Quote Originally Posted by lllen View Post
I have been playing this game for a few years, I know that SE doesn't make things easy, they like to drive us crazy. After three days of Dominion fights and not one drop of any seal (its usually one I will throw away) I'm about to quit, the only thing keeping me going a little is that there will be an update, something new.

The drop rate of seals is horrible, for me the drop rate of the Rdm hat in Dyna (the old days dyna) was easier then trying to get seals for armor.

I have done close to 30-35 dominion and no drop, spread out over several Vandi days and earth days.

for Rdm, Blm, Blu and Whm seals it is getting impossible to get a party up past the first 2 mobs, people get their two and leave, no one has these seals available if they are getting a party together (they need them). So need some place where you can get them, but some decent drop rate would be nice.
The problem here is that you are replacing a reliable LS with random pick up people that all have different agendas and will never function the same as a LS where there are obligations to stick around. If you're going to do that then you can't complain when it doesn't go your way. What do you do? There is no keeping random people around after they get what they need. It's not a charity to help you get what you need to boot. You leave, rep them, come back and hope the NM is still free or try another time. That is your fate in Abyssea if you skip the LS route, much like if you skipped out on LSs in the past your fate was to never obtain all that fancy end game gear from ground kings to sky to sea to events. Be grateful that you don't need to sign your life away right now to a LS, and try harder. There's plenty of people dying to play follow the leader. Stop being one of them and take the lead.

Also, I wouldn't even consider Dom Ops as a method of obtaining seals. It's more like a small bonus on top of completing the Op that already awards exp, gil, and dom notes.