Ifrit reward system seriously needs tweaking

[Actus]

I'm probably gonna piss a bunch of people off here with these SS, but seriously...

After you kill Ifrit, you open the chest and you randomly get 1 of the 7 weapons. It doesn't go to loot pool so that people who can use it can get it. It isn't determined on what jobs you have leveled. It's just stupidly random.

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/4e96593289118b6df10079b4.jpg

I'm a mage. Let me get a mage weapon. I've killed Ifrit over thirty times and I'm getting DoW weapons. Not the ones I can use. Come on...

[Xatsh]

Yep agree to this, it is a horrible system. Items when in a party should never be distributed automatically, should always be a pool.

[CSLionheart]

This is indeed a horrible system. Why did it have to be different from Batraal, where you open a chest and the gear just goes to a random person's loot list, and then it can be distributed accordingly? Did they think getting loot would be too easy that way? If so, just lower the drop rate...in the end it may turn out to be the same amount of time spent but it seems much less frustrating. Let's try our best to get some sort of dev response on this.

[Viridiana]

Moose, you're missing the part where it completely skips their loot lists. . .

[CSLionheart]

Right. It never goes to the loot list. It goes straight to someone's inventory, none of you have any choice in the matter.

[Synfrag]

I say FFXI system of a pool. But at the same time I say NO to a WoW/Aion etc popup.

[Chardrizard]

Is that how you guys distribute your drops? Jeez, my LS actually calls out what it is and if the player who gets the item can't really use it, they're selfless enough to pass it along to someone who can. Greedy people, man...

Idk how many people I speak for here, but you guys are freakin' goofy if that's how you do business lol. They're imaginary weapons - why not pass them along to someone whose job identifies with them and will be more proud to own them? Why do people store them in their inventory for ages as if they're going to be post-apocalypse toilet paper levels of valuable?

It goes straight to inventory........................

[Actus]

lololol, one of the people in my group just got his third Ifrit's Blade. wtf... /double facepalm


just stays in the box

[sWhiteboy]

It's random drops. You are guaranteed something, but it's random. Other games don't give you guaranteed items...so going to loot is necessary so you can give the item to people who need it. No other game is just going to hand you the right item...you have to work for it. They could always make the weapons have low % drop rates, then put them to loot. But I bet it wouldn't be any faster.

[Anonymoose]

Ohh, my apologies. I'm used to the whole "individual loot list" vs. community pool argument, so when I saw "Loot Pool," I assumed pool was being used in the standard terminology of population.

Let's pretend my post said,

Why the crap would that even happen? That sounds more like a bug than sh***y planning.