AF3 Feet

[Renesmay]

Ok so we all know pretty much how difficult it is to obtain AF3 feet in Abyssea. Parties are only going to certain areas, or you are rolling against 4-5 sometimes more people to get your af peice after waiting 5+ hours in one party. If its not this ou either get ran out from soloing lights, get lights up to par to run out of time, or you simply have no job that you can solo lights. I am a 90 thf and dnc I use Daggers how am i suppose to obtain af for dnc and mnk if I can't get what is needed. even with a blm and a ninja assisting with the certain kills i've spent over 36 hours in abyssea trying to get af for mnk AND dnc af. I still dont have either. Is se ever going make this drop rate better? What is going to be done in order for us to get the AF3 feet obtainable without wasting stones, time, and everything i mean 36 hours in a row and nothing. thats kind of rediculus.

[katoplepa]

I'm agree.
yesterday night I got 2 MNK feet when me and my LS friends we were farming for Ulhdashi in Attowa, and this means completely casual pop that chest... and no one needs it, I got one in auto-assign but I don't need it... this is ridicolous, I'm agree, when I think about the hours I wasted try to pop THF feet and never got... I hope they find something alternative...

[Alhanelem]

empyrean feet aren't really that bad these days. (yes, I said empyrean)
They're sitll the hardest to get base piece of course, but it's not like you can't collect your trial items in the meantime.

[Renesmay]

its not impossible but for most people damn near. Player's who dont have but maybe 3-4 hours a day to play due to school work kids family etc they will never be able to get the feet in that little bit of time. Its not fair to them because the drop rate is below 1%. even the ppl that solo or dou. soon as we get the lights for chests we have to update our time and basically restart. if anything allow us to keep lights that we build for up to 15-30 minutes AFTER exiting abyssea before we lose them. even that would help.

[Herby]

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but i was doing clusters the last few days for a magian trial and in the 7 hours (split over 3 days) farming clusters in Abyssea - Misareaux I got 3 DRK feet, 4 PLD feet, 2RNG feet, and 1 NIN feet. That's like 1,5 feet per hour. Interesting however is this: As long as i didn't build ANY amber light it seemed that the feet dropped very well, and as i got to Tier 2 gold chests (still small though) i never saw feet again but mostly NM popitems. So maybe the key is to NOT build any Amber light at all.

[Sharnak]

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but i was doing clusters the last few days for a magian trial and in the 7 hours (split over 3 days) farming clusters in Abyssea - Misareaux I got 3 DRK feet, 4 PLD feet, 2RNG feet, and 1 NIN feet. That's like 1,5 feet per hour. Interesting however is this: As long as i didn't build ANY amber light it seemed that the feet dropped very well, and as i got to Tier 2 gold chests (still small though) i never saw feet again but mostly NM popitems. So maybe the key is to NOT build any Amber light at all.

I'm not sure it's just luck or not but actually i also feel same to you, I solo to gain my blu,drg feet for long with full build light and feel it's always harder and harder to get feet if you build higher amber light since it's will have "a lot more" chance for item drop more and for max light keyitem and temp item on big chest will also come jam on your chest pool. So "may" you just no build too high amber unless you want other item or keyitem.

[HFX7686]

I've not been able to get a pair of Emp BRD feet in 20+ hours of trying to do so. Lots of PLD and RNG feet, not a single BRD piece.

[Nephilipitou]

well it does come down to luck at some point. The drop rates are probably equal but that does't mean you can't roll the dice and get 6 6s back to back. That's just how random works. I'm sure if you got 1000 feet things would end up averaging out much more than your 5-10

however i think it would be nice if you could maybe wear all your other +2 items and get a boost in the feet if that's the only non +2 item on you, as you solo, duo, trio. etcetra.

[katoplepa]

I'm not sure if it's relevant, but i was doing clusters the last few days for a magian trial and in the 7 hours (split over 3 days) farming clusters in Abyssea - Misareaux I got 3 DRK feet, 4 PLD feet, 2RNG feet, and 1 NIN feet. That's like 1,5 feet per hour. Interesting however is this: As long as i didn't build ANY amber light it seemed that the feet dropped very well, and as i got to Tier 2 gold chests (still small though) i never saw feet again but mostly NM popitems. So maybe the key is to NOT build any Amber light at all.

so, what type/numbers of lights you suggest to build to pop feet chests?

p.s.
ninja feet in misareaux? don't they are in Vunkerl?

[Liteholt]

I dunno, I've seen feet come out of the large gold pyxides before. Was in Miseraux once, with an LS group. Had some new players come in, so I as BLM went off to smite some Murex for azure light. First kill, a large pyxis dropped, and had DRK feet in it (and this was after close to 6 hours of not seeing a single pair of feet). Then about 15 min later, we got another large pyxide with DRK and BRD feet in it. So it is possible to get feet from larger pyxides.

[Sharnak]

I dunno, I've seen feet come out of the large gold pyxides before. Was in Miseraux once, with an LS group. Had some new players come in, so I as BLM went off to smite some Murex for azure light. First kill, a large pyxis dropped, and had DRK feet in it (and this was after close to 6 hours of not seeing a single pair of feet). Then about 15 min later, we got another large pyxide with DRK and BRD feet in it. So it is possible to get feet from larger pyxides.

I also confirmed that feet can come form large box, but also in the large box will possible to have <Keyitem> + <Max light Temp item > + <Material Item> + <Temp Item> + <Agrument item> + <Feets> while small box you will may got <Material Item> + <Temp Item> + <Agrument item> + <Feets> so form possibility and form my farming exp, i got feet form small box more than large one.

And ya if you hope on some feet, it's will end up you got many of others than get what you really want, I use more than 4-5 run on famming my BLU Feets one run take 3hr+ > 6hrs up to how long i can endure til i get it and then i try get my DRG feet one on same map i get it on 3 run and on the first run i get 2 un-need 4 BLU feet keep comming out ~.~.

[Nidhogg]

11 - 21 amber I've found to give a plethora of feet, myself, my sacks (we duo / trio a lot) and quiet a few of my members have all base feet >_> this being on EP mobs to ensure the lowest light gain per kill.

[Aequis]

It depends and honestly, I think some feet are much rarer than others, though SE will say the drop rate is equal. I have a lot of experience farming big gold chests for KIs and am only just getting to grips with maximising the potential to farm boots. Seven hours soloing as DNC for my Charis toeshoes last weekend (with no result) actually taught me quite a bit ... indirectly.

High amber does not make more or less feet drop - it only seems that way. They have a constant rate of dropping. High amber adds items to the roll of things you can find in the chests, like above post said. Though my opinion differs slightly, and I'd say at capped amber with big golds you'll get one of the below:

a) Key item for NMs.
b) Revitalizer.
c) Megalixir.
d) Collection of one to four high-amber temps like Fanatic's powder, Berserker's tonic or Gnostic's drink.
e) Synthesis materials or scrolls or combination of both and random chance of Empyrian boots.

From what I've seen, the strength of amber does not affect which KIs will drop in chests. We've had the rarest Tahrongi KI (Ophanim) drop on only the second big gold, with low-mid amber. Strength of amber does affect augments on equipment such as Diamond rings (typically will only see the +3 INT/MND rings with capped amber).

[Renesmay]

It is possible and reading over the thread I notice that brd pld and especially DRK drops quiet nciely. I have even noticed increase drop rate within Drk Pld Whm and War feet (including att chasm)

[Gravionblack]

I have have only seen the ninja feet drop after at least 3-4 hrs in abyssea and then it was a pt (which of course i was out lotted all three times >.< ) and i have been back quite a few times soloing on my ninja, and as Renesmey said when i got to where i was starting to get the good stuff i was already down to 15 mins. I am starting to think ninja af3 feet for me is going to be a myth lol.

[vordox]

I love looking at all the people complain because they don't get what they need within a set time they want. It is a game, it is luck of the dice on if you get your af3 feet. Hey I know lets have a celebration day, and SE gives all the af3 or thing we desire most. Jeez I spend hours in aby and farm gold chests and have all the job af3 feet just by biding my time and patience. Hey if we all complain enough we can all get our Usukane, or Homan just given to us.

[Gropitou]

Last time we tried for DNC feet we went 5hrs strait. We got 2-3 of every other kind but DNC. Same thing for THF, took us 3 tries (3x 5hrs). Got 1st pair in 1st hour of 3rd try, then got another 2 pairs. This is a lot of work to get specific items compared with the other parts.

[Komori]

Because with empyrean, only having to farm feet is much worse than having to farm the entire set like with Relic.