Give people a fair shot at MorbolgerFollow

Fistful of Fury is a very extensive quest that has one maddening flaw: the fact that Morbolger appears only once a day. What were the designers at S-E thinking when they decided a needed item could only be acquired by one person per day? I can understand limiting HNMs like Fafnir or Simurgh to 1 appearance per day. Goodness knows Rolanberry Fields would be a chaotic walk if Simurgh were allowed to roam freely throughout the day (the gobs and Quadavs are bad enough). However, Morbolger holds 1/3 of the items needed to complete a quest and, as it stands, is the source of a lot of frustration and stress for many players.

What I would like to see is the appearance time for Morbolger adjusted to once per hour or 2 hours. This would be fair to players on either side of the Pacific and Atlantic as it would appear in the peak times of all regions and make gathering the necessary items far less stressful.

How this would impact the price of Brown Belts is of little concern to me. I can make money through much more fruitful avenues as a Ranger and have little interest in leveling Monk at the moment. Completing a quest, though, really should not require camping against 15-20 people every day for a lvl 42 NM.

Just making the vine 100% drop would be enough.

Try to get some of your SMN friends to do KS30 against Evil Oscar. A good party can handle it easily with a leech tagging along, and the vine is a 100% drop. Or you can try camping the BC and offer to pay anyone doing this to let you lot the vine drop (this obviously might take a while!)

I just did this quest. It's not supposed to be easy, that's the point. I went 1/1 on Dodo after camping for about 30 minutes. 1/2 on Nue for a total of about 2.5 hours. I went 2/2 on Molborger (don't ask -_-;;) for a total camping time of 13.5 hours on his ***. It just depends on how bad you want it.

The region update comes up on the screen every hour. Wait until you see one come up, and go afk. Leave your comp on while your at work or asleep... when you come back, wait for another update to come up and count backwards. In between 2 of the tallys you will most likely see Molborger getting killed, therefore you can narrow it down to the hour he was killed in. I did that with Argus once.

How to fix it:
White Belt > Rare/ex (Free)
Purple Belt > Rare/ex (Painfull Quest)
Brown Belt > Rare/ex (Extremly Painfull Quest)
Black Belt > Rare/ex(Already is) (Death in terms of Quest Difficulty)

Since its only Monk that can use these items, it should only be monks that can do it. The Belts show your ability in Martial Arts.
I dont see that in a 75 White Mage.
They should only be for career Monks.

Making them rare/ex are making them Monk only.
And you can do quests with any job, even AF quests.

With rare/ex you dont see those lv75's that only want to sell the belt so they can get richer. Only monks that will use it.

4 smns (if they know what they are doing) can safely and consistantly do the Contaminated Collusseum KS30 BC. The vine is a pretty common drop, see if you can get some friends together and do a few runs.

Brown belt should definitely be Rare EX. There is nothing more frustrating to a monk than to be outpulled by paladins and whitemages who only want to sell the darn thing for gil.

I had all three items for black belt for my monk and had to follow that darn thing around the clock for the window for two weeks before i finally got claim on it while the rest of the people camping it were killing what they thought was it's placeholder (it doesn't have place holders, the other morlboro can be up and it'll pop anyway, i've seen it). I even went so far as to try to buy other people off for the vine if they got claim. I didnt care about the stupid belt, heck i bought my original brown belt off the AH. I wanted the black belt and i had to do brown belt first to get it.

It was easier getting black belt items than brown belt items by FAR. Mebbe im just lucky but I got the tongue and the beard within two hours of each other. I finally got my black belt but it still pisses me off when i see people who arent monks and have no intention of levelling it camping the thing. It'd be one thing if monks could sell the black belt, but they cant. Have some respect people. Monks dont even get to keep the freakin brown belt. They have to turn it in to get the black bel-- and guess what! THEY DONT GET IT BACK. There's a million ways to make gil in this game without being over level 40 to go and ruin someone else's chance at a dream item.

How about you just have S-E send the brown belt to your delivery box?

I hate people who ***** because something is to hard or takes to long. If you cant get ToD for him or put effort to completing a tedious quest that is much worth it, tough ****. Go play WoW.

I'm a 41 mnk, 72 smn. I've actually managed to kill it once and got the drop. I'm not sure if I'd call it sadly, but I partied with a LS friend monk who were doing mnk as main currently (while I have mnk as 2nd to 3rd job planned to take to 75) so I let him have it. I'm just hoping I can once again have the luck to run into it.

And obviously I'm camping it as SMN if any job.

I agree that it would seem to make sense to have made the Brown Belt an AF quest item. But I think I know why SE decided not to go down this route.....

A lot of AF items are really just for show. Some items for some jobs are cool and can be used in EXP parties, but some items can easily be replaced at the same level with much better equipment. For example, how many MNKs actually use their AF knuckles? They suck! But of course you have to get them first to get the other AF items.

A belt cannot be seen on a character. Part of the incentive to get your AF items is that they make your character stand out a little. It's mainly an aesthetic appeal I believe, and a sort of statement to other players that you take your job seriously because you found the time/friends to get those items.

I did'nt see a retort posted, so to the guy that said that the vine is a 100% drop off morbolger, i say to you sir, bullsh*t!
The vine is not 100% drop, I and my friend had to kill him many times to get it to drop. We hunted him long enough to get one for each of us and had to kill him several times for each vine, worst experience I've ever had in this game.