Were trusts intended to be usable for goetia/phantasmagoria farming?

[Duskane]

Except the market for tome mats being flooded and crashing. Also in this scenario, a single bot takes up 1 instance spot. There are already problems with parties of 4 bots clogging instance servers, when they all start running solo with trusts the load will multiply by 4.

sure but this implies a botter would
complete ShB story and bother to level up trust again
just to farm some goetia..

[KageTokage]

sure but this implies a botter would
complete ShB story and bother to level up trust again
just to farm some goetia..

They can just automate the trust NPCs to level cap over the course of a day if they feel like it.

And yes, they will manually complete the ShB story just for the sake of botting.

There's someone on my server who's brought three alt accounts through both HW and SB so far just for that purpose and is working on it for ShB now.

[Duskane]

They can just automate the trust NPCs to level cap over the course of a day if they feel like it.

it would still take a hell of a long time to get it all set up
they probably rather make money else where during that time

[Raven2014]

There's someone on my server who's brought three alt accounts through both HW and SB so far just for that purpose and is working on it for ShB now.

You always see claim like this brought up in thread like this. If you are so sure about this, report them for botting activities.

[KageTokage]

After leveling my trust I hope to be able to get tomes for running an 80 dungeon. TY

It's not worth it unless you want to get the shoebill minion without any competition, IMO.

A hunt train is a lot more lucrative as you're getting both types of tomestones and materia out of it in less time and a busy server will have multiple daily. The post maintenance S rank waves are even better.

Even after instances are gone hunts will still be the most efficient method of getting tomestones in terms of how much you earn for the time spent.

You always see claim like this brought up in thread like this. If you are so sure about this, report them for botting activities.

Oh, believe me, I did. Several times. Both the main account (Who also bots regularly) and his alts since the HW days, but all of them are still around.

The alts have traditionally been used almost entirely for scrip farming and mostly seem to exist to just give the main account (And likely associates) an endless supply of DoL/H materia. The fact that they're also being used to horde large houses makes me feel like something scummier might be going on, though...