Moonfire Faire

[AlphaFox]

I don't think the islands where you do the quests at were there until today. I wonder if they will keep them around after the event?

I would assume so, would seem odd to remove them...then again it is also weird to make a new island just for it too. Granted I never really explored or noticed them before today either.

[jameseoakes]

I would assume so, would seem odd to remove them...then again it is also weird to make a new island just for it too. Granted I never really explored or noticed them before today either.

They were added at the start of stormblood

[New_Game_Plus]

I don't think the islands where you do the quests at were there until today. I wonder if they will keep them around after the event?

They were there as soon as patch 4.0 released.

[Esp]

I don't think the islands where you do the quests at were there until today. I wonder if they will keep them around after the event?

That island was added as a part of Sormblood, so while the stands and such will disappear, the island itself will still be around afterwards. I am sure most people didn't even realize it was added for leisurely swimming until today xD

[Moomba33]

Am I the only one bothered by the actual content of the event quest? The whole thing felt incredibly skeezy, having to re-enact Gegeruju and Jiriri's deplorable behaviour.

Honestly I've half a mind not to bother doing it on my other characters now, since the event gear is nothing to write home about either. I said I wouldn't be caught dead in the Shisui set when I saw it during SB's launch, the same goes for this.

Yeah. Was pretty awkward/sleazy. Just not my style of humour at all.

I'm pretty sure the event items are recolours because SE knew the Shisui stuff would be popular and want to be able to sell it on the cash shop starting next year. Perhaps they'll prove me wrong and we'll see a craftable version as leveling sets in the next expansion but my instinct says this was a choice motivated by greed.
Doesn't affect me since I dislike the sets anyways.

[SokiYagami]

You mean like here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ng-necklace%29

Yup that! Sorry I didn't saw the other thread before posting this.

Thats what happens when you get a direct copy-paste. The original piece couldn't have a necklace because it already had one. The new piece can't have one because it's still the same piece. Just with the necklace either deleted or made invisible.

Pretty sure this is the answer.

Yeah. Was pretty awkward/sleazy. Just not my style of humour at all.

I'm pretty sure the event items are recolours because SE knew the Shisui stuff would be popular and want to be able to sell it on the cash shop starting next year. Perhaps they'll prove me wrong and we'll see a craftable version as leveling sets in the next expansion but my instinct says this was a choice motivated by greed.
Doesn't affect me since I dislike the sets anyways.

I guess this is probably the main reason we get what we have for this event. That and maybe cutting corners to save development time due to SB release. /sigh

[Snow_Princess]

I guess this is probably the main reason we get what we have for this event. That and maybe cutting corners to save development time due to SB release. /sigh

The whole SB expandsion is a cut corners, the full thing is just copy/paste content we got in HW..

4 runs where each has a weekly drop? check
gimmicky mechanics we seen before while putting them in a different order? check
450 tome copy/paste? check
mass reused gear/color reskin/item icons? check
But hey.. tome icons are different, guess all the effort of development went there.

They are still missing some place that has 3 different runs in it (released at different patches) on weekly limit of some gear that is the same ilevel as the 450 tomes, along with having some currency bloat item to upgrade the current 450 tome gear to 10 ilevels.

kk since I know what is gonna happen for the next 2 years, can we just skip it and go 5.0?

[Sekkei]

Since a fair few apparently did not notice the islands were already there at the release of Stormblood, you might as well look into the Castaway Chocobo Chick fishing requirements if the minion strikes your fancy. It's fished up at the big island where you had to use the spyglass.

[Nulstat]

The only thing that legit tilts me more than recycled gear and potential cash grabs is that SE keeps failing to recognize that multi-step turn-ins are absolutely annoying. I'll endure the one-by-one for leves even though it breaks my soul (especially that Whitebrim run), but for a crowded event where the need to get in and get out is fairly high, sitting here doing twenty-seven (or more, but at least six of those are required to advance the story) turn-ins is extremely annoying and there's no reason for it.

Please, either let me buy the items with the thing you already made me craft one piece at a time without quicksynth, or just start putting in the ability to turn in stacks - like you did one of the years previous.

[Snow_Princess]

The only thing that legit tilts me more than recycled gear and potential cash grabs is that SE keeps failing to recognize that multi-step turn-ins are absolutely annoying. I'll endure the one-by-one for leves even though it breaks my soul (especially that Whitebrim run), but for a crowded event where the need to get in and get out is fairly high, sitting here doing twenty-seven (or more, but at least six of those are required to advance the story) turn-ins is extremely annoying and there's no reason for it.

Please, either let me buy the items with the thing you already made me craft one piece at a time without quicksynth, or just start putting in the ability to turn in stacks - like you did one of the years previous.

+1
Agree completely, that is the reason I am finding it hard to get all the rewards. It takes more time then you first thought, you take a double look and ask "it took that long now? why cant we just turn in 10 fish at once for 10 vouchers?