Quote Originally Posted by Phoenyx View Post
Wrong. They have stated that they are not removing the Black belt items from the KS99s. See this post.

And to the rest of your drivel I say, "Welcome to FFXI." Seriously. You're whining about <100% drop rates on stuff? Having to repeat battles for said stuff? That's the most recurring factor of gameplay. The changes weren't designed to hand you the rewards wrapped in a bow for zero effort, they were designed to actually reward effort, not sitting afk except for ~30 seconds every 30 minutes. Time to put on your big boy/girl pants and grind it out or get out of the way of people who will.
Think you need to go back and read everything again, including the details on the change.

BB item drops from KSNM at same rate as before, NQ pop item is 100% drop. (you can have a stroke of bad luck and do the KSNM 7 times and never get a BB item, but will get a NQ pop item every time now.

NQ fight will NOT give a BB item (completely removed from the drop pool), and you have a CHANCE to get a HQ pop item (in other words, it is not a 100% drop to get HQ pop). Again, in theory, if this has a low enough pop rate you could fith the NQ 7 times and not get an HQ pop item.

HQ fight is no longer a 100% drop rate. So, when you do make it to the HQ fight, you could get no drop and have to start all over again.

So, again....this system has the potential to be just as bad or worse than just spamming the KSNM fight, which has ALWAYS been an alternative to camping the kings. All this did was change it from a bunch of people waiting on an NM to pop and switched it to wiating for a ??? to pop after they've jumped through enough hoops to get the pop item.

To repeat the infamous cliche----they put lipstick on a pig.