Quote Originally Posted by Astralrisk View Post
Only real reason I see to do it is just to get the achievements for the 100/500 win achievements. Having unique mounts and titles, or a whole gear set in the case of Seal Rock, is a big enough of a chase for some people to try and farm out wins. Especially since their is a daily rotator for FLs, so it's technically more strict to try and farm out depending on people's schedule.

I know people also want to farm for series/job XP and tomes, but I only really see it being valuable during moogle Trove events where Wins gives you more moogle tomes I think? Maybe it might be the best content for farming Wolf Marks, which I think is a pretty good currency to spend if you play PvP a lot, but I don't know if FL is really the best place to farm out Wolf Marks(but I don't think a lot of people are going to form a premade just to farm wolf marks lol)
Yeah I never know what to do with Wolf Marks now I've got all the glam I want.

In addition to the win farmers, there's also a subset on the Discord servers who are most interested in "padding." Assuming the term means what it did a decade ago (maximizing damage/kills at the cost of playing sub-optimally in terms of team goals), it's again a rather troubling mindset.

Remarkably, I've even seen players report damage inflicted on a single attack (to six significant figures). Given that is only possible if you're using a you-know-what, which is a violation of ToS and bannable, it amazes me such a thing would be reported in a public Discord. It seems these people feel they are above the rules of the game. And if that kind of information is being shared publicly, I dare to think of the shenanigans that are being discussed via DM. I won't even get into voice channel construction that seems designed to facilitate win-trading, partly because I guess there could be a perfectly harmless explanation.

Overall, it's profoundly depressing.