seal questsFollow

The seal quests seem rather un even at the moment some need fame level 1 some fame level 3, one quest requires you to run from one side of the zone to the other taking 5-10min max
While another requires 2-5 Viscous Spittle's that can't go on the auction house are not tradable which only drop off IT+ spiders to do the quest once taking 30-60min.
As the quests are they simply aren't worth using 2-3 stones and getting a party to farm spiders in order to have a small chance at obtaining 1 seal

To make the hard quests worth doing the drop rate has to be worth the time invested
For example:-
On His Bridge, His Beloved quest keep the drop rate as it is but allow the player to have a chance at getting a seal for the job they are currently on not any one of 4.

Second Idea:-
Have the hard quests have a chance at droping multiple seals

Third idea:-
Have the Viscous Spittle's be a temp item suplied by the npc and make the quest repeatable once per game day

As it stands they are not even close to being even when one quest can be done 6-12 times in the same space of time it takes for the other to be done once or twice


Edited, Sep 24th 2010 10:44pm by HumieVone

Yea, I still don't get why the system seem to favor items you don't want. Like my WAR friend only gets SMN and I only get WAR. If we could trade, we'd both be done. But now we are both more like at 2 seals.

yeah, this is true... but consider this:

I had 4 staves going and the caller's pigaches logged. Since then, I have completed two of those staves and logged another staff and the SAM feet. I have nearly finished another staff (32 kills) and half way throught another (125 kills left)--it's convenient when you run across mobs on two lists in one area. Anywho....I have burned up 28 stones just spamming the quest for the caller's seals.

Finally finished my +1 feet this morning. During that time, I have gotten enough seals to complete WAR, DNC, and SCH. I have actually gotten MORE than enough for those jobs. I kept the WAR seals (got 9 before I started tossing them), for when I eventually level it up. Just for sh!ts and giggles I let the DNC seals pile up and tossed 9 of them at once...and continued getting them. I didn't count the SCH seals, but I was dropping those 2 and 3 at a time as well.

I have a 60 WAR, 51 DNC, and SCH isn't even unlocked. The whole time this was going on, I had caller's feet logged. Sometimes I was on SMN with the feet equipped even. The only ting that seemed to influence the drop rate was if I did it on ice/lightning day during the last phase before new moon--and if I died along the way so I could run full speed to finish it faster. Thankfully I had a 76 WHM with an xp buffer to use once I figured that part of the pattern out. But even then, I was burning up around 2 hours of time to walk away with only 1 SMN seal some times.

All we're asking is for something to be done to balance this thing out. If they could just add a specific trigger for getting the seals we need (preferrably one that didn't mean dying). The simplest thing for the player would be to make it detect your main job or logged trials.

Let's face it...not much point in doing it unless you are trying to complete the item anyway, as it is a time sink no matter how you look at it. And to say some jobs aren't good for doing the quests...REALLY? Don't mean to sound like a douche... but at 81+ you can't sub or main a job that gives some form of sneak/invis and possibly Reraise, or find a way to get your hands on items to grant the same effects?

Raist