Fafnir Ridill drop rate bug

[Pedarsag]

I am committed to getting a riddle and I spent a lot of time and effort gathering honey wine to spawn Fafnir and I have had a group of friends helping me with this. Within 3 earth days we have spawned 75 Fafnir s using high treasure hunter, and zero riddles dropped. sweet tea we only got two of those.

After looking this up online I see multiple other people complaining that they have done Fafnir over 40 times with no drop. Before Fafnir was a trigger spawn and it spawned once every 24 hours, riddle would drop on average once every couple weeks…. That’s how I remember. So one out of 10 to 14 pops. Now out of 75 spawns we haven’t seen a single one.

This is broken whether it was by design or if it’s a bug, it needs to be fixed. Especially now that it’s so difficult to spawn Fafnir in the first place. I only got so many pop items because I had spent a lot of of gil buying them from multiple people, but you can only get a trigger from login campaign, which is temporary, or ks99 lol? Not only have you made it rare to spawn and kill Fafnir, but you have made the drop rates even more rare.

And on a sidenote, I know this part of the game is long gone, but this was one of the best parts of the game. Camping out in Dragons aery with the servers players and waiting together for Fafnir to pop. Being with friends and having fun. It brought people together. You really hurt the game by removing that aspect of it, but then to replace it with something like this? I think you should return all the NMs to timer spawn and top of that keep trigger spawns for those that can’t camp it. Not that it matters anymore, but just out of integrity and respect for its legacy for its fans.

[Uroah]

Ridill has always been a miserable drop rate.

If you participate in vanabout you can get a ridill hassle free.

[Pedarsag]

Ridill has always been a miserable drop rate.

If you participate in vanabout you can get a ridill hassle free.

Thank you for the suggestion, but this doesn’t solve the issue of Fafnir not dropping a Ridill. It also does not help me because it looks like to participate in this you need to enter ambuscade? And I am strictly playing level 75 content I have not done limit breaks and I’m not interested in the new content. And just in case anyone feels like criticizing that, there’s nothing wrong with that. I want to play Legacy content and why not keep that content available and accessible? I am also aware of private servers and I’m not interested in that either.

[Uroah]

I see. Well ridill is sendable so you can do it on another character and send it to your 75 locked char. If that's an option.

Can always make and log in more characters for more honey wines, too. But the drop rate remains bad, always will. working as intended.

[Alhanelem]

Thank you for the suggestion, but this doesn’t solve the issue of Fafnir not dropping a Ridill.

It's not a bug, or an issue, it's just a low drop rate. If you don't want to deal with the low drop rate there is an alternative as was stated earlier. If you want an authentic 75 experience then you have to live with the drop rates that have always been a part of this game. It's amazing how often people come here complaining they haven't gotten some drop and it must be a bug, when the reality is, they just aren't lucky. SE even made a post here explaining how their drop rates work and the effect TH has on them.

There have been people who got ridill their first try and people who have been unsuccessful in hundreds of attempts over the last 20 years.

Vanabout has objectives at various levels and you can still contribute to it even with your self imposed restrictions. (Which I'm glad someone is choosing to do it that way instead of private servers which I don't approve of either)