Thread: Questionable decisions on patch 2.35

Originally Posted by Alphras

No. But if you really want to farm seals, you can just trade in the myth gear that you could get extremly cheap from hunting.

Edit: And yes, it was an exaggeration(I think, didn't do the math), but it is still funny how you can hunt for everything you need and how they keep encouraging people to hunt with this patch. Makes me wonder what the future will bring...

Ah yeah. That's a good point. I didn't think of the myth gear. Also, that was just an honest question. I wasn't trying to call you out or anything. Hopefully it didn't feel that way.

Originally Posted by AxelDH

Primal Weapons can be exchanged for GC Seals:
Now everyone will be rolling on weapons they didn't previously have any interest in, to exchange them for seals. This will effectively make it harder for people levelling desynthesis to grab the weapons they're looking for, and lessen the already small supply of Demimateria (i.e. the level 95 gear will be even more expensive to make). Wouldn't it have been better to make these fights reward you with a small amount of GC seals instead?

I'll just touch on this point. Unless you can need on the weapon, you have no greater claim than anyone else. It's like rings/gear that drops in dungeons, my desynth claim does not and should not outweigh the contribution of the others.

The spirit bonding restrictions in dungeons is going to do a lot more damage than the issue of guaranteed materia from i90s. I don't even need to go to the market to know it's broken right now. How some of this stuff makes it past QA is astonishing.

They could have made their restrictions only apply to left side gear. Your right side spirit bonders were not the problem.

Chocobo training could have easily been tied to your respective Grand Company stables which is accessible by everyone.

Exactly - Except it wasn't, so once again, how am I "wrong" and "spreading misinformation" when, as I stated, at present time it's tied to Free Company Housing, thus makes sense? Your whole post was to "correct me", after all.

You can freely choose to ignore other viable alternatives so that it better fits your own arguments

See? Your whole point was to just personally attack me, not to correct me as no one ignored anything as nothing was stated in terms of alternatives, but that they disliked that it was tied to it. So as I stated, point me into the direction of our personal house or gardens..otherwise your personal attack was just petty

Originally Posted by AxelDH

Hunting:
I'm not sure if making B ranks effectively worthless (for most of the week) was the best fix. Now we have 17 fewer targets to hunt for, but just as many people looking, making the rush of people going after every A rank even worse.

I'm not sure this is true... Previously, joining a Hunt LS and hunting Marks of all levels was the only practical way to get Allied Notes in a reasonable amount of time. Now, with the boosts to Daily and Weekly Marks, a player can earn enough AN to pick up a Sands of Time every three weeks, which is pretty reasonable. Sure, you can still get Sands faster through hardcore A and S hunting, but players who wish to avoid the stress and drama now have an option available to them. I'm certain many will take that option.

It's crazy how many people are at A's now that they have taken away the incentive to do b's. I was always one who would tele to a B because everyone else was always like "bleh it's B rank it'll be dead before I get there" sometimes they were right but most times you were able to get full credit and it was incredible quick/easy seals.

Originally Posted by Dwill

It doesn't make sense to tie it to a Content System that is restrictive when there is an unrestricted one readily available. That's the issue.

Even though I have an FC with medium housing I agree with this 100%. There was no good reason to tie chocobo raising into housing, other than to give people a reason to get housing. The problem is that the majority of FC in this game do not have housing so right now we have this content that everybody is dying to participate in but most people cannot participate due to lack of housing options available.

I hope when personal housing comes out they have a hell of a lot more than 6 wards because the new fc ward is already filling up on my server and there are a hell of a lot more people than there are FCs.

After looking at the full effect and thinking about it, the changes are all mostly positive.

Crafted ilvl90 gear is actually sought after now for spiritbonding, since you can easily do so; I can spiritbond a full set in less than 4 combined expert roulette/ST runs, versus 9 ST runs or 20+ expert dungeons before. Once people complaining about materia start to realize that, artisan crafters will be everyone's BFFs.

Everyone will have a chance at a reward they can use from the primals, not just the crafters. If you really want the items to desynth, get a group to farm them, preferably with a crafter that has leveled desynth skills other than your own. Doing a PUG and relying on other people not to care isn't going to net you much anyway.

You can get allied seals without running between zones and having multiple hunt ls's. It took me a little over an hour to finish off a leftover daily and then the new daily bills yesterday, most of that time was waiting in duty queue or fixing/eating dinner (waiting on FATEs)

Originally Posted by Dwill

It doesn't make sense to tie it to a Content System that is restrictive when there is an unrestricted one readily available. That's the issue.

I have to disagree. SE has tied lots of things into lots of different content systems for the sake of players giving lots of different things a try. Fate are connected (to an extent) to crafting by the crafting mats bought with grand company seals. This is just one example.