neophytal said:
Difficulty of the fights isn't the issue, obviously the black belt NM's would be harder since they are higher level. The issue is the rarity of the items, the NQ kings have a ~5% drop rate on the black belt items, and the kings spawn around once a week. That means, that if each item goes to a monk for upgrading and a monk gets all three before another monk gets an item, there would be about 65 black belts made every year. Obviously those optimal conditions don't exist, with different linkshells claiming and people not being able to attend every camp, so the number is far less. This quest also requires all of the other quests being completed as well, which automatically makes it more difficult than a previous quest.Shaunessy said:
It's not that I don't like the gear, but I don't like when people completely ignore one of the two the defining items of the job. Monk AF is mostly the same way; hands and body are good enough to be worn full time, there's obviously better but those are fine options if you don't have millions to spend. Head, Feet and Legs, though, should not be worn full time, since they provide no benefits; and the "best gear" for those slots is maybe 50,000 each, hardly a difficult amount to get. The brown belt is the ONLY expensive/relatively difficult gear in the game that I find it completely unacceptable to level without.dbuman said:
dbuman said:
What about the BC fights that drop the items? Can't they be manaburned? I do believe so. There you go get some seals and sponser a run. That way you don't even need to worry about the spawn times of the monsters that drop the items.Bajaratt said:
I understand that, and I wouldn't want to party with those people either; but the thing is, all of those are due to the person's play style, and are largely irrelevant of gear. As a melee DD job, gear is just about everything, you can't just try harder and magically hit the monster more or harder, you need gear to do that. This is a numbers game, if you don't have the gear, then your numbers will suck and so will you.dbuman said:
Yeah, because you can bang out 99 Kindred seals in no time flat. It's also a low drop rate for the Black Belt items, and the Turtle KS99 has shitty drops so no one ever wants to do that one. It's still a very small number of black belts being added compared to the number of brown belts.Shaunessy said:
If that's what he meant, then it only further supports my point that brown belt is a far easier than black belt to get. You need 1/3 of the people and the KS to get the items, so brown belts are even more common.Stouter said:
No, I meant the black belt items. Just showing another way to go about it. It's ok though, Baja would rather be gimp than try something hard. To me it's just funny they will kick a MNK from a party because of the lack of brown belt, when by all rights they should have a black belt. But I know, it's too hard so it's not nessesary.Stouter said:
