Field Notes are ANNOYING

[Starshower]

I think it's a nice system! It makes you spend time in a zone and grind it, increasing the longevity of the content. I had all but the 3 from duels before, and now I'll get the ones from zadnor. I want to farm zadnor because I want to have max honors eventually, so I'm in no hurry, they will come to me as I do fates... and in the end the few that are left I can focus down and farm.


I never did a duel, but I heard they are really easy now on caster, if you stack certain lost actions. Apparently that way you can kill them in 1 minute, which doesn't sound bad at all! The worst will be the gil investment to get such actions in the first place!

[Greydor]

Just an FYI, there are multiple components to having a (rare) note drop and I'm thinking that the drop rate is not working as intended. I've opened a bug report for them to review the issue of the extremely low drop rates to see if it is, in fact, working as intended. If it is, great, but I think it needs to be reviewed, especially with the limited opportunities per day one has to obtain the card based on auto-spawn rates of fate chains and CE's.

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...ng-As-Intended

[Caurcas]

That quote from Hyperia highlights the absolute failure of PvP Feast rewards. The devs have desperately been trying to convince people to give it a go yet it remains on life support. Why? Because people think they have no shot at scoring top 100, thus the carrot isn't appealing. It's the same with the Hairstyle, though it being sellable sort of made it manageable.

Oddly enough that could be smoothed over if they put old season reward up for purchase via the wolf collar system.

[IkaraGreydancer]

guys it's been one week. EW is 6 months away. give it time. no need to rush and have it now. you'll get it eventually.

Months since EW came out. Dozens of attempts and still certain notes just won't drop. So I'd say OP is on the money

[LaylaTsarra]

What notes you looking for?

The hardest notes for me at least are 17, 44 and 45. I personally prefer 17 to the other two given you can get the same note drop in Dalraidia from that 3rd chest before you get the one you want. Yes some are a pain like 11 and 14 but they will drop eventually.

I've got 5 bikes so I've been through the slog more than once.

[Vitallian]

The fact that we still don't have any way other than duels or a CE/Skirm to get them is ridiculously bad design. Honestly though, most of Bozja's design with skirmishes and CE's is pretty bad and i'm not talking about the mechanics in them more so how to get some of them to spawn. There never should've been a "kill these guys until it decides to wants to exist" system, they instead should've just went with a timer for everything and once something popped and got taken down the next one on the timer should pop in....instead we've got this.

I'm about to just write it off as a dead concept and just not bother going back into it mount or not. Making something like this with such a poor system just ruins it.

[Iscah]

There never should've been a "kill these guys until it decides to wants to exist" system, they instead should've just went with a timer for everything and once something popped and got taken down the next one on the timer should pop in....instead we've got this.

Agreed. The need to kill enemies to trigger CEs means that instances can be very sparse on CEs depending on what activities people are doing. It wouldn't feel so bad if you earned mettle from individual enemies.