How is your new zodiak drop rates so far?

Time for an update:
WP 1/12
Aurum Vale 1/44
Haukke HM 1/17
AK 1/3
Pharos 1/16
Tam-Tara HM 1/15
Copperbell HM 1/18
Stone Vigil HM 1/24
Brayflox HM 1/12
Dzemael Darkhold 1/8
Snowcloak 1/4
Halatali HM 1/21
Hullbreaker 1/16
Lost City 1/18
Qarn 1/14
Sastasha HM 0/28

Double-flipping-the-bird-while-falling-off-a-building.

I hate you Sastasha.

PS: I literally get on and spam dungeons for hours. This is really annoying. Luckily I've made a veritable truckload of gil from all the Tawny Latex & Roulette bonuses.

So I def had better luck than you Dhex lol. My runs were agonizing, so I can at least understand your pain.

WP 1/3
Aurum Vale 1/11
Haukke HM 1/5
AK 1/4
Pharos 1/3
Tam-Tara HM 1/1
Copperbell HM 1/7
Stone Vigil HM 1/3
Brayflox HM 1/5
Dzemael Darkhold 1/1
Snowcloak 1/5
Halatali HM 1/9
Hullbreaker 1/4
Lost City 1/1
Qarn 1/3 <-- Kinda. Decided to queue at 4:30am, and was joined into a session where everybody was at the final boss already. Easiest Sol+Item ever.
Sastasha HM 1/14 <-- surprisingly my least fav dungeon now. Actually, tied up with AV

I'm really starting to hate this quest and by proxy this game. this sort of progress-locked-behind-RNG bollocks is exactly why i stopped playing destiny.

0/22 on my current selection
AK, haukke and Bray are now all in the low teens and still no drop from any of them.
0/2 on qarn

this isn;t skill based, it's boring 100% luck based crap.

for the sake of all of us, put a cap on the number of runs, have each dungeon also drop a token or something (specific to each dungeon) that you need 25 of to exchange for the item IF you're not insanely lucky with RNG.

I don;t see an end to this current quest cos it's just "be lucky"

Let's see if I can remember:

1/1 Haukke Manor
1/2 Brayflox
1/1 Wanderer's Palace
0/3 Copperbell Mines
0/2 Amdapor Keep

The rest I haven't been into yet, so are 0/0 naturally.

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Originally Posted by Yukariko

I'm really starting to hate this quest and by proxy this game. this sort of progress-locked-behind-RNG bollocks is exactly why i stopped playing destiny.

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Why are you doing something you don't enjoy?

I've personally enjoyed every part of the relic quest, which is why I still do it. Even the 2000 lights (although I'd like to see that lowered sometime... so much Garuda). It probably helps that I play BLM, and blowing shit up is always fun.

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Originally Posted by Themis

Why are you doing something you don't enjoy?

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I enjoy the actual runs, as much as anybody enjoys dps queues or healing speed runs. but RNG loot/random rewards has the opposite effect on me that most theorists say it should.
your "random reward" for doing something multiple times is suppose to release dopamine and give you a high that works along the lines of "omg I got my reward" (like gambling) but for me the lows of not getting "the reward" far outweigh that eventual high (random) high.

that's why I'd be happy with a secondry system, I didn;t mind light farming as even when I was at 1/2000 light, i could see the end coming.

After this horrible dungeon grind - I really hope the next phase of the Zodiac questline requires nothing but Gold Saucer events (Chocobo Racing, Triple Triad, etc.). They owe us!!!

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Originally Posted by MasamuneBranford

After this horrible dungeon grind - I really hope the next phase of the Zodiac questline requires nothing but Gold Saucer events (Chocobo Racing, Triple Triad, etc.). They owe us!!!

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I see it coming, do 200 consecutive basketball points for a 5% chance on an item for zodiac. If you fail. start over... still rng .... always rng, rng forever.....

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Originally Posted by Wolfdog2k8

Is it bad that I'm considering doing a 3rd grind for my DRG? >_>; lol

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Round 3 done...

Wanderer's Palace 1/8
Haukke Manor 1/8
AV 1/4
Copperbell Hard 1/2
AK 1/2
Pharos 1/1
Tam Tara 1/8
Hullbreaker 1/28 (more like heartbreaker)
DD 1/2
Brayflox 1/3
Qarn 1/4
Halatali 1/7
Snowcloak 1/1
SV 1/17
Lost City 1/7
Sastasha 1/1

16/103 15.53%

My stats out of all 3 grinds combined:

48/290
16.55%

May Hydaelyn have mercy on my soul x.x

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Originally Posted by Wolfdog2k8

Round 3 done...

Wanderer's Palace 1/8
Haukke Manor 1/8
AV 1/4
Copperbell Hard 1/2
AK 1/2
Pharos 1/1
Tam Tara 1/8
Hullbreaker 1/28 (more like heartbreaker)
DD 1/2
Brayflox 1/3
Qarn 1/4
Halatali 1/7
Snowcloak 1/1
SV 1/17
Lost City 1/7
Sastasha 1/1

16/103 15.53%

My stats out of all 3 grinds combined:

48/290
16.55%

May Hydaelyn have mercy on my soul x.x

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I'm at 15/290 right now...



Edit:

Finished. 300+ runs. Lost track.

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Originally Posted by Dhex

I'm at 15/290 right now...

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Man that's rough! /pray for your last dropped.

As for my 3rd I'll be waiting to see the light buffs and see how fast we can get the 2K.

Still ongoing....

WP 1/3
Aurum Vale 1/1 - LUCKY THANK GOD!!
Haukke HM 1/5
AK 1/2
Pharos 1/22 - Excrutiating!
Tam-Tara HM 1/4
Brayflox HM 1/8
Dzemael Darkhold 1/4
Snowcloak 1/4
Halatali HM 1/6
Lost City 1/2
Sastasha HM 1/4

Stone Vigil HM 0/3
Copper HM 0/3
Hullbreaker
Quarn HM

Finally got all my items so here with an update:

Took 66 dungeon runs total! Not too bad.

Now to get the last 600 sol I need to buy the final sacred spring water!

EDIT: how many runs it took per dungeon, from lowest to highest.

Dzemael: 1
Brayflox: 1
Haukke: 1
Aurum: 1
Lost City: 1
Stone Vigil: 1
Hullbreaker: 2
Amdapor: 3
Halatali: 4
Pharos: 4
Copperbell: 5
Tamtara: 5
Sastasha: 6
Snowcloak: 7
Qarn: 8
WP: 16

I'm currently in progress.
WP 1/25
Aurum Vale 1/2
Haukke HM 1/15
AK 1/8
Pharos 1/1
Tam-Tara HM 1/1
Brayflox HM 1/3
Dzemael Darkhold 1/2
Snowcloak 1/1
Halatali HM 1/10
Lost City 1/17
Sastasha HM 1/7

Stone Vigil HM 1/1
Copper HM 1/21
Hullbreaker 1/43
Quarn HM

o god ill be on that stage 2days be reading ppls results... not looking forward to it = =

Just sharing my statistic

Currently, at 12 drops from 64 runs (18.75%)

Wanderer Palace 5 Done
Ampador Keep 5 Done
Haukke Manor 4 Done
Pharos Sirius 5 Done
Aurum Vale 11 Done
Copperbell 4 Done
Dzemael 4 Done
Brayfox 2 Done
Tam Tara 10 Done
Hullbreaker 7 Done
Stone Vigil 1 Done
Lost City 3
Satasha HM 0
Halatali HM 1 Done
Snowcloak 2
Qarm HM 0

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Originally Posted by Pandora_Ondata

I'm currently in progress.
WP 1/25
Aurum Vale 1/2
Haukke HM 1/15
AK 1/8
Pharos 1/1
Tam-Tara HM 1/1
Brayflox HM 1/3
Dzemael Darkhold 1/2
Snowcloak 1/1
Halatali HM 1/10
Lost City 1/17
Sastasha HM 1/7

Stone Vigil HM 1/1
Copper HM 1/21
Hullbreaker 1/43
Quarn HM

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OUCH My condolences.

Got my Nirvana! Here are the dungeon drops for me:
AV - 1/2
HaukeMan - 1/7
AK - 1/1
Pharos - 1/7
Tam Tara - 1/7
Lost City - 1/3
Satasha - 1/9 <--- The last run of this was so much fun. I in-progressed to the coolest 3 people ever!
Brayflox (HM) - 1/2
DD - 1/1
SV (HM) - 1/2
WP - 1/7
Hali (HM) - 1/8
CBM (HM) - 1/3
Hullbreaker - 1/1
Qarn (HM) - 1/4
Snowcloak - 1/17


Total Runs: 81
Total Drops: 16
Percent: 16%

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Originally Posted by Nekodar

While my second relic upgrade is only an Atma currently, and just bought first book, already started getting items for Zodiak...
So far:
Aurum Vale 1/1
Haukke Manor (Hard) 1/1


(For my first I went a total of 16/68 which I'm aware was quite lucky... and two dungeon runs for second round is far too early to say what drop rate will be for me this time...
Also got my atma this time in 120-130 runs instead of 300 runs back when that part was new...)

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Been a while since my last update...
Adding:
Sastasha Seagrot (Hard) 1/4
Lost City of Amdapor 1/1
Pharos Sirius 1/1

Currently collecting tomes for atma book #7 so a long way to go before I actually need these items :)
Already have all GC and tome items needed for this round... Need to get the crafted items and the gil items...

Updating this thread, finally done collecting all 16 at 79 runs (20.25%)

Wanderer Palace 5
Ampador Keep 5
Haukke Manor 4
Pharos Sirius 5
Aurum Vale 11
Copperbell HM 4
Dzemael 4
Brayfox 2
Tam Tara 10
Hullbreaker 7
Stone Vigil 1
Lost City 4
Satasha HM 6
Halatali HM 1
Snowcloak 8
Qarn HM 2

Aurum Vale --> 19 runs... with some of the most terrible people on the planet.

Wanderer Palace 16 (still not get it)
Ampador Keep 0 run
Haukke Manor 5
Pharos Sirius 4 (still not get it)
Aurum Vale 1
Copperbell HM 0 run
Dzemael 10 (still not get it)
Brayfox 1 run
Tam Tara 0 run
Hullbreaker 0 run
Stone Vigil 0 run
Lost City 1 run
Satasha HM 1 (still not get it)
Halatali HM 0 run
Snowcloak 0 run
Qarn HM 0 run


WP and DD are killing me :/ At least i am farming lights for other job.

This is really bad drop rate some people must have extremely lucky with this

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Originally Posted by Tagihi

This is really bad drop rate some people must have extremely lucky with this

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^ This.

It's pure luck.

On my summoner zodiac, I got 1/1 Aurum Vale. On my paladin zodiac, I got 1/35+ Aurum Vale.

Updated for completion

Aurum Vale - 1/1
Dzemael Darkhold - 1/1
Brayflox - 1/4
Wanderers Palace - 1/1
Haukke Manor - 1/10
Lost City - 1/1
Sastasha - 1/4
Copperbell - 1/1
Hullbreaker Isle - 1/4
Amdapor Keep - 1/4
Tam-tara Deepcroft - 1/3
Halatali - 1/1
Snowcloak - 1/1
Stone Vigil - 1/1
Sunken Temple - 1/6
Pharos Sirius - 1/4

34%

My results are as follow:
1/3 - Dzmael
1/5 - Brayflox
1/6- halatali
1/5 - snowcloak
1/1 Aurum Vale
1/2 - Haukke manor
1/1- Lost city
1/9 - Sastasha hm
1/2 - Wanderes palace
1/7 - Copper bell hm
1/7 Hullbreak Island
1/1 quarn hm
1/20 amdapor keep
1/3 tam tara hm
1/4 pharos sirius
1/13 Stone vigil hm

All the AV 1/1's make me smile inside. I had one too. RNGesus can be kind when he wants to.

For my 1st relic I got them fairly easy, less than three tries for the majority of dungeons. I think I only had a hard time with like 3 10+ runs each.

I'm going for a second and drop rates just sucks so bad.

Wanderer's Palace: 1/12
Amdapor Keep: 1/8
Pharos Sirius: 1/3
Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard): 1/2
Aurum Vale: 1/1
Haukke Manor (Hard): 1/2
Lost City: 1/1
Sastasha (Hard): 1/5
Copperbell (Hard): 1/7
Stone Vigil (Hard): 1/1
Hullbreaker Isle: 1/3
Qarn (Hard): 1/1
Brayflox (Hard): 1/2
Dzaemel Darkhold: 1/2
Snowcloak: 1/3
Halatali: 1/5

Fun, well designed and entertaining instances: 1/1
Boring, repetitive slogs: 1/8 - 1/20

These are my drop rate for my Longinus:

Dzemael Darkhold 1/1
Brayflox HM 1/2
Halatali HM 1/7
Snowcloak 1/2
Aurum Vale 1/5
Haukke Manor 1/2
Sastasha HM 1/4
Lost City of Amdapor 1/6
Amdapor Keep 1/3
Pharos Sirius 1/10
Tam-Tara Deepcroft HM 1/4
Stone Vigil HM 1/1
Wanderer's Palace 1/3
Copperbell Mines HM 1/8
Hullbreaker Isle 1/1
Sunken Temple of Qarn HM 1/10

Drop rate: 23%

I want to aim for Ragnarok but I'm scared I might not be as lucky for DD and AV again... T_T

Starting on my third Zodiac now. So far I got Haukke HM in 1 try. I've done 3 WP with no results.

Just unlocked the other two quests today so we'll see how it goes. ^^

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Originally Posted by Drako

Up to 40 runs of Lost city, is there something special you guys are doing before you exit, like /pray or anything? AV took me 12 tries, I thought that was awful, but Lost city is starting to look like the worst for me so far. I'm only halfway through the process, this is my second quest I'm working on, and I've even managed to buy a spring water exclusively by doing this one dungeon O_O.

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I guess I paid my dues? Working on my blm and Lost city and AV were 1/1. I about crapped myself when Lost City was first try. ESP after the last experience. Stuck on Copperbell HM atm, only did it 4 times so far. WP took about 10 times though. Last time got it around the third try. It seems for the most part you can get it within 3 runs, or more rarely get it done in 10 runs, or if RNG hates you 40~.

Now working on Zodiac weapon number 3. Just about the same results as last time: around 40 % drop rate up untill I hit the later Hm Dfs then the rare drops to 10 Now fighting Hullbreaker Isle at 0/10. I have 3 out 4 of the items neeed to upgrade to Zodiac. I've had the same team in Df twice to run this with.

Everything at worst was 4 tries. My worst ones were 1/18 Stone Vigil HM and 1/15 Wanderer's Palace.

I feel fortunate compared to others however. Some have reported going 50+ runs of a dungeon with no drop. RNG at it's finest. I was pulling my hair just doing the 15/18.

At 0/20 in Qarn this time around. Just finished one tonight took 30 mins to get to boss. And another 50 to down it. And no drop. SE could you institute a echo after wiping or something? I thought gee I'm doing the good deed as a tank. The group is horrible, but I'll stick around and "maybe" get my reward. You know what, going forward, if everyone in my pt is at minimum lv for the dungeon, I'll drop just like everyone else does. No reason to stick around with stupid RNG, don't have time for it. I always try to be really patient with people. But why should I, the game doesn't reward it. It punishes you for it.

I got my first, and probably only, Zodiac yesterday. Only drop I got on the first try was Pharos Sirius, which is probably my favorite dungeon, so I'm kind of sad I didn't get to do that one more. The rest averaged around 10 tries, a few as many as 15, and the absolute worst for me was Halatali, which I honestly just stopped counting.

Far more bad/toxic groups than good, unfortunately, and my patience did manage to wear out a few times. It was the very last drop I needed, so after four more hours of nothing I broke down and switched to tank for the queues so I could just get it done, and the second run was so awful I pretty much vowed to never tank again. But I finally got my drop.

Haven't kept track. I know i got 1/1 in AV and Lost City which i was grateful for. I as everyone hates AV. And I suck at Doors in Lost City and don't want to get better. The others my best guess is around 1/5 for most except Pharros probably 1/20 I was getting to the point I wanted to find and strangle that choir boy. So all in all been lucky. Except for Qarn my last dungeon been on it for ruffly 10 days now grinding it and grinding it not sure how many times I'd be scared to know. Saddest part is I still don't even have a Mummy minion. Hate my rolls always under 10 on anything worth more then 100gil or something I want. That's my story so far. As for how people have finished this and still need soldiery, I don't get it I had all my water and bomb cores before even finishing the first three quests and dungeons. Now I'm back to stocking up on Dubbin. And I guess Moonstones from GC not sure what else got entire stacks of Potash and the rest I need for my first set of masterbooks as well

'Round 0/17 for Amdapor City now. I hate this.

To add, I'm fine with doing doors and actually prefer to do it on the last fight because it gives me something more interesting to do than plink away at an otherwise boring boss fight. Atleast 10 of these 17 runs have had new players too, for which I've explained the run each time. What really irritates me is getting into a party with people who have done the dungeon before, still don't understand the mechanics, yet still try to speedrun everything and then nearly cause a wipe on Arioch or Diabolos when the mechanics aren't followed and/or we don't have the DPS. Wanna pull hair out. At this point, I'd much rather explain the stuff to the new people because atleast then I know for sure that they'll have an inkling of what to do.

Everything for me so far has been in under 5 tries. Aurum vale was on my first try thankfully. Really don't want to run that dungeon again. Currently working on sastasha HM.

I have spent over a week in Aurum Vale and still no drop. Been averaging 10-15 runs a day to maintain my sanity. Sadly I have completely lost my motivation to do any other content in the game. These repeated runs are sucking the life out of me. It took over 40 runs of Halatali as well before I got the drop. All in all im now 4/16 after 3 weeks of mindless dungeon grind. Don't think i'm done before the next step comes with the new patch...