FFXI is far from balanced in about every aspect. The devs hard-on's for sch geo blm pld rune has defeated the purpose of having any other playable jobs. What if you say wanted to raid pup? Well unless your a stated job above it's not going to happen. A big reason ffxi had so many quit. Why gear dragoon if you will never use it besides solo? That is the devs Balance at it's best. No point even asking them to do anything. They are armchair quarterbacks who think they know the game. Maybe the devs should play and see just how balanced things are. Sit in mhaura and see how many other jobs you see. We all pay to play. Should be able to play what you feel without having to be excluded. Drops rates for vw is horrible and they know it but it won't change because it would make sense.
I actually know a few Dragoons that do lots of end game stuff, and I don't leave SMN unless I HAVE to. The other jobs have merits and some need to be fixed for sure, but those things don't have anything to do with the fixes needed for Voidwatch.
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I don't really know all that much about VW as I was never able to do it (I don't have a Linkshell), but I do know that even the freaking KEY ITEMS are impossible to get.
I killed the Voidwatch mob in both Saruta and Saruta [S] probably like 5-8 times now, and despite the campaign going on and using the Cobalt Cell to get the KI drop as best as it can get (100%), no KI for either me or a friend.
Considering that it doesn't even drop all that much decent stuff... we kinda just put it on a back burner, because there's other stuff we could be doing.
Popping the same mob over and over and over again and only getting mostly junk isn't all that fun. And I can only imagine what the higher tier VW mobs are like. But then, I'll never know, because yanno, no KI to even progress through the VW system....
The KI drops from VW aren't related to any light other than white iirc. Basically, you either need a white proc OR VW light campaign to be able to get the KIs reliably. From past experience with helping fellow returnees, I remember the KIs being guaranteed during campaign, but only for the group lead / popper (other members "can" get the KI as well, but leader "will" get it.) So, to be sure that you get one during campaign, make sure you rotate leader between all members who need 'em.
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