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So I have ran Ifrit close to 80 times with not a single drop of my weapon. I ran Garuda my first time and the sword dropped for me. I know it's all random numbers but seriously, what the heck?

Not to mention Garuda went down super fast compared to Ifrit who has phases that take forever and people never seem to know their particular job. I know I should not complain. But I kinda feel jipped. I went from iLvl 55 to 70 in one shot.

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Originally Posted by Jaminos

So I have ran Ifrit close to 8 times with not a single drop of my weapon. I ran Garuda my first time and the sword dropped for me. I know it's all random numbers but seriously, what the heck?

Not to mention Garuda went down super fast compared to Ifrit who has phases that take forever and people never seem to know their particular job. I know I should not complain. But I kinda feel jipped. I went from iLvl 55 to 70 in one shot.

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I ran ifrit 50 times successfully and never saw the pally weapon drop. The summoner weapon, on the other hand, dropped 26 times.

I have not seen an Ifrit weapon drop and it has been about 200 runs.
The worst part is no one is running Chimera...so I am pretty screwed.

Same thing just happened to me! xD

Took me 15 tries to get my Ifrit Blade (saw 2 dropped in this time frame). Took me about 30 tries to get my Garuda's Gaze (the first that dropped, and I was lucky enough the other PLD in my team was using Relic weapon, so he didn't need it)

Perhaps I'm just a lucky soul...

RNG is a cruel mistress indeed.

I got the Ifrit Blade on my 3rd run. That being said I killed Garuda today for the 19th time and lost the sword to a curtana PLD, no joke. "Sorry man, I've been here a like 50 times and I've always wanted that". Translation, 'sorry man, I've a raging dickead".

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Originally Posted by Jaminos

So I have ran Ifrit close to 80 times with not a single drop of my weapon. I ran Garuda my first time and the sword dropped for me. I know it's all random numbers but seriously, what the heck?

Not to mention Garuda went down super fast compared to Ifrit who has phases that take forever and people never seem to know their particular job. I know I should not complain. But I kinda feel jipped. I went from iLvl 55 to 70 in one shot.

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the numbers in this game are sloppy at best they are all over the place, very badly thaught out I can tell you that. there is a lot of things you just think to yourself WTF!

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Originally Posted by Zoomie

I got the Ifrit Blade on my 3rd run. That being said I killed Garuda today for the 19th time and lost the sword to a curtana PLD, no joke. "Sorry man, I've been here a like 50 times and I've always wanted that". Translation, 'sorry man, I've a raging dickead".

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hey man, they've done the work too. you're the dick for assuming you should get it no matter what. i could understand in a pre-made fc group, but a df group, especially if he doesn't need to be there except to get the weapon, what did you expect?

Yea, it took me about 50ish tries before I got one. It was the 2nd run that dropped, and despite the fact that only 4 of my kills were War+War teams, the first time it dropped (after about 30 tries) it was in a War+War party :/

Dunno about Garuda yet, only ran it about 5 times so far so we'll see.

I will say that I have seen a LOT of blm, smn and brd weapons and not many tank weapons (0 ifrit blades). I wonder if they skew the drop rates to the % of players that are playing that class.

this the reason why I skipped primal weapons for my PLD and worked on my Relic as quick as i can. In just 4 days I completed the quest.

4 Bows
1 Sword
3 Axes
2 Lances
6 Claws
14 CNJ staves
12 BLM staves
8 SCH tomes
8 SMN tomes

58 tries before I saw a sword drop, and got mine. At least the fight only takes 10 minutes, and netted me over 200 myth tomes.

I got Ifrit's Blade on my first ever HM Ifrit. Sorry! Haha.

That being said I'm still on Hydra after 2 horrible PUGs for it with only 1 other FC member. Hoping to do it tonight.

I personally think Garuda is easier than Ifrit...usually when we fight Ifrit we "slow down" DPS to build up LB.

As for weapons, having Mog Blade from 1.0 has made me happy\sad. Happy I've had a good weapon since 50 but sad that none of the primal drops (with the exception of titan shield) are useful.

It's just bad luck. I ran. Brayflox 35x trying to battlemage gloves/boots. Gave up. Ran a guildie on my DRG and both dropped...

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Originally Posted by Zonerstone

wow, sounds like i struck a nerve. if he is in there with his relic why do you think he is there? probably because he doesn't have the garuda weapon and wants it for his collection too. he even said he had ran it 50 times and hadn't seen it. just because there is someone else in there who had a crappy weapon doesn't mean he should give up his opportunity to get it. get real.

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So when someone takes a warrior weapon cause you need it or whatever class you are, don't come crying here. Your pretty much saying if someone with the relic weapon which is THE best weapon in this game when you +1 it, is inferior to a primal weapon just because honeyboo farmed this primal and didn't get it YET they have their relic..hmm little sketchy. do you see how stupid that sounds and you sound? its honestly very very stupid. Give the people who need the upgrade so they can progress/catch up and tell the others who have the relics to suck it cause they don't need it.

Personally for Warrior I just bought Barbarians Badiche +1 as I doubt I will be lucky enough for ifrit drops and the BB+1 is readily available and inexpensive on my server.

Its not that far off Ifrits weapon (-1 dmg, -2.16 auto atk, -3 str, -2 vit, -10 fire, -18 det).

If anything several of the stats are better (+7 parry, +25crit, -0.12 delay). It has 3 materia slots and I added +18 accuracy too.

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Originally Posted by Mixplate

So when someone takes a warrior weapon cause you need it or whatever class you are, don't come crying here. Your pretty much saying if someone with the relic weapon which is THE best weapon in this game when you +1 it, is inferior to a primal weapon just because honeyboo farmed this primal and didn't get it YET they have their relic..hmm little sketchy. do you see how stupid that sounds and you sound? its honestly very very stupid. Give the people who need the upgrade so they can progress/catch up and tell the others who have the relics to suck it cause they don't need it.

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yeah, i wont come crying here. because i don't need a bunch of strangers to hold my hand and pat my head saying "it's ok you'll get it next time." if im doing a dungeon or primal because i want the weapon and the weapon drops, i'm needing it, but im sure whoever loses on the roll will come and cry because the community in this game is filled with a bunch of whiny babies.

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Originally Posted by Nabian

I personally think Garuda is easier than Ifrit...usually when we fight Ifrit we "slow down" DPS to build up LB.

As for weapons, having Mog Blade from 1.0 has made me happy\sad. Happy I've had a good weapon since 50 but sad that none of the primal drops (with the exception of titan shield) are useful.

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Why would you ever do that? If your DPS is so high that you have to stop in order to build LB, just keep going and focus down a nail before you Meteor. There's no reason to ever build LB on purpose on Ifrit.

You know the first thought in my head when I got Ifrit's blade after run #51 was that Garuda's would probably just drop on the first kill. Oh the irony.

I will always feel the drop rate is better in ARR than in 1.x. Imagine fighting Ifrit (who was much...much harder in 1.x) over coming this hurdle and getting slapped with dark matter. and you might not even get that either, one person "might" get a weapon, but the odds were pretty crap, then divided by how many weapons could drop...yeah, I got lucky my first run, got my Ifrit sword. Ran Ifrit over 100 times in 1.x saw one other drop, was the bow. In ARR, I finally got my cane, but I will never complain about what drops after the torture of the 1.x drop system.
Oh yeah, and while you could also get totems, one person "might" get that totem, if it showed up at all, and then you needed 15 of those to get your weapon for the potential thousands of runs you did.