Farmiing for Sniper Ring

[Yangsing]

Started farming to make enough gil to buy one of these. At first they were around 210k on Asura. Been farming for almost a week now and got 160k to show for it. Went to go check up on the price and it went up to 240k .

Serioulsy, is it even worth it? It's just depressing to think about how much more farming I have to do now.

Laters,
Yangsing "Achoo"

[Matkun]

... Hah..

*points at the 450k and rising price on Midgardsormr*

Be thankful they are only 240k.

[Jroggy]

yea, i saw the price and i thought it said 40k the first time i saw it and i said to myself "hey that isn't too bad." then i realized i missed 1 zero >.< it's gonna take me a good couple weeks of farming to get 2 me thinks. probably will wait til 50 though.

[kumaeru]

Basically (on midgard) if archer ring price goes up 10k.. Sniper Ring prices go up 20k+.

[Tidane]

When I started trying to get a Sniper, they were 150k each. Now I have 182k, and Snipers are 300k each.

[Thelps]

Snipers on my server are 300k each. I just spent 6 weeks farming/NM hunting to get my pair (Bought them yesterday ! ).

In my opinion, farming isn't too bad the higher your lvl, so I recommend you leave getting the snipers till at least lvl 45 or so so you can effectively farm for them.

Do a search on Sniper Rings on this website, you should turn up my old thread on the subject. It's got a huge amount of useful farming info.

[NanakiSuperNova]

Originally posted by Matkun
... Hah..

*points at the 450k and rising price on Midgardsormr*

Be thankful they are only 240k.

Its times like these where I hate the economy.
SE should get a NPC to sell them for like 150k to stop the insane prices

[Thelps]

SE should get a NPC to sell them for like 150k to stop the insane prices

Actually, I tend to think the price of Snipers is a great reflection of the way the FF economy WORKS. Considering they're priceless to almost every damage dealing job (and almost mandatory for Elvaan characters of all forms), not to mention the fact even high lvl WHMs (as well as every other job in the game) love them because they allow them to max their club skill easily and quickly in skillup parties. Consequently, these rings (which ONLY come from the excessively rare drop rate of Stroper Chymes, and only a portion of those will be synthed into Snipers from their original Archer form) will be highly sought after by practically every player of the game at one level or another. This, coupled with their rarity of supply makes them well-deserving of the excessive pricetags (although 450k is still a freakin' ripoff, poor Midgardites... ).

Personally I don't think there's anything wrong with the price since without it they'd cease to be well sought after items (As they are they're driving hundreds of thousands of gil's worth of cheaper (farmed) commodities to the AHs to pay for them) and would no doubt be seen on every damage dealer and every skill up-er around. Not to mention the fact loads of Stroper Chyme campers would be out of an income. See where I'm going? FF11's economy is awesome in my opinion BECAUSE it works like this. Sniper Rings happen to be a linchpin of that economy.

[NanakiSuperNova]

May be ok for you but have a butchers at what server im on ><

[Sorath]

If you can afford snipers, go for it, and sell it back at 75 when you stop the level grind and get high dex +4 or +5 rings to assist your fuidama WS damage instead, since the +10 acc from snipers at that level will not be noticable really.

It's good to have as you're in the level grind, and also when skilling up for that 225-250WS level many drks want to attain with Great sword. For Spinning slash, and the mildly cool Ground Strike.

After all, as with most equipment, it's more like an investment than money lost, since you can always sell it back (for profit or loss no one knows) when the time comes.

[Tidane]

Well, I just spent 242k on Royal Knight's gear, so I'm back to 0gil on the Sniper Scale. I'd rather not get them, just seems like a waste of time now, but I still farm while I'm LFG. So if I come across 600k, I may buy them, depends if I want to save another mil for Haubergeon.

[Zafron]

I don't see how you can farm that much cash. It would drive me crazy. Its extremly boring, and even on a good day I'll make 30k tops from a few hours of farming. Crafting, gardening, and mining are just so much more appealing methods of making cash imo.

[Tidane]

They're too random and costly for me at low levels. I spent 100k or so on mining, made maybe 10k in a week. I can farm a good 15-20k in a 45mins-hour, so I think that's a little quicker.

[Mikasa]

no need for RK armor tidane.

sell it back and use your AF

[Godrick]

RK is way better no? its jsut my oppinio