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

[Megido]

Leviathan EX is an EX Joke, easier than ANY of the other EX Primals, and oh look... Ilvl 100 easily farmable things...

Suuuuuuuure. Easily farmable i100. Unlike doing fates and brayflox, right?

Anyway, they simply want us to take longer to gear up. And with so many myth being dumped into an NPC, their value should stay higher for a longer time than philo did.

[Seshayn]

Levi EX is easy. Fast. And doesn't require prep work. And for half, if not more than half, of the classes in the game it is a better upgrade than the animus. I like that the animus takes so much myth. What I dislike is how undervalued soldiery is because of it.

The best option for farming myth is to do Brayflox boss 1 and 2 with heavy aoe damage dealers. A close (ish) second could be turn 4. The reason for this problem is the lack of myth from the final boss.

Old Hauke Manor HM - Top Tier Hard Mode of 2.1 - 20/0 -> 30/0 -> 50/50 Philo/Myth Correct?
Brayflox HM - Top Tier Hard Mode of 2.2 - 20/0 -> 30/0 -> 0/45 Myth/Soldiery Correct?

With this formula, you can see that Soldiery stands at nearly the same value in 2.2 as did myth in 2.1
Why then, with the removal of Philosophy tomes as an acquirable item, does the myth drop rate remain the same?

[Seshayn]

I am not saying the current myth ratio's are incorrect, what I am saying is that if the current myth ratios ARE correct, the soldiery ratios are NOT. They are FAR TOO HIGH.

Also, the problem of 2 boss brayfloxing needs to be FIXED by redistributing the myth tome drops of all dungeons to include the last boss as a source of myth and not just soldiery.

Suggestion: Instead of Brayflox HM - Top Tier Hard Mode of 2.2 - 20/0 -> 30/0 -> 0/45 Myth/Soldiery Change to
Brayflox HM - Top Tier Hard Mode of 2.2 - 10/0 -> 15/0 -> 25/25 Myth/Soldiery

[Kuwagami]

Leviathan EX is an EX Joke, easier than ANY of the other EX Primals, and oh look... Ilvl 100 easily farmable things.

You got it wrong here.
Garuda is easy as hell if people can focus a bit

titan is even easier (probably the easiest Ex primal) as soon as noone lag AND know the rotation

Ifrit is... not even worth mentionning. Only way to die is to be with complete beginners OR pushing the enrage (or killing nails too fast for healers, meh)

Leviathan isn't harder nor easier. If you know what to do, it's easy. Else it's a mess and it's a wipe fest.

But well, only the most capable players are past Titan so... ofc it'll be easier (and even so, a lot of players fail horribly at levi Ex...)

[Seshayn]

Where exactly did I get it wrong? Leviathan is EXTREMELY forgiving. you can't even get knocked off until halfway through, he gives you an insanely high amount of time to dodge, the healing mechanic for the off tank doesnt matter because the tail damage is laughable for a light party trash mob, the entire arena is useable, his patterns are simplistic from start to finish... The only thing he is is a slightly higher gear check. A fight of repetition, to me, is judged as easy when it forgives you for your mistakes. Titan doesn't forgive you for mistakes, nor does Ifrit, Garuda? Meh mechanics wise it's more difficult than Levi. It's also tuned much lower, so that one if a toss up. an on gear level garuda is far harder than an on gear level leviathan.

[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.