Lets talk new Mounts!

[Bixby]

Here's the part that's missing from the English notes about the achievements. Google translated from French.

* We will continue to adjust the conditions for obtaining such deeds when new updates, depending on the added content and changes the difficulty of the existing ones.

The German (again, Google translate) goes like this:

A part of the achievements has been added the condition "a high-level content in a full squad (eight players)." These are the following contents:

Zenith of the Gods - Garuda / zenith of the Gods - Titanium / zenith of the Gods - Ifrit / Royal confrontation (extremely) / Meandering shadow of Bahamut - Encounter (except level 3) / Interlaced Shadow - foray

* With the upcoming patch or other content to this category can be added.

Between the two, to me, it sounds like only the listed instances count.

[Instrumentality]

No, you dont. Well, actually maybe you do.

99% of my extreme primal kills have been done as a Paladin or Warrior. All of my Coil kills have been done on Paladin. I don't think I'll meet the requirement for Warrior, but I should have it guaranteed on Paladin.

[Alice_89th]

From the Japanese patch notes:

一部アチーブメントの達成条件である「高難易度の8人用コンテンツ」は、パッチ2.2では以下のコンテンツが対象になります。
"The following contents are applicable/qualify for the condition "difficult 8man content" that counts towards certain achievements."


※新規コンテンツの追加や、既存コンテンツの難易度緩和に伴い、「高難易度の8人用コンテンツ」に該当するコンテンツは、パッチごとに調整される可能性があります。
※The content qualifying for "difficult 8man content" may be adjusted each patch to accommodate for the addition of new content or a relaxation of the difficulty of existing content.

Colouring is merely there to show you that I changed the sentence structure in my translation.

[EvilHippie]

So i have mained war since release, and pld is my secondary class. I have better gear than the extreme fights so i don't really need to do them. I run roulette as a tank pretty much constantly for tomes and what not. Why then do i now have to go do content i have no need, nor desire to do to get a mount that is being touted as a "reward" for people who have tanked up until now, when it seems endgame fights only count? And as i read it, correct me if i am wrong, this is not retro active.

The lack of tanks does not effect 8 man content except maybe Relic weapons questline. It effects people trying to level their classes to 50 through the duty finder.

[FantasyForever]

So i have mained war since release, and pld is my secondary class. I have better gear than the extreme fights so i don't really need to do them. I run roulette as a tank pretty much constantly for tomes and what not. Why then do i now have to go do content i have no need, nor desire to do to get a mount that is being touted as a "reward" for people who have tanked up until now, when it seems endgame fights only count? And as i read it, correct me if i am wrong, this is not retro active.

The lack of tanks does not effect 8 man content except maybe Relic weapons questline. It effects people trying to level their classes to 50 through the duty finder.

I get the idea SE is going for but it's not a smart solution. This wont make people want to lvl a tank.
I personally don't like doing 8 mans on my tank. I prefer to use my tank for 4 man content and do 8 man on my whm or drg. I really hope they adjust this to include 4-man lvl 50 dungeons.

[Mjollnir]

Suddenly there's an even larger deficit of tanks in 4-man content whilst all tanks concentrate on 8-man content for their new mounts...

[Spiderjeru]

If 'active tank' were the requirement, how about doing a run through all the content UP TO level 50?

[GerMagic]

Suddenly there's an even larger deficit of tanks in 4-man content whilst all tanks concentrate on 8-man content for their new mounts...

Yeah, that's the problem :P

I love tanking, and I actually intend to sometime find a static (which seems to be fairly hard though, as like 95% of all guilds are french on moggle and my french is incredibly bad^^), but this mount won't help the problem of tank-shortage. Well, I guess a few people with infinite time might level a tank now, gear it up for the 8mans and at least play for a short while in the tank-shortage thats called 4mans, but it will only last that long and probably affect very few players...


Well, at least with the new EQ and all you might finally be able to do extremes/ Coil via Dutyfinder, so in a mere year or so I might get my lion ^^

(That being said, I don't critizise these mounts, but they shoul've done something else too, for those that tank 4 mans on a daily basis, maybe a different mount, or a pet thet resembles these mounts or something).

[juniglee]

lol I do not doubt that you spam run roulettes on a satursday evening but trust me when I say you are absolutely unique in that regard than. Because 23k gil a week is fkin PEANUTS. You must be very poor in game to be that desperate. As for me, I tend to spend my time a bit more productive.

23k gil a week from ALL sources is peanuts yes. 23k gil for 30 mins a day is not. Keep in mind that this is only bonus on top of the once a day bonus of 1500 gil. I don't claim to be overly rich, but I have made money selling off food, 2-star crafted gear, etc. So just doing roulette once a day gives you 33.5k gil or so a week. Provided you are not spending, this is pretty damn good from gil generated from the server, not by transferring gil around. Especially in this economic slump, where nobody is buying, and everyone is saving money to buy housing.

Not saying it's the only source, for example you definitely get a lot more doing peisteskin maps, but this is more payout than the NQ Cobalt Ingot leves in Saint Coinach's Find. For virtually zero effort.

Suddenly there's an even larger deficit of tanks in 4-man content whilst all tanks concentrate on 8-man content for their new mounts...

Perhaps they hope to also alleviate that by introducing seven times the gil reward for the adventurer in need bonus. Which I would expect would still be tanks in 2.2. Perhaps it will change for the first few weeks, but I believe once the initial hype dies off, people will go back to playing DPS and healers.