FFXIV totems need to change

[ForteNightshade]

They always used to give 1 totem. I agree that there being 2 totems made the grind less painful. However, SE said it was becoming a pattern and they didn't want to give 2 totems forever; it was only intended because they felt the fights were "longer than normal" (didn't always notice this, personally)..

This is the PR statement. The actual reason is they likely looked at participation rates and noticed a sharper decline because of the two totem drop, which made them switch back. Not to mention, with the drip feed nature of content, Zelenia is all a good portion of the playerbase has for the better part of two months.

To further emphasise this, the fastest kill time for Sphene is only a minute longer than Zelenia while Golbez and Zeromus are on par or shorter during their respective release patches. Simply put, it's a blatant excuse to artificially stretch out content and nothing else.

[Khryseis_Astra]

Honestly I don’t care if it’s 50 or 99, if I could buy the mount immediately. If I’m earning it the hard way, I shouldn’t have to wait.

[ServerCollaps]

think 1 totem is okay, considering that people already skip the last 2 bloom patterns. In 1-2 months it will be even easier to kill and faster to farm

i do think its stupid that you have to wait 8-9 months to turn the totems in. They fixed that with the cloud of darkness mount and got back to it with the next etreme..

[brinn12]

It's funny how some of the comments here feel like they come from an SE developer. I guess it's too hard to understand simple requests from the community.

[ONLYSTEEL]

Oh my sweet summer child, you have clearly not spent time mount farming in other MMOs.

It's not the badge of honor you think it is to have wasted hundreds and thousands of hours to grind for a virtual game item despite the grinding being insanely unfun.

That's called self-induced torture and is a huge part of why MMOs are a garbage tier genre.

[Andevom]

They should've never made the mounts obtainable with totems, because all people do is complain about it.

[Ath192]

Guys the game has to have grindy content for grind enjoyers. Not EVERYTHING in the game has to be spoon fed to you immediately. Get over yourselves.

[LoganMccree]

Guys the game has to have grindy content for grind enjoyers. Not EVERYTHING in the game has to be spoon fed to you immediately. Get over yourselves.

The grindy content is TRASH though

[Ath192]

The grindy content is TRASH though

I mean, when it comes to opinions everyone likes and hates different things so essentially its like:

The [insert anything] content is TRASH though.

Good news is you don't have to do it. And theres probably hundreds of non-grind mounts you can get in game. But nah, those were too easy to get and now you're bored right? So you want the one you have to work for. But instead of grinding it out you complain about it so they make it easy.

This way you can move on to complaining and destroying other content in the game until its all just handed freely to you and you quit because they gave you everything and now nothing is worth anything.

If you don't see how destructive that cycle is and what it's done for this game you are kind of blind.

The only thing I agree with is the mount should be purchasable with 99 totems from the start, but I'm okay if that doesn't happen. Also 1 totem should be the norm. 2 Totems makes no sense. At that point why not give 100 totems and make the mount cost 9,900. It's just an arbitrary number.