New island grind

[Saraide]

What even is the voucher mount?

[Luluna]

Lol, you say that as if you need to minmax the island. I got to R20 and got every Seafarer's Cowrie rewards, by just placing random stuff into the factories. I don't even know how the spreadsheets look like.

lol I am the same I am almost rank 20 now and I have never used the spreadsheet and I enjoy working it out and I have everything from there now. I am unsure on the new mount as it is just a recolour so maybe I will go down the route of the lockboxes.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Just got my isle to R20 today. Considering it requires 29 weeks (7 1/4 months!) to acquire the mount assuming the voucher Vegetal Voucher aren't MB-able, it looked like a weak attempt to keep people subbed until Yawntrail lol.

In concept I liked it. But when they timegate it to 10 minutes of setting up per week, that doesn't add much on top of the daily 10m checkups.

[Reinha]

You can buy the vouchers. If you don't have the money, learning aspects of the game where you can make money is also content you've clearly skipped. You can do it in parts, only grinding it when you're subbed. 1 month now, one month before DT, one month after launch and you're almost half way. You can grind other long grinds at the same time, so you're not subbed for the island alone and maybe you'll even consume new content slower.

[Nizzi]

You can get the Island Adenium mount with the lootboxes too, so unless you really want to work towards the Adenium for 7 months there's not much reason to buy the vegetal vouchers over the lootboxes, considering you can also get the Peerifool mount and other exclusive things from that too. Though, you can sell them on the MB, so its probably a good way to make a few million gil per week at the moment as they seem to be selling for 400-500k per voucher on the MB atm. It will definitely tank in a few weeks/months as more people reach rank 20.

[Boblawblah]

I'm in no hurry to finish IS, it's not going anywhere. No need to finish it by DT.

[Jojoya]

So what\\'s everyone\\'s thoughts on the new island sanctuary voucher system?

I personally like the idea but similar as with fate vouchers, I wish they would let you start grinding it while lvling instead of waiting until you\\'re done. Kinda like how they did it with ishguard restoration.

I also feel like this is totally put in place as a reason for people to stay subbed. I mean it takes 29 weeks to get enough vouchers for the mount. Seems to line up pretty well with when we assume dawntrail will come out.

Unless you feel spicy and wanna try via lootboxes instead that is.

Oh, no! A MMORPG has included rewards gated by long term grinds. How terrible.

looks at the complaints we've had because the relic weapons didn't feel like grinds this expansion

I doubt this mount is exciting enough to anyone to make them feel like they're "forced" to stay subbed to get it. It's more like an extra available for those who are staying subbed for other reasons. Those who don't want to stay subbed but want the mount can always buy it off the marketboard as others have said.

[Ravenblade1979]

Meh I only go on my island once a week lol. No real need to grind it. Not why I got my sub tho. Now if the island had instanced housing then you could use the "stay subbed" argument.

It doesn't so I out it ok the same level as Doma really. Just with animals, gathering and gardening added in.

[Toutatis]

The island levels itself. There is no need to grind. Before the patch I just scheduled the workshops for 2 weeks with cheap mats and collected the xp on patch day. That got me to lvl 17. There’s a discord channel that makes a spreadsheet to maximize cowries but that currency is basically useless now and the xp gain is a fixed amount per hour regardless of what you craft.

Then all I did was gather about 50 of each new mat and used the granaries to passively get more of the new mats which was more than enough to get all upgrades. The rest of the XP I got from the workshops again and I reached lvl 20 doing very little.

Got my lvl 20 mount, garden is set with new veggies, all I need to do now is spend 5 minutes a week to go there once a week to craft the 3 items needed for the boxes/vouchers if I feel like doing it. I wish there was a house with an interior to decorate as well as the possibility to have some useful features such as retainers as I quite like the place and the decorated exterior .

[Limecat]

I'll probably buy and use one coffer a week, then when I hit 2000 I'll get the lsd rave mandy. It'll take an extra month that way, but maybe I'll luck out and get it early. Plus I'll need to burn some coffers anyway for the perifool.