Castrum grind might stop me from subbing

[HeiZei]

I see a solution, quit your job. You now have more time and you won't have to come home tired only to grind the same content over and over. Seeing as you will not be as tired you will have more energy and will feel more able to grind. :P

Honestly, 2.5 hours per piece of gear is not terrible. Many other MMOs would require more than that just for a dropped item that May or may not drop for your class

[Rushx]

Honestly, 2.5 hours per piece of gear is not terrible. Many other MMOs would require more than that just for a dropped item that May or may not drop for your class

the chest took over 7 + hours.... 1320 tomes = 14 runs at 30 misn each at best most took 45 mins

im scholar

[Rushx]

lol

/10char

[reaver84]

I've accepted the fact that I probably will never have the time to farm and gear up for Coil. I just hit 50 on Saturday. Ran CM for the first time last night through Duty Finder. It was a straight up speedrun, so while everyone was running ahead, I was still viewing the cutscenes. Halfway through, I hated the mentality of the group and became completely disinterested in even finishing the instance.

I'll find other ways to make the game enjoyable but that speed run mentality is terrible and completely ruins the atmosphere.

[Helzbelz]

I agree with the OP other instances should be Viable. Best Solution is add more instances, make Hard mode of low level instances, and allow some stones to drop off of primals (maybe 25 per Primal). Getting board of the same instance over and over will burn people out. When people Burn out they cancel their subscription. I remember Viable ways of gearing up for MC, ZG, and Kara meant you did some instances, some crafted gear, some quest gear (Epic Chest piece for warriors didnt Vanilla WoW) Heriocs during BC. There were many different ways to get to a minimum gear level and all took effort.

[Raxion]

I agree with the OP other instances should be Viable. Best Solution is add more instances, make Hard mode of low level instances, and allow some stones to drop off of primals (maybe 25 per Primal). Getting board of the same instance over and over will burn people out. When people Burn out they cancel their subscription. I remember Viable ways of gearing up for MC, ZG, and Kara meant you did some instances, some crafted gear, some quest gear (Epic Chest piece for warriors didnt Vanilla WoW) Heriocs during BC. There were many different ways to get to a minimum gear level and all took effort.

Tomes 'do' drop off of primals. Ifrit gives 10 Philosophy, and 4 Mythology per kill. Garuda gives 20 Philosophy, and 10 Mythology IIRC.

As I stated in my post, there are 4 sizable methods of obtaining tomes. If all you choose to do is farm CM, that's you, but don't say that it's the only viable way of obtaining tomes.

[Bizniztyme]

Tomes 'do' drop off of primals. Ifrit gives 10 Philosophy, and 4 Mythology per kill. Garuda gives 20 Philosophy, and 10 Mythology IIRC.

As I stated in my post, there are 4 sizable methods of obtaining tomes. If all you choose to do is farm CM, that's you, but don't say that it's the only viable way of obtaining tomes.

I'm with you, I'm convinced as well, most people that mention Viable, they just mean I can't do it fast enough. It's really weird to me, they complain that the game is too easy and too fast then all of a sudden they hit a road block where they can't get stuff fast enough they complain. Gamers for you, never know what they want.

[Raxion]

I'm convinced that you have no idea what the word "viable" actually means.

AK, WP, CM, and Praetorium all give very large amounts of "Tombs" (It's actually Tomestones, or "Tomes"). Most people on my server have moved to speed-running Praetorium now over CM, as it's apparently faster with good DPS. Just reaching my Mythology cap for two weeks has netted me enough tomes to gear an entire second class in full DL.

Tired of CM farming? Run one of the 3 other VIABLE methods of obtaining tomes.

[Blazn]

Just reaching my Mythology cap for two weeks has netted me enough tomes to gear an entire second class in full DL.

Ok this guy is completely full of shit one weeks cap gets you 600 philosophy so two weeks is 1200 and he claims that was enough for a FULL DL set.... Please make your bullshit semi believable.

[echogame]

If you're taking 60 min to do Prae/CM, you're doing it wrong. Should only take ~30 min. AK should take ~20 min. Don't go through DF, and instead go to Revenant's Toll and join a shout group. If you get really bored, change it up by running some HM Primals.

Also as others have mentioned HM dungeons are coming so that'll change things up.

If you don't like grinding anything to acquire end game currency to get end game gear, then this game just plain isn't for you. Please do not expect to have DL handed to you with just a few runs. We're all working hard to get ourselves geared out, including folks who "work for a living" and/or have families to take care of, by grinding what we need to grind. People do CM/Prae b/c they give you best tomes per time spent. You're free to do lower level dungeons/WP/primals. You're free to stop grinding for tomes.

(Btw what's with people insisting on double/triple/etc posting? Just go back and edit your original post to make it longer.)