Mount Farm, but in Ultimates please.

[AlphaBetaEpsilon]

Hello people I don't know,

I have cleared TEA about 30 times now and UCOB a little over a dozen, UWU I don't like so much so only 1 there. My point is having excess totems seems tragic after you bought all the weapons. I would love to trade a Perfect Alexander mount for 99 totems (still got ~15 extra on me).
I don't have too much motivation to go back in TEA, but helping friends who didn't get a chance to progress that amazing fight would be a bigger motivator, because no way a single group will clear TEA for example 99 times though it wouldn't surprise me. Trying different roles is always fun.

I'd imagine Ultimate Weapon for UWU, and Golden Bahamut for UCOB too with 99 totems. No mount drop chance is fine. And the Dragonsong Ultimate later, Nidhogg? idk yet on that one. Thoughts?

(Each having an enrage mount skill would be a cherry on top; like Golden Bahamut enrage mount skill to cast Akh Morn on a target but 0 damage lol, Ultimate weapon maybe the lifting of the player and moving them into a circle though nothing happens, and perfect alexander jailing a player for a second or two. )

TLDR: Want bigger motivator to help friends with their ultimate clears with a 99 totem mount farm like in Extremes, but for Ultimates. Have a good day, and have fun in Endwalker soon I definitely will.

[Hanayumi]

While the Ult glowy weapons are nice, most dont really care too much about them, but toss a mount into Ults and expect sooo much backlash, lul.

[Recon1o6]

No thanks, its hard enough getting a group for these.

we should get weapons for the newer jobs though to enhance replayability

[Dewslam]

The cool, and unique, weapon visual effects should be motivation enough. It's exclusive content for the like 1% of the 1% who isn't satisfied with savage raiding and wants something harder; there's no particular need to focus on giving it an increasing number of exclusive rewards non-ultimate raiders can't get.

[Nezerius]

The cool, and unique, weapon visual effects should be motivation enough. It's exclusive content for the like 1% of the 1% who isn't satisfied with savage raiding and wants something harder; there's no particular need to focus on giving it an increasing number of exclusive rewards non-ultimate raiders can't get.

While Ultimate is definitely hard to clear, "1% of the 1%" is exaggerating a bit too much.

Using ffxivcollect (a website used to show collections/achievements in XIV), it shows that 9.3% have cleared Ultima Weapon Ultimate at least once. In comparison, 21% have completed Eden's Promise (Savage) at least once.
Now, the disclaimer here is that the website obviously doesn't show the data from every single character ever created. However, the sample data should be large enough to create a rough estimate on how many players have cleared an ultimate compared to how many have cleared the current Savage tier. That's also excluding the amount of players who are still attempting to get an ultimate clear.

OP's suggestion doesn't sound like it'd take a significant amount of resources either, since it'd be reusing models from the fights itself. And while clearing it 99 times sounds like an absolutely insane grind, it's not like XIV doesn't already have a bunch of those anyway.

The reason there are no Ultimate mounts is because SE doesn't expect most players to do Ultimate. In their words, you are more likely to watch it on a twitch stream than do the content yourself. For this reason the most it will give is a glamour, a title and an extra materia slot.

The content they expect players to actually clear is Savage so this drops item level increases and mounts.

How would you explain the existence of Feast mounts? Only the top 100 players of a datacenter get these, so SE doesn't really have an issue with adding mounts as exclusive rewards. Not to mention the Pteranodon mount, which is currently the rarest non-Feast mount.

[Baxcel]

While Ultimate is definitely hard to clear, "1% of the 1%" is exaggerating a bit too much.

Using ffxivcollect (a website used to show collections/achievements in XIV), it shows that 9.3% have cleared Ultima Weapon Ultimate at least once. In comparison, 21% have completed Eden's Promise (Savage) at least once.
Now, the disclaimer here is that the website obviously doesn't show the data from every single character ever created. However, the sample data should be large enough to create a rough estimate on how many players have cleared an ultimate compared to how many have cleared the current Savage tier. That's also excluding the amount of players who are still attempting to get an ultimate clear.

OP's suggestion doesn't sound like it'd take a significant amount of resources either, since it'd be reusing models from the fights itself. And while clearing it 99 times sounds like an absolutely insane grind, it's not like XIV doesn't already have a bunch of those anyway.



How would you explain the existence of Feast mounts? Only the top 100 players of a datacenter get these, so SE doesn't really have an issue with adding mounts as exclusive rewards. Not to mention the Pteranodon mount, which is currently the rarest non-Feast mount.

That's around 10% of the people who have registered for that site.. its nowhere near an accurate count, from the overall population it probably is closer to 1% or less.

[Nezerius]

That's around 10% of the people who have registered for that site.. its nowhere near an accurate count, from the overall population it probably is closer to 1% or less.

You're ignoring the 21% clear number of the then-current Savage tier (Eden's Promise) that I was comparing it to. Of the people registered to that website, 21% have cleared Eden's Promise when it was current. It's highly likely that the ones raiding Ultimate also tend to be actively raiding Savage. This means that almost 50% of the people who have cleared Eden's Promise, have also cleared Ultima Weapon Ultimate. Therefor, it's not exactly "1% of 1%", because that would have shown a much lower number on ffxivcollect.

Besides, the amount of players participating in ranked Feast is likely about as low as the amount of players practicing/clearing Ultimate, yet that PvP mode has been getting unique sets and mounts for years.

[Jeeqbit]

The reason there are no Ultimate mounts is because SE doesn't expect most players to do Ultimate. In their words, you are more likely to watch it on a twitch stream than do the content yourself. For this reason the most it will give is a glamour, a title and an extra materia slot.

The content they expect players to actually clear is Savage so this drops item level increases and mounts.

[lisaa]

I don't think we should be adding even more rewards that's exclusive for the 1% of layers that clear ultimate. It's unfair to the rest of the 99% of players

[Anya_Synia]

As someone that has no plans to do Ultimate at all, and probably don't even have the skill to clear. I think having an obtainable mount in the content is a great idea. Encourages even more people to at least try the content. But also gives something more to those who have completed it so many times. I do not agree it's unfair as the way to obtain it would be the same for anyone. Just because it's outside of your skill range doesn't make it unfair. I would be excited just to see it in game.