Sephirot, Nidhogg, Sophia Mount from Totem Exchange when?

[Nezerius]

I wouldn't expect them to release before 3.55. Nidhogg is only a patch old and still more than capable of wiping groups even at ilvl 250. As for why they're holding them back, they want people to keep farming. Only Sephirot is really "old" at this point. I constantly see Sophia parties in PF and even the occasional Nidhogg. Increasing the bird drops means once people get them, they'll likely have no reason to touch any of them again.

3.55 would be way too late to add the Nidhogg bird to the vendor.

I'd expect them to be adding the Sophia and Zurvan birds to the totem exchange vendor in either 3.55 or 3.56 (2.x primal mounts droprates were buffed in 2.56), as a further incentive for players to continue playing the game. You have to keep in mind that the entirety of the 3.5 patch (3.55 included) will be around for longer than the other patches. Going by the current patch cycle, we'll likely see 3.5 mid or late january, followed by a space of almost 5 months until the expansion's early summer release.

[Amnesiac]

I would expect them to add the Sephirot, Nidhogg and Sophia birds to Bertana's shop in 3.45, if they were going to continue releasing them in three's. They likely will wait to add Sophia's until a later patch, however. It would be nice if they'd let you purchase the mounts with 99x totems right away, since I personally am against the RNG nonsense (seen way too many bad players get the mounts). Being a skilled player and having done 112 runs of Sophia and losing on 11 birds, I'd much prefer something that requires effort as opposed to something that's sheer luck.

[bounddreamer]

I got the Sophia bird on my 90th clear so I'm pretty happy about that. The only bird I need now is Sephirot and I'm holding onto 99 totems because Sephirot farms have been impossible for months now. It's a fun fight and I love it but people on my server are absolutely terrible at it and no one is doing it via RF.

[Amaya-Asha]

1ST clear on sophia bird drops i lot 91 but a 99 beat me. My rule on mounts is i like to get it but won't farm it its just to frustrating.

[Blim]

130 clears on sophia, seen whistle drop only twice, rolled single digits. Abysmal drop rate

[Lunavorsa]

There's a certain rush to get 99 totems now because you know the server RF is gonna lax up as the patch ages. You still have players doing mechs properly now, give it a month or 2 and everyone's gonna try to ignore mechs and "push dps"

Thats why i'm gonna try to get my remaining 24 tokens over this weekend and forget about ever looting the mount from the fight T_T

[Izularia]

Won bird in my 1st kill

Go away D:

[Vele]

Yep, just sitting on 99 goddess totems now, waiting for the whistle to be buyable. Since I bought a weapon as well I'm at roughly 109 clears, seen the whistle maybe 3 or 4 times, didn't roll over 30 on any of them, so yknow, whatever. I was far luckier with ravana (about 25 clears), bismarck (60), and eggnog (50), thordan took about ~250 though (I kept spending my tokens on weapons to desynth, I deeply regret that when they later added the whistle for 99 tokens. Managed to get my bird before I had a stack again though). At 64 fiend totems however, not many people pf that anymore and I do not trust rf for sephirot ex...

Would be nice if they added seph, eggnog, and soph birds in the shop in the next patch... feels like it might be a tad early for sophia bird to be added, but maybe we'll be pleasantly surprised... though I think we'll all be sorely disappointed instead.

[Lunavorsa]

But if you count strictly on the time of implementation. you could say that when they implemented the 99 totem policy, Thordan is considered relatively new i guess, if you compare it to Ravana and Bismarck of course.

So i'm really really hoping they'd give sophia her 99 totem too. Please SE

[Bourne_Endeavor]

3.55 would be way too late to add the Nidhogg bird to the vendor.

I'd expect them to be adding the Sophia and Zurvan birds to the totem exchange vendor in either 3.55 or 3.56 (2.x primal mounts droprates were buffed in 2.56), as a further incentive for players to continue playing the game. You have to keep in mind that the entirety of the 3.5 patch (3.55 included) will be around for longer than the other patches. Going by the current patch cycle, we'll likely see 3.5 mid or late january, followed by a space of almost 5 months until the expansion's early summer release.

Not really. Thordan was added in 3.35-- nearly a year and a half following his release. If 3.55 were released in say, April. That would be roughly the same timeline. Nidhogg is only four months old. They aren't going to make totems available that fast since no one will touch him afterwards. As for patch cycles, I personally estimate we will see them as follows:

3.5: January 10th
3.55: April 25th
Stormblood: Sometime early July

If they do a minor patch in between, thus making it 3.55 and 3.56, then we'll probably see Nidhogg totems around February. I doubt anytime before.

I would expect them to add the Sephirot, Nidhogg and Sophia birds to Bertana's shop in 3.45, if they were going to continue releasing them in three's. They likely will wait to add Sophia's until a later patch, however. It would be nice if they'd let you purchase the mounts with 99x totems right away, since I personally am against the RNG nonsense (seen way too many bad players get the mounts). Being a skilled player and having done 112 runs of Sophia and losing on 11 birds, I'd much prefer something that requires effort as opposed to something that's sheer luck.

The reason they don't is your 112 runs likely meant jumping into Party Finder. If you were guaranteed a bird after 99 attempts, you'd now have no reason to touch Sophia EX. With the cross server PF being implemented in 3.5, we'll be pulling from everyone on our respective data centers. Basically, they want you to have some measure of bad luck to assure you'll keep doing the content. Once its old enough people have generally moved on, they then buff the rates to get people back in and offer an alternative method to beat RNG since it isn't relevant content anymore.