Rising Event

[Jojoya]

Why not make a damn schedule then? No one wants to check in every hour for 10 hours. People have jobs. Basically everyone in my fc who knows there's a second part to the event has thrown it in the too hard basket cuz no one really cares about the earrings. The other half didn't even realise this instance existed. I've had to write in our company board explaining that you may have to wait 10 real life hours for this event.

There's been some questionable decisions made recently but this one has really given me pause.

I'm just super sad there's this great instance that people are going to choose to miss because it's too time gated to do.

A schedule of 3 hours up/10 hours down (if that's what is happening) means no one should miss the event since the spawn times will be changing daily. It's easy enough for someone to create a spreadsheet that will list the spawn times through the end of the event if it's a set pattern and post it. Then players can check to find the next spawn time convenient for their schedule.

Assuming that is how it is timed, for the remainder of August the NA data centers will have start times of:

Tonight (Aug-27/28) 2am EDT/11pm PDT

Aug-28 3pm EDT/noon PDT

Aug-29 4am EDT/1am PDT and 5pm EDT/2pm PDT (already hitting prime time for the east coast)

Aug-30 6am EDT/3am PDT and 7pm EDT/4pm PDT (prime time central and mountain)

Aug-31 8am EDT/5am PDT and 9pm EDT/6pm PDT (now prime time for west coast)

Unless you're one of the rare people who have a totally crazy work schedule, it should be active at a time convenient for you sometime this week if this is a set pattern. Even if you do have such a schedule, with the event lasting 3 weeks it's bound to coincide with when you're online at some point.

I got to do it last night and it was fun. I don't care about the earrings either but I did stock up on the novelty items. I plan to go back when I can to level up alt jobs since the XP per FATE looks to be good. I got 36.8k per FATE on 68 WHM compared to 32.4k I got when I did a level 50 standard NM FATE in CWH to compare. Certainly it will be a good change of pace for those leveling alt jobs in the 30-50 range and decent even for 51-60 (over 60 the XP doesn't amount to much but it's still a fun way to pass time).

Don't let the awkward start get you down. It's worth doing at least once just for fun.

[SummonerSenah]

Even so, the poor way it has been handled so far has already left a bad taste in people's mouths. If a person's schedule means that they won't have an opportunity to do the instance until halfway through the event's run, or when the event is close to ending, it's hard to imagine that they'll enjoy it after waiting so long.