Ifrit HM - Weapon Drops

I have been killing Ifrit HM for 2-3 weeks on my Black Mage to get her a Ifrit weapon so I can do other dungeons and CT, without an Ifrit weapon I'm not that useful... I don't know how many times I've downed Ifrit and I've only seen one weapon drop which I lost the roll for it. What's more frustrating is that I've seen countless weapons drop for classes that weren't even present. I am posting this because farming Ifrit is taking the fun out of the game, I'm determined to get an Ifrit weapon but I might just end up quitting final fantasy due to this. 2-3 weeks to get a weapon is firkin ridiculous. Can't you make it so only weapons for classes present drop and have some counter so that if you've done Ifrit 50 times or 100 your weapon has a higher chance of dropping? Just so frustrating

I gave up and bought a lvl70 crafted weapon :/ I think some dungeon drops ilvl55 weapons, get one from there and try downing garuda and maybe you will get lucky there.

You could do CT without it, i think, as long as you pick up either the grand company one or a crafted one. It's not too demanding for DPS. You could also move onto Garuda HM if you feel confident enough. The Garuda one is better too. Also, if you feel up to it, Thornmarch drops a weapon that is about where Garuda is at, 70 i believe. Queues seem to take forever, but if everyone knows it, it's easy.

I've run Ifrit so many times over the months, never gotten the Summoner book, but on my first success of Gardua, the book dropped and i won. The random numbers are a cruel master.

Skip ifrit weapon... It's bearly better then GC weapon... Tech straight up to Garuda weapon

I used the GC one all the way until I got my relic. It's good enough for all content up to that point. It's just fine for CT, too (I used it there several times).

This is the second thread I've read about this lately, so I'm guessing its a growing concern. But realistically, you don't even need a low Primal weapon at all. As Rabbitzero said, you can do CT without it, and as TheCurls said, you can use Grand Company weapon all the way through to Relic. I suggest doing this as well (and I do this on new lv50s) as it'll save you a ton of time farming for lesser weapons. With some CT gear and Darklight, you'll make up any DPS loss from using a GC weapon, and with a decent group can pull your own weight through Titan HM. Good luck to you!

But wouldn't it be better if they changed it so at least only weapons would drop for classes that were present?

I got lucky on my ifrit weapon. It dropped the second time I downed him and I won the roll. I ended up buying an astrolabe anyways though.

I remember farming my ifrit blade and seeing the blm weapon drop 5 time in 6 downs. I was frustrated, but hey now I have one if I ever want to lvl blm.

It took me a long time to get my ifrit weapon back in the days too, about 30-40 encounters to finally get it. Since there are a lot of weapons inside the chest itself, the chances is really small. If you have a free company with decent geared people, better just ask them to help you get relic weapon, much faster.

Back in September I had to kill Ifrit HM 88 times to get my WHM staff, so I can sympathize with this lol.

I ran it 112 times to get my BLM weapon. I got it, feeling extremely happy only to have it replaced the next day by my Relic...

Really, Primal weapons are barely worth it. Buy the ilvl70 crafting weapon and go get your Relic and move on. I had collected a Ifrit Weapon for every class other than WHM and I've deleted them all because they're not worth it.

Yes the drops are crazy. Did Ifrit HM well over 40 times (stopped counting)
and not once have i seen a bow.
3 or 4 runs in a row it was books, other times it was weapon for tanks.
I may just start doing Garuda more and hope to be lucky.
or
not bother, get all dl gear and finally get Relic
this may be the route many of us may have to go

Whether people have ilvl70 weapons on the hardest fight to get relic (titan hm) is actually not that important and its certainly not needed for CT.
Just go for the crafted one in case you dont want people in your titan group whining about your weapon, but in that case they're probably noobs.

Well decided i was tired of the same old outcome from Ifrit and ended up just getting a lvl70 crafted one.
They still should rotate it more instead of always being books or swords

Ifrit or Garuda weapon is fine to get to Relic I have never had to use a GC Weapon so I am not sure about that but if other players are saying it...its must be true.
My 3rd run of Ifrit I got Bow.
My first run of Garuda got me that bow.
Got Lance off Ifrit within 5 runs.
Got rest of my primals off greed rolls with GC.
Some people just get lucky.

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Originally Posted by Dagmar

But wouldn't it be better if they changed it so at least only weapons would drop for classes that were present?

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+1

I got the book today, but it was SCH - scary to think how many more times to get SUM

You could also get the darklight staff temporarily. I believe that drops in the Wanderer's Palace dungeon

It takes 5910 Philo Tomes to get a full set of DL. Run WP or AK 60 times. In those 60 runs, you'll earn at least 180k gil. Buy a Titan HM (they are down to like 100k on Sarg). Now you have a better weapon than Ifrit.

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Originally Posted by am0n

It takes 5910 Philo Tomes to get a full set of DL. Run WP or AK 60 times. In those 60 runs, you'll earn at least 180k gil. Buy a Titan HM (they are down to like 100k on Sarg). Now you have a better weapon than Ifrit.

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You just helped me finding out where those crap ilv70 players in Coil PUG come from.

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Originally Posted by ImDingDing

You just helped me finding out where those crap ilv70 players in Coil PUG come from.

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... who are now downing Turn 2 en masse and thinking there ready for Extreme mode xD