Starbird Minion

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Originally Posted by Tsukino

I hate everything that's still just totally random instead of being something we can actually work toward. How many runs do you need? Who knows! Someone who will never use it will get it on the first clear, while someone who does want it could do it literally thousands of times and just not get it.

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Yeah I wish they'd at least make it where it gives you it after you have literally everything else the dungeon offers.

I have farmed it so many times I have every accessory for every class, the music, and full tome gear.
I literally open a chest and it's just 'cannot obtain item' now.

Just don't have the minion, at that point the chests are useless to me lol.

I got it on my Trust clear for my main. Got to love rng I suppose. I hate chasing stuff and for me at least I'm not a collector which helps.

My question is why isn't there a token system for these untradeable minions when even EX mounts (that come from content infinitely harder than dungeons) have a token system? Like you wouldn't need to worry about "flooding the marketplace" and "ruining the economy" if they are untradeable, so I honestly don't know why there isn't a token system for each of these untradeable minions. Like this stupid RNG garbage would be bearable if after 99 runs you're guaranteed to get it by swapping tokens for it but as far as I'm concerned you either get in on your first run or do a million runs and never see it drop.

Or just let us buy these minions from other players like every other minion that drops in every dungeon apart from this expansion. You know, like how it has worked for a decade.

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Originally Posted by FrogDog

I don't understand why this minion can't be put on the marketboard at the very least.

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because it has spoilers

https://i.imgur.com/5jaabYM.png

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Originally Posted by Lily_Skye

because it has spoilers

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Figured as much but that's only in the journal part which I can't even find to be honest - that doesn't show up on the market board either. Spoilers haven't kept them from putting various minions and miniatures of bosses or characters people will encounter on the market board either. So, it still doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me that the one I want gets to be the one dungeon minion I can think of that can only be obtained through RNG alone.

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Originally Posted by Nekaru_Infitima

But why didn't they just give us this one?.

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Because they know people typically avoid directly queuing into the final dungeon unless there's a highly desirable reward. They did this in Stormblood too, which makes me think the Magitek Predator mount they gave us wasn't enough of an incentive to keep Ala Mhigo popping. I'm actually surprised they don't put rare drop mounts or minions in the trials. You almost never see Innocence and it'll probably be the same for Hydaelyn, sadly.

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Originally Posted by Nekaru_Infitima

Is it really incentive when people choose to just run it with Trusts so there's no competition though?

I got so bored of the monotony of it I literally just pull the packs together then run ahead, let them DPS them down, help on the boss, rinse and repeat now.

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yes Trust have less dungeon loot compared to actual people

Honestly I'm just kinda pissed they didn't make it sellable on the marketboard.

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Originally Posted by BluexBird

Honestly I'm just kinda pissed they didn't make it sellable on the marketboard.

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See above. The minion description contains massive story spoilers.

Making it stay off the market board is the way of helping keep other players from having it ruined.

Totally understand the frustration. I actually got the minion last night after only about 10 runs. I just had to have it.

Normally, my RNG in this game is absolute horse shit, but last night I got really lucky.