Interim Report – Sorry to keep you all waiting!

[Mefuki]

Indeed. The current drop rate on Ephemeron according to FFXIDB is 1 out of 3327 or 0.03%. That's right, not one percent, not even a whole point of a percent but zero point zero percent...

No drop rate in any game should ever have a drop rate that bad.

It's a drop rate that'd be unreasonable for an item off fodder monsters let alone a monster you need to gather a group to kill.