How many was the most times you ever grinded an instance for a single specific item?

I ended up running Moogle Extreme 65 times before I finally got the Ribbon of Healing.
73 runs of WoD for the Bard Coat.

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Originally Posted by Michiko

I ended up running Moogle Extreme 65 times before I finally got the Ribbon of Healing.
73 runs of WoD for the Bard Coat.

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Mog ex that many times? I could barely stomach it to clear it. Ewwww >_<

Just an update, I finally managed to get the cloak at 46th run (give or take one or two, since as I said I somewhat lost count at the 40s~). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The Aery. 50+ times. For the Nidhogg card.

I wanted the Armor or Glove pieces to update my tank jobs from Void Ark...
Ran it 22 times before getting it...
Worse is that:
- Gloves popped at 2nd run, I was a DPS, passed by accident, saw the Tank would maybe take them anyway, everyone passed on it, I saw them drop to the floor and be destroyed...
- Armor popped at 7th run, I was a DPS, rolled a 3, someone that wasn't a tank outrolled me with an 84.
- Gloves pooped at 10th run, I was a DPS, rolled a 54, someone that wasn't a tank rolled a 58.
Since then I began tanking...
- Armor popped at 22nd run... I was a tank... needed on it with blood in my eyes.

(luckily for me the gloves dropped on merely the 2nd run of the next week, I also was tanking it)

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Originally Posted by Fri

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Not sure on an exact number, since I rarely count when grinding... just know it took me about 3 seasons of House M.D. to get the last piece of gear I need for a Drg glamour I was making, that required a piece that dropped from Hullbreaker Isle.

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Originally Posted by NolLacnala

140 and 120 turns 4 and 2 from first coil for caster chest and pants

I stopped counting LevEX kills at 120 but kept helping FC members, although that was less "specific item" and more "every class at 50 so trying to get every leviathan weapon"

In case you're wondering, I only saw one Mirror of the Whorl drop and I rolled a one

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FORWARD AND BACK

CAN THEY FORWARD AND BACK

CAN THEY GO FORWARD AND BACK

Edit: Uh... I didn't realize the link I clicked on another thread lead to this. Apologies for this necrobump.
AND PUT ONE FOOT FORWARD (Get it out of my head your numbers of runs are like mine for weekly A11.)

Almost 400 runs of Garuda/Titan/Ifrit EX just to get the Nightmare pony. Mostly doing Garuda as tank mount farms.

For this game Nope.

At that other (WoW), It took me about two weeks to get spellfire blade (Jedi looking one) from The Slave Pens... I am still grinding Tempest Keep for the mount, Firelands for the Mount, Onxyia for the mount..... as well as other items. So if there was one I wanted here I would grind it till I got it, then avoid that dungeon like the plague for awhile.

Trying to get the Terra card in 2.0, it was at least 200 runs.

Around 500 or more runs through Brayflox HM to get the Opo-Opo. I ran with newbies mainly and geared up at least 4-5 of them, had nice talks, explained things, brainstormed about crafting [...]
Good old days.

From about 2.05 or so to over halfway through Heavensward, it took roughly 3 and a half years to finally see the Ancient Sword in Stone Vigil and win a roll on it. Leveled almost every combat job to 60 before I managed to get it on an unsynced run.

I been soloing Odin for maybe 20+ times not to get the full DoW set but he will not drop the pants of the set. So probably going to be 30+ T_T.

I did Ramuh Extreme like 20 times trying to get the scholar book way back when.

Hmm, I wasn't specifically farming for the item since I don't really care about minions, but I don't think I got a fenrir pup until I completed around 300-400 Feast matches.

About 600 runs of Garuda to get Nightmare. (Got all three tank mounts from that fight haha, I guess the number would be a bit higher for the times I farmed Titan and Ifrit for their horses too)

And about 50 runs of a specific expert roulette, can't remember which, for some glamour item somewhere around 3.3.

Outside of those though I've had pretty good luck in general for most stuff.

Think 5 Months camping for Eurytos Bow.

I spent the better part of a year running Toto-Rak for the cool superhero-style mask. Thank goodness for undersized parties. The worst thing is that it's undyeable and DoW-only so I can't even use it for as many glamours as I'd like (the only alternative which looks similar is a horrible colour, so I had to suck it up and farm the black one). It just would not drop!

For pets and music I'll always just buy them if possible, it's not worth the pain.

Halatali hard mode 112 times for that stupid dungeon atma.

Back when World of Darkness was new, I used to run that for the Tank body piece. (lowest drop rate for the items there)
After half a year, still didnt have it, and HW was comming out, and the already long tank queues skyrocketed up to 4-6 hour queues.
Then void ark came out, and queues were over 12 hours long.
Then relic came out, and queues dropped to 45-60mins, back to 2.5 times.
Then one day I went healer, wanting the healing skirt, and messing around, of course it dropped, and the tank already had it, thought id get it. Nope, tank hits NEED, because he wanted to desynth it. As his armor is on his retainer, so he could get it again, and what he's wearing is just a glamour.
Sometime in 3.4 I managed to finally get it. (I didnt queue up for it as much in 3.4, as I started raiding again.)

As for the number of times, no idea.
W/O doing ANY quests, dungeons/roulettes, ANYTHING, and doing JUST WoD, I got my PLD from 50 to 60, and my WAR from 50 to 57. (I actually ran this on my alt as well, got her from 50 to 60 on this as well.)
and did it as DRK on and off, and after hitting max.

Drop rate of that thing is ridiculously low, and even more so for a role thats already impossible to get into 24man content with.
But MNK? before SAm was a thing, of course it had the highest drop rate, despite being one of the least played jobs, and other jobs shared the same gear, like Casters, and Healers...

Im beginning to really hate Saint Mociannes Arboretum. Been soloing it on RDM for the stupid Plague Bringer's coat to complete my Sorin Markov/Sadistic Vampire RDM look. I got the boots and the gloves on the first run... not looking like I'm ever going to get this stupid body. The silver lining is that its easy to solo, taking about 20 minutes per.

450+something times in 4 days
Ravana ex
I have Ravana shaped cancer now and every time i hear his music, although loving it, and seeing him spawn makes me want to jump off the cliff

Thanks game

I did quite a few Leviathans to get his pony back before the drop rate increased and exactly 67 Thordans before I won the bird, but the real stand out memory for me is the time I had to do 403 fates to get one atma stone, whatever one it was that dropped from Kobolds area. The drop rate when they first came out was so abysmal I am still twitchy-eyed thinking about it right now...

Leviathan: Duo'd it with a friend for 4 days, at least 8 runs each time, before his pony finally dropped. I hate that stupid water snek.

Bismark Ex: 70 times for his bird two weeks ago. It dropped every 5-7 runs but I kept rolling under 10. I finally got it simply because the party I was with felt pity on me and despite all getting their birds (it was my bird farming party), they stayed until I got mine, finally.

O4N: 12 hours straight farming (not counting waiting for party to assemble) in order get one Shaft piece. I got really, really good at it though so there's that, I guess?

I'd farm Susano all day if I could to get his dog but a lot of the farm parties I go into can't seem to get the mechanics consistently adequate (I struggle with cloud placement when it spawns directly behind the boss). So far, I've cleared him only 10 times.

Skalla: I wish we had something that showed how many times we've gone into an instance because I swear I'm over 100 with that dungeon alone. It's to the point now that I don't even move with the first boss thanks to timing Surecast correctly. Aetherial Manipulation to tank during last boss' tail swipe and voila, done. No caster body has ever dropped. I have healer, tank, and ranged, but not caster :(

200+ Runs of Garuda ex for the pony. I actually gave up. This was in 2.0 days when there was no drop rate increase. I also did shiva ex 190 times for her pony too. ; ;
Brayfox HM I spammed that a buuuuuuuuuuunch of times too for Baby Opo Opo when it first came out too.

99 runs of Bismark Extreme for the bird. I originally decided to just get it with the totems because of how terrible my rolls were(nothing over 50). I was in a party that was farming it and everyone else had gotten a bir by my 97th totem. On the 99th totem, the bird decides to drop. So I had the bird, along with 99 useless totems(that I eventually traded in for weapons and then traded those in for Seals).

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Originally Posted by Embercrisp

200+ Runs of Garuda ex for the pony. I actually gave up. This was in 2.0 days when there was no drop rate increase. I also did shiva ex 190 times for her pony too. ; ;
Brayfox HM I spammed that a buuuuuuuuuuunch of times too for Baby Opo Opo when it first came out too.

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Do you know if the minion drops if you do it unsyncd solo?

Over 15 times trying to get the Shiva horse mount. My friends were farming it for me. I was the idiot who left the instance when it dropped because I didn't notice it did. Oops.

Soloed Leviathan 32 times in one day to get the staff for my BLM's glam. Got a gorgeous new dress and ended up completely remaking said glam not two weeks later. (－‸ლ)

If cards count, then im at a couple hundred and counting on dragons neck. I used to do it 2-5 times a day, now i try a couple times a week and any time i see a PF up for it. Eventually though.

80 in one day because everything was dropping but an eyeguard.
Lost a bunch of potential seals thinking keeping the other items would increase the rate, finally turned them in and it dropped the next go.

Oh gosh, I spent weeks grinding Castrum Abania for Ethica. The minion dropped three times before I even saw a hint that suggested that blasted book even existed (I didn't get the minion either).

It was totally worth it though!

http://78.media.tumblr.com/7a329a13c...eu51o2_540.png

The current project right now: Skallic gloves of healing, the last thing I need to complete that outfit. It is going about as well as one would expect. :( I swear, the game can TELL.

I was 1/258 on leaping Lizzy from FFXI

I don't really grind for drops, but I found it funny that you could play for two-three years in HW, and never see more than a handful of minion drops from dungeons like the Aery. They gave up and just stuck them in POTD when it came out, and that's how most people got them. For some reason they love to lock things behind what have to be 1% drop rates

Different game but over 1000 times. I stopped counting at 1000. Never did get the mount. I also don't play that game anymore.

357 for a pair of fending gauntlets in the aery

30+ runs to get the Hands, Chest, and Feet for the Dravanian Fending set from Anti-Tower.

83 runs of Sephirot for my bird. I don't think I've run a dungeon that much for anything.

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Originally Posted by Swilly

Oh gosh, I spent weeks grinding Castrum Abania for Ethica. The minion dropped three times before I even saw a hint that suggested that blasted book even existed (I didn't get the minion either).

It was totally worth it though!

http://78.media.tumblr.com/7a329a13c...eu51o2_540.png

The current project right now: Skallic gloves of healing, the last thing I need to complete that outfit. It is going about as well as one would expect. :( I swear, the game can TELL.

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Ethica is amazing. Perfect for SCH.

I did my DRG light farm for the Anima in a single night. Roughly five hours of nonstop A1S, though I did have some runes unlocked already. For dungeon specific horrors, I spammed A9N something in the realm of 25 times because RNG just wouldn't let me win my bolt.

ages ago in patch 2.1, I had to grind out for the tank gear from labyrinth of the ancients. Bit of a pain when you have 1 piece but need 2 to replace the gear. I have seen the tank hands MAYBE 7 times max in all my times running it SINCE then.