Please, please, PLEASE do something about WoE and Spell Drops!

[Igget]

There's a like button for posts, but this one makes me look intensely for a dislike button. I mean; Come on!

Yes; it needs to be difficult to obtain stuff, and the new spells shouldn't be handed to you on a silver platter like most everything else is these days. But part of the process to log into this game tells us not to forget our friends, family, or work! In other words; pay SE the money to play the game every month, but make sure you have a real life outside of the game as well! It's hard to get everything one wants in the game without logging massive amounts of game time.

I for one have a life outside of this fun game. That being said; I don't have massive amounts of free time that I can play trying to get all the cool stuff! I'm quite sure that I'm not the only person who plays this game that has a real life. If you do have an active real life, and have managed to get all, if not any of the newer BLM spells; cudos to your lucky tail!

[FrankReynolds]

I forwarded your feedback to the dev. team about adjusting the drop rates for spells in WoE.

They let me know that while it wouldn’t be impossible to adjust the drop rates, this would cause other items drop rates (coins, etc.) to be lowered, so from a balance perspective it would be difficult to do.

Also, the high tier magic scrolls have been set to a somewhat higher difficulty to obtain, and it has not been balanced so that you are guaranteed to learn the spell as soon as you reach the proper level.

The drop rates are stupid. There is no reason for the coin drop rates to be lowered.

Poor translation. I think what you really meant is not "from a balance perspective it would be difficult to do. ".

I read that as: "We don't care what you think. We're not changing it."

[Zemarin]

LITTLE MOOGLE THERES SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS STATEMENT

There's no freaking balance.. ok and to insult us you put UTTER CRAP in that chest.. yes i said it UTTER !#@(U&@(#&@# CRAP. OKAY? After doing a long boring WoE that I skipped sleep for I don't wanna open the box to find a whopping 3k worth of items and be told I can't come in for another hour. AMERICANS HAVE LIVES YOU KNOW? We don't have 6 yrs to sit down chasing after a stupid spell that we can only do during JAPANESE TIME cause u discouraged the rest of the gaming community away from getting them with their HORRIBLE drop rates and crappy rewards. No your not forcing anyone to play it more by adding non profitable TRASH in the chest.. you give us a headache and you waste our precious time, you not even making it 'difficult', you making it STUPID. Since when should LUCK determine when you can get your final skill and not merit/Achievement. Apparently to you guys now it does. Learn from Einherjar and stop the crap py low rate lottery BS plz. Thanks.

PS. Your VNM'S Suck too.. Ok a challenge should always come with a reward.. not BS... and thats what SE is serving lately fresh dirty BS. And I'm not refereing to the Twilight/Abyssea NM item (Omg same item drop last ten time) type of BS.
But you're serving the nasty (Tiamat only dropped a fire crystal WDF) kinda BS. we aren't liking it. And that's why half ur game remains an empty dome of useless memory being wasted and your game population will decrease till no one feels its worth the effort anymore after playing this game for 8 yrs worth of you NONSENSE.

[Ophannus]

Coin drop rates are super low anyway and it's rarely the coin you need, so I doubt many people would care considering every BLM wants Comet, but very few people bother with WoE weapons considering how easy making an empyrean is.

[Prothscar]

Just keep the Conflux 7 and below battlefields for coins as they are now, and increase the droprate of scrolls in the higher fluxes. People already do 7 instead of others if they want coins over other drops. The drop rates don't have to be ridiculous, but having more than a snowball's chance in hell at seeing the spell drop would be adequate. I don't see the problem in this model.

[Tinderil]

Absolutely agree, the drop rates of spells is woeful, SE have completely messed up (yet again). In 30+ WoE runs in fluxes 9 & 11, I've received 0 BLM spells. I did get a Whm and a Rdm one though, but obviously they drop more frequently as their AH price is a few hundred k, instead of 1-2M like the BLM ones. 30+ WoE runs, at on average of 1hr/run including missed out runs because the flux fills too quickly, or hanging around for hours not getting enough people to do a run and successfully win, makes this the biggest waste of time SE have introduced in a long time. Bring back the Abyssea style farming/drops, where people at least get some guarantee of drops after staggers, not fully random BS that never works.

[Raksha]

So are you saying that the drop rates of scroll are linked to the drop rate of coins via code? If so then that's silly and you should fix that. If you mean that you don't want both coins and scrolls to have reasonable drop rates, then that is also silly and you should fix that.

[mistmonster]

Yes maybe the high tier should be maybe a bit more difficult. But this is the real effect it is having on me (I'm speaking for myself I really don't need a bunch of people in here calling me lazy, I probably am)

I'm still paying for my account but I have maybe logged in 3 or 4 times since the update. Seriously I just did the level 95 limit break yesterday and logged off. You know why? I can't afford to get spells on one of my main job. The price has barely gone down since the update which must mean they are still ultra rear drops. So I can play the lottery at BCNMs but it just seems like a waste of time, I never get drops from those anyway.

Because I miss playing I'm trying to choose another job, (some melee that gets their abilities for free) but everyone always wanted my BLM.

I agree with the above poster. Gear should be rare. For that +1 stat it's nice to have but you can play your job without being gimp with it.

And for the folks that are going to call me lazy anyway. Give me another difficult, time consuming, hell put JP midnights in there as well I don't care as long as the quest is mostly solo-able (ie like Sleepga 2 was in its day) and I'll be happy.

[Winrie]

It would make too much sense for a weaker weapon than an empy to be easier to obtain than the much better version, and it would make too much sense for us to have realistic chances at getting spells we need without having to be rich, don't bother, they won't fix it proper just like they won't fix voidwatch

[Calintzpso]

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I agree with this thread. Changes need to be made. I have enough "Coins of Ruined My Dam Afternoon" to make 3 Staffs. Not a coin over 20 in the others.