Limit Break 7 - The Crest Hunt

[Eole]

Even better, make your own Abyssea group with everyone else being 81+ hence eliminating the competition!

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Even better !

[Tagus]

This quest seriously is fucking terrible, and you guys who are seeming to think that a badly designed hoop jump is justifiable are irritating. I don't feel like things need to be handed to us... in fact, I'd like it if the final 95-99 levels involve quests, missions, etc. that are difficult to the point that when you see someone in game with a job leveled that high, you know they paid their dues. Or something.

But I farmed for two hours, got three drops in 15 minutes, then farmed three hours before the next one, and now I'm sitting at work with a fucking headache because of it. That shit doesn't even compute.

[Massimo]

you guys take this shit way too seriously, stop trying to farm the damn seals all in one go, we have 3 entire goddamn months before next update at least.

Friend and I managed to get him 4/5 of his crests in a few hours of duoing magian trials, averaging one an hour or so.

Just do magian trials on 70+ mobs with a friend and let the kindred crests come as neat little surprises every now and then. I'm in no rush to get 5/5 on the first week, I know its not going to take me 3 months to go from 80 to 85, and its not like those 5 levels is that huge of a difference in doing things, a couple jobs get 1-2 neat new toys to play with JA/spell wise but other than that, whats the rush?

Only reason I can see wanting to get G7 done asap is if you have a level 81+ piece of armor you wanna use, IE AF3 or some other drop, but I doubt anyone has any of the meag awesome AF3s yet anyways so point is moot.

tl;dr stfu you QQers, its just a fucking game. Stop grinding so hardcore and go do a magian trial on 70+ mobs and let the crests come as little surprises.

I know this is kind of late, but holy shit, you just keep getting dumber and dumber.

[Terrestrialrage]

The skill up rate for 81+ skills alone is enough to make anyone want to break level cap right now... 7 hours in Abyssea and only 13 levels on GK, 17 to go if it is indeed 6/level now instead of 5. Might need to bust out the Soboro... Also having to cap 81+ skills for another 5-6 jobs is gonna suck bad.

[Francisco]

The quest in itself wasn't so bad.

What made it awful was the obvious rush and panic of people going for them.

Every zone was packed, and I wound up moving several times. I'd find any empty area, head there - and soon after legions of idiots would descend upon the area.

I shit you not, there was even an idiot with a Provoke macro that said "PWN'D!!!!!" in say. That guy fucking pissed me off. I wish MPK still fucking worked.

I finally found solace in a remote corner of Vunkerl, and got was done with it pretty quickly.

[Klaatu]

The one thing this whole crap reminded me off is the 2004 Coffer Key hunting with shout alliance. (tbh I miss those days)

[Vandalhart]

I got one of Peistes in Passhow [S] update night. That was after trying Valley of Sorrows and Beacedine [S] for a few hours.
Then yesterday I tried Cointeaches in Xarcabard using Coeurls as pets for about 2 hours and got jack so I moved to Ru'Aun Gardens.
I finished off fighting Sprinklers and Flamingos. It took another 2 hours but I was in no rush as I have to level all my subjobs first
before continuing to 85 anyways.

I leveled my subs to 40 way back when I got them ready for 75 so I didn't have to level them last update. It's time to get back into
the grind.

[Mojo]

LB1 sucked because everyone sucked at the game and there were only a few Lichs in the entire Eldieme Necropolis (which is filled with undead blood aggro shit.) You also had to get the two other items, which would be quite a bother depending on the circumstances. These crests drop from any mob over 70 and can thus be obtained during an EXP party. It's really not that bad, it just seems bad because everyone is competing over the same thing.

[inii]

I got 4/5 of my seals in about an hr soloing demon's elementals. I seriously recommend this.

I did a couple demon ele's also (found the imps to be more of a nuisance), but got 4/5 of mine within 3 hours of one-shotting Gigas's Tigers right next to the OP in Xarcabard S. 80 BLM/RDM in decent MAB+ (no latent gear because of the dragon) can asplode tigers with Burst II > move to next for Freeze II > by the time you find a third, Burst II is up and then you head to the wall for convert/heal. It's a bit over camped right now on Cerb, but there's 7 or so Gigas Floggers around that area to snag tigers from. Just beware of the Greater Amphiptere swooping down and omnomnoming your face off :3

[Innuendo]

Horrible, horrible, unoriginal quest. Recommending beastmaster pets to everyone who hasn't finished it already, got done there in about an hour after wasting time in dropless sea =/

[Jeryhn]

Quest wasn't too bad. I avoided Crest farming the first day when everyone and their mom would be farming them. Finished up the new WotG missions instead.

After that, got one Crest in Abyssea, then got on MNK soloing Korrigans for the rest. Took about two hours.

[darkepyon]

Did mine betwen Ro'Maaeve and den of rancor over the past couple days. My god that was annoying! Finally got it done thankfully. Now I can get down to the business of leveling and acquiring blu spells.

[cdgreg]

What I don't recommend is trying to get them in a pickup abyssea group. If you all thought the bitchin' over gold chest rare/ex rings/hairpins were bad, holy fuck the drama kindred crests cause.

[fredjanx]

Horrible, horrible, unoriginal quest.

This so much.

[kittycatrag]

just had two seals drop 3:40 and 4:50 within each other in a pt of 2. maybe it's not 5 mins exactly or maybe the window size can vary like some mob spawns.

[Massimo]

just had two seals drop 3:40 and 4:50 within each other in a pt of 2. maybe it's not 5 mins exactly or maybe the window size can vary like some mob spawns.

Or maybe you should read the thread and realize that it doesn't work like Kindred/Beastmen seals.

[Buffy]

Fuck this shitty quest and this shitty game. Fuck you SE and gonna go cancel FFXIV pre-order. God damn emo, but what the hell happened to 'nothing to difficult' with regards to limit breaks from vana'fest? 4 hours cumulative farming, solo and group, 0 crests at this point.

Ok, now that I'm over my emo-ness by actually completing the quest, here's my two cents. If you are still struggling with this, I agree with the sentiment to go to Abyssea. In our alliance there they are free-dropping now, no one is even lotting them. We had 5 people break quest and come back.

[lolBST]

Got 9/15 of the ones i need triboxing in sky on pots/dolls doing page 2 for the last 2 hours. Could be worse i guess.

[orson]

It's not really like anyone is complaining that this is hard. It's just an extremely lame timesink/cock block. It would have been better if they had actually put in some real quests.

[Nightfyre]

The quest in itself wasn't so bad.

What made it awful was the obvious rush and panic of people going for them.

Every zone was packed, and I wound up moving several times. I'd find any empty area, head there - and soon after legions of idiots would descend upon the area.

I shit you not, there was even an idiot with a Provoke macro that said "PWN'D!!!!!" in say. That guy fucking pissed me off. I wish MPK still fucking worked.

I finally found solace in a remote corner of Vunkerl, and got was done with it pretty quickly.

I got most of mine killing Gigas' Tigers in Vunkerl. There was nobody up there the whole time I was farming and only a few people even in zone.

Ok, now that I'm over my emo-ness by actually completing the quest, here's my two cents. If you are still struggling with this, I agree with the sentiment to go to Abyssea. In our alliance there they are free-dropping now, no one is even lotting them. We had 5 people break quest and come back.

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