dear devs...

[Clou777]

who's dumb idea was it to have the 119 smn ammo at a stupid 0.4% drop rate from a BC fight that requires 20/30 merits? on the super rare chance that it does drop and noone has smn leveled it's really lame for main summoners who have done AA fights for 0/100+ and now theres no more double exp campaign so noone wants to do them as much. PLEASE increase the droprate to something like 5% so i may at least have a chance.

[Karah]

Welcome to ffxi.

Remember voidwatch? 0/1000 Pulse weapons

Remember sky? 0/200 Wlegs

Remember kings? 0/500 Ebody

*Working as intended*

Not everything is meant to be obtainable by everyone, just gimps who have TH + 100 and the people with more gil than brains who can pay people for it.

[Clou777]

but once again all other 119 gear/weps always drop when winning D/VD but as usual SMN gets the shaft

[Karah]

Well, here's a novel idea, stop wasting your time trying to obtain a trivial piece of gear for an loljob on an event that sucks.

It doesn't matter if your avatar is 110 113 115 117 or 119. The one thing you bring summoner for is defense/buff, not damage.

And next update will have a brand new ammo to raise avatar level to 125 that you can complain about all over again! geartreadmillgo!

Not everything is meant to be obtainable by everyone, just gimps who have TH+ 100 and the people with more gil than brains who can pay people for it.

Obtain; http://www.ffxiah.com/item/21383/eminent-sachet #done

[Rwolf]

Ignoring the trolling of saying that a job doesn't deserve equal drop rates because it's an "loljob" not invited for what the satchet gives. I'll agree with the OP, it could drop more often than it has so far. It's lower than the other weapons. SE has even commented on it being harder to see these versus the others, hence why they wanted to add a 117 satchet to Records of Eminence. I don't see the reasoning of making the pet jobs rarer however. Truth is, they aren't that desirable given the current game setup, so I don't see the need in pet enhancing gear being more rare to see.

If they are hearing from the NA and JP community that pet items from DM is dropping very rarely, they should fix the drop rate. Not to say that 117 animator/satchet shouldn't happen in RoE anyway, because it should if they are giving other weapons 117. I don't get the special "neutering" treatment that pet jobs get with lower drop rates and lower levels than other weapons. They aren't that strong, desirable or overpowered in current content to begin with to even warrant it.

[waithuhwhat]

I'm pretty sure the ammo only drops from DM II and not the single Ark Angel fights

[Demonjustin]

The fact they made the drops so low is extremely stupid, if anything, it should have been one of the higher drop rate items, since it seems like they only make these items obtainable via one method, such as where they only had 1 Alternator from Delve, but had no Animator from Yorcia Skirmish, which to me is a bit worrying since whenever they release more Delve we will likely not see one from a Delve Boss, and in that event, most or all weapons will have multiple options for 119s as they do at other levels while pet jobs have only a single ammo choice and a single location from which to obtain it.

[Renaissance2K]

I'm pretty sure the ammo only drops from DM II and not the single Ark Angel fights

...which is why the website the OP got the 1% figure from is not a reliable source for that information. It doesn't differentiate between the two fights (in fact, it may even include the original Ark Angel battles), and it doesn't take into account that the drop rate increases significantly when the difficulty level goes up.

[Vasch]

The summoner sachet and pup animator only drop from DM v2. If you're looking at FFXIDB for drop rate, it combines the old original AAs, the New AAs, and DM mobs into one mob. As someone who does DM almost daily, I can say that those items drop way more than they need to and all of our SMN and PUP players already have it.

The only roadblock per se is getting into a group doing the DM fight.