Geode's Drop Rate......

[Osmond]

Just a quick question to the community, Do u think SE should increase the drop rate of the elemental geodes? I know some think it's a bad idea, some think it's a so-so but I want to see what ya think as a community cause the drop rate is horrible at times.

[Dragonlord]

Most of them are fine, but the rarity of fire weather makes flame geodes much rarer. In addition flame geodes are one of the highest demanded geode. So i think a flame geode droprate increase, or some place with more consistent fire weather is due for a change.

[Camiie]

One needs 55 Geodes and 15 Avatarites to fully upgrade a single elemental weapon. That's after having done all the weather, elemental killshot, proc effect, and/or pet killshot trials. This is for weapons that, while often powerful, are truly for the common folk to be able to complete. They aren't Empyrean, Mythic, or Relic.

It wouldn't hurt or unbalance a thing for the upgrade items to become more common. While I get that some people farm them for gil, I think that's of a secondary concern to those who're actually trying to collect them to complete a weapon.

And, NO I don't think there should be a test server moogle placed on the live server to hand out free level 99 weapons to everyone, so don't anyone even start with that crap.

[Osmond]

Lol I wouldn't want to see that Camiie but u got me curious. Yeah I do see a issue w/ flame geodes is 1 of the most problems that could do a slight adjustment cause those things selling @50k range in my server...no way in heck im buying them.

[Eri]

I'd just adjust the droprate for Geodes that someone needs to Upgrade. So you farm with the Weapon equiped and the trail active you get a higher chance of getting a Drop. But as someone may argue you could just not do the trail and keep farming . That Droprate increase shoud only work for 50 Items (at Max) you obtain.

[Camiie]

Lol I wouldn't want to see that Camiie but u got me curious. Yeah I do see a issue w/ flame geodes is 1 of the most problems that could do a slight adjustment cause those things selling @50k range in my server...no way in heck im buying them.

Sorry that wasn't aimed at you. I'm just used to seeing that sort of response when people ask for easing up on drop rates or some such thing. It was meant for future comments, not yours.

[Economizer]

Just a quick question to the community, Do u think SE should increase the drop rate of the elemental geodes?

Not really an increased drop rate from mobs dropping them during weather. Still, older content getting revamped could use a few geodes sprinkled on top as a motivation, as well as geodes being possible "generic loot pool" loot would be an interesting possibility.

For example, MMM could have a weather rune in conjunction with some sort of way to make the geodes drop in good amounts. Or Campaign Battle with its increasingly lackluster drops could sprinkle some geodes on top as another motivation.

[Prothscar]

Problem isn't the drop rate so much as you can only have one drop every five minutes.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

The only real problem is the utter lack of fire weather. Flames geodes have gone up to 50k ea and it's not a matter of damand.

[Zinato]

Problem isn't the drop rate so much as you can only have one drop every five minutes.

^ This, the only other issue is Geodes are used by goldsmithers unlike Avatarites which are all slowly falling below 10k apiece. (some slower then others due to popularity wind/stone/light)

As it stands it is a pain to farm but only for the wait time. Otherwise, even with 8 smn, 6 blm (saving for 7th), 1 cure, and 6 assorted others I haven't run into to many issues. (But boy am I tired of soil geodes needed 330 of them total) The first 15 drop during trials the last 40 turns into a game of camp the NM PH, or in this case the drop. Summary: All for changes to built in timer but, can live without.