3rd quest of this Moonfire Faire is ridiculous!

[LaylaTsarra]

I haven't had a chance to play yet (work). Is this a ridiculous fate based thing, or is it simply openworld mobs that have to be caught?

It's a really cute event. There is one fate (special one made for the event) in addition to 3 quests.

You earn vouchers to buy things with them. The 3rd quest went fine for me although i selected the minion and used square and selected attack. My bow other wise would kill it too fast then used the key item. I got the poses already on my main and want the lamp and music. Personally I don't care about the armor although I might get it if it fits in the armoire.

I'll be working my alts later today.

The two fates are the quickest way to earn vouchers... you get 3 for the first and 5 for the second.

[Fynlar]

This isn't something new. This happens with every event, every year.

I personally can't recall any public event with mobs you're supposed to weaken and capture that *anyone* can just walk up and attack, and I've been around since nearly ARR release :/

[Neuflune]

So the bombs that need to be caught are wandering around like normal enemies?

This might have been the time to lock something behind a fate so that high levels couldn't grief with AOE attacks.

Yep they're level 30 mobs on the Bloodshore side of Eastern La Noscea. They're also pretty easy to kill even with regular attacks. Even if you manage to get one down to a low-enough HP so that you can catch them, the catching has a cast time so someone else can kill it before you get it.

You can only catch bombs that are red for you (first hit). Purple wouldn't count even if you hit it or even if you get its aggro.

[PotatoTree]

I'm pretty sure after the initial rush everything will be fine. On sarg the entire server bumrushed it and everyone got through fairly quickly. Now there's only like 5 people doing it and the main crowd has moved on.

[Neuflune]

I'm pretty sure after the initial rush everything will be fine. On sarg the entire server bumrushed it and everyone got through fairly quickly. Now there's only like 5 people doing it and the main crowd has moved on.

You're right, but it still doesn't change the fact that it's a poorly designed quest.

For example, all my classes are at level 60. If I was doing it alone, I have to take off all my armor and maybe wear a low level weapon to not kill the bomb. Even if I'm only hitting it with auto attack, a critical can kill it. I could switch to gatherer or crafter but then at that point, it's just ridiculous.

[PotatoTree]

You're right, but it still doesn't change the fact that it's a poorly designed quest.

For example, all my classes are at level 60. If I was doing it alone, I have to take off all my armor and maybe wear a low level weapon to not kill the bomb. Even if I'm only hitting it with auto attack, a critical can kill it. I could switch to gatherer or crafter but then at that point, it's just ridiculous.

Oh yea I'm not denying that. The whole quest is pretty low quality IMO. Even the plot wasn't too fun. At least the rewards are ok.

[LaylaTsarra]

You're right, but it still doesn't change the fact that it's a poorly designed quest.

For example, all my classes are at level 60. If I was doing it alone, I have to take off all my armor and maybe wear a low level weapon to not kill the bomb. Even if I'm only hitting it with auto attack, a critical can kill it. I could switch to gatherer or crafter but then at that point, it's just ridiculous.

Select the minion and use square and attack from the menu. It's what I did and my bow worked just fine that way.

[EU_Community_Team]

Although this was picked up by a user in this thread already, we have an update from the dev. team on this topic that we'd like to share.

First of all, please accept our most sincere apologies!

We are urgently looking into countermeasures to address these issues.
That said, we will need to confirm that any fixes do not affect any other content or processes, as this could potentially lead to issues that could render FFXIV unplayable over the weekend.
We need to be very careful with these tests, so we expect the fix to be ready at the start of next week at the earliest.

Once the timing and details have been determined we will be sure to update you all!
Once again, we sincerely apologise to everyone who has been looking forward to this event.

We are working with all haste to address this. Thank you for your patience!

[Grimgrum]

Reminds be of back in the days of FFXI on my server where we all lined up to do a BCNM for a new event that came out. Nice to see it can still happen in FFXIV, even if it is on a JP server.

Oh sweet, glorious lines, how I missed you so.

[Celef]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-ridiculous%21

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...rst-on-Balmung.

And we have three, do I hear four?

Though yay for someone beginning to give people an event strategy to help people who have no idea what to do yet. Internet cookies

Sadly no woonder why dev team do not really hear us contrary to japanes forum where we do not have 4 or 5 thread talking about the same issue :/
imho 1 thread with 50 pages might be more usefull than 10 with 2 pages :/