Quote Originally Posted by HEC View Post
False - you can open any map including Pieste with any amount of people, even one if you "crazy" / brave enough.
Well it's your problem then, I always get map within 2 - 5 minutes tops.
1. We did peisteskin maps one day and they were winnable with 3 + 3 chocobos + a summons. Then we tried some another day and were fighting chimera with adds in a busy castrum. Our 3+3+1 were overwhelmed. The map fight difficulty is highly variable.

2. I usually do, too, but today there were 3-4 other botanists in the same area and it took around 15 minutes to see my first map. That was a boarskin. I'm OK with soloing (me + chocobo) boarskins, so I took it. If I had wanted a peisteskin, I might have been there another 15 minutes. (Actually, it popped right after the top of the hour... so maybe it was limited by one of those infamous "drop rate throttles" SE seems to use in its MMOs. Hmm...)