3rd quest of this Moonfire Faire is ridiculous!

[Khemorex]

Just the fireworks. Everything else is on the mog station, so don't get your hopes high to get them from in-game vendors ever again.

yeh i have them , but my partner dosnt :P stupid mog station :P

[Rufalus]

I'm calming down about this. Nice to see fast response from the community team and a promise to improve the quest. It seems like the worst trolling players were reported by multiple people so this event might lead to some bad eggs being weeded out which is great too.

[Muttons]

There was a good heap of griefing on my server at the beginning, but with some proper leadership and a group willing to listen, things can happen.

https://puu.sh/qqIKw/58261d1624.webm

[Kallera]

Person complaining: "I'm going to wake up early and log in to complete the event as quick as possible"
Everyone Else: "I'm going to wake up early and log in to complete the event as quick as possible."

And people wonder why things like this happen. Just relax and have patience, it will thin out. I just logged in got to that quest and guess what? There was no one there doing the bombs...The problem comes when everyone decides to do the same thing at the same time.

Clearly only by making content absolutely NO ONE wants to do, will solve this!

[Jillian]

Plenty of non-Japanese players have the ability to work together without being selfish jerks. It's just a few that make the rest of us look bad.

[Maleficent]

It started off crazy at first but folks figured its better to work together orderly pending any hot fix.

A couple of folks volunteered to pose to indicate where the head of the queue (pretty awesome!):


This is the queue:

[Cwestcott18]

So I got the first 2 challenges done no problem. Then the third challenge happened. You are supposed to weaken bombs then catch them with a Key Item. However, everyone either one-hit KOs them or if the bombs can still be caught, there are so many people around and so few bombs that you can't catch one for yourself.

How could SE be so stupid to give you only one place to hunt these bombs and so few to go around when there are so many people trying to catch them? It's like a bunch of poor people trying to get their hands on what little food is available.

So because of this, I can't finish the Moonfire Faire thanks to SE completely screwing us over. Well done, SE.

@.@ when did this event start? when does it end? jeez not finishing the event within the first few hours is the worst, if I had a dollar for every time that happened

[paradigmfellow]

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!

If this is going to affect my weekend playtime, then do not even bother changing anything. Some of us do not do most of the seasonal events and would prefer to just play the game. Just try to learn from this mistake for the next time.

[Vasala]

It would also be nice to have the ability to sync to the level of the bombs or have some high level ones also for those of us that only have high levels on their character. Feels weird to have to go find a low level weapon to do a quest.

[Moomba33]

I was able to get the quest done without much trouble on Ultros. A person did run up and kill one of my bombs but only once.

I'm having more trouble getting credit on the FATEs consistently (particularly the first one where the bombs all spawn in a pile and are immediately mowed down) but that'll get easier as the day 1 rush dies down.