Regarding: Centurio Tiger mount

[Bacent]

People had been asking for a Tiger mount for ages, and when they finally gave it to people it was locked behind lifeless achievements. I'm perfectly ok with people having an exclusive Cerberus mount from PvP rankings, I am throughly pissed off though that the one thing I was hoping for to be a mount is locked behind stuff you either have to ignore everything else in game and solely focus on.

I'm on Cerberus, and most of the time I'm trying to hunt, there are people that pull it and kill it before I can even get to the part of the map it's on. I know this is an MMO where we have to work with others to get things done, but people who pull everything before you have a chance to even get there makes achievements like these a damn pain in the ass to even attempt.

[Recaldy]

Should be a 99 token item where you buy said token with Centurio seals.

[Reaperking386]

Sometimes you need a long term goal.

[Bacent]

Sometimes you need a long term goal.

There's long term goals, and then there's goals with artificial difficulty due to other people making it take longer than it needs.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Sometimes you need a long term goal.

Long term goals are fine. The issue people have with this is you have no control over said duration. There are only 29 S-Ranks available every three days. As the OP noted, it would take almost a fully year just to complete half the requirement, assuming you never missed a single S-Rank. What further irked people isn't just the requirement either, but the fact they chose an oft requested mount as the one to put behind such an enormous grind. I guarantee you wouldn't see this much push back if RNG wasn't involved. In fact, not that many complained over the mentor mount because you could do it at your pace. It's the RNG aspect people hate. You can't say... do five hunts today, skip a few days, then do fifteen later to make up for it. Each day you miss a S-Rank just means you're that much further away from getting the mount.

[SnugglesD]

I think we found the eorzean socialist party.

[Robert_Ilcri]

The issue with getting this mount currently falls into a few things;

1. S Ranks. They are on a timer and only spawn every now and then. Sure theres a 'decent' number of them in game but its still not enough considering you need 2000 of them.

2. Early pullers. I don't know about your servers but on a busier day of Cerberus you're lucky to arrive at a hunt. Because as soon as its found, the early pullers are on their way. I've seen cases of S ranks being found and less than a minute later it is dead because of impatience. Makes the first point more valid due to the 'time gate' as someone put it. I've been playing since 2.x and still barely break 250 S ranks.

3. The Seals. I ran a calculation on this and while I don't recall it fully, the number of seals this thing is worth for getting those 3000 A ranks and 2000 S ranks is ridiculous. Why not make it a token item like someone suggested? It'd be more fair to people who can't spend all of their sub time simply waiting for hunts (Those with work, kids, etc)

All in all, this mount just feels... aimed at people who do nothing but wait for the next hunt call. Why is it locked to such a select few?

[Unease_Lemming]

All in all, this mount just feels... aimed at people who do nothing but wait for the next hunt call. Why is it locked to such a select few?

On the contrary, it's aimed at people that actually go out there and SPAWN the S ranks, instead of just waiting for callouts. The people that insist they miss every S rank because early pulls? Those are generally the ones that just sit at aetherytes waiting.

On Behemoth we have a person/FC notorious for early pulling, yet when I go to try spawning S ranks, they're some of the only people I ever see out there putting in the effort.

[Fluffernuff]

Part of me feels some sort of empathy to those that truly wanted the mount be achievable in a way that is.... kinder for them.


But the other part of me wont agree with them until they have better reasoning than "I want it." You can want in 1 hand and empty your bowels in the other. Complaining and demanding on a forum is the latter.
I'm sorry, that's not feedback, that's a tantrum.

Not so passive aggressive jabs aside, "hardcore" achievements like this, I feel, either need some sort of ramp-up. a "ladder" of sorts. Titles don't feel very rewarding along the way. Even the frontline wins have those glamour pieces... Though, I can agree that it would be nice if the Tiger was.... a tier lower in requirements than it is. At least now, when you see the Tiger, you can realize what that person went through, for how long, and the dedication it took to get. If you'll pardon me being sentimental for a moment, that is sorely lacking in MMOs.

[Vexander]

I honestly think I would have preferred the tiger mount being a Mogstation Mount rather than what we have right now.