There should be other ways to obtain the Field notes.

[Ayrlyn]

Done castrum over 80 times at least Im close to buying lyon notes with totems right?

[-Tiamat-]

I've never posted on these forums. I generally don't engage with topics, but I have to with this one. I am disabled, about the only thing I can do is sit in order to not be in pain. I've spent the better part of two weeks farming for the last note i need in the southern front, Sart. I have spent about 12 hours a day farming the three fates that drop the note and out of all the groups, out of all the people I've met, out of everything, I have NEVER seen the note drop. I am literally wasting my time in the southern front as the mettle is crap, the lockboxes are crap, the duels literally just one shot you, and the gear is completely worthless to me. I have several STACKS of 999 coins and absolutely nothing to use them on. Every single death sets me back about 10 fates worth of Southern Front fates. THERE IS NO REASON FOR ME TO BE HERE EXCEPT FOR THIS SINGLE ITEM.

This is literal insanity and I am done playing this game. I can understand a grind. I can understand farming something in this game - knowing you're getting close to your reward. I've beaten Sart's stupid face in so many times why the heck can't I write up my own lore notes about him? This isn't the reason I have decided to stop playing for a time, but it is one of the many that have piled up. I am so sick and tired of these lazy RNG designs in these games simply to keep people playing content that honestly sucks, and they know it sucks.

[HeyMcFly]

I'm 6 days now on just Dyunbu my morale is effectively zero and I spend more time afk then trying to do anything , like the mettle returns in the southern front or so awful I feel as if I'm making no progress. It's so crushing I just want it to end Dyunbu will not give me mercy.

I finally got her notes from "For absent friends" I ran bozja for hours each day for more than a week, it wasn't quite 2 weeks- then it finally dropped for me
I only ran her skirmishes & ignored all others- that's how abysmal her drop is
It will eventually drop- just ignore all other skirmishes except hers & make sure that there isn't any ! icons for skirmishes, go pop those & let them fail, run back to dyunbu locations are- preferably near the crystals so you can teleport if need me

[Val-K]

Day 16 since patch release. Spent over 4 hours a day on average in Southern Front doing nothing but trying to spawn "For absent friend" fate chains. Got it about 3 times a day. Scare to go into Castrum in case i miss it.

I liked the Bozja lore and places (Zadnor and Southern Front), now it looks to me like a daily compulsory punishment.

No Sartauvoir note ... i'm standing at 49/50. I'm exhausted

[DamianFatale]

I have every single note except for Menenius now. What I'm not looking forward to is the fact that because its the same chest as Lyon part II, I believe that Lyon part II can STILL DROP. It is possible I might get multiple Lyons before I get Menenius..

I really wish at the least that they had made TWO chests for that fight, giving each chest a different note drop. That way you at least will eventually get it no matter what, even if it takes a little time. I could get the wrong field note, much to my dismay..

Another good solution would to be able to trade in an extra Lyon for a Menenius note at the historian.. It would be fair to trade one for the other after all.

[Pixiechitos]

I only need Lyon II and get my third Menenius today. Imagine turning in a Menenius for a lockbox. *edit. I am on 6 Menenius now. I think I need a break from FFXIV. It's ruined for me.

[Oichi]

I only need Lyon II and get my third Menenius today. Imagine turning in a Menenius for a lockbox. *edit. I am on 6 Menenius now. I think I need a break from FFXIV. It's ruined for me.

I fully understand you. I have been chasing Lyon I and II with no success for too long. And I burnt myself out in Delubrum (my bad). Now I just dont feel like doing anything, tbh. I know it's not a good attitude to play a game, so I am taking it very easy, logging in here and there until my sub runs out. Maybe by then I will feel some motivation again, we will see.

[Didi06]

I stopped the game and I resumed for a month and I think already stopped when I see the drop rates of the notes on bozja I made at least 200 times the random for the 11 notes I am desperate. you have to be stupid to put drop rates so low

the farm is uninteresting we are in the stupid farm like I had never seen it in final fantasy.

[Val-K]

Dear SE,

I entered Southern front for my daily punishment in order to get my last note from Sartauvoir. Someone told me the fate chain hasn't pop for nearly 1 hour so i was hopeful to spawn it in a reasonable time.
We killed literally a gazillion scorpion, clear the fates around like no camping here, had the 2 others duel chain done and we waited and see all the other CE come and go

My timer run out and i haven't seen the "for absent Friend" chain during the 3 hours !

I'm far past furious, i'm starving and i wasted 3 hours

Do something please, exchange note against coin or even against x amount of run of castrum or dalriada .. anything rather than this time wasting rng upon rng

[Theodric]

I'm tentatively hoping that the drop rate might be adjusted when the next patch goes live. The RNG is definitely annoying, though - I don't necessarily mind low drop rates but it's particularly irritating when there's multiple layers of RNG such as Lyon's and Menenius' notes being tied to the same chest.