Rowena's Token/ Horse Mounts

[Velox]

Please never make it token based, ever. People will just easily collect them all.

That's essentially the only point of having various mounts, to be able to collect them. This is because they offer no other bonus outside of pure cosmetics. It would be a different story if X mount was 5% faster, but an incredibly rare drop. Then it would be worth it to farm for. As of now, there's no reason to pursue the primal mounts other than to collect them (which easily warrants a token system).

[ruskie]

Well I don't mind titan ex(I find titan enjoyable anyway) or iffrit ex... Garuda ex though still have nightmares of that...

[Loony_BoB]

Can we please have real rewards from stuff besides cosmetic things and mounts that are the same speed? There is no incentive to get it besides looks, and the low drop rate makes me stay as far away from it as humanly possible.

If you insist on trying to bait people to do these can we have REAL items? Thanks.

You mean like pretty much 99% of the drops you'll ever get from a primal fight or dungeon? Those weapons and gear do exist.

[Alukah]

Not surprised, this is the same company that takes bad decisions with every single content update, I have yet to see a single content update where they didn't screw up something or didn't see something coming (I'm still laughing about hunts).

[Illa]

Primal mounts are designed to be the rarest items in the game at the moment, due to this we currently have no plans to ease up on the acquisition of these rare mounts. In the future we will look into ways to ease up on this, but the timing isn't right just yet.

They are only deemed the rarest, because they are not farmed enough, due to the fact that they are too "rare." I personally feel the drop rate should be raised a tiny bit, to incentivize players to kill it more. As it stands, I personally feel it is a waste of time. No one here really wants to farm a primal that yields no more gear they desire from it for an infinitesimally small chance at a mount that could possibly never drop over 100 times...

[Meier]

You mean like pretty much 99% of the drops you'll ever get from a primal fight or dungeon? Those weapons and gear do exist.

Nah, I mean the 1% gear that comes from coil, that is...how do you say, the best? And until hunts came out and ST, EVERYTHING worth getting came from one...place. None of the other stuff is worth getting...period. So don't even give me that.

[Chiral]

Primal mounts are designed to be the rarest items in the game at the moment, due to this we currently have no plans to ease up on the acquisition of these rare mounts. In the future we will look into ways to ease up on this, but the timing isn't right just yet.

I have been trying to farm the mounts, but it is very hard to get people to join for EX primals anymore. Maybe instead of making the mounts less rare, something can be done to make doing the old EX primals more desirable? Additional drop or lots of soldiery tomes or something like this.

[CrystalObsidian]

I agree with this 100%
Just because earning the tokens will make the horses a bit more common, doesn't make them any less special.
Besides, players (in this game especially) like to know that their hard work isn't in vain. So I think going from 100's of primal fights and lost loot rolls, to a few weeks of grinding for a GUARANTEED reward will be a much better system.

[Kio]

I agree with this 100%
Just because earning the tokens will make the horses a bit more common, doesn't make them any less special.
Besides, players (in this game especially) like to know that their hard work isn't in vain. So I think going from 100's of primal fights and lost loot rolls, to a few weeks of grinding for a GUARANTEED reward will be a much better system.

I honestly thought this was supposed to be the philosophy, at least it was stated early on in the game. You have a chance at getting something for free through a completion drop, or as an alternative, you can save up consolation prize tokens to eventually buy what it was you were seeking. The later of which would take a very long time and a lot of grinding. It was still as much work as grinding anyway for the treasure drop, but gave hope and motivation to the unlucky..

Course I've seen so many different systems and changes of rules in 2.0 since launch I get the feeling they're testing out different strategies this last year to see what works best for the community. Which is cool, albeit a little confusing at times.

[Hiruke]

Still curious: What is the thinking of having items be rare due to random chance, and not due to skill? Is FFXIV akin to online gambling? I didn't come here to play pachinko.