Diremite Webs

[Ksenia]

This is terribly annoying misinformation. The Leve rewards change. Sometimes you get lucky and they offer the reward you want. Sometimes you spend 8 days doing leves, checking and rechecking before you get the reward you want ><

It isn't misinformed it's just not practical.
If I do 6 triple turn in leve quests in HQ, who needs diremite?
Leveling Weaver is not difficult. The well placed flax and the triple turn in 40 reward means you might need to farm a lot of flax but it's a 31 Botany unlock.

The trouble tied to Diremite and fleece shortage is making use of the craft after you have it leveled. It's why I hate the potash and Coke throttle. Time spent is not time saved when you level 8 crafts and 2 Gathering and still need to pound through dungeons to get enough tomes for a combined 81 Potash. If you hate the circumventable throttles of diremite and fleece you are really going to hate end game crafting.

[Simaril]

The trouble tied to Diremite and fleece shortage is making use of the craft after you have it leveled.

This is a big part of what bothers me. I decided to level all DoH and DoL except fishing together. I prefer to keep my DoH ahead of my battle class, so I have HQ gear ready before I level. I like to level the DoH that provide the useable equipment first, which often includes Wvr.

The other part of it has been that I haven't seen this kind of obstacle in other crafts yet. I like that the crafts are different, but I think they fun/interesting/challanging/balanced (you know good game stuff). They should also be reasonably equitable.

Leveling Wvr hasn't been difficult, in fact I accidentally leveled several times just trying to get the stupid reward to come up. And not only was I checking back after each leve, I was also checking back at different times.

[RyuujinZERO]

Is anyone else finding the recent changes for weaving materials STILL arn't enough?

I logged in at mid-day CET (around 5-6am in America) and every single sheep spawn on Balmung has 2-3 people camping it, even at this time of day. 2-3! - I couldn't believe it. There still isn't enough sheep to go around!. The market value has dropped significantly from a high of ~900, to now around 500 per piece, but that's still in the order of 10 times the price of equivalent crafting materials, and leatherworking materials doesn't hit this same bottleneck because it has a 1:1 ratio. 1 raptor hide = 1 leather circle, Vs 4 fleece = 1 woolen bolt

[Bufkus]

Is anyone else finding the recent changes for weaving materials STILL arn't enough?

I logged in at mid-day CET (around 5-6am in America) and every single sheep spawn on Balmung has 2-3 people camping it, even at this time of day. 2-3! - I couldn't believe it. There still isn't enough sheep to go around!. The market value has dropped significantly from a high of ~900, to now around 500 per piece, but that's still in the order of 10 times the price of equivalent crafting materials, and leatherworking materials doesn't hit this same bottleneck because it has a 1:1 ratio. 1 raptor hide = 1 leather circle, Vs 4 fleece = 1 woolen bolt

I think it's just your server. Not sure why Balmung is so hogged. On Leviathan, I can still go to at least 1 or 2 sheep spots that aren't taken and can farm for at least 15-20 minutes before someone else comes along.

[dustbucket]

Is that during prime time Bufkus? I play on Balmung too, and just got 50 weaving a couple days ago. I completed botany luminary first so I had the convenience of an obscene amount of flax that I may not have gotten had I not heard guildmates complain about fleece. I play from Australia so my times may vary but it's rare to see sheep packs up even during the America's offpeak hours. Before it was merged with Balmung, Besaid was the roleplaying realm, and a number of latin American groups chose the server too. Beyond that I have no idea of it would be so bad, or what groups played on Balmung pre-merge.

My advice is get about a stack and a half of fleece and use that for quest items/first craft bonus (I made the lv 50 quest items at 49.) With the amount of time you have to put in to farm a decent amount of fleece, you're still going to be pulling your hair over the lack of hq fleece drops, with botany you can 'force' hq drops, and make in-roads to the botany luminary. I know that doesn't appeal to many people since it's the same as the 50quest one, but it's there.

[Osha_Sohma]

Sadly, from what I've seen on Balmung, if you want to catch fleece or diremites the absolute best solution is one most people don't have the ability to do. That is, hopping on at 3-4 in the morning should get you much better results, though I've noticed that after 1 am or so eastern the server pop tends to plummet so earlier might in theory still be okay.

[HaplessHermit]

I've found all the new Karakul spawns, but I can't seem to find the new Banemites... how about you guys? Also, anywhere to get tufts for felt besides Golden Fleece? I stopped farming them en masse yesterday when I realized I was cockblocking people from completing their hunting logs. Yes, I could claim them and let the people kill, but new people constantly come in needing those things, and I'd rather just go elsewhere if there's an alternative.

[Maku]

I've found all the new Karakul spawns, but I can't seem to find the new Banemites... how about you guys? Also, anywhere to get tufts for felt besides Golden Fleece? I stopped farming them en masse yesterday when I realized I was cockblocking people from completing their hunting logs. Yes, I could claim them and let the people kill, but new people constantly come in needing those things, and I'd rather just go elsewhere if there's an alternative.

No new banemites. They altered the spawn timers according to the various things I have read.