Salvage and Alexandrite

[MarkovChain]

It's funny that you are only doing salvage now that we are 99, but no, linen pouches are not 50% droprate, they basically never drop. There is a reason alex are not farmable even now with the 6 entry requirement. For instance killing the powderdek room for 7 alex out of a pouch doesn't seem good for time/alex and generally speaking farming alex is a waste. Enjoy your 50 alex runs cause you will get a lot of that.

[SNK]

It's funny that you are only doing salvage now that we are 99, but no, linen pouches are not 50% droprate, they basically never drop. There is a reason alex are not farmable even now with the 6 entry requirement. For instance killing the powderdek room for 7 alex out of a pouch doesn't seem good for time/alex and generally speaking farming alex is a waste. Enjoy your 50 alex runs cause you will get a lot of that.

Isn't your ban from BG almost up? I'm pretty sure you've been dying to post there again with these fake numbers.

[Moink]

There is a reason alex are not farmable even now with the 6 entry requirement.

The entry minimum is 3, you either clearly can't read updates that were announced a long ass time ago or you just don't care to review material that you no longer see viable to your time in ffxi.

When I do a salvage run, I more often exit 75-90 without the boss purse.

[Nynja]

I got bored of competing w/ bsts in dyna...
are you, of all people, accusing me of faking my posted numbers? fkn lol

[macross]

I avg ~100 alex a day. Avg linen isn't 50, avg is more like 80. They drop maybe 20-25%.
Also you only need 3 to enter.
It takes me around 10 minutes to kill to and clear the 7 powerdeck room. 5-20 is 12 avg per pouch not 7.
Clearing powderdeck, hammerblow, all 3 gear rooms and GGII takes me roughly 1 hour.
Clearing turtle and boss tacks on approx another 20 min.
This is from 3 boxing. With real people who can pass and lot faster, it will go quicker.

So maybe it is you who has never tried. I don't avg 100 per run, but add in the linen that drops after 4-5 runs and I do.
PS I do salv every day, should finish in 4 months or so, if I manage to find 100 alex a day for sale.

[Shadowsong]

It's quite easy to average 100+ a run (counting Linens of course, by why would you not?)
Not going to post my numbers because this should be common sense stuff by now, so if you don't believe it, O well?

And is PChan talking about doing something after it's been outleveled? All of your Empyrean weapons say hi! (and I do feel bad for your poor poor full Usukane)

[Byrth]

I have been doing Salvage for two months with TH2 now on DNC/THF and I'm at ~25% on pouches. I do this SSR run:
* Gather the floor 1 Fomor and kill with Aeolian Edge -> Kill Hammerblow
* Eat food and single target kill the second floor Fomor/Imps -> Kill Powderkeg
* Kill the four gears in the south room -> Open the door and flee to pull all the gears in the west room (before Reinforcements spawn) -> Pull and kill all gears in GG3's room -> GG3 -> Exit Rampart
* Pull the Chariot and however many gears come with him on floor 4, kill them, kill the train, kill the rest of the gears/ramparts in the room -> Kill Turtle -> Kill Turtle's Rampart
* Kill boss

This run takes me about 80 minutes and I get about 75 Alexandrite without a Linen, so over 90 with a 25% Linen drop average. On one hand, 90 Alexandrite! On the other hand, that's 0.3% of a Mythic and took 80 minutes. That means you'd have to do 18.5 days of Salvage for 30,000 Alexandrite, or almost a year of runs.

[Byrth]

The highest I have gotten without a linen is 94. Also, gears can drop up to 4 Alexandrite. I have only seen it once, but it was a single gear.