Empyrean Feet Armor Glitch. Follow

Hello Square Enix, there's an issue you really need to look into.

After thinking about it and discussing it with many people for awhile I have come to the realization that the Empyrean Feet Armor Acquisition is not working as intended and that it needs to be addressed as soon as possible.

Right now, you can buy the base level Empyrean Head Armor and Empyrean Leg Armor from NPC's with very little effort at all, however to obtain the Empyrean Feet Armor you have to kill monsters in certain abyssea zones for Gold Chests and the Empyrean Feet Armor is what appears and is agreed to be about a 2% drop out of these. Furthermore, which job comes from that 2% drop is completely random.

Now, I know the seals are suppose to be a bit tougher to obtain and that's fine, but getting the base Empyrean Feet Armor should be easier than this and it makes absolutely no sense how you acquire it compared to the other two pieces. When I think about it I know surely this can not be part of the planned design behind it and that it's suppose to be coming from a NPC some where but that perhaps it wasn't added and coded in properly.

There is just surely no way that the Empyrean Head and Empyrean Leg base armor would be so absolutely painless to obtain while the Empyrean Feet Armor are so absolutely incredibly difficult and frustrating to obtain in comparison.

From the way Trial of the Magians has been handled so far, to the fact of the Empyrean Head and Empyrean Leg pieces acquisition, to the fact that I can see Square Enix is trying to give people the first bits of armor easily so they can simply start working on the difficult trials to upgrade them, that the system for the Empyrean Feet Armor is not working as intended and needs addressing.

Edited, Sep 15th 2010 4:07pm by EndlessJourney

People are saying it's an average of 2~5% drop. I spent about 6 hours in a party the other day that was made just for farming the feet. We capped amber light and we were getting great time extensions. Full alliance and In my 6 hours there we saw 2 pairs of feet armor drop. I'm sure there's people who have gotten luckier than that but most people are reporting it's around 2~5%.

This isn't really a glitch, but I do think the rate needs to be improved.

6 hour party in Attohwa last night, not one piece of AF to be seen.

10 hours fighting pink birds--BST feet dropped about 8 hours in. No others. Got of light earrings, scythes, and the level 59 leggings (forget the name)...but only one pair of level 81 feet. Something seriously needs to be done about how we obtain the base armor pieces.

Raist

This is all assuming people have as good of luck as you just did in that party (which you had really really good luck). Look at the rest of the posts on this page, ask around between people and you find out that the average groups get a lot less than you just did. So you can't go calculating how much time/effort people need to spend to get these drops based off of what is appearing to be one of the best farming parties for feet so far. You have to base it off averages, which so far are much much lower.

It would also be nice if something could be done about balancing the quests for seal. Some are as easy as poking a ??? but the BLM quests are a pure slap in the face. The quest for the head seal still hasn't been found yet even....

Hmmm, now that's an interesting twist on it. This could actually explain why we aren't seeing many feet drop yet. I was in complete agreement with the OP until I read your post. If this is the way SE did it, I could see an adjustment not being necessary once people have settled down a bit and start really figuring out how to beat Bastion.

The trick is to kill faster. The run i got my rdm+war feet in got ~15 feet in 4 hours, including at least one of every single one that could drop.