Suggestion: 99 totems = 1 lanner whistle

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

At this point in this thread, whether it's been suggested to the dev team or not, can we get some official feedback on it? Devs, community reps, hell even Yoshida, what do YOU think of this?

Edit: Perhaps 99 posts here = 1 official feedback on it? :P

[Uhm]

99? I think 200 is better, mounts that drop from bosses aren't supposed to be easy to get. If you can buy them with tokens then at least make it 200 runs like the tank mounts.

[Dorander]

99? I think 200 is better, mounts that drop from bosses aren't supposed to be easy to get. If you can buy them with tokens then at least make it 200 runs like the tank mounts.

Doesn't matter to me. I'm currently sitting with 260 expanse tokens.

[AlphaFox]

Hell screw it. Make it like scrips if we wanna do that turn 99 Ravana tokens in for a Ravana Idol (or whatever) and turn 3 in for the mount.

[Dorander]

Hell screw it. Make it like scrips if we wanna do that turn 99 Ravana tokens in for a Ravana Idol (or whatever) and turn 3 in for the mount.

Cause nothing says: "You earned it!" like making a mount a 40 hour job if RNG screws you over.

[Cherie]

At this point in this thread, whether it's been suggested to the dev team or not, can we get some official feedback on it? Devs, community reps, hell even Yoshida, what do YOU think of this?

Edit: Perhaps 99 posts here = 1 official feedback on it? :P

The community reps are the one you should address your comments to. We have to go through them to have a dev hear anything. :P At least, that is what I've seen on the threads that have official responses, a community rep will relay some message. I have a feeling the community reps read the forums for threads that they think the devs would be interested in, pass it on to them, get a response, translate it and post it here... But, I'd imagine they have their hands full, so I doubt they respond to everything of course, probably just the few best threads they see.

[Morningstar1337]

Cause nothing says: "You earned it!" like making a mount a 40 hour job if RNG screws you over.

INB4 "Primal Mounts are Special Snowflakes that must be rare or hard!" comment number 54321

[Dorander]

INB4 "Primal Mounts are Special Snowflakes that must be rare or hard!" comment number 54321

btw I wasn't just pulling that number out of thin air. At 8 minutes a pop for a successful run, at 300 runs for a mount.. that is 40 hours of NOTHING but doing an extreme run.

[Airget]

Certain rewards should just remain as RNG otherwise you just take away from the joy of finally getting a drop you've been working so hard towards. See it's a give and take. Think about XI for a moment, there was a bunch of loot that you could only get through the luck of RNG and guess what, it was a lot harder to get that loot time wise than it is in XIV. In XI there were timed mobs that dropped unique loot and only one party could get it, kill and it hopefully get that one drop one person could use. FYI the current loot system to Savage is fairly accurate to how timed mobs worked and you know people don't always like how it can be restricted and your choice to choose is limited based on what decides to drop that week.

At least in XIV for 90% of the content or heck 95% of the content, your limiting factor is your own tenacity with the content. And at most you only have 7 others to compete with for certain rare loot. So I dunno, I think some items should remain RNG, when you start to make everything a guarantee at X you only support the idea of burning players out because they know the goal that is no longer a maybe I'll get lucky this time mentality. So if you had to do 500 to guarantee the mount, you would push those 500 fights to guarantee it and then you would burn out. In RNG style you might try 25 here and there and take a break every now and then but it's knowing that goal that can set people to go supersonic, just look at how people pushed when grinding the relic trial with the lights. They knew the goal and how many fights it would take for x content and because of that many including myself pushed because it was a known goal, not an unknown.

[Zumi]

I agree with that. I know eventually the drop rate will go way up by next xpac but why not give a sure way to get it now.