Rare one time item went to player in another job?

I was in the bowl of embers hm and finally my codex dropped. I clicked need but someone who was not a scholar ended up with my weapon. How can greed win out over need? And if they did click need how could they when it was not for their job? I have a witness to this event and even reported it as a bug in game but have yet to hear back. It's so hard to get your weapons from ifrit and to have someone that is not even in your class to take it is just so offensive. What can be done? Plz help

Was your armoury chest full?

You don't choose the weapon, the weapon chooses you.

Quite possible your Need Roll was met with someone that was also your same job
then it was a 50/50 split : high roll wins.

Even though you say the person was not the same job.. I question whether you based you information on what gear this person was wearing ?

If your Armory was 100 % full the game defaults by placing any equipment obtained into your Inventory. If your Inventory is 100% full as well you will get a message :
( item name ) was lost unable to obtain.

In the case of Lotted / Rolled items.. ( Need ) will always cancel Greed.

There is only one other thing that could have happened: That is you already obtained this item B4 and put it into your Storage / Retainer and forgot that you have it.

This happens all the time on AK runs for me.. the message will say I can not have 2 of the same item.

Was the dude a SMN maybe? I don't know if the codex is for SCH/ARN/SMN or if they're separate ones, but just a thought.

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Originally Posted by aray0002

There is only one other thing that could have happened: That is you already obtained this item B4 and put it into your Storage / Retainer and forgot that you have it.

This happens all the time on AK runs for me.. the message will say I can not have 2 of the same item.

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You can have a second copy if one is in your retainer's inventory. >_>

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Originally Posted by Tule

Was the dude a SMN maybe? I don't know if the codex is for SCH/ARN/SMN or if they're separate ones, but just a thought.

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This is the only thing i can think happened. I'm pretty sure SMN and SCH use the same weapons along with ARN. It's a little strange i can't think of any other classes that share a weapon type. I don't think it would have been so hard to create different kinds of books for them.

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Originally Posted by MXMoondoggie

This is the only thing i can think happened. I'm pretty sure SMN and SCH use the same weapons along with ARN. It's a little strange i can't think of any other classes that share a weapon type. I don't think it would have been so hard to create different kinds of books for them.

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No, two books drop in the Bowl of Embers. Ifrit's Grimoire can only be used by SMN and ACN, Ifrit's Codex can be used *only* by SCH. This is how it generally is for all the blue and purple books. If an Ifrit's Codex dropped, only a SCH should've been able to roll Need on it.

I bet 9/10 times a sch does ifrit he gets paired with a whm so just go again and get it next time, it'll take 1day instead of waiting 1 week for support

I have been back, a few times. It hasn't dropped again. No there could not have been another scholar there because only 2 could ever be there at once as the sch is a healer. The second healer was a white Mage and that's not who got the book. Somewhere around lvl 50 summoners and scholars started using diff books
The one I have equipped now is some healing book that my summoner can not equip. It's a sch only book.
My inventory isn't full. I always make sure and I have not gotten any new weapons
I'm at a loss as to how this happened unless it's a bug or glitch of some kind.

Maybe you accidently rolled Greed and just thought you rolled Need?

It happens

Either you did hit greed instead of need... or (and) it was actually the summoners Book that dropped and not yours... or you did leave the instance before you received loot. Thats a common mistake. A friend of mine did get a garuda-weapon with "greed" because the person who would have won via need (he did not yet have that weapon, he did have a lower level weapon equipped) did quit before he won the roll.

Those are the only 3 explanations I can think about.

Never heard about a bug with the books... and since I got both books I can confirm, that you can only click need on the correct book for your job you are on.

Maybe it was the other book that dropped and you mistook it at first glance? Never heard of this before. Unless someone was able to switch jobs and need it, which I don't think you can do in an instance.

Did you possibly leave the dungeon before everyone had rolled? That causes you to forfeit an item.

There is text that says like "Deidra Moonmayden rolls Need 50", "Soandso rolls Need 20", or greed, or something like that. Have not seen mention of it yet, but it would go a long ways toward explaining. I assume you don't know what that text said -- just that you don't have the item now. In that case, it's mostly impossible to actually know what happened. Some possibilities were mentioned already (left instance before roll finished, clicked Greed by accident, bug, etc).

User error, in all likelihood.

Ifrit drops two separate books, one for sch and one for smn. I have each in my inv at the same time.

did you leave before it was handed to you?

One of the other player congratulated me( thought it was me) on my book. It was for the scholar because it was the codex. I can't say what happened actually though I didn't leave until the loot icon cleared. I never do and I always pass if it's not my weapon. I have never had a problem with the greed and need buttons before so honestly I didn't consider it. I will just keep trying I suppose. Ty for your help guys

Was it a SMN that got it? I noticed in a Brayflox run that SMN and I imagine SCH can remove their soul crystals in instance because I came in at Eft boss and the SMNs had downgraded to ARN to Topaz tank. After the boss they switched back and popped Ifrits. Can ARNs remove SMN crystal and put on SCH?

Aren't both the Codex and Grimoire still listed as Arcanist weapons? I think a Summoner and Scholar can roll Need on either weapon since they share the same base class.

No the Codex is SCH only and the Grimoire is ARN/SMN. This is because SCH is Healer and ARN and SMN are both DPS.

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Originally Posted by Lithera

Was it a SMN that got it? I noticed in a Brayflox run that SMN and I imagine SCH can remove their soul crystals in instance because I came in at Eft boss and the SMNs had downgraded to ARN to Topaz tank. After the boss they switched back and popped Ifrits. Can ARNs remove SMN crystal and put on SCH?

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They cannot remove the crystal. Summoners do not lose access to the carbuncles until they do a quest for their egis. At level 35 they get a quest to replace the topaz carbuncle with Titan egi, and at level 45 they get a quest to replace the emerald carbuncle with Garuda egi.

As for the level 50 books, they are all either SCH only or ACN/SMN only. There are no end game books equippable by both scholar and summoner.