3rd quest of this Moonfire Faire is ridiculous!

[Jetstream_Fox]

This is why I refuse to login and do it all, the lack of planning on SE continues to amaze me. True, they can't control players individually, but they could have created this event with the obvious mindset that it could be easily abused. But you know, SE knows best with it's A+ community representation.

[Kosmos992k]

From what I have seen the problem is most people do not realize they can't use their high level DoW/DoM gear and weapons to weaken them. When tell them to switch to DoL or DoH, even switch to low level weapon etc they seem willing to do so. Most people killing them are doing so out of ignorance rather than trolling though some are killing out of spite.

I haven't played the event yet, I'm stuck at work, but would a much heavier level sync (assuming it is already a sync'd event) help?

[Snugglebutt]

I haven't played the event yet, I'm stuck at work, but would a much heavier level sync (assuming it is already a sync'd event) help?

They still might be killed if just sync'd. SE should make them un-killable like many beastman tribe quest mobs are, when weakened they sit there waiting for you to use item on them but you cannot kill them by accident, since they can already do it for other quest mobs why not for these event mobs too? Seems like a simple solution.

[LaylaTsarra]

I haven't played the event yet, I'm stuck at work, but would a much heavier level sync (assuming it is already a sync'd event) help?

They do die pretty easy with a high level player. My 60 bard killed them with one action, but, I found that if I selected the minion and then pressed square and then attack, it didn't kill it so I finished the event doing that. With my alt who is only a level 34 astro I had little trouble with it and actually had to work a bit to weaken it.

[Genaxx]

After seeing the attitude on my server we dont deserve future events tbh. No wonder we are looked down upon when people purposefully spoil an event for others.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

I had this issue today on my server. One player got super pissy about it, threatening everyone lol. I had to use auto-attack (while being quick about it) to keep the bombs alive and capturing them.

[Khalithar]

Snip

Make it so the bombs can be caught without needing to do any damage to them and make the net item instant cast, problem solved.

[synesthetic]

I haven't played the event yet, I'm stuck at work, but would a much heavier level sync (assuming it is already a sync'd event) help?

This particular leg of the event is not synced. The Bygone Bombards are open-world, Lv.30 monsters that everyone has equal access to. So having a bunch of Lv.60s come in and one-shot stuff.. was inevitable. Even having a dozen people doing little damage all trying to claim one at the same time can easily kill it too quickly for you to use your item.

The FATEs afterward require you to be on an NPC-provided elbst, where their attack does 10 damage. With how many people were present when I was there (30-50?), the scaling was fine; solo I was still getting Gold on both FATEs.

[cakesphere]

this was suggested on gilgamesh, people laughed. trolling continues harder lol

Can confirm, just did this on gilgamesh. It's a mess, chat filled with trolls/others laughing about how salty people are that they can't do the quest.

What a mess :I

I managed to get my 3 on my low level NIN through a bit of luck and a lot of dagger throw spam but it was NOT fun.

[Geist]

Reporting from Excalibur, I went through the quest a few hours ago, in the early afternoon (local time, I live in Italy).

While there was a lot of people around and about, most were cooperative and relaxed about the event, sharing information and quips about sentai lore while waiting in between FATE instances. It was crowded, but fun.

I can confirm the third subquest is still a bit tricky because of how fragile the bombs are, but I didn't run into any griefing and I was able to complete it by toning down the damage, activating the net as soon as possible. Auto-attack seems to work nicely, otherwise I'd suggest to use a low-level ability or a dot to get the target down to the required amount of HP.

I might try another run later on, at a different time to see whether the situation stays consistent: at least that's what I hope after reading what happened elsewhere.

Note: we also did help with It's Not Lupus to speed it up (and make the zone safer) as others did on other servers. Those clippers tend to drift into the final FATE's area, especially when bombs spawn near the border...