Disappointed in Youkai Watch

[AlphaFox]

Well another thing is you don't HAVE to cram 2 months into 2 days. It was just released, spend maybe an hour a day and you'll do fine and be able to get it all. Currently have 3 weapons and 3 medals toward the next but I honestly think I'd start strangling fellow lalafells if I tried to get them all as quick as some of you.

I remember how back when this event was announced, Yoshi said he doesn't want players to get all the weapons and to just really think about which ones we want really badly.
Back then I thought "Bring it on! I don't care about the grind! I want them aaaall!"
But.
I never expected the method of obtaining to be MORE fate grinding. MORE RNG. I have the worst luck possible.

What makes it worse is the achievements that are locked with them. For people who are obsessed with those points they HAVE to get all 13 weapons or else they miss out. Honestly the mount doesn't even look all that amazing (unless it plays a different tune from the minion one?) but I just know I'd be regretting it if I didn't get the weapons for glamour purposes.

[Yurimi]

Well another thing is you don't HAVE to cram 2 months into 2 days. It was just released, spend maybe an hour a day and you'll do fine and be able to get it all. Currently have 3 weapons and 3 medals toward the next but I honestly think I'd start strangling fellow lalafells if I tried to get them all as quick as some of you.

I am averaging 1 medal every 30 mins (1 per 6 fates with between travel time and the fate itself are around 4-5mins based on the number of non legendary medals I have) I am not trying to cram it into 2 days but if I dont get at least 3-4 medals every single day then I cant get enough in 61 days (2 months). That means every single day I must spend with my average drop rate around 1 and a half to 2 hours. I think even for making it a daily activity over 2 months that is a bit excessive. Also keep in mind those who wait are going to have to do the fates without the massive amount of people so it will be slower making that time go up as more and more people stop the grind so waiting will only make things take longer and seem even more tedious.

[Cakekizyy]

I am averaging 1 medal every 30 mins (1 per 6 fates with between travel time and the fate itself are around 4-5mins based on the number of non legendary medals I have) I am not trying to cram it into 2 days but if I dont get at least 3-4 medals every single day then I cant get enough in 61 days (2 months). That means every single day I must spend with my average drop rate around 1 and a half to 2 hours. I think even for making it a daily activity over 2 months that is a bit excessive. Also keep in mind those who wait are going to have to do the fates without the massive amount of people so it will be slower making that time go up as more and more people stop the grind so waiting will only make things take longer and seem even more tedious.

I find FATEs easier without the hoard. All the hoard does is inflate difficulty.

[Deceptus]

Few people on reddit have done theirs with around 800 fates. 25% drop chance.

[ADVSS]

so like farming 200+ atmas? Might as well dig up my zenith and finish them all

[Atoli]

so like farming 200+ atmas? Might as well dig up my zenith and finish them all

That's actually what I did.

So. I tried the event anyway because I obviously should not be in charge of making decisions for myself..
They do a surprisingly good job of easing you in. After a crazy session of about 16-18 hours of straight fate grinding, I'm sitting at 4 weapons and a handful of other medals now.

Making this RNG based really sucks though. For once, I'm somewhat favored, but other people in my parties got 1 medal at most during all this time.
I really wish they gave us the option to trade in the normal medals for legendary ones, I already have like a hundred more than I can buy minions with. Now they are useless and it feels like they are taunting me everytime a FATE ends and no legendary drops but yet another useless normal one...

Even though it doesn't feel as horrible as original atmas (yet, thanks to the insane number of people rushing through FATES), I still won't take back saying it is the laziest event design I have encountered so far.
Which is even worse when you consider that they obviously put so much effort in all other categories designing this event, like how every minion has it's own unique look, music, motions, etc.

[SilkaN]

As for me, I don't have any problems with this event. I got all the minions, the first mount and the three weapons I wanted to get.
FATE grinding was mildly annoying but bearable. Guess I was lucky because I got legendary medals from like 3/5 to 4/5 of the FATES I did.

[Worldofwarcraft]

Does the fact that teleporting costs gil not break anyone's immersion? O.o

[Lambdafish]

Does the fact that teleporting costs gil not break anyone's immersion? O.o

There is a big lore discussion on that and duty commenced even covered it. With the calamity, a lot of aethyrites were destroyed, and thus had to be rebuilt. The syndicate in Ul dah ultimately paid out a loan to the eorzian alliance for the repairs, and thus put a charge on using it. You don't see it (gameplay logic) but when you use an aethyrite, you actually pay a syndicate representitive when you teleport. It is still not explained how this works for natural aethyrites in azyz lla, sea of clouds, and churning mists, but presumably, attuning them costs money for the syndicate.

[Evangela]

Legendary drop rate should be 100%.