The infinite quest for glamour

"Darklight gear belongs to Illuminati!"

When I saw those beautiful Darklight Gloves of Casting on a female Elezen, I fell in love with them and decided that I just had to get them to complement my sorceress look. Little I knew this decision would lead to frustration, pain and crushed dreams.

I've been running Brayflox Longstop Hard for a month before I took a pause from the game. I came back recently and started to do it again. I think I ran it over one hundred times in the spawn of two weeks, now. Add to that number a bunch of Halatali Hard runs.
I have never even seen these gloves drop. Not even once. And it's not the only thing I haven't seen drop, from the big pool of items these dungeons have in their chests. I've dropped the Baby Opo-Opo twice (and never won the roll!), yet the gloves are elusive as ever. Whenever my party opens the first three chests from the first two bosses I'm always excited, just to feel a soul-crushing pain when I see those damned crafting materials drop, or other gear I don't need. I pass on everything. I just want my beloved gloves. Yet the rides never ends.

Patch after patch we get new gorgeous dungeons and yet their loot is often passed, or only good to be desynthesized. Then there are all those crafting mats, which just make people even forget about those treasure chests. We're just going to get more Filtered Water anyway, why bother?

I know this is a rant. I know the RNG has been awful with me. But is it too much to ask for a slightly better system, or incentive to run these dungeons outside of roulettes and glamour-obsession like mine?
They did a great thing with the three new dungeons. By making Myth gear bound to an item which can be converted into the piece you want the item pools are smaller and people can get what they want with more ease. They still have to work for it, but dropping Antique Gloves will grant you the glove you are looking for. Why does it have to be so damn hard to drop Darklight gear, of all things? It's so beautiful, yet so difficult to obtain.

Perhaps it's just me. I just ask for some consideration. I understand that some grind is bound to happen in an MMO, but not everyone has the time to run a dungeon for a single piece of loot to glamour over a hundred of times.
I do, but not everyone does.

Thanks for your attention. Time for another run of Brayflox Hard.

Yeah they should go back & do an antique system for the past two sets of HM Dungeons also.

Along with reducing or removing their crafting material drops.

This needs a pass by SE.

Knowing SE though they always say no to going back & tweaking old content.

It's very unfortunate & saddening :(

Don't they also drop in Crystal Tower? Although queue times there might be way worse than what you get in the other dungeons.

I agree its stupid that easy gear to get in patch 2.0 is now excruciatingly difficult to acquire in 2.4.

I'd like to see an antique gear vender in 3.0 selling now useless apart from glamour i70 darklight, i90 atifact, i100 sol and i120 poetics gear for cheap. Wow does this with its previous tier pve and pvp gear. It give you a nice selection of gear to choose from especially when the game is 10 years old.

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Originally Posted by Jaykos

I agree its stupid that easy gear to get in patch 2.0 is now excruciatingly difficult to acquire in 2.4.

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SE just wanted to give the new players also the joy of darklight farming we 1.x players had 1.21-1.23 ^^

DL gloves. Got them when they were relevant. Oh, the good ol' times of tomestones of philosophy............ bless my retainer's heart for having not gotten rid of them still. xD

I honestly believe that this "Antique Gear" experiment SE is doing with the current dungeons is an overwhelming success and should be implemented for every outdated piece of gear in the game.

In the 2.2 Dungeons:

Replace all Darklight Armor drops with "Blackened Helm", "Blackened Cuirass", "Blackened Gauntlets", "Blackened Greaves", and "Blackened Boots" to be turned in for Darklight Armor. That would be stellar!

Yes, I'd much rather prefer the exchange method we have with current top tier duties, then to just have a huge loot pool to lot from. The 2.2 Duties are by far the worst for this, since they have twice as much gear to lot from. Please SE, implement this exchange method for all duties, even the pre-50 ones.

When DL becomes more rare than specific coil wishlist drops.
I knew this would happen but i still traded my dl in anyways :p
Got spare parts of whm dl from mythflox speedruns but i still for some reason traded them in again. Kinda wish i didn't but i kinda needed seals and inventory space... But i guess thts y im hoarding all the post 50 dungeon gear cuz i know they'll be scarce in 3.0 :/
I'm a slave to glamour ;._.