Mount Farming and the 99 Totem Issue

[Raven2014]

a clear indicator from SE that they do not care about your personal time.

New flash, they made an MMO, in which the raison d'etre is to waste your time. This is like complaining about the tobacco company not care about your health.

What makes it worse is that many players defend it, either because they acquired the mount early on, slogged through the trial 99 times and feel everyone else should suffer like they did, or just generally enjoy wasting away countless hours of their life on one instance.

There is one thing you get right, and that is some people just generally enjoy wasting time. As I said above, I'm playing an MMO, I'm literally wasting time for which I can use toward much more productive and healthy activities. That's why I at least make those time enjoyable. Since stormblood I run most EX well into the hundredth (I think I clocked in ~220 runs on twintania), and for the most part, I enjoyed those times, not antagonized over them. You know my secret?

- It's the perfect testing ground for new classes. There is only so much you can practice on dummy, and I don't want to trap people fumbling around in savage. EX is the place where I can practice while still do meaningful contribution.

- I use it to cap weekly tome when I needed instead of running roulette or daily. A bit less efficient but more fun, and go toward multiple goals.

- I set a daily limit of 3 runs a day, unless I just feel like I want to run more (and thus can enjoy it). Like really, with the time frame between when the EX come out and the token exchange become available, just 2 runs a day will net you 99 totem long before that. Heck, I can even suggest more extreme, wait a couple expansion until you can solo the instance, or when they made it into the moogle quest. That's exactly what I did for the Phoenix mount.

At the end of the day, I have multiple reason to run EXs, getting the mount is just one of them.

And before you say "but I run out of thing to do but to grind" than just take a break. I had often come to the game defense on here, but even for me, I know how to take a break. After hundred of savages and EX runs, I legit arrived at a point where I think I don't have any contents left to play. So ... I decide to take a break, today is actually the last day I can post because my sub run out tomorrow. And I won't renew it until the next savage tier patch. It's not hard.


Face it, the only reason it feels like a grind to you because you want it ASAP and throw yourself into it. SE made a game, it's not their fault some people decide to turn it into a job.