Make Empyrean Base Feet items purchasable at NPCFollow

Signed.

We don't have to farm any of the other pieces so why should we farm the feet?

Come on SE, get it sorted!

I'm going to have a full set of DNC AF+1, with four piecse upgraded and 8 feet seals sitting around, before I see the feet. And I don't see this changing much for any of my other jobs. Even WTF-this-is-awful Bastion can be frustratingly grinded in a few hours to get the legs.

Yes Please!

I have been trying to get two pairs of Empyrean Base Feet Armor for about six months now. I don't have but 2-3 hours at most to play every day, if even I can play consecutively. I have even gone for 5-6 hour sessions and come back empty handed, or would that be empy-handed?

I don't understand why it must be so difficult when you still have to get the paper's to upgrade them and the other pieces can be bought so easily.

Please make this change!

I disagree on making them buyable. I like that at least one of the base pieces takes a significant effort to obtain, and for most jobs it's not a terribly critical piece. I do agree on maybe making them a little more common, though. Maybe 2 or 3 times as common, so that you're likely to get what you're after in a few hours rather than a few days. However, I think if more people were patient they would pick their feet up naturally while helping people amber farm for pop items. Empyrean weapons farming facilitates a lot of empyrean feet being obtained.

Reading threads like this, I can't help but feel that people have forgotten the spirit of this game which is that it's hard, good items are rare, and it requires help from other players in order to accomplish the biggest tasks. People seem to want everything to be absurdly easy now, soloable or damn near it. If they can't buy an item or solo it in an hour or two, it's "too hard."

It's just a base item that's essentially worthless on its own. Even then no one is saying that you shouldn't have to do something to obtain it. Don't forget that, while none require a great deal of effort, you don't just get curor/Dom. OPs credits/or Bastion points automatically. Then after you get your useless base item, you then have to obtain 8 seals through questing or NMs to upgrade it. Then you have another 6 items to obtain to upgrade it further. You can't say that doesn't take some effort.

First, I was around for the old days. I've been playing since 2004. Not the longest streak by any stretch of the imagination, but plenty long enough. I've participated in pretty much every aspect of the game except for crafting and the new Voidwatch thing. I guess you can look me up on FFXIAH or Guildwork. About all the proof I can offer you.

I remember all too well going to Dynamis, Sky, Sea, HNM/Kings, Salvage, ZNM, Einherjar, VNM. Been there. Done that. Came away with some nice stuff, but I never got everything I wanted. Compared to some, it wasn't even that long of a list. I remember going time and time again only to come away empty handed or worse off than when I started. After a while, that ceases to be fun if it ever even was in the first place. Sure it feels good when you get that piece you waited so long for, but it's more a sense of relief than accomplishment.

Are empyrean feet hard to obtain? They're about right except for the randomness of the base item. Sure you can get them in a very short amount of time from start to finish, but most people don't play that way, and even Abyssea is seldom that kind.

Of course, someone could go 1/1 on a Ridill or Herald's Gaiters as well. What would you say about their effort? Obviously they didn't spend a great deal of time on it compared to most. They did manage to kill the mob that drops the item though. So is their accomplishment marred by their lack of time spent? Does their comparative lack of effort make them unworthy of that item? Or is effort measured by something other than time?

As for the state of the playerbase, I don't really see much difference. There have always been good, bad, and ugly players and there always will be. Some will always find a way to succeed and some will always find a way to fail. The group I run with is very good, and the PUGs I've been in have varied but I haven't run into anything awful.

I don't recall jerks really being weeded out in the old days. To be honest, I saw more nice folks weeded out than jerks, and the deeper I got into endgame the more jerks I saw. Oh there were and are still great people around to be sure, but absolutely no shortage of horrible ones in both skill and attitude.

Running mainly with friends and not having to deal with all the drama that past events brought us has made my experience a much better one. I like being able to log in for a few hours, and actually feel like I didn't waste my time like I did so many nights with pre-Abyssea content. Waiting months and years for a piece of gear? Is that an accomplishment or is it masochism? So what if I finish a piece of empyrean gear quickly? I'll just start on another one. The way my LS works the faster someone finishes their set the sooner the next person can start theirs. More people are happy, and more jobs are well geared. I'm not really seeing the downside to that.

My apologies for what's probably a rambling mess.

This is not difficulty. We just finished 7 hour (7 HOURS) farming session for them. We got three pairs of THF, two pairs of MNK, two pairs of WAR, and a pair of WHM feet.

No BLM.

We ended with nearly 300 minutes, there were no deaths, and we were killing 3-4 mobs at a time. As 4 people. This is not hard, it's @#%^ing bullsh*t random luck. I'd be fine if there were some difficulties to overcome (ACP final fight), if we needed more people (Divine Might), or if we needed strategy (Any BCNM). It requires none of these, it's just bullsh*t randomness.

People are making it sound wrong though.

It's not "hard" to get Empy base feet. Setting up parties for it is easy and getting gold boxes and lights is no big deal. Having them not drop doesnt make the entire ordeal "hard", it just makes it annoying.

The entire thing doesnt need to be changed because of the difficulty, it needs to be changed because the less than 1% droprate is completely pissing people off. Despite SE having "fixed" this problem earlier this year.

Do i favor easy-mode? Hell no. But droprates are easily the biggest bottleneck in this game. Dont care what it's changed into, just as long as it's not the current system of getting lucky.