What's going on with Occu;t Cresent?

[MicahZerrshia]

Been trying to get demiatma (booo!) from OC on an alt due to sheer boredom and man oh man, zones go from 60+ brand new players with max time to less than 20 within 20 minutes and everything seems to scale around the 60+ making even standard fates take forever and a day and CEs nearly impossible. In one CE it will be full of players and then suddenly there are 6 who show up and everyone else is just gone from the zone.

Is this the changes to the Tower rearing it's ugly head? i've been zone jumping and every single time this happens.

After 3 days of this, I have gotten 1 demiatma. It was bad enough before but how is anyone supposed to do this now?

[Daralii]

OC is an extremely isolated content island that offers almost nothing if you don't intend to do Forked, just FFV cosmetics that are purchased with something that is best farmed outside of the CEs and FATEs. Demiatmas are a one-time step that is better done via mainland Tural FATEs(especially verdigris), and the more recent step doesn't include OC at all. South Horn was doomed from the start because it is yet another piece of content that has an extremely limited shelf life, and it's not like leveling a new batch of phantom jobs in 7.45 is going to revitalize it.

[AmiableApkallu]

40-ish people leaving the instance all at once sounds to me like a Forked Tower premade that just finished re-leveling to 20, and so they leave the instance and re-queue to get a fresh one.

CEs should scale to the number of people who are actually there. FATEs might need to reset, though? (I've never understood how that works.)

[ServerCollaps]

CEs scale by the number of people that participate. If you are all alone, it should be as fast as doing it with 70 others. Fates you can tag and reset, then they are scaled to 1 person and also die immediatly.
The only thing that -can- suck are the pot fates, but theres like 20 people camping those nowadays, so they shouldnt be an issue anymore either

[Jeeqbit]

Trick for FATEs, if you are alone at one, is to pull it, then run out of range, then pull again, to try and get it to rescale. The most dangerous one really is the bird at NW which can catch you out with an attack that is guaranteed to kill you.

CEs fully scale to the number of participants, so, provided you can do the mechanics, you can solo them and I have done this a lot.

[Raikai]

just FFV cosmetics that are purchased with something that is best farmed outside of the CEs and FATEs.

Not even that, given the game's lack of gil sinks it's easily purchasable on the MB if the player knows how to make money. It leaves just the Arcanaut gear.

[ServerCollaps]

Not even that, given the game's lack of gil sinks it's easily purchasable on the MB if the player knows how to make money. It leaves just the Arcanaut gear.

having 1% drops from bronze chests that are worth 3-4m is kinda nice, if you wanna try for some money

[Supersnow845]

Not even that, given the game's lack of gil sinks it's easily purchasable on the MB if the player knows how to make money. It leaves just the Arcanaut gear.

And arcanauts effect is too weak

Full +2 is only 13.5% more damage and 15% more phantom damage

[Daralii]

Not even that, given the game's lack of gil sinks it's easily purchasable on the MB if the player knows how to make money. It leaves just the Arcanaut gear.

I honestly consider them more FFV cosmetics, just ones that you can't put on the MB. They fail as catchup gear, and they're all just based on Bartz's sprites for different jobs.