Karbuncle, my sentiments exactly. I don't think SE ever play the game. While it works 'as intended', they don't seem to understand that having something completely random is very very bad. They just don't understand how frustrating the nature of totally random drops is. Your chance every time is 1/144 or whatever, which doesn't improve no matter how many times you do it, no matter if everyone in your alliance already has the item and it would in other loot cases be 'your turn' for it...

And the ticket system... just don't expect too much, it'll be too little, too late. To expect people to keep doing VW for tickets once they got their hard-earned bodies is insanity on SE's behalf. It's hard enough to get 1 to drop, let alone keep spamming it for more, for a ticket, which isn't even enough for a person to get the body, oh no, if you've bad luck, you'll need 5 tickets, just to make it 'fair'. /sigh

A suggestion, which may have been said before, would be to allow the R&EX items in your chest to be added to the treasure pool if you don't want them, so other can benefit at least, rather than wasting a drop. But only the R&EX, so the pool never fills up (since the rest can be traded/sold anyway).