Well then, that's good to know. I just heard that dungeon have a bad reputation for being a huge difficulty jump for new players. I didn't know they nerfed it.
I recommend using the centurio/allied seals to buy your aetherite tickets, so you don't waste gil teleporting around. you can also use them for ventures for your retainers, but I buy mine at the grand company quarter master.
Aurum Vale recently got nerfed so hard into the ground. The mobs, in general, were toned down and Coin Counter will no longer one-shot people. The floor juice no longer does a third of a non-tank's hp, and pretty much everything has indicators now.
@@fanazador Coin Counter getting nerfed and all of the indicators were added in 5.3 of Shadowbringers. The stat squish in Endwalker pretty much destroyed any difficulty in ARR-Stormblood dungeons. Since then they've been steadily reworking certain "required" dungeons to fit modern standards, but since Aurum Vale is technically optional, it was skipped. Edit: I also forgot to mention that Endwalker removed mob experience. This fundamentally changed how you run Aurum Vale, because it used to be a great way to get experience compared to other dungeons. This was because allowing the morbol eggs to hatch would grant you a full mob's worth of experience upon defeating the hatchling. This made the seedbed pulls much harder than normal, but also made them very lucrative for players at levels 47-49. On that note, the Aetherochemical Research Facility (the last story dungeon of 3.0) is now easily the hardest dungeon in the game. The new fight with Lahabrea/Igeyorhm and Ascian Prime is bonkers compared to anything before or after it.
S Rank does have windows and cooldown, and also triggers to spawn. Ophionerus (S Elpis) for example, have a min.window of 84 hours (before that is a 0% chance to spawn) to a max.window of 132 hours. But it will not spawn by itself, you need also to trigger it. The trigger is different from each S, for Ophionerus is to discard a stack of five Eggs of Elpis. Oh and the window timer is short after an update (about half).
AV is not easy the first time tho it is easier if you can throw regens on people... makes taht stupid dot on everyone easier to handle regarding the treasure maps.. there actually is a special one you can only get from the lost canals/shifting altar of Uznair with the lvl 70 ones and honestly... some groups of people have rituals they do while the altar is spinning or someone is choosing the door... the amount of trash talk in maps is glorious
Not trying to be contrarian when I say this. I found AV to be, enh. A friend explained the dangers and what I needed to do as a Healer before hand thay first time, so that probably made it easier. It's not a favourite, but I don't hate it myself.
I'd stay away from hunts if I were you, S ranks specifically. They are player-spawned (mostly) and have random and hidden respawn timers making it a system that exists only to waste the players time, it was outdated even when it released. Then on top of that the control freak higher ups in the hunt community think they own this entire section of the game and will antagonize/mass false report people who attack the mobs before they are given "permission", even if you spawned that mob yourself.
I didn't know that kind of thing exist. I think it's nice though, since that bring community to create their own solution using discord and bot etc. I personally won't be waiting for it all the time and waste my time, I will just join whenever I get a ping on my discord.
Do not listen to this guy 🤡 No way people antagonized/mass reported you for just doing this once. I've been doing hunts almost daily for years, and people are always nice and don't care enough to mass report someone, unless they keep pulling on purpose. Sounds to me like you are one of those assholes that always pull too early, because they only care about themselves and cannot wait for a few minutes. Next time you pre-pull because you are inpatient and people miss it, just remember that that could be you.
There is a universal tracker website that people actively doing hunts use. If you want to solo something, just do it and don't worry about it. Anything before ShB is free game. If you have your own party doing it, you can probably do the ShB in short order as well. Not sure what yer problem is, but unless you are part of a hunt train, you do you man.
Bad take my friend. A ranks in the free trial are considered free game to hunt. ShB and EW ones are generally too bulky to take down solo, but the ShB ones are likely doable with a party. There is ettiquete to the Hunt Trains though, fastpulling is generally frowned upon because it disrupts other players - which *is* a reportable offence - you can't just disrupt organised play and expect to not get people annoyed at you. Fastpuling prevents some people from getting full - or any - contribution towards the Hunt, and therefore get reduced or even no rewards. Also, I don't know why you call it outdated? ARR/HW/SB hunts give you resources for aetheryte tickets, glam, and stuff like riding maps and other collectables. They give uncapped tomestones too! EW hunts even give you weekly tomestones , which - as someone who hates grinding dungeons and the like - I find a great alternative way to hit your caps. Oh, they also give clusters, so you can hella easily farm your materia for melding.
