Have you checked pricing?
All the HQ ilvl55 weapons were below 20k GIL last time I checeked/bought.
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I craft a couple of them and sell for more than that - though yeah, they're not -too- unrealistic.
I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this or confirmed this, but I think that the ifrit drops, at least, are on an hourly cycle. In 10 fights, over 5ish hours, it was 2 drops that were the same in a row each time. It was always a new hour based on when the duty started that seemed to determine which one would drop. So, 2 fights in the same hour gave us the same weapon as a reward.
It could be why people are never seeing their weapon and a lot of the same ones.
Clearly there is something wrong with the game if someone has to do that many runs of the same fight to get a drop.
I'm a BLM and i have done, between yesterday and today 26 Ifrit HM fights and have seen nothing but the same 3 weapons everytime. So 26-0...
A token system or some sort of system, infact any type of system would work apart from this.
Some poor guys on here have done far more Ifrit's than me and still nothing.
I wouldn't consider that luck, that's called absurd, absurd for SE to even think of such a system.. i bet SE themselves don't know how bad drop rates are for this.
...that's the whole point.
Again, there are other ways to obtain slightly worse items than Ifrit to get you covered til you get a drop. I ran two FC mates through Ifrit last night, one being a MNK and the weapon dropped for him on our first run. It's a matter of chance. That's what roll systems are. There are no guarantees. At all.