Any confirmed reason as to WHY Myth is how it is atm?

[Seshayn]

Gone are the days of Philosophy, and Mythology has stepped up to take its place! Why are the rates so low? We used to get philo for all bosses, and Myth for the completion of the dungeon. At least, to me, that was how it seemed.

Soldiery is supposed to be better than Myth, yes?

So, how is it that for 1 run of the Expert level dungeons awards 50 Myth and 45 Soldiery?

If it was 50 Myth and 25 Soldiery, I could understand it. However, doesn't the fact that the both of them are so close, with a maximum weekly cap on one of them, seemingly devalue the soldiery tomes?

Add to this the fact that there was no reduction in gear prices pertaining tomestones of Mythology, and even the introduction of Animus Grinding, forcing someone to farm 13,500 Myth Tomes in order to acquire.... an... Item level... 100? Upgrade?

I'm sorry, but what? Has there been any clarification on the WHY from developers that the current 2.2 generation of tomes are gated this hard?

[Seshayn]

Sure, I am going to farm for the Animus regardless. God wills it, but I'm literally doing it for glamour. Leviathan EX is an EX Joke, easier than ANY of the other EX Primals, and oh look... Ilvl 100 easily farmable things... I just don't understand the severe amount of gear gating going on here, if anything, Myth is the one thing that shouldn't be gated this hard.

Don't even get me started on the "first 2 bosses of Brayflox HM lol" shenanigans.

The more I play this patch, the more confused I am. Having a ton of fun, just... confused and looking for some insight :P

[razzgrizz3]

poor planing/design. ass backwards japanese company. etc

[Fynlar]

They'll definitely ease up on myth drops eventually. They are being uptight with it now because of the relic animus thing.

It's the way of SE to introduce things as a ridiculous grind at first and ease up on them later on.

[skaterger]

Called it.

[Cairn]

I'm starting to get used to that already...

[MicahZerrshia]

Because philo stones were too available and ppl could gear way too quickly. They want ppl to take their time and not just burn through everything.

Look at philo, you could literally reach your 2k cap in hrs. I spent most of mine buying/selling synthing mats because I had absolutely nothing to spend them on.

Plus with the zodiac quests absorbing all of our myth it makes it so we do other content for gear instead of falling back on tomes gear. If you look at it in retrospect even the most casual can get at least 1 zodiac weapon done before 2.3 as well as get enough soldiery gear to make them viable in high lvl dungeons.

Not to mention a slew of new players coming with ps4, it makes it so we do our dailies, thereby helping new players get through low lvl and storyline dungeons. It makes sense if you think about it and without a cap or lockout timers theres no real block outside the small numbers.

I mean do you really need to finish a zodiac weapon in a few days? The ease of getting a relic is already too much, its just SE slowing us down and making us pace ourselves without making it overly difficult.

[JonBigwood]

Hi, myth tomes are easier to obtain now than before, and have no weekly cap. Fresh level 50 players can gear up easier, because of no CT loot limit and no myth cap. They can also obtain soldiery tomes when a bit more geared.

The problem is the huge amount of myth tomes needed for the animus upgrade, not the difficulty to obtain myth tomes. And you need them after doing a huge number of fates with a random atma drop. It's a way to avoid people doing everything available and obtaining every item available too soon, before the new content is ready.

People wanted more open world content: they have it now, a ton of fates if you want the atma.

The noct upgrades are also quite difficult.

I agree it gives more appeal to trying to obtain upgrades in other places than the relic upgrade. People will want the relic upgrade anyway eventually because in the future it seems there will be more upgrades. In the meantime if they want a better weapon they might have it quicker in other places. Coil does not have the weekly limit, drops there are not as extra difficult to obtain as they were. Extremes will be easier with higher gear too, and more exp people to meet.

[Hysterior]

each dungeon dive less but we have more daily roulette so by doing a bit of roulette every day you cap your soldiery and get your myth
I think it is enough, apart from bahamut, could drop more myth i think...

[JonBigwood]

I think it is enough, apart from bahamut, could drop more myth i think...

Coil gives less tomes than before but there is no weekly limit. As it takes less time than a dungeon it's not that bad, you can repeat if you want and the time/tome ratio may not be so bad.