there other ways to earn tomestones without impacting others people's experiences. Just flipping your own logic right back at you.


I do not doubt that FATE running in that area is pretty quick, and now that you mentioned you were 50 and well geared, that makes all the sense now. At 49, I do believe it would be impossible to match that exp in the time frame we discussed, so let's just drop that part.

I keep bringing up the analogy because you simply aren't getting it. You say you always go to the closest gas station, right? So if you're leveling and are in a dungeon, why would you pass the closest gas station to you (the seedling exp) to then wrap up the dungeon and travel down to the gas station across town (teleporting to Little Al Mhigo, riding your chocobo to South Thanlan fates). It's not a waste of time when someone else can benefit from that time, you get me? If you kill the fruits, you may save yourself time, but you WASTE THEIR TIME. You WASTE THEIR EXP. By having to teleport down to Southern Thanalan, traveling to the fates and doing them, you have WASTED any kind of efficiency you thought you gained by skipping over the fruits. Do you get it now? I cannot paint this picture any plainer than this.

I never said that people shouldn't be mad. Though, I wouldn't use the word mad, I prefer frustrated. I think that having conflicting values, priorities and interests will naturally result in player frustration. My response was in turning @MeiUshu's flawed logic back around to them.

I can't say that I ever do Aurum Vale or leveling roulette for tomestones though. Personally, I just find that killing the seedlings is an insignificant exp boost - and I'd rather go through quickly and requeue for it again or something else to gain that boost. The exp/minute of those seedlings is pretty small compared to the many other options for gaining exp out there (i.e. leveling roulette bonus, main scenario bonus, 50 bonus, challenge logs etc.)

For FATE farming, I'd love to test and compare, but I do not have any jobs at 49 and have no interest in leveling my sub 49 jobs at this time (MCH, MNK, WAR, DRK).

The analogy doesn't make sense because it is a different situation, completely. You don't get gas with a group of 3 other people who all have equal right to leadership (i.e. in a car with 3 people, the driver has control) with different priorities, I mean it makes 0 sense.

In terms of killing the fruits, I get that some time may be lost if the fruits are killed - heck as I said I even kill them when asked - but I think complaining on the forum about people who don't is ridiculous. One party's time is going to be wasted one way or another. Whether that is Party A who wants to kill before hatching or Party B who doesn't. Both parties will lose a precious ~2 minutes of their life, heaven forbid. Personally, I think that it is not very efficient for exping to kill them, but I can see how one might. What I don't get is why we are spending more time debating this on the official forum than the time lost for killing them.