Buying an EX Mount for 99 totems right away instead of waiting 8 months...

[Shuscatz]

I don't mind waiting for the mount. It is surely rng and some people are lucky and some are not, maybe you won't get the mount easily now but a few more extremes later you will win the first drop you see.
If they would let us buy the mount right now the content would die very early. Like imagine most people who does extreme farm the 99 totems out in 1 month and later parties wouldn't fill.
People like to farm extremes like madmans early on (including myself), but later doing a few runs a day trying to keep our hope is a good thing in my opinion.

[SeriousPan]

If they would let us buy the mount right now the content would die very early. Like imagine most people who does extreme farm the 99 totems out in 1 month and later parties wouldn't fill.

I think if someone has helped fill PF for 99 runs of a single duty then they have earned the right to get an item and bail. It's not very player friendly to demand they keep coming back to get something they really like and watch others get it based on pure RNG while they consistently and constantly do the hard yards.

I've seen the mount twice and rolled a 22 & 23. The two winners rolled high 90's so no chance in hell. At least the first mount drop went to a guy who was helping us clear a blind run so he earned it with good karma so I'm not too mad about it.

[Isala]

FFXIV already has the most boring systems out of pretty much any other MMO.

Slightly edited your comment, but that's what it feels like at this point. We're nowhere near the early glory days when they were throwing stuff at the wall to see what stuck, ripping all the best parts out of other MMOs so that 1.0 became a distant memory. They haven't innovated for years, and even the crap they do borrow from other MMOs are the worst versions possible. The new blacklist system is honestly one of the best examples I've ever seen. It was absolutely useless for a decade, and they STILL haven't actually managed to make it reach the standards of other MMOs. The fact that you can get into an instance with someone you blacklisted is an absolute joke.

[Edweirdo]

I'm 30 totems in and I have never even seen the mount drop for anyone, I know its the "prestige of getting that rare mount", but after while it does feel boring , I already start to feel like i don't care anymore... Like the initial fun of learning the fight ,having mechanics dow perfectly and being excited for the drop only lasts so long, after a while its just tedious, and grinding out 99 tokens to get the mount who knows when... literally kills every excitement for it. And ppl who grind out the tokens still get it eventually, so why is this artificial time period induced on players? We already sunk in many hours of grinding it out, what difference does it make ?

[Awful]

Speaking of farming why are we getting 1 totem per clear? Fights like Hades EX you get 2 per and same with "cutscene" fights but why isn't it 2 by default? At least then I'd be like "cool I ran it 50 times I got my 99 totems" it doesn't solve the issue but at least I don't have to run it another 50 times.

I know they wanna stretch game time by allowing you to farm as much as you want but when you see people get lucky after their early clears but it doesn't make it less miserable, yes I know no one's forcing me to do it but I'd at least want the game to respect people's time and my own instead of waiting months to a year to buy a mount that will get its drop rate buffed anyway.

[Bellybell]

I don't mind waiting for the mount. It is surely rng and some people are lucky and some are not, maybe you won't get the mount easily now but a few more extremes later you will win the first drop you see.
If they would let us buy the mount right now the content would die very early. Like imagine most people who does extreme farm the 99 totems out in 1 month and later parties wouldn't fill.
People like to farm extremes like madmans early on (including myself), but later doing a few runs a day trying to keep our hope is a good thing in my opinion.

implying those people don't already farm 99 totems at this point? you were dead wrong.

[Aniise]

Speaking of farming why are we getting 1 totem per clear? Fights like Hades EX you get 2 per and same with "cutscene" fights but why isn't it 2 by default? At least then I'd be like "cool I ran it 50 times I got my 99 totems" it doesn't solve the issue but at least I don't have to run it another 50 times.

I know they wanna stretch game time by allowing you to farm as much as you want but when you see people get lucky after their early clears but it doesn't make it less miserable, yes I know no one's forcing me to do it but I'd at least want the game to respect people's time and my own instead of waiting months to a year to buy a mount that will get its drop rate buffed anyway.

They've done this since Shadowbringers if I remember correctly.
The first two trials always just gave you one totem, while the third and the ones after it started to give two. Trial 1 and 2 in Endwalker did this too, which especially made farming Zodiark a real pain...such a boring fight.. x.x

I personally think it sucks, too. Like...I farmed this boss like crazy, got really unlucky and now I have to wait 8 months until I get my reward so that feels like rubbing salt in the wound. I thinks it's fine for the droprate to get higher after a while, sure. But I don't understand the long waiting time before you can exchange your totems...makes no sense to me.

[Shuscatz]

implying those people don't already farm 99 totems at this point? you were dead wrong.

There are probably people who did farm 300 totems and no win, but those people are still going back with the hope getting a high roll if they are that desperate...
Also people are buying mounts in pf for like 2m/person. If somebody wants to get it, they can pay a small price for it.
And please understand the weapons are rewards too and sometimes people buy it from totems because people can't differentiate between greed and need.
The problem is not the system, we are the problem. We always have problem with everything and if they change something... well, the problem is the new change.

[Drkdays]

50 kills so far and I've seen the mount

drop

once.

I did not win the roll.

I'd really like the mount added to the vendor immediately. I really don't mind having to farm 99 tokens since the drop rate seems so terribly awful, but then having a useless currency rotting in my bags for months at a time feels more than kinda bad. Needless to say, I have long since won all the accessories.

[crovius]

Just got my 99 totems here from extreme 2, seen the mount drop a total of 5 times. Working on Extreme 1 now and at 38 totems currently, the mount really should just be available to buy once savage hits, not this horrendously long waiting time period of like 2 patches cycles.