Quote Originally Posted by Reokudo View Post
Pretty much, "hardcores" who take such insane sense of accomplishment from tedious grinds in an online game lack that sense of fulfillment in reality, so they compensate for it in a game. It's sad to me. Long boring grinds are not fun, especially when it takes you more than a week to get you something when you've been doing it for more than 5 hours a day.
I wouldn't say that I'm hardcore but 300 fights for 7/7 on Ifrit isn't that bad.

-That's "keeper" drop every 42 wins
-That's an average of 12 minutes per fight
-@ an 80% win-rate that's 52 fights
-52 fights x 12 minutes = ~10-11 hours of fights

Is that really that bad? I mean, these are the best weapons in the game (aside from triple-stacked materia). Is 10 hours of gameplay over 3 weeks really that bad for that?

Even consider doubling the time for setup and tapers and cooldown and still you're only looking at less than one hour a day over three weeks.

Let's call this thread what it really is: "I got discouraged after 20 tries so I'm butthurt and think I deserve what I want RIGHT NOW."

Even warp the math for really challenged groups and you come out with 100 hours of gameplay over 21 days. Besides, after this content what do you really plan on doing? Do you mean to tell me that mining 4000 times in each zone is more fun?