Fleece no longer an option

[Annah]

Bad news for Weavers...Bots have so overrun the 6 sheep for fleece it's almost impossible to get them. Now they sell for 60,000 gil for 99 pieces.

Good news is, say screw it and level to 50 on Linen and Leves.

I used to take a FC group out and get the fleece and compete against the bots...now the bots added the gathering teleportation method to the mods. Meaning they instantly teleport on top of the mob and agro instantly. With a full group this is even near impossible.

We reported three bots four days ago using this method (almost 3/4 of all the bots are using the teleportation instant agro method now). Today we tried to get about 99 pieces of Fleece to gear up our FC. Those same three bots were still there...this was after our FC group of five reporting them as well as 10 others who witnessed them doing it.

Competing against others is fair game. Competing against a teleport instant agro bot is not.

1. When we report these bots...please look into it.
2. Add more options other than 6 or 7 sheep
3. Weavers: Do not give the bots the time, day, or gil. Skip fleece and do Linen to 50 and then try to gather some later for the later gear

Video showing hack (for diremite but it's the same for fleece):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAi7c...ature=youtu.be

Credited to Engineer for filming this

[LoLo]

pretty crazy if its really only 6-7 sheep in the entire world that drop fleece when in 1.0 fleece was easier to come by and much cheaper lol.

[indira]

the world in general is to small so there limited spots.

[Annah]

it's literally 7 sheep. That's it.

That's fine...if you are near end game weaver ok...make it challenging to get it. I understand that. It's fine with me.

what I don't like is the bot 2.0. The bot 1.0 used to grab mobs near them and you had a fighting chance with a group to pull them from the bot. Bot 2.0 will literally teleport on top of the mob with an instant agro pull. literally the millisecond the mob pops it's purple and the bot isn't even there yet...then one second later the bot teleports on it.

We reported them since Tuesday...same ones are still there.

[Gilthas]

I really hope that before I reach the fleece range of Weaver that they add fleece to more mobs to counteract this.

Its ridiculous that only 6 mobs in the entire world (well, mobs outside of "instanced" content) drop fleece. Hell, they should add these sought after drops to Guildhests to give players a reason to do them more than once.

[Luthia]

So Glad I have 8 stacks of fleece ^_^

Oh and there are more than 6 Karakuls spawning in the area, 8-10 I'd say ( I know 9 for sure, but I've seen Karakuls in a diff area of Coerthas, just never bothered to check how many Karakuls spawned there).

[silverhope]

I gave up on farming fleece due to bots..

[Lemon8or]

Glad I have enough Flax to level myself to 50 (should be, if not I'm just gonna put on my Botanist's pants and go gather some). This is just ridiculous that fleece is so rare to come by. Adding to the insults, SE is not doing anything about gathering bots or teleport aggro bots.

[busta]

I'm going to upload a video soon showing me getting a stack of fleece in an extremely short amount of time without camping a single thing. Camping and competing with RMT is not the only way to get fleece. It's a really bad and inferior way even if you had the camp all to yourself. Leves, people.

[Norbi]

I agree that the situation is pretty ridiculous at the moment. Just thought I'd pop in and mention that there are more than 7 sheep, though. There's the ones that spawn immediately south of Camp Dragonhead, but there's also another group that spawns further south (directly east from that southern fort, the one with the super long name). Not that it really helps much since that spot is often flooded with bots as well. =/