FFXIV totems need to change

[Collin_Sky]

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

The totems are respectful of your time. I know people who are still grinding out Invincible in WoW from an expansion that came out in 2008. 99 totems may feel excessive but it's bad luck protection. If the mount has a 1% drop rate, it's ensuring you do the exact amount of clears needed to ensure you're not going over that 1% worth of effort.

That way, you don't have to replicate the experience of someone like me, where a 1% drop took me 1262 kills to get:



I want the wings as much as anyone, but asking you to do 99 kills isn't terrible in terms of a grind, especially considering you can keep doing it and don't have to wait for next week's reset like you do in most other MMOs.

There it is. I was waiting for someone to post something stupid like this.

"Other games have it worse, therefore this isn't bad."

Both situations are bad. Both disrespect the player's time. Just because one is worse doesn't mean the other isn't still a problem.

It's like saying you shouldn't complain about your broken leg because someone else broke both legs.

[Remarus]

There it is. I was waiting for someone to post something stupid like this.

"Other games have it worse, therefore this isn't bad."

Both situations are bad. Both disrespect the player's time. Just because one is worse doesn't mean the other isn't still a problem.

It's like saying you shouldn't complain about your broken leg because someone else broke both legs.

You're right, mounts should just be a 20% drop rate so they're DOA in Party Finder a week after patch. You should also get 12 totems per kill so you don't have to do more than 8 kills to get it.

It's meant to be something to work towards, as well as provide an incentive for people to run it more than a short handful of times. Sorry you're having bad luck with some of these drops, but the system is place is far better than the industry standard. Including the Gacha games mentioned earlier, which, btw, cost real money to get the things you want the grand majority of the time.

[Collin_Sky]

You're right, mounts should just be a 20% drop rate so they're DOA in Party Finder a week after patch. You should also get 12 totems per kill so you don't have to do more than 8 kills to get it.

It's meant to be something to work towards, as well as provide an incentive for people to run it more than a short handful of times. Sorry you're having bad luck with some of these drops, but the system is place is far better than the industry standard. Including the Gacha games mentioned earlier, which, btw, cost real money to get the things you want the grand majority of the time.

Incredible use of critical thinking there. Instead of acknowledging a reasonable request, you jump straight to an absurd extreme, as if people just want mounts handed out automatically after one clear.

The reality is simple: some extremes drop 2 totems, others only 1, despite minimal differences in difficulty or clear times (often just a few minutes at most). People are merely asking for consistency across the board by making all extremes drop 2 totems.

Additionally, the 8 month wait is excessive by any reasonable standard. That’s the very definition of disrespecting the player's time.

You look incredibly childish when you say things like "well they should just make the drop rate 20% so we can be done in 12 kills" instead of acknowledging the actual request the OP made.

[Remarus]

You look incredibly childish when you say things like "well they should just make the drop rate 20% so we can be done in 12 kills" instead of acknowledging the actual request the OP made.

I replied to All_Nonsense, and then you, not the OP. Should maybe use those critical thinking skills and apply them to your own replies first and foremost.

[MitsukiKimura]

You're right, mounts should just be a 20% drop rate so they're DOA in Party Finder a week after patch. You should also get 12 totems per kill so you don't have to do more than 8 kills to get it.

It's meant to be something to work towards, as well as provide an incentive for people to run it more than a short handful of times. Sorry you're having bad luck with some of these drops, but the system is place is far better than the industry standard. Including the Gacha games mentioned earlier, which, btw, cost real money to get the things you want the grand majority of the time.

Honestly it's a bad system if I have to wait 8 months just to be able to purchase the mount with the totems. If the player chooses to grind the 99 totems they should be able to pick up the mount within a month release or so. Having to wait that long isn't respecting the players time that's just dragging content for as long as you possibly can which is a theme for them with not unlocking the tome cap as an example.