Buying an EX Mount for 99 totems right away instead of waiting 8 months...

[Aniise]

Speaking of farming why are we getting 1 totem per clear? Fights like Hades EX you get 2 per and same with "cutscene" fights but why isn't it 2 by default? At least then I'd be like "cool I ran it 50 times I got my 99 totems" it doesn't solve the issue but at least I don't have to run it another 50 times.

I know they wanna stretch game time by allowing you to farm as much as you want but when you see people get lucky after their early clears but it doesn't make it less miserable, yes I know no one's forcing me to do it but I'd at least want the game to respect people's time and my own instead of waiting months to a year to buy a mount that will get its drop rate buffed anyway.

They've done this since Shadowbringers if I remember correctly.
The first two trials always just gave you one totem, while the third and the ones after it started to give two. Trial 1 and 2 in Endwalker did this too, which especially made farming Zodiark a real pain...such a boring fight.. x.x

I personally think it sucks, too. Like...I farmed this boss like crazy, got really unlucky and now I have to wait 8 months until I get my reward so that feels like rubbing salt in the wound. I thinks it's fine for the droprate to get higher after a while, sure. But I don't understand the long waiting time before you can exchange your totems...makes no sense to me.

[Shuscatz]

implying those people don't already farm 99 totems at this point? you were dead wrong.

There are probably people who did farm 300 totems and no win, but those people are still going back with the hope getting a high roll if they are that desperate...
Also people are buying mounts in pf for like 2m/person. If somebody wants to get it, they can pay a small price for it.
And please understand the weapons are rewards too and sometimes people buy it from totems because people can't differentiate between greed and need.
The problem is not the system, we are the problem. We always have problem with everything and if they change something... well, the problem is the new change.

[Drkdays]

50 kills so far and I've seen the mount

drop

once.

I did not win the roll.

I'd really like the mount added to the vendor immediately. I really don't mind having to farm 99 tokens since the drop rate seems so terribly awful, but then having a useless currency rotting in my bags for months at a time feels more than kinda bad. Needless to say, I have long since won all the accessories.

[crovius]

Just got my 99 totems here from extreme 2, seen the mount drop a total of 5 times. Working on Extreme 1 now and at 38 totems currently, the mount really should just be available to buy once savage hits, not this horrendously long waiting time period of like 2 patches cycles.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I feel like there would be some monkey paw type stuff happen if SE threw players a bone with stuff like this.

[AdmiralAngeldust]

I haven't done a current tier EX raid because the idea of doing it 99 times potentially makes me want to jump off a bridge. If they reduced the totem count to like ~50 I'd consider doing it.

[Drkdays]

Update from me. I won the mount! I saw it drop five times in my pug groups and on the 91st kill I rolled an 81.

Again though, I still feel the time between when the fight is released to when the mount is added to the vendor is not only pointless but insulting. Can anyone who has farmed 99 tokens be said to have not earned the right to it? Yet the person who rng favored, has? Why punish those with poor luck/rolls? Sure, making the mount have a low drop rate keeps players coming to try their luck, but so does immediately adding the mount to the vendor for those willing to knock out 99 kills.

On a side note, it would also be nice if they added a totem dump for poor fools like me that accumulated over 90 totems before winning the mount with a good roll. Like a housing item or the barding material or even the song from the fight.

[Shinku_Tachi]

Update from me. I won the mount!

Congrats Darkdays! ^_^

[Zaytex]

Having rare items in an MMO is fun. Honestly I think the sudden amount of complains about the system is because more people want the mount, you'll get it eventually, why does it have to be right now?

Having money in real life is fun. Honestly I think the sudden amount of employees complaining about the system is because more people want their pay check, you'll get it eventually, why does it have to be right now?

Crazy how I do 99 clears and I'm told I don't deserve the mount. Apparently doing 99 clears on patch when the content is at its hardest is underserving of the mount.

Can you tell me why doing 99 clears today, not getting the mount, proceeding to never log back in for 6 months, and then logging back in on the patch they add it in suddenly means I deserve to have the mount? Why does waiting suddenly make me deserving when I literally cleared it 99 TIMES and gave up 13.2 hours of my life minus pf queue, progging, and wiping?

[Drkdays]

Congrats Darkdays! ^_^

Thanks! By far my favorite style of mount they've added. Wings of our own instead of riding something crazy. Those mounts where you're holding on like a bug are just too unappealing to me.