There should be other ways to obtain the Field notes.

[Raikai]

I wish those rare notes could be obtained via something else... like 999 platinum coins or something very grindy.

The 1% droprate (that I've been told) is so abysmal that you might be grinding this for years. And after Save the Queen stops being relevant content, it's gonna be even harder to get them.

I ran more than 60 Copied Factories ever since it was released trying to get one of the pod minions, and I never got lucky with the roll. The only way I could was when those items became just party-exclusive recently.

Things gated behind RNG is okay... but the droprate needs to be a little less drastic.

[Val-K]

I don't want to sound like the devil's advocate here (I am still grinding for the mount as well) but I feel like there are way harder (as in more grindy) mounts to get in game, like the Triceratops/Centurio Tiger from Hunts or the Astrope you get by doing 2000 mentor roulettes.

Sorry but you can't say that

For Sartauvoir, you have spent 5 hours like i did today and everyday since the release of the patch, in the Southern Front killing scorpions and doing fates which give you a mere 15K mettle. After one hour, you are basically fed up and just sit and wait with the other 20 people, moving to go to Help wanted and unrest for the wicked which are quite rare too.

I know what a grind is and to prove it with your criteria, i have the Triceratop, the centurio tiger and Astrope. I knew the objectives and i worked for them. For the big fishes (i have 221/249), you know the time/weather windows and you are free between them. As for the TT, you can generally have several attempt per hour (i have 299/312).

For the Sartauvoir note and other note, you are just wasting time ... waiting for a rare fate with a very low drop rate to pop. And the time wasted is not 10 min here and there .. it's hours a day

[Raikai]

Sorry but you can't say that

For Sartauvoir, you have spent 5 hours like i did today and everyday since the release of the patch, in the Southern Front killing scorpions and doing fates which give you a mere 15K mettle. After one hour, you are basically fed up and just sit and wait with the other 20 people, moving to go to Help wanted and unrest for the wicked which are quite rare too.

I know what a grind is and to prove it with your criteria, i have the Triceratop, the centurio tiger and Astrope. I knew the objectives and i worked for them. For the big fishes (i have 221/249), you know the time/weather windows and you are free between them. As for the TT, you can generally have several attempt per hour (i have 299/312).

For the Sartauvoir note and other note, you are just wasting time ... waiting for a rare fate with a very low drop rate to pop. And the time wasted is not 10 min here and there .. it's hours a day

Exactly! You can't compare those because they are two completely different types of grind.

You can measure exactly how long you'll be getting something even if it costs an absurd amount of X currency.

A very rare RNG drop, however, you might not get it ever. Plus, taking in consideration that unlike pony mounts from ARR, this is not something you can do on your own... you depend on a large number of people.

[Ayrlyn]

I have run castrum LL 75 times and still haven't gotten field note 17 aka lyon. Ive gotten 4 runners pieces which are supposed to be rarer I belive and about 6k coins. I dont know if I have to run it another 50 to 100 times but could we put an option for lyon to cost 1000 plus coins Id like to see the end of the tunnel its pretty demoralizing. I know you can get it from duels but they are something Im uncomfortable with. also 90 loathsome memories

[Lauwen]

I'll sit through most grinds in this game, but as of right now, I've spent more time in the past week grinding for notes, than I spent progging and clearing UWU. It's a complete joke.

[Lola_bunny]

Even just to vent spent 5 lockouts over the past 2 days trying for Dabog 1 and Dyunbu with neither in hand. Miserable doesn't do it justice the southern front's mettle gains are so poor and I dare not risk doing Castrum in case one of the thimble full of skirmishes spawn I feel as if I've made zero progress. Yes I've tried to do Aces High it's too hard to get into and too hard to do every mistake is a one hit death..... maybe if I could actually practice the fight I'd stand a chance but one chance at actually getting into the duel once a lockout at best and being stressed out just managing to get in, so MDK every 30 minutes or so if lucky to no avail. This isn't a grind it's misery given form

[Reap00]

Easy farm. Finished it in a couple of days. I don't see the issue kids.

[Wissp]

Myself, I started the grind for the notes to get the mount on May 28th. At the time I had 8 from Southern and 4 from Zadnor left to get, I already had all the ones from Reginae.

Turns out I was already lucky in Zadnor as I only had to worry about Dabog for the 5 star. The rest just were from stuff that hardly showed up. Southern though I had ALL the big 5 star ones to get, and some of the annoying others like Dyunbu.

I thought this was going to take some weeks to get.

Ended up getting all the notes I was missing in 6 days, with the last one, Dabog 2, finally dropping on Wed morning. (That one was a royal pain!) I would say about 20 hours of grinding the various skirmishes, engagements, and instances since the 28th. Did no duels.

So yes, not impossible, just time consuming and hoping for Lady Luck to be on your side.

But hey, we have a long drought ahead of us, gotta do SOMETHING to stay interested in the game, right?

Since that goal is now done, I have turned to trying for those TT cards and learning how to play the card game so I can get that mount.

[Vahlnir]

Easy farm. Finished it in a couple of days. I don't see the issue kids.

Yeah, I saw the name and figured the response would be something along these lines. lol

[juicybug]

Im usually solo farming for an end to atrocities fate in Zadnor, and it's annoying when players just sit by and wait for the fate to pop and not help - but they're the ones who get the note on Fabineau. Same with Sartaurvoir- me and maybe one other farm scorpions- and others just idle by. But I've been tying to get sart for a few months now and he's never dropped his note for me- same with lyon. But Zadnor overall doesn't seem to be a big issue bc i have nearly all except 2 notes there but I assume they're another sart and lyon type rarity for me.