I want YOU! for the Shantotto Army!
Yeah, so I started playing again and started A Shantotto Ascension.
So far, I hate it.
I LOVE!! Shantotto, but I hate being forced to do things I don’t want to do (like leveling crafting, which should be totally optional), or spend lots gil at the very start of the quest (ok so maybe that’s totally optional).
After the initial cut scene in Windurst, you have to bring a item to a spot in Qufim Island to trigger a cut scene, the item you have to bring is randomly picked from 6 different ones.
The Good: You can buy all the items off the Auction House.
The Bad: They’re a little expensive.
The Ugly: You CAN do this for free, but if you’re like me, then you’d rather spend 30K gil to buy the items. Doing it the free way involves running to all 3 nations and killing mobs in each until you get the required drops. If that wasn’t enough you then need to synth them into a sub product required in the synth for the final product. Finally you needat least 6 in Alchemy or you’ll fail the synth. Ohh and did I mention that it’s EX? Yeah so no asking someone to make it for you and then passing it back.
Now when you finish the cutscene you get another surprise …. Shantotto tells you that you need to go to ALL the Protocrystals.
This is pretty much where I have stopped :/
First you have to do some major crafting, then you’re asked to run to all the crystals. I really didn’t feel like going to all the crystals, even if my SMN is 20 and I can use the tuning fork shortcut. It’s still a lot of running around. I hope it get’s easier from here, or at least the story gets a little better.
The end reward is a pair of pants … ugly ones too.
“But Akeda! They have a dragon on them, isn’t it cool!!”
Not if you’re wearing the Royal Redingote, in which case they just look ugly. In all fairness the pants look pretty good with the Scholar’s/Argute Gown though.
The augments are the most important thing though:
“Cure” Potency +5%
Then there’s the mACC, mATK bonus or the -4 Enmity.
I got Fast Cast plus mACC on both ACP and MKE so the -Enmity would be nice since SCH only get’s Cure IV which generates the most Enmity out of all the Cure spells.
You actually don’t have to go to ALL the crystals, I think like 3? Then you get more gil for going to any others. However, I don’t think the tuning fork trick works, as you actually need to kill the avatar there (though it’s much weaker). It’s a fun expansion, less annoying than the others imo…but still slightly bothersome.
Ahh ok thanks for the info. I suddenly remember her saying that the reward being bigger for the more you do.
Hmm well I hope its less annoying then the others quest wise. I guess lvling crafting isn’t a whole lot different (albet a LOT easier) then being forced to fight coffer keys for maps xDD