Over the last two and a half months, I have been on a quest to craft all the craftable minions for myself and my FC mates. While the newer crafted minions require a bit of extreme farming and luck on rolls, that's a time-gate I'm willing to deal with. Instead, it's the older minions that are proving to be an absolute nightmare.
The Atrophied Atomos, Steam-Powered Gobwalker, and especially the Iron Dwarf all have such ridiculous mat requirements that it can take months to be able to craft even one of these minions.
1) Glazenuts. Actually the most reasonable part, but if you aren't able to shell out hundreds of thousands on the MB, get ready to wait at least one real world week's time and gardening effort just to get one mat.
2) The Timeworn Wyvernskin mats, which... never... drop. Myself and two FC mates have been completing Wyvernskin Maps every single day for more than a month now, as well as purchasing extra maps on the MB. Between us and our alts, we've opened over 100 Wyvernskin maps--not a single Atomos Corpulence drop. These maps are now outdated and very few people are doing them, so MB prices are high (typically 40k-50k a map) and prices for the rare drops even higher.
3) Field and Airship venture mats are gated behind 18 hour explorations with RNG rewards. You have no idea when you will get the mats you want; just have to keep mindlessly sending your retainer and air ship out and waiting 18 hours... over and over and over again...
RNG is RNG, I know--but why are minions that haven't been relevant in five years still only accessible via RNG maps/explorations with terrible drop rates? We're now two expansions past the point where these minions were released--it shouldn't still take months to make them, as the maps they are tied up with grow increasingly less relevant and available on the MB.
From someone who is well beyond the point of frustrated with this: Square please make Atomos Corpulence, Exquisite Buttons, Iron Giant Cores, and Iron Giant Scraps available outside of just treasure maps/ventures. Make Atomos Corpulence a rare drop from Atomos in the Crystal Tower raids. I'd go back and do those if given the reason! Make Iron Giant Cores drop from the MSQ Garlean bots. Make Exquisite Buttons purchasable from, say, the Pixie beast tribe--seems like something that would catch their fancy.
Just... please... I can't look at another Wyvernskin map...
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The Atrophied Atomos, Steam-Powered Gobwalker, and especially the Iron Dwarf all have such ridiculous mat requirements that it can take months to be able to craft even one of these minions.
1) Glazenuts. Actually the most reasonable part, but if you aren't able to shell out hundreds of thousands on the MB, get ready to wait at least one real world week's time and gardening effort just to get one mat.
2) The Timeworn Wyvernskin mats, which... never... drop. Myself and two FC mates have been completing Wyvernskin Maps every single day for more than a month now, as well as purchasing extra maps on the MB. Between us and our alts, we've opened over 100 Wyvernskin maps--not a single Atomos Corpulence drop. These maps are now outdated and very few people are doing them, so MB prices are high (typically 40k-50k a map) and prices for the rare drops even higher.
3) Field and Airship venture mats are gated behind 18 hour explorations with RNG rewards. You have no idea when you will get the mats you want; just have to keep mindlessly sending your retainer and air ship out and waiting 18 hours... over and over and over again...
RNG is RNG, I know--but why are minions that haven't been relevant in five years still only accessible via RNG maps/explorations with terrible drop rates? We're now two expansions past the point where these minions were released--it shouldn't still take months to make them, as the maps they are tied up with grow increasingly less relevant and available on the MB.
From someone who is well beyond the point of frustrated with this: Square please make Atomos Corpulence, Exquisite Buttons, Iron Giant Cores, and Iron Giant Scraps available outside of just treasure maps/ventures. Make Atomos Corpulence a rare drop from Atomos in the Crystal Tower raids. I'd go back and do those if given the reason! Make Iron Giant Cores drop from the MSQ Garlean bots. Make Exquisite Buttons purchasable from, say, the Pixie beast tribe--seems like something that would catch their fancy.
Just... please... I can't look at another Wyvernskin map...
Continue reading...