There should be other ways to obtain the Field notes.

[TalithaSolarien]

I personally know players with a high amount of Ex Primals kills and no mount (I'm talking about 200+). And yes, totems can be exchange at a later date, however you have to wait months. Probably at some point SE will add a coin exchange for field notes.

I wouldn't bet on it, they didn't add an exchange system for the Eurekan mounts either.

[Oichi]

I wouldn't bet on it, they didn't add an exchange system for the Eurekan mounts either.

But those are tradable, unlike Fran's bike. And Ozma is a guaranteed drop when you clear BA.

[CNitsah]

I join people on this, I've been trying to get note 14 for far too long and the drop rate are abysmal, and what makes it worse is the spawn time.
At least do something to make our time worth. like making it so that people at rank 25 gain a decent amount of mettle in bozja southern front, so that farm is not totally useless. Last Saturday, I spent 5h40 in bozja to get 2 spawns, and about the amount of mettle I would have gotten with 2 or 3 fates in Zadnor. If we could at least get enough mettle (maybe not as much as in Zadnor, sure, still more than we get now) to see our mettle bar rise, so we could farm for Proofs of mettle at the same time, it would be a little better than the total waste of time it is right now.

Maybe it would also remove the afkers problem, or at least reduce it.

[GrizzlyTank]

The cooldown on these things are just depressing.

[Colt47]

The bike comes from the achievement "A Complete History" which means that the only way they can make the bike more easily attainable is if they allow purchasing of the requisite field records. If it were a direct drop they could throw it into a moogle tomestone event, but otherwise there isn't a good way to do it.

The bike is honestly not worth the effort needed to get it 100%. It just turns into sunk cost fallacy to try to keep grinding for it unless someone decides they want to get good at doing duels, as that solves at least part of the problem. However, the duels are intentionally very difficult and/or time consuming in their own right, and require a lot of prep to even perform.

And FYI, it would be an act of god at this point if anyone has all the field records and doesn't duel. 4 star and up logs are no joke and it turns into a super high grind RNG fest no matter how you push it.

[hobostew]

Looks like there is only two instaces currently up on Crystal and they both were in progress of killing the CE associated with FAF. Time to wait an hour or three. Such joy.

[Colt47]

FYI getting the bike from the achievement along with the field logs is less an achievement and more of a scratch-off ticket raffle unless they add them to the NPC to purchase using the bazjan clusters. We can basically just throw it in the pile of "things wrong with Bazja" that we've been dealing with since they released it. First it was the relic grind being more efficient outside the instance, then it was not giving people mettle when they first did DR so people basically got slapped with tons of lost progress just doing the first run. The only phase that hasn't blown up is Zadnor, and that's mostly because of lessons learned from the first two, but they still haven't buffed mettle gain for people over Rank 20 doing Bazjan Southern Front and you need to do that to get the superstition fragments for solo grinding.

Oh yeah, and you got to do Castrum for the superstition frags and possible the Lyon Field Record, which from my attempts must have a single digit drop rate of 1-5% or something. It is super bad. That and people get salty when you don't save all the prisoners, since I think you need to save at least 5/6 to get the higher grade superstition fragments.

[hobostew]

I don't even mind the RNG. Like right now due to circumstances out of my control I literally can't pull the metaphorical lever even if I wanted to.

What makes me even more upset is that people defend this as good content. How is waiting for something good content?

[Driavna]

I don't even mind the RNG. Like right now due to circumstances out of my control I literally can't pull the metaphorical lever even if I wanted to.

What makes me even more upset is that people defend this as good content. How is waiting for something good content?

Some enjoy stuff to hunt, also, probably most got all the field for places like South Front when it was current (I did like that) and were leveling chars and the like.

[DrWho2010]

Look this is no different than trying to get a EX mount earlier than intended. They will make it easier down the line to get this. Don't burn yourselves out over this to have it NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW.