Talk:The Hanging Edge

Is it just me, or is it a lot harder to get gears for this event compared to previous events' items? Only 100+bonus per trip, and it's harder to get anyone besides Sazh.

--Visitante (talk) 16:29, 5 December 2016 (EST): It´s harder than the last event. I´m getting an avg of 200 per run, using 2 Sazhs. This time i´m going to buy only the essentials.

--Gradow (talk) 08:10, 6 December 2016 (EST) It's not -THAT- hard. I've been farming PRO with no BONUS units of my own and relying on my friends and have been getting around 100 gears per run, with the offchance of finding a Gigantuar. And even though I'm doing it 'so slowly', I already have the cheapest Essential and am more than 80% done with the most expensive one. So this is my suggestion: if you have no BONUS units, or can't beat ELT with them, just farm PRO. You actually get a better avg.gears/energy that way - even more so if you do run into a Gigantuar.

--Visitante (talk) 05:15, 6 December 2016 (EST): I´m running on ELT with Cod, DK Cecil, ExDeath, 2 Sazhs and sometimes one friend bonus unit. I´ve only fountd Gigantuar once. I have now 25,400 trochoids. On the last event i was getting arround 15K day.

--Silverkiller (talk) 07:53, 6 December 2016 (EST)well i do pro runs with 5 bonus units getting around 200 - 225 per run, only need luneth to clean it with a friend unit bonus, per 10 energy is very good and i find around 2-3 gigas daily in pro those give 450 gears with the 300% bonusof the 5 units that is 1800 on those runs, however in the end is still difficult to be able to farm everything, so i guess i will only buy tickets, Quartzs and the trust moogles

--SwipeKnife (talk) 09:47, 6 December 2016 (EST)I definitely don't think it's worth it to farm for the Trust Moogles. I'm going to do the math using my current setup (2x Vanille, 2x Sazh for a 250% bonus): Hanging Edge ELT: 13 Energy, ~105 Trochoid Gear/Run. With 250% bonus, ~367 Trochoid Gear/Run. TM = 30,000TG. It will take 82 runs to get 30,000TG with that setup. I haven't seen any numbers on the Gigantaur spawn rate, but I would guess it's around 8%. A Gigantaur is worth 500TG, 1750TG with 250% bonus. This would bring the number of runs down to ~68. 68 runs for a TM doesn't sound bad.. until you realize that 68 runs = 884 energy. That could have been ~8.8% TMR * 5 characters = 44% TMR net. Compared to one Moogle at 10%... it's a pretty bad trade. Side note: There are probably some amazing TMRs coming up that would be great to instantly unlock with 10 Moogles. Also, grinding 884 runs of Earth Shrine is pretty painful for most people. SideSide note: Maybe it would be worth it if you're a sicko with 3x Lightnings available next week. At 500% bonus, 34 runs is much more reasonable for the 30k Moogle. Even at 500%, I don't think the 70k Moogle is worth getting.

This was the first of these kinds of currency events in JP and it was not balanced well (only 1 Metal Gigantuar can appear and having a very low payout). In comparison the BF event was far more generous so GL player's can see how much things changed as it was a later event in JP. What's worse is the GL version increased some prices due to the bonus units being present. Things will improve noticeably with the 2nd week having Lightning's banner and her 100% bonus. Focus on the most valuable purchases and make peace with not buying everything this event.

--DrShaneR (talk) Update for Week 2: it looks like we get about double the gears that we did last week. With that, plus Lightning's 100% bonus, and higher Gigantuar drop rate (4 today), it's looking straightforward to get everything by the end of the week.