[patch1.20] NO GC Seals to rank up!!!

[Jinko]

I can say with 100% certaintly right now the only reason the OP is complaining is because he spent all his marks already.

Haha first thing I thought when I read the thread title.

I personally have no problem with using GC seals to increase my rank we have known this since GC were first introduced hence why I have saved my seals.

[XStruckX]

I can say with 100% certaintly right now the only reason the OP is complaining is because he spent all his marks already.

yup good thing i didn't spend all my seals on manuals...

on a side note I really hope we get seals in exchange for guild marks... muahahaahahah

[Tadacho]

It's kind of like saying, "Oh there should be Weapon Gil for buying weapons and Armour Gil for buying armour because now I'm having to use twice as much Gil on getting both!"

[RemVye]

It's kind of like saying, "Oh there should be Weapon Gil for buying weapons and Armour Gil for buying armour because now I'm having to use twice as much Gil on getting both!"

He has lots of Complaining Gil for making complaints

[Zoltan]

It's kind of like saying, "Oh there should be Weapon Gil for buying weapons and Armour Gil for buying armour because now I'm having to use twice as much Gil on getting both!"

No, it's not like that at all.

It's about the rank system. It has absolutely nothing to do with gil.

Your analogy is not applicable.

[Kaizlu]

It's a way to encourage participation inside your GC. Don't see what's the big deal. And as others have said, seals will be easier to get in the next patch.

I'm ok with the direction they took. Given said that, I'm a little bit surprised about the amount - for some reason I wasn't expecting to see 1k or 1.5k seals needed to rank up; I was thinking an amount near 500 or so.

[RemVye]

It's a way to encourage participation inside your GC. Don't see what's the big deal. And as others have said, seals will be easier to get in the next patch.

I'm ok with the direction they took. Given said that, I'm a little bit surprised about the amount - for some reason I wasn't expecting to see 1k or 1.5k seals needed to rank up; I was thinking an amount near 500 or so.

I was thinking the amount of seals to rank up would be much higher... like 5,000. Very little will need to be done to get max rank.

[Eva]

I agree with the original poster, this is really dissapointing.

I would have preferred a series of missions (at least 3 per rank) required to raise in rank. The lowest rank you could do solo, the next rank would require 2 players to accomplish, the next 4 players. To attain the highest rank you would need a full party of 8 players to complete the final set of missions.

As a bonus and incentive for players who have already completed the missions to help out players who haven't, they would receive a significant amount of seals upon completion. You would have situations like a Storm Sergeant Third Class for example leading a group of Storm Private Second Class just like they would in a real life military scenario. Neat!

This would be fun and awesome, why not implement this?

The missions could be easy to create:

1) Kill 100 enemies in this area
2) Instanced raid (turn Darkhold into grand company mission, who does this anymore anyway?)
3) Defeat certain NM's
4) Defend the city from an attack (cool!)
5) Retrieve a rare medicine from a remote area to cure the princess
6) Submit a set of spiritbonded military issue equipment
7) Attune yourself to 4 specific aetherytes that are very challenging to reach
8) Attune yourself to all the aetherytes in your cities zone
9) Protect a caravan from your city to another
10) Deliver an important message by chocobo from one city to another in a certain amount of time

Implementing the grand companies is a good idea, but to make it a great idea, make it resemble real life. Soldiers are promoted by their action on the battlefiled not by speding military credits.

There is a lot of potential here, please take advantage of it. Making you feel part of the militaries in Eorzea could be a huge and immersive part of this game. Check out the anime series "Full Metal Alchemist" for a neat portrayal of a fictional military sytem. Also, the faction quest lines from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" does a great job portraying the advancement of a character through the ranks of a military system.

[normalforce]

I agree with the original poster, this is really dissapointing.

I would have preferred a series of missions (at least 3 per rank) required to raise in rank. The lowest rank you could do solo, the next rank would require 2 players to accomplish, the next 4 players. To attain the highest rank you would need a full party of 8 players to complete the final set of missions.

As a bonus and incentive for players who have already completed the missions to help out players who haven't, they would receive a significant amount of seals upon completion. You would have situations like a Storm Sergeant Third Class for example leading a group of Storm Private Second Class just like they would in a real life military scenario. Neat!

This would be fun and awesome, why not implement this?

The missions could be easy to create:

1) Kill 100 enemies in this area
2) Instanced raid (turn Darkhold into grand company mission, who does this anymore anyway?)
3) Defeat certain NM's
4) Defend the city from an attack (cool!)
5) Retrieve a rare medicine from a remote area to cure the princess
6) Submit a set of spiritbonded military issue equipment
7) Attune yourself to 4 specific aetherytes that are very challenging to reach
8) Attune yourself to all the aetherytes in your cities zone
9) Protect a caravan from your city to another
10) Deliver an important message by chocobo from one city to another in a certain amount of time

Implementing the grand companies is a good idea, but to make it a great idea, make it resemble real life. Soldiers are promoted by their action on the battlefiled not by speding military credits.

There is a lot of potential here, please take advantage of it. Making you feel part of the militaries in Eorzea could be a huge and immersive part of this game. Check out the anime series "Full Metal Alchemist" for a neat portrayal of a fictional military system. Also, the faction quest lines from "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" does a great job portraying the advancement of a character through the ranks of a military system.

Yup, this and this. Would've been fun. Perhaps they'll consider this for all additional rank ups.

[Dawiichan]

I don't really mind it considering there's a quest after each threshold of ranks.