Change Alexandrite's "Morbid Motivation" for DR High please

[BobbinT]

With the recent addition of 2.5 dungeons, I can't help to think that the quest needed for Novus alexandrite are a bit too much for requiring expert roulettes.

And since the Novus upgrades are past 2 major patches, wouldn't it be wise to allocate the quest to high level roulette instead? Think the work we have to do for current dungeons are too much for upgrade that's 2 patches lower. Plus, this should give high level roulette more purpose other than just the daily bonuses.

Farming alexandrites on other optional methods becoming not much easier. Even the so-called added chances of drops from FATEs still highly unreliable. And soldiery are not helping since we need it alot for other upgrades like Zodiacs. Allied seals from hunts even got worse since ppl start farming like crazy for ironwork upgrades, got friends that complains how he/she can't get alex quicker anymore since rank A zerged so fast.

Please move this quest requirement to high-level roulette.

[Nekodar]

10% drop rate from FATE now according to reports.
Increased soldiery from most/all instanced content.
Increased Allied Seals from hunt, including Daily/Weekly.

The increased difficulty of the daily quest is more than compensated for by the other improvements even if you discount hunts as one way of obtaining the alexandrites.

[Fynlar]

Yes, alexandrite comes easier from other sources now. No, that does not change the fact that this particular quest is not balanced well anymore for the reward that it offers.

There's been other similar complaints along these lines (for instance, several folks brought up how comparatively difficult it became for fresh level 50 players to obtain "myth" i90 gear in 2.4 and work your way up to the point where you were actually even allowed to enter the dungeons that dropped this gear, than it was prior to the removal of myth tomes) and they have heard them and recognized them, so I think this issue was still worth bringing up.

My guess is that a loooooooot of things are going to get retooled around when Heavensward hits, and I think if the level cap increase to 60 doesn't make all of this a moot point, they will probably make their adjustments then to enable the newer players an easier way to work their way up.

[Ellatrix]

Are you seriously complaining that a dungeon you can't afk123 through needs to be nerfed? Really?

[BobbinT]

Are you seriously complaining that a dungeon you can't afk123 through needs to be nerfed? Really?

I don't think that's related.

Also, afk in dungeon? really? lol

[Fynlar]

Are you seriously complaining that a dungeon you can't afk123 through needs to be nerfed? Really?

Oh look, it's this guy clearly not reading the topic again.

It's honestly a wonder that he's as successful at the game as he claims.

[madolyn]

honestly, if you do your daily map quest, thats 1 free alex, then do your DRE, DRHL, DRLL, DRstory, you net somewhere around 400 soldiery for another map. thats 2 maps daily. Factor in daily and weekly hunts and thats like another one or two per week. So even king casual, you can earn roughly 17 alex per week just doing dailies. thats in the ballpark of 68-70 alex for the month...i'm sure you can get 75 in less than a month if you work at it.

I'm currently working for them myself.

edit: i also forgot to mention, all wings of CT reward 100 soldiery each so thats another 300 per week just doing the weekly quest and not factoring in how many times you will probably run WoD for that piece of gear you might want each week.

[Fynlar]

honestly, if you do your daily map quest, thats 1 free map, then do your DRE, DRHL, DRLL, DRstory, you net somewhere around 400 soldiery for another map. thats 2 maps daily. Factor in daily and weekly hunts and thats like another one or two per week. So even king casual, you can earn roughly 17 alex per week just doing dailies. thats in the ballpark of 68-70 alex for the month...i'm sure you can get 75 in less than a month if you work at it.

Not the issue. The rate of alexandrite acquisition is not what this thread is about. We all know it's been made easier overall.

It's about this particular quest and how it's no longer balanced for the reward that it offers. I mean, it won't actually do this most likely (no idea what's coming up in xpac), but imagine if it kept progressing at this same pace, requiring dungeons that needed i100, i110, i120... for a small part of upgrading your i100 relic. You don't see the problem there?

It'd be like if the base i80 relic weapons suddenly needed clears from the extreme primals instead of the HM ones, just to obtain the same i80 weapon.

[madolyn]

but imagine if it kept progressing at this same pace, requiring dungeons that needed i100, i110, i120... for a small part of upgrading your i100 relic. You don't see the problem there?

It'd be like if the base i80 relic weapons suddenly needed clears from the extreme primals instead of the HM ones, just to obtain the same i80 weapon.

the new dungeons are pretty faceroll easy so i still dont see the problem or the issue other than you can't plow through DRE in 15 minutes like the old ones anymore. Besides, the last paragraph from the OP shows that it was about "quickness" of obtaining alex.

[BreathlessTao]

Never understood how people are stuck on alexandrites of all things. Have had all I need for the one Novus I want, for like two weeks now. And about two-thirds done with the melds, because I can't be arsed to SB that much for random luck or sell my soul for materia. I mean, really. How is anyone complaining about not having enough alexs - and not about not having the necessary materia? @.@ Surely, all the dungeons drop more than enough soldiery. Heck you can SB even farming hunts. Shouldn't all that yield enough to get the necessary alex too? @.@