Disappointed in Youkai Watch

[lulunami]

It took me 740 FATES to completely finish this event (including the FATES required to obtain all 13 minions). That is a 30 percent Legendary drop rate. Make sure you are having fun watching Netflix/Youtube while doing this event to balance it out.

[Kosmos992k]

It took me 740 FATES to completely finish this event (including the FATES required to obtain all 13 minions). That is a 30 percent Legendary drop rate. Make sure you are having fun watching Netflix/Youtube while doing this event to balance it out.

Here is a genuine question. Since there are two months for this event, why do you have to bash it out as quickly as you can in a mindless grind wih Netflix/You tube to distract you? Couldn't you just space it out over the two months and gather the medals/legendary medals as you go? It seems as though that was the intent and not that players burn themselves out on FATE in a week or less.

[Morningstar1337]

Here is a genuine question. Since there are two months for this event, why do you have to bash it out as quickly as you can in a mindless grind wih Netflix/You tube to distract you? Couldn't you just space it out over the two months and gather the medals/legendary medals as you go? It seems as though that was the intent and not that players burn themselves out on FATE in a week or less.

I can't speak for anyone else, nor would I recommend it for anyone else unless they want to get it over with ASAP. but the reason i did is simple. I wanted the achievements. The Yo-kai weapons are one of 4 different weapon sets that give out achievements simply for obtaning the item. The other three being the Relic, Aetherpool and Anima weapons, the latter having achievements for subsequent stages as well. The thing is you have all the time in the world to get all the Relic/Aetherpool/Anima weapons. The Yo-Kai weapons? You only have 2 months, I rather not try to leave something like that incomplete, a possibility when stretching out and miscalculating the amount of medals you try to go for on a daily basis.

In addition, this event would be very luck dependent, which means that doing the grind over time would still cut into time for other grinds (Primal Mounts, PvP, PoTD, etc) and only stickting to a set amount of time per day means one unlucky day could set you back substantially.

[Tint]

Here is a genuine question. Since there are two months for this event, why do you have to bash it out as quickly as you can in a mindless grind wih Netflix/You tube to distract you? Couldn't you just space it out over the two months and gather the medals/legendary medals as you go? It seems as though that was the intent and not that players burn themselves out on FATE in a week or less.

i hate FATEs too much to do them for 2 months xD so i finished the whole thing within 5 days. better have no fun for a week than no fun for 2 months...

[Alistaire]

It took me 740 FATES to completely finish this event (including the FATES required to obtain all 13 minions). That is a 30 percent Legendary drop rate. Make sure you are having fun watching Netflix/Youtube while doing this event to balance it out.

Why not watch Netflix or Youtube while doing good content? I don't get this argument. "Event is terrible, but it's ok, watch something fun on a 2nd monitor". Why not go play Clicker Heroes then? And conversely, does having a show or whatever run on a 2nd screen distract you from better content? It shouldn't.

[lulunami]

Here is a genuine question. Since there are two months for this event, why do you have to bash it out as quickly as you can in a mindless grind wih Netflix/You tube to distract you? Couldn't you just space it out over the two months and gather the medals/legendary medals as you go? It seems as though that was the intent and not that players burn themselves out on FATE in a week or less.

I wanted achievement points. The mount is pretty cute imho btw. Plus finishing it means I do not feel obligated to do FATES when I do log into the game. I do not really want to do FATES for 2 months to be honest, so it took me one week to finish. I can just raid, craft, and gather, and talk to friends in Linkshells. Also, I may not have free time due to work and school schedules.

Why not watch Netflix or Youtube while doing good content? I don't get this argument. "Event is terrible, but it's ok, watch something fun on a 2nd monitor". Why not go play Clicker Heroes then? And conversely, does having a show or whatever run on a 2nd screen distract you from better content? It shouldn't.

Have you ever fished in this game? It is sort of the same thing. Doing your opener and AOE rotation during FATES is quite repetitive if choosing to do the grind. MMOs are huge, repetitive grind-fests, so it just comes with the territory.

[LalafellDown]

It took me 740 FATES to completely finish this event (including the FATES required to obtain all 13 minions). That is a 30 percent Legendary drop rate. Make sure you are having fun watching Netflix/Youtube while doing this event to balance it out.

That defeats the purpose of a video game. I play games because they're a better source of entertainment. I shouldn't have to find joy in TV when FF14 should be providing it to me as a replacement and not half-assing it.

Why not watch Netflix or Youtube while doing good content? I don't get this argument. "Event is terrible, but it's ok, watch something fun on a 2nd monitor". Why not go play Clicker Heroes then? And conversely, does having a show or whatever run on a 2nd screen distract you from better content? It shouldn't.

Better subscribe to FF14 so I can watch Netflix.

[Alleo]

Here is a genuine question. Since there are two months for this event, why do you have to bash it out as quickly as you can in a mindless grind wih Netflix/You tube to distract you? Couldn't you just space it out over the two months and gather the medals/legendary medals as you go? It seems as though that was the intent and not that players burn themselves out on FATE in a week or less.

Like Morningstar1337 already said, I cant speak for everyone but I also finished it yesterday (648 fates) because I just wanted to be done with it. I never liked fates and even though we have two months for it, I was a little afraid that I wont manage to finish it if I don't do it now. The medals are RNG and a 30% droprate would still make it a chance of 70% to not get everything so I said to myself that I will do it now and still have enough time left if RNG hates me that much. I mean there is that other event coming, still wanted to try out Palace of the death solo, maybe my guild mates will want to farm mounts and notes again soon and so on. Still lots of stuff to do right now which could hinder the progress of the weapons.

And lets not forget that now many people will do it, so a lot of the fates will be done quite quickly. I feared that later not many will do it and even if the HP is then way lower, it would still take much more time alone than with lots of people there. I also find the number of fates to finish the weapon, still horrible even if its stretched out over two months, and right now I still had some motivations left to do it, so I made use of that too. I probably would have lost any motivation to finish it, if I had to do fates all months long. At least now I can mostly ignore them (moonfire sadly has fates again Q_Q) and can now do something that at least feels like fun again.

So in the end I did it now because I still had motivation to farm it and because I was afraid that something would come in the way of farming later and that I would not be able to finish it. I mean there could be always things in RL too that could hinder you playing the game, but all the other things that I wanted to try ingame will always be there, while this event has a time limit. (And I do dislike the event but as a mount collector I at least wanted that mount in my collection..)

Oh and I used youtube too as a way to distract myself a little. Fate farming in such low regions are always boring..sometimes you can only use like 2 or 3 skills, so I used my time efficient by finishing this (imo) bad event and at the same time catching up some of the lets plays I wanted to watch.

[Kosmos992k]

Thanks to those who responded to my question. I appreciate your answers, and I can see the point such as not leaving it until it's too late. I don't entirely agree though because personally I tend to dip into many different things each play session, so spending hours just running FATE doesn't compute for me. But that's a difference in playstyle. Thanks for answering.

Oh, one other thing, Alleo mentioned doing the FATE kore quickly, I can see that point, but also as someone with both alt characters and alt jobs at lower levels I find it difficult to get any credit in those FATE that are zerged in record time. But I'll just run them a little later with a fried.

[Alleo]

Thanks to those who responded to my question. I appreciate your answers, and I can see the point such as not leaving it until it's too late. I don't entirely agree though because personally I tend to dip into many different things each play session, so spending hours just running FATE doesn't compute for me. But that's a difference in playstyle. Thanks for answering.

Oh, one other thing, Alleo mentioned doing the FATE kore quickly, I can see that point, but also as someone with both alt characters and alt jobs at lower levels I find it difficult to get any credit in those FATE that are zerged in record time. But I'll just run them a little later with a fried.

I normally do lots of different things too and hate doing many fates a day but since I know that my RNG is sometimes really horrible and because I still had some motivation left, I just powered through it. It was probably a little too much in those few days so maybe I should have spread them out a little more but after I got my first 8 weapons I was like "wanna finish it this week" and pulled it through. (Okay I needed monday too) Often I am quite the slow player, still did not finish the new anima part and normally take my time but this one was different. Hopefully I wont have to do such a thing again in the near future because it was not fun.

I agree with the problem of not getting any credits as a low level character with many people around and I can see this as a problem and source of frustration for new players too. They will try out this event or maybe even want to just level a bit but are barley able to get there in time (often don't have mounts). IMO it would have been better if every single zone (even HW zones) would have dropped those. People could have used it way better to level their character depending on their level and newer players might not have problems in getting the credits. You still could have like three weapons that you can only get in those low lvl zones but at least there would have been more choices. But well its to late for that right now.