A8 Farming

[hobostew]

I did A8 13 or so times this week and I only had 2 abandons. A couple of the other runs had some hiccups but usually we got it down on the second go. Did em all through the DF. Them bad rolls, though! Oh lordy! I think I was still hearing the theme playing in my head for a few hours after I finally won a shaft.

[EdgeFayth]

I chose a different way. I rolled for crank only on A8. People just roll on shaft or spring.
So I actually cleared A8 twice: first time last week, then this week. And got my two cranks.
I bought the Lore body and craft pant. Thus, my left side is i220 in two weeks without any hard farming.
Easy

[Paladinleeds]

If I played on Balmung, I'd offer to run with you. I'm generally quite an upbeat guy and my stance would end up being to refuse to roll myself until you'd got your item (and if you had to go, I'd carry on alone no qualms). Then again, I'm often considered too nice a guy... I have got an alt on Balmung so if I can be arsed levelling and gearing that up I could help. We'll have to see what happens.

[Youkulm]

Sounds like you've just had some bad luck in DF OP I'm sorry.

I've had no issues with A8... I think I experienced a wipe once on day 1 or 2 of release and that's it. Good healers can mostly carry people not doing mechanics in the normal mode fights.. so wipes are pretty nonexistent as the mechanics are much more forgiving than in Gordias.

I hope your luck turns around.

[Yukiko]

1st: Very bad idea to add 6 new different items. what makes it worse is that those are just tokens (placeholder). On the current inventory space discussion its way too much!
2nd: Letting those item only drop in specific content. SE is too scared that content will die out, but forcing players doesnt help either - it just causes more frustration!
3rd: To be honest: First time I have seen in NORMAL mode (story) a boss going enrage frequently with different groups. Havnt SE said it will be mechanic based fight and not DPS check?

There is a reason why content will die out, and mostly because its no fun!
Stonefarming is much more fun than midas gear farming, just because you are not forced in a specific content... well... in theory because primals with 10 or less stones is a joke!
SE is calculating from a player who can do 24/7 the same content - lets say the fight duration is 2 minutes and you get 1 stone each time = a lot in 24h -> thats an inhuman calculation!

[Colorful]

3rd: To be honest: First time I have seen in NORMAL mode (story) a boss going enrage frequently with different groups. Havnt SE said it will be mechanic based fight and not DPS check?

You can't expect your DPS members to click one button and clear, I've not wiped once on it due to an enrage and I've run them more than quite a few times now. Not dependant on a DPS check =/= being able to be done by people who aren't even trying enough not to try. We don't need SE to encourage bad players even more than they do now.

[Rikku1987]

Wipes? it took me 2 tries in DF last week, oneshot it both times this week.

Its a matter of luck...
i tried it with randoms @ duty finder, wipe over wipe. Last pull ppl seemed to get mechanics but we hit enrage....

lol. We do it static only now.

[Synrin]

You know... Sometimes some groups just don't work out. Sometimes we would vote dismiss and the next group we would join would clear it from the first try.. It is based quite heavily on luck. That is why I joined an FC that is absolutely amazing and we almost always have 7 people out of 8 for farming Alex.

[Theodric]

Farm with friends

Easier said than done, unfortunately. Finding seven other people to get online at the exact same time can be very tricky - especially with conflicting schedules/time zones/interests.

With that said I generally find that the Duty Finder is generally decent. Yes, I get bad groups - but the majority are generally pretty good. If you're wiping more than once, though, sometimes it's best to just leave and try again.

[MXMoondoggie]

Some days are just bad for it. Yesterday One of the people from my FC wanted to get the weekly down for the weapon token and I wanted it too so we went in and went through like 3-4 groups who wiped and wiped on stupid stuff. The first one the other Tank didn't know how to Tank swap at all or split damage think he was brand new but wouldn't admit it or listen when told what to do. Spent all his time ordering others around. The rest of the runs people were just taking easy to dodge damage and not splitting damage in the circle for some reason. Those circles with arrows pointing in mean the exact same thing everywhere and people still don't seem to understand. We had it in Void Ark last boss for how long now?

In the end we had to get others from the FC to come clear it which we did without many problems. Some days in DF I've had really competent groups that make things simple just some days it's like there is something in the water that makes people completely fail at everything. Everyone makes mistakes but some people just don't learn.