The Big Problem With Zodiac Farm

[Nekodar]

Wait, wait... i though you could buy 4 books only before 2.25 patch o.o

When you talk to the NPC she only have 4 books to sell you.
But that's because they are book-serieses and you can't buy Book of Skyfire II without completing Book of Skyfire I.
All books are available though.

The exception to the rule is the books for PLD, as those are divided into 7 for sword and 2 for shield.
4 book-serieses for sword, 2 book-serieses for shield.
That means 6 available books, as is mentioned when you do that part of the quest.

[ZeroRains]

its only been 1 week, an many people have already finished atma, an several have started the next phase. The OP said himself he is alread 3/9 on books, on another thread i just read a min ago, somebody said they were on book 6 or 7, there is a few people in my fc that are on their 3rd or 4th book. I think it is a bit early for ya'll to claim its going to take 2-3 months. And dont worry, in 3-6 months it will be nerfed so that everyone else can catch up in 1 day.

I know for myself, I've been a bit hardcore with it, spending 5 hours to cap myth. I'm not sure if everyone has that kind of time to invest lol

[Asael]

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All in all the grind here isn't too terribly bad but I can agree. I've been thinking the very same thing as I work on my books and grind out myth as to whether or not it's actually worth the time and effort. All I can say is after 13,500 myth tomes, dozens of hours invested, and whatever comes next after animus this Zodiac weapon better have a damn aftermath effect on it or something to that nature. Otherwise I'll just move on to coil weapons.

[Warlyx]

for animus weapon u need to :

farm 12 atmas (hours of farming fates , rng rng rng!)

Buy 9 books , 13.500 tomes (thats a grind itself)

each book is 3 dungeons , 100 monster , 3 fates , 3 leves x9 = 27 dungeons 27 fates 27 leves , 900 monsters

after all that work u get a weapon that is sometimes worse than Tidal wave weapons. (varies from job to job)

Zodiac Weapons will get upgrade later on but i guess wont be ever better than current top tier weapons. FFXI weapon had something special and that was a new WS (usually very powerfull) , maybe Zodiac weapons give players a new skill at the end (dont think so ><)

I hope we can exchange stats later on because some weapons are already gimped (S.speed sucks)

[Thorauku]

I hope we can exchange stats later on because some weapons are already gimped (S.speed sucks)

Now that you've mentioned it, I thought when they say we can modify our Weapon's stats. they mean we can actually choose what stat. we want? Or will that be implemented in the future?

[ZeroRains]

Now that you've mentioned it, I thought when they say we can modify our Weapon's stats. they mean we can actually choose what stat. we want? Or will that be implemented in the future?

Its either "Customize your stats" By choosing what you want to upgrade first out of the locked four, or actually being able to adjust stats on the weapon how you actually want them. If that was the case, it would defiantly be a worth

[Hysterior]

the problem is that it's boring and need lot of time
you play hours and not enjoy a second of it
that's really not what the game needs

[Ulathskullsplitter]

Everyone's rushing right now to get their Atmas so they can get to the book phase. I have a feeling alot of the people being labeled as casual are going to be happy just to get the color change and slow down a lot on the books. Everyone's just in a hurry right now to feel special showing off the color reskin. I know once I get my last 2 atma I will be slowing down and getting back to things I've been putting off, like farming coil to gear my alts.

[NyneAlexander]

Everyone's rushing right now to get their Atmas so they can get to the book phase. I have a feeling alot of the people being labeled as casual are going to be happy just to get the color change and slow down a lot on the books. Everyone's just in a hurry right now to feel special showing off the color reskin. I know once I get my last 2 atma I will be slowing down and getting back to things I've been putting off, like farming coil to gear my alts.

I'm in a hurry because I don't want to be the dude farming fates by myself when the bulk of the population is done with fates. Trying to finish a fate by yourself is reeeeeeeeaally boring.

[Deathscythe343]

I'm in a hurry because I don't want to be the dude farming fates by myself when the bulk of the population is done with fates. Trying to finish a fate by yourself is reeeeeeeeaally boring.

This is where I think the vast majority of the playerbase is right now.