Eleven Fajin boots!

[Ihnako]

My guess that this happens is because its just too complicated to write code for boxes to check every individual to make it so that multiple R/EX items don't appear in chest.

SE allready has this sort of code implemented - remember Shinryu.

[Ash]

Seriously, its so insulting when you see a piece of R/EX you already got in your chest...such a waste. but i ll quote our good friend camate "its working as intended and a silver ore is your credit for winning!"

[Insaniac]

I've gotten 5 Ganesha's Masks. I didn't want any of them. The VW drop system is the worst drop system ever imagined. That is not an exaggeration. It is actually the worst drop system, in any game, ever.

[Raksha]

Well I can One up you!

The same person got 5 Pouches of Heavy Metal, One other person got a pouch.
I got 3 gorgets, someone reported getting 6. a couple people also got multiples, Ironically no one that wanted it got it.

Two people got the Lux Pugio, Neither could use it.

But the best part is:

Eleven Boots dropped to Three People!

Oh that reminds me, the only person who got coruscanti in those 18 kills can't even equip it.

[Quetzacoatl]

Lets see... Me and a fellow blue mage getting bodies we actually wanted, needed, can use in voidwatch goes into the catagory of 1% of the time. People getting multiples and people getting something they cant use goes into the catagory of 99% of the time. Something wrong with this picture? I think so. My guess that this happens is because its just too complicated to write code for boxes to check every individual to make it so that multiple R/EX items don't appear in chest. So please Square Enix I and perhaps others that agree with me ask you to impliment a simple remedy to this disheartening and infuriating situation. This remedy is one you've done with Abyssea that was very very smart. Its called "Add spoils to pool".

This. SO friggin' much.

[Twille]

The VoidWatch drop system is a joke. A horrible, horrible joke. Whether or not it's working "as intended" is irrelevant. It needs to be re-worked.

[Reiterpallasch]

SE allready has this sort of code implemented - remember Shinryu.

What about Shinryu? He has nothing to do with boxes <_<

[Tamoa]

Low drop rates is one thing, I can live with that. But the fact that one person can get the same ra/ex item multiple times, is beyond stupid. I'm going to assume SE made it like this so any ra/ex item can't be sold. But yeah, instead I have to watch a linkshell member get the same ra/ex body 3 times in 4 fights, once on main character and twice on mule, and neither character can equip it. I like voidwatch as an event, but the sheer randomness of drops and the fact that you cannot add any ra/ex item to treasure pool, is discouraging and infuriating and saddening all at the same time.

And no, we don't get equally compensated for our efforts in a vwnm fight. Getting ram horn, ram skin, ahriman tears and ebony log after killing Akvan, isn't being compensated, it's an insult. Even more so when someone who never ever plays mage (he has rdm and whm leveled but not geared or anything), gets the mage body - which he never wanted. At the very very least, getting one heavy metal plate per fight should be guaranteed.

[Insaniac]

Oh that reminds me, the only person who got coruscanti in those 18 kills can't even equip it.

Wait someone actually got one? This is the first time I've heard of one dropping. Not that I've been looking THAT hard.

[Insaniac]

What about Shinryu? He has nothing to do with boxes <_<

Shinryu and a lot of abyssea mobs for that matter won't drop loot if everyone in the party already has it. I assume this was to stop people from shout selling stuff on a whim. Either way the server performs a check on what items everyone has at some point and prevents it from entering the pool. I'm sure that code could be copy/pasted to chests easily enough. Not that it would fix anything. The loot system would still be terrible. Now if it performed the check and instead of making an item just not pop in your chest it made it pop in someone else's if you already had it, that would be a different story.