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[Sapphires]

I just had a super productive day in Vana'diel today. I beat Qilin 48 times and got no heavy metal pouches. Traded cells for each kill and everything.

Thats some extraordinarily bad luck, is your blue+red alignment 550% at the end? we always use rubi+cobalt and get at least 5 items from the pyxis.

I did 14x6 Aellos yesterday - a party of 4 LS players+2trusts and we got 21 pouches which comes out to a 1 in 16 droprate which is 6.25% which is extremely close to the ffxidb stats of 6% collected for uptala/qilin/aello on heavy metal pouches.

So there is either a drop penalty for a pure soloist if you arent doing it with others, or you are missing a KI thats preventing you from being 550% alignment with cells, or you had some bad luck, or qilin is bugged (everyone I know farms uptala or aello, so i have no data on qilin farming during the campaign)