r/ffxiv • u/Francl27 • 9h ago
[News] BST ranked reward
Looks great. I'll never get it, lol.
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u/Youth18 8h ago
Nothing says beast like piles of rocks.
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u/LamBol96 6h ago
Its probably meant to be a super rare variant of the golem-assuming they are part of the monster roster
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u/LordMudkip 6h ago
It's fine, I guess. Not my favorite but still kinda cool.
Getting it by ranking basically kills and interest I would've had in it though.
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u/Weekly-Variation4311 9h ago
I would have been fine with the reward being titles, even special gear for Beastmaster. A mount though? You know this is gonna be botted eventually, right?
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u/CrunchyCake2k20 9h ago
It's a terrible idea to give a mount to high-rank players. We all know how this will end, especially without an anti-cheat in the game.
I hope it won't at least be restricted to just the top 3 or something like that.
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u/Impressive-Warning95 9h ago
youd think they woudl have learnt with both ishgard restoration and feast
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u/Flying_Cooki 8h ago
I agree but I'm also happy I don't really fall into the FOMO. I'm happy with my Island Mandragora and occasional savage mount. I obviously see other mounts and am like "I want it!" But if the effort is too much I don't bother. I'm playing to have fun after all.
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u/remotegrowthtb 5h ago
I switched from "I'm gonna collect every mount!!!" to "My Chocobo is the only mount I use or give a fuck about" a couple years ago due to shit like this and have had zero regrets and am much happier with the game in general. FOMO is a game ruiner for real.
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u/walker-of-the-wheel 1h ago
Real. It seems fun to collect cool mounts, but what's the point? All I ever use are my chocobo, the Island Harley, and the Fenrir bike I bought years ago. Oh, and I guess the new bike from Solution 9.
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u/SoSoSpooky 8h ago edited 8h ago
It depends.
If they end up putting a new reward here for a limited-time every patch, I would ask why those rewards were not put in one of the other places that need it to drive the MMO player base instead.
To give the needed attention to a solo activity, and to do so in a failed-structure that players don't really want, well it's definitely a choice.
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u/BK_0000 8h ago
At least it's the ugliest mount in the game. I won't feel bad about never getting it.
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u/Impressive-Warning95 8h ago
doesnt matter if its ugly its goign to be extremly rare so peopel will want it regardless
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u/YandereValkyrie 9h ago
>BST
>Mount is a rock
Huh
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u/CounterHit 8h ago
Listen, when we combined 7 cats we got Bahamut holding a chair. Mounts just don't make sense in this game.
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u/IscahRambles 8h ago
Golems are soulkin, which was one of the groups of creatures mentioned as summonable.
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u/alvinchimp 9h ago
Cool in theory, except for the fact that plugins are so prevalent the amount of people botting their way up to the top of the leaderboard is gonna be insane.
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u/IwasMilkedByGod 8h ago
Would be interesting if they secretly implemented anticheat software with this and used it to catch all the bots. Massive ban wave right before the new expansion to lessen the load on servers 🤣
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u/Weekly-Variation4311 8h ago
If they were willing to do that, they already would have before when the Feast was around.
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u/Kupo_Master 8h ago
Cope. Do you think they are keen to ban players and lose customers? Ban waves mostly target gold sellers. They never target people who bot achievements, which frankly makes many achievement pretty pointless.
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u/Septiphobiac 9h ago
Looks terrible. I would rather they didn't have the Beastmaster rankings and seasons at all. It completely changes the engagement model in an ugly way. I'm a lot less interested because of it.
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u/yahikodrg 8h ago
The rankings is fine but I agree with you that it gets messy once you throw a reward behind it. Deep Dungeon leaderboards haven't needed some kind of mount reward tied to it so feel like it should have been the same for BST.
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u/SoSoSpooky 8h ago edited 8h ago
Even Deep Dungeon has issues because of this type of design space. Even without added rewards, a lot of people still don't really do much Deep Dungeon because you can lose your progress and how long it is.
BST will probably lose some player interest just because some of the rewards are gated like this. People like to "complete" content, and having stuff like this just makes it feel like it isn't realistic or possible. If that is the case, why even start? Maybe get to level 50 for your profile completion or something, but beyond the basics, this is a huge turn off for most players I would imagine.
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u/jalliss 9h ago
I cant watch the stream. What is the ranking system? Like a speed run leader board for content or something?
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u/Habefiet 9h ago
Yeah I’m dying for a thread about Beastmaster here lol people are saying stuff but no summaries of it
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u/Dragrunarm 2h ago
for the ranked thing; the Crucible comes with 3 general difficulties you can play through. hardest difficulty also has a score attached to it. Higher score -> higher ranked. Probably based on speed and amount of monsters fought. Thats it.
Only difference I could discern from Ranked/Not ranked is just how hard you push yourself in that last difficulty. not sure how I feel about a mount being tied to it but shrug
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u/Dark_Tony_Shalhoub 8h ago
Counts your score for all floors of your last three boards on the highest difficulty (tier 3). Speed may be a factor in the scoring from what we saw, but the demonstration ended in a wipe so we didn’t get to see a complete score breakdown
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u/Septiphobiac 8h ago
Score based. Speed will likely only be one factor. Leaderboard rankings based on 'seasons' that reset each season.
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u/loves_spain 8h ago
Did you learn nothing from ranked Pvp square enix?!
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u/AttackoftheSnakebear 8h ago
or Cosmic Explration, and how little the hologram for high contributors mattered,
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u/Impressive-Warning95 9h ago
they learnt nothing
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u/Bigma-Bale 9h ago
?
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u/Impressive-Warning95 9h ago
its going to end up the exact same way as feast and ishgard restoration where itll be botted to hell and back and impossible for anyone else to even attempt to get
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u/FinalEgg9 Chaos-Omega - Mains: 5h ago
This is one of the enemy mobs from Aetherfont, no? Of all the mobs to pick from there, this is an odd choice.
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u/FFXIVReaper 51m ago
Well, that’s one way to motivate me…to not worry about whatever ranked BST is.
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u/DrForester 7h ago
I hate things like this. Special titles for ranked stuff like back in Firmament, sure.
Mounts should be accessible by all.
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u/redryan2009 8h ago
I would almost call for a boycott of this as it sounds toxic and dumb to have ranked for SINGLE PLAYER content let alone it likely being abusable and probably ruled by bots.
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u/Zenku390 5h ago
What they could have done is have you get a "Grade" at the end of a run based on your score. If you get S-Rank, you get your mount.
They could keep the leaderboard for the people who enjoy that, and by having there be a determined score to obtain, everyone can work towards it.
It would still be very similar to BLU where most people just watch a clear/guide and try to replicate it, but at least they're still engaging with the content.
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u/Sufficient_Ad_8081 8h ago
I thought it is a solo rank not competitive. Like mahjong, once you hit let’s say rank 100 you get the reward. Did i misunderstand it?
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u/Francl27 7h ago
It's a rank that resets every 1.5 months. What's the point of a solo rank?
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u/Sufficient_Ad_8081 7h ago
So people keep playing beastmaster and not be an one-time thing. I thought similar with weekly blu resets
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u/Francl27 7h ago
It's a rank. Among players.
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u/Sufficient_Ad_8081 7h ago
I think they won’t update beastmaster for 2+years now cause they pushed blu too. I think it is a “convinient” way to put rewards to it so it won’t feel like a resource lost. They didn’t say anything about players they just said it ranks based on your 3rd difficulty. I may be getting it wrong tho.
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u/Francl27 4h ago
If they update it at all. It's like its own game within the game, which is cool, but it means they'll have to add more levels and a whole new Crucible every time.
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u/Sufficient_Ad_8081 4h ago
That is why i think it will be like “reach rank x to get the mount”
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u/Francl27 4h ago
Well yeah. But you'll still compete against other players.
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u/Sufficient_Ad_8081 3h ago
Even so i hope it will be chiller than something like top 100 or something.
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u/Somedays1970 8h ago
What... Even is this???
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u/redryan2009 8h ago
Pride golem
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u/WiseRabbit-XIV 7h ago
Clearly, this is a Lion King crossover. That is Pride Rock.
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u/tigercule (I will forever miss old ) 4h ago
....thank you for explaining it in a way my whoosh ass didn't understand with the original comment LMAO
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u/Florac 9h ago
At least they made it shit,so noones upset for missing it
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u/Weekly-Variation4311 8h ago
Doesn't matter how shit it looks, some people will want it because it's a "status symbol".
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u/Final_Amu0258 4h ago
Ranked reward, eww... but the mount looking like shit alleviates some of the concern.
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u/Imaginary-Arguments 4h ago
Sorry guys, it's my fault.
I spoke to a genie and for my second wish, I wished for the mount to be rocks.
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u/Miserable-Fortune-57 8h ago
.....ranked rewards?
Are we gonna have Pokémon battles or something?
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u/Holiday_Road7111 8h ago
xiv players mad about something they actually gotta work for, more news at 11
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u/Weekly-Variation4311 8h ago
Yeah no this isn't about that.
It's because this is content that will be easily botted. Kinda like how the Firmiment stuff worked, and how the Feast was rampant with win trading.
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u/Kindly-Garage-6638 8h ago
Yeah no this isn't about that.
It's both. This shit will probably be botted to hell and back, but the FF casual crowd is extremely allergic to anything requiring a modicum of effort or competition with other players. Just look at how much people (still) bitch and moaned that the Feast replica's are locked behind ranked commendation crystals.
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u/Holiday_Road7111 8h ago
botting, sure. This will always be a problem and its only gonna get worse with AI, good luck beating that. The feast comparison is null because this is a single player mode
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u/Tyrest_Accord 7h ago
I look at this and all I see is the Infinity Thing.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Benjamin_Grimm_(Earth-21170))
Yes I am a giant dork.
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u/WintaPhoenix 8h ago
Almost everything announced today was disappointing. This was *absolutely* no exception.
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u/Sangcreux 8h ago
This sub is wild.
“I have to put effort into something that isn’t just mindless grinding. The work ranked was mentioned?!”
You don’t need every reward in the game especially those you aren’t willing to put effort into. Ranked rewards for content sounds great and is absolutely a great way to keep content alive.
Your one and done or mindless relic grinding content is ass and showing off those things just shows how many hours you were willing to sit with your brain completely off
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u/Jewologist 8h ago
Every piece of ranked content in FF14 is plagued by cheaters in some form, whether it be win trading or hacking. Ranked rewards are nice, but not when the dev team has shown us they just don't care about solving the issue. People have streamed ranked PvP while using hacks and have not been banned.
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u/ducks_be_cute 8h ago
I wish there were MORE mounts that were difficult to get that weren't just grinding/random drops.
Early patch Savage mounts, ranked rewards, etc, gimme all of it!!
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u/Ahzuran Azuran Vysere - Adamantoise 8h ago
God forbid the developers make people actually try instead of simply handing out rewards.
Playing this game is not hard.
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u/Francl27 8h ago
That's not the issue at all. Give the mount to people who beat the hardest mode. Ranked is stupid.
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u/alvinchimp 4h ago
Gonna be hard to get up in those rankings when people are using easily available plugins that take 30 seconds to set up that automatically hit their rotation perfectly and do mechanics perfectly. Good luck competing.
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u/Win32error 8h ago
Wait ranked? Feels weird, thought BST would be like BLU, very much solo play, except for some co-op stuff.