Suggestion: More Apkallu Egg

[Wadoka]

...And maybe also an Apkallu endboss in a dungeon?

Now... now you must face the dreaded attack, "Sardine of DOOOOOOM!"

[Wulfyn]

Would it be possible to give apkallu the same treatment that the sheeps got in Coerthas?

Apkallu are only on one area, limited in number and their eggs are required for so many cooking recipe.

Thank you

Add Night Milk to that list lol

[TomTom1968]

So you complain that the prices on buff food are too high and complain that there is nothing to spend all the gil?

Uum no. Maybe read again? I'd like to have the eggs for my own supply at a reasonable rate without having to do it at 4 AM under the week in order to not find them camped by bots and people who only want to sell them for their profit.

[Hiraki]

Instead of increasing the drops how about they actually do something about the bots that sit out there and farm them for days at a time :x

[Felis]

One way to combat this would be for SE to put a cap on how many of an item you can farm in a given period of time.


It would stop the 24/7 botters from endlessly gathering crafting ingridents.


Then again, I'm sure someone would complain that they had the day off from work and wanted to gather 9999 of an item and are being hurt by SE's new policy.



There's really no way to win

Would be no bad idea. The same they did in 1.0
You could only gather X Items in a period of time. If you hit the cap your gathering start to fail. Gathering leves were not included in the cap so people can still earn exp with the DoL.
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/990...=1#post5222761

[Lyrro]

I am opposed to this.
I do not farm them, BUT SE adjusting drops and putting once harder to farm items on NPCs is the main cause for the economic disruptions we have seen. If I had my way the NPC should only sell mats that you need to get to level 10 in any crafting and let the players (Land and hand) provide the rest.
Why even have DOL and to some extent DOH if every time someone needs a mat and either has to by it or find it in the wild complains and SE just puts it on a vendor?

More than one spawn/drop location for any item I can get behind and agree with.

p.s . Bot are not really a big deal, you can mess them up big time but hijacking the agro and resetting the mobs. And then report them and hope SE does what they have said that the would do in the past and ban-hammer them.

There's a bot on my server named Mirabelle Goodea, and my fc has dedicated a linkshell to having fun tracking her down and killing her. She's been reported literally hundreds of times for botting and is constantly flooding the market with materia. Don't count on SE to be bothered with the ban hammer, as they've obviously got more important tasks on their mind.


A lot of the arguements I've seen go either way, some want the drop rate for rarer items increased because they don't want to spend time having to farm for the item and they've won more times than not with SE going overkill in their attempt to appease these people. Some people don't want the drop rate increased because the economy in FFXIV is pretty well screwed in a lot of servers because of bots farming every item that sells for more than 100 gil to the point that the prices plumet to single digits and players are very limited on what they can farm for profit these days.

For my part, I'm going to have to side with someone else who suggested that, rather than increase the drop rate or size of drops, increase the number of places it can be farmed. Since the complaint is in the forums now, and SE does so enjoy trying to appease every person who cries "this is too hard" they will probably do the same as they did with diremites or fleece and increase the size of the drop which does not fix the problem that a lot of people have with this, which is that they're having to compete with bots for a small number of mobs.

A tank can easily pull a bot away from a mob by aggroing that mob, but a lot of players cannot do this because often times, the mob dies too fast to draw aggro for healers or dps. Myself, since I have no current tank classes, the best option I have for competing with bots is getting a tank from my fc to come move the bot or using insta-cast abilities to get aggro before the bot can.

[Nadrojj]

More spawn points for Ornery Karakuls in Coerthas were added. That's the similar treatment I would like to see given that apkallu eggs are required for 7 of the level 40+ cooking recipes. They are artificially scarce and camped by botter, restricting access to the rest of us.

If you can't out claim those terrible egg botters you should be ashamed of yourself. We have botters on balmung that camp the rock and bot all the spawns there, it's super easy to outclaim them, you should try harder not ask to make the game easier.

[dcdistro]

point is nadrojj you shouldnt have to be competing with them ...

[Nadrojj]

point is nadrojj you shouldnt have to be competing with them ...

This type of attitude is the reason we have the game we currently do, no one wants to try and they want everything handed to them.

[Kittararae]

Why make things so dang easy. Leave the eggs alone and move on. This is how the market gets ruined. Next people will want easy Night Milk drops. Everything handed to them.

I miss FFXI before all the nerfs. It was annoying, but looking back I really miss the challenges.