Relic Augments

[Appie]

I expect SE that the last and most usefully upgrade to mythic/relic will be to trade in the relic/mythic counterpart weapon fuseing them alltogether! I really can see them pulling this shit off seriously...

1100 WS still to go, my brain is getting dead slowly.

I'd expect this too for the 3rd if it weren't for the fact that some Mythics don't have a relic counterpart.

[seiji]

for cor mythic: Try doing QD (SE spaghetti coding etc)

[Jememy]

Sorry for the in between reading, was in the middle of synergy stuff and too lazy to crop/paste just the SGM chat.

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Have you tried killing sea mobs?

[Konda]

GM: Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

Fiendishone: not unless you have an extra kclub around you aren't using

GM: Sadly, I dual wield both of mine.

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made me laugh entirely too much

this

[thunderlips]

Sorry for the in between reading, was in the middle of synergy stuff and too lazy to crop/paste just the SGM chat.

Pics

I had a normal GM ask me a lot of the same info here last night when they got around to my GM call. The GM did suggest that I try to cancel and retake the quest which I did, but no luck.

for cor mythic: Try doing QD (SE spaghetti coding etc)

Tried this many times, no luck here.

Have you tried killing sea mobs?

Does not work either

[Bishop1]

You havent looked at the Ebisu Rod quest, have you? I'm not talking about botting it, or using Meatballs/Minnows, or merely buying the fish on the AH. I'm talking about the actual way to do it:

Fish up a BUNCH of Cave Cherax, turn em in to Zaldon and hope you get some Dwarf Pugils (about 1/4 rate). Depending where you fish, you'll get about 8-12 Cherax per hour. Then take those Dwarf Pugils and fish in Lufaise, and spend a bunch of time hitting /fish. Occasionally you'll get a Lik bite, most of the time it'll break your line or your rod, and take the bait with it.

But fortunately, thats not the worse one. Gugrusaurus bait requires Sea Zombies, which can only be fished up on the ferry when pirates attack. Same rate from Zaldon (25%).

Theres more!

Then, once you get all these Lik's and Gugrusaurus's, you have to turn THEM in to Zaldon and hope you find the rare/ex item in them for the rod. Some people have made reports of going 0/300+ on the rare/ex items. I myself am at the following:
Opal Silk: 1/141 and 1/101 (myself and my mule)
Saber Shoot: 0/268

Hows that for shitty quests that want to make you kill yourself.

That's my point.. We been playing this game since 2004 and SE STILL rather have you waste time than make you do something that is challenging. It's like here dog go fetch instead of use your skill. This game requires more time than skill..This is actually a easy quest i just think it's stupid.

[Lucavi]

That's my point.. We been playing this game since 2004 and SE STILL rather have you waste time than make you do something that is challenging. It's like here dog go fetch instead of use your skill. This game requires more time than skill..This is actually a easy quest i just think it's stupid.

Thats how some MMO companies (or more accurately, how all companies rarely-to-frequently, depending on the company) make their cash each month. Hold up a big-ass carrot on a long, long stick that's so far in the distance, it makes you think the carrot is going to be bigger and tastier than it actually is once you finally manage to grab and eat it.

Whether its dull, repetitive crafting issues, constant turn-in quests, kill XXX boars quests, piss poor drop-rate quests, or some sickening, grotesque combination of them all, when your entire bottom line (outside of expansion pack sales) focuses on keeping people in that game each month to pay you yet another 15+ bucks, you'll do what it takes to keep them there.

Some operate under an illusion of "fun", or "reward". Others actually allow you to have fun while doing so. Others still offer smaller rewards while working towards that distance ultimate goal.

To complain about this is to complain about FFXI as a whole, though, because from day 1, there have been long, boring, grindy quests for rare and "treasured" pieces of equipment and items.

To second what others have said, this isn't even the worst SE has come out with. Those fishing rod quests are absolutely brutal, and shit, even in some of SE's more recent single player FFs, they've hidden their strongest and best items behind the most idiotic and frustrating of tasks.

Thunder Plains lightning dodging? That fucking Macalalalalania butterfly catching "minigame"?

[Naash]

88. But yes I'm very interested in this as well. I really hope the augmented DMG rating counts towards weapon rank, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't since I think weapons like Blau use the lower DMG rating (without latent) for weapon rank.

There are reports of weapon rank not changing after upgrade on Japanese BBS.

[Sho]

Edit: Whoops, wrong thread.

[Shamaya]

There are reports of weapon rank not changing after upgrade on Japanese BBS.

Link if you can please.

[Fiendishone]

The GM did suggest that I try to cancel and retake the quest which I did, but no luck.

I tried this as well with no luck.

[Lucavi]

Have they made any statements or comments on that issue? That's a pretty messed up bug, if it is a bug, and if it's not, then SE is doing goblin drink all over again.

[Tyramut]

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Any ideas on camps to get killshots on plantoid mobs lol? Mandies counter, so ->

[Konda]

cant counter a WS

[BlackMoomba]

I'd prolly do Puktraps or Treant Saplings. God I want Spharai so bad -_-

[nitsuj]

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Any ideas on camps to get killshots on plantoid mobs lol? Mandies counter, so ->

Nicely done

[ringthree]

That's my point.. We been playing this game since 2004 and SE STILL rather have you waste time than make you do something that is challenging. It's like here dog go fetch instead of use your skill. This game requires more time than skill..This is actually a easy quest i just think it's stupid.

What challenge do you want? Kill stuff to get drops, we already have that, it's called all the rest of the gear in the game.

This is a time consuming quest, yes, but it can be done at your leisure. Fast or slow. The best weapons require HNM drops which adds to the challenge.

The most important thing is that people have been begging for a system like this for a long time. Something that requires effort, and in most cases individual effort, but it's dependent on money or an insane amount of items.

This is a mini-relic quest, some people just can't wrap their heads around that fact and just want SE to send all the best gear in the game to their mailbox.

That said, if you haven't figured out SE's philosophy for this game by this point then you are either unobservant or the most amazing masochist in the world.

[Zer]

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Any ideas on camps to get killshots on plantoid mobs lol? Mandies counter, so ->

I see an awesome RDM in that pt :O

[Takedown3]

i seem to remember back in 2007 when i got banned i was farming mistletoe from the tree's in bhaful (sp) on the way to that zone i can remember alzadal undersea (sp) or w/e. i THINK they were EP and they were on 5 min spawns. you could also kill the saplings (not sure if these are EP) there as well which put a ton of plantoids there for ya.

[Tyramut]

i seem to remember back in 2007 when i got banned i was farming mistletoe from the tree's in bhaful (sp) on the way to that zone i can remember alzadal undersea (sp) or w/e. i THINK they were EP and they were on 5 min spawns. you could also kill the saplings (not sure if these are EP) there as well which put a ton of plantoids there for ya.

Gonna give those a try, was looking for low EP's with no HP. Everyone's been saying mandies but it'd be a waste of TP just to get countered all the time