Grand Company Hunting logFollow

Sounds like a case of bad luck to me. I finished off my Grand Company Hunting Log's first page with almost no trouble at all. Inside of maybe 8 levequests I was able to get the 3 or so rare marks I needed at Camp Tranquil as well as The Quarrymille. I've seen Lush Morbol so many times at Tranquil that there is no way the odds are any worse than, say ... 25-35%. Of course it could also be mob-dependent, but who knows?

Having said that, I actually do agree that basing one's ability to progress in the Grand Company entirely off of your luck of the draw in regards to rare monsters spawning during battleleves doesn't seem fair. It doesn't jibe well with me, to be honest. Perhaps as something seen on later pages for much higher ranks, but doing it as early as they are when you're still trying to move from Tier 1 ranks to Tier 2? That doesn't seem right, and likely will just **** people off more than anything.

Perhaps replace the rare marks with getting involved in specific Boss FATEs in an area? Though I guess then you'd be at the mercy of assistance from other people in the area also wanting to do a FATE, and being fresh out of luck if not enough people come along.

Edited, Jul 12th 2013 9:06am by Satisiun

I burnt quite a few leve allowances trying to get my 2 to pop. I was also well over level for those leves. I had a ton of allowances saved up and stuff's getting wiped so I didn't mind as much on this character. I wouldn't want to waste leves like that for real though. One thing we could do, now that we know, is to run those leves right away when we're still in the level range. That's also another situation where level sync on leves could be useful.

However, there's still the matter of potentially using up quite a few leves just to get that random spawn so you can kill it for a few hundred GC seals. Not much of a reward for the time & allowances spent that could've been used elsewhere.

Once you join a GC. It's added as another section after the classes in the hunting log.

Ok, I haven't gotten that far into GC, are you saying it's required to fill out the GC hunting log in order to advance in rank at some point? Or are you just trying to do it to get more seals? Also, it seems like a bunch of the mobs are just regular, non-leve mobs... do more leve-based mobs show up on the higher tiers? Thanks in advance, and sorry to hear about your frustrations.

I didn't keep track of how many leves it took me to find both the NMs on my 1st page, but it was probably close to two dozen--completely unreasonable considering how few daily leve allowances we're allotted. Thankfully, they are planning on adjusting this to make it simpler.
I would be happy if they drop the leve component entirely, or at least tie NM spawns to particular leves. For example, if the NM stag were to spawn from the level 20 leves that relates to stags, wouldn't that make more sense? They don't need to make it obvious that this is where you'll find it.

I dont think the GC huntlog is meant to be done in a few days. I see it as something to do for end game . If you want seals run fates. Im saving my leves for my lower lvls and If I get the NM I need than great.

uhg I really hope not lol. what if insted they pulled a wow and let the first 10 instances we run in a weeks time give seals?

If that is true then why are my levels not matching where I should be... B.c I can't finish them when I am supposed to. This isn't end game this is just progression done incorrectly. They are already talking about changing it so they already know that it should be higher.

Edited, Jul 12th 2013 1:19pm by Mopdaddy

I actually found the sylphs in the north shroud near the sylph stronghold.

By any chance, have you done any guildhests yet?

I finished the first tab for Flames, and I never went to the Slyphs in South Shroud.

The only one that gave me trouble was the Wanted Goblin. The other two popped on my first Leve. Spent about 25 trying to get the Goblin to pop, but may have missed him due to not knowing where to look. Just happened to stumble onto him out of the way of where the Leve was taking place.

Off-topic, but I really wish they would add an option to be able to pin the Hunting Log objectives to the Quest Tracker. It's a pain to open up the log every five seconds to check on what the hell I was looking for again. :P

For the Sylphs I wanted to point out, there's a tunnel under the ramp that leads up to the Sanctum of the Twelve. That will get you to the level 23 Sylphs for the hunt log. The entrance is off to the west side of the ramp if you are facing north.

Has anyone used a legacy character with previous highest GC rank to try and do this? I mean is it possible to rise more in rank even in beta p3 and what is the purpose of GC nowadays? It used to be the way you progressed through the storyline, but I get a feeling it isn't anymore?