Any recommendations on easing Zodiac drop pains?

I've had horrible luck so far. Got 3 drops, yeah, but nothing else in over 30 runs. I have all the sol items, the Bombard Cores, everything except these damn drops. And it is depressing after a while. Same thing happened with Atma as well.

Any strategies/recommendations on making it, well, not so depressing?

It is probably always going to be depressing, but I found working on multiple weapons is less depressing, at least your are building light while farming these crap dungeons.
I'm currently farming the zodiac item set for my SCH which is currently also doing nexus light building:
PLD - Mahatma light building
BLM - Mahatma light building
SCH - Nexus light building

And also I tend to queue for different dungeons instead of farming the same ones over and over again, and always have Join In Progress on - you can get drops from in progress runs.
Having 1 of each tank/healer/dps helps the queue

I'm in the same boat, I've only had 2 drops so far. I've found that I simply cannot stand running the same dungeon a few times in a row so because I have a few of them unlocked for the moment (still need to get some more soldiery for the water), I'll go through, finish one and if no drop just move on to the next.

My only complaint, and it's nothing to do with the players, is that I'll keep getting instances with new players and I really shouldn't but I get frustrated because the dungeon isn't going fast enough for me lol

This may not be overly helpful, but hunker down and accept the fact that RNG hates you. I went into all my runs expecting to get nothing - so I wasn't disappointed when I didn't get the drop and I was happy when I did. It sounds corny, I know, but changing my point of view helped calm the rage of it not dropping. I started to enjoy the runs more because I was there to have fun, and less focused on the end drop.

Also, Netflix. Lots and lots of netflix.

dont know if its right or not but i just queue for 5 dungeons i need zodiac drops in and hope for the best when completes lol

I find the biggest downer to be the few pre-50 dungeons, as they generally take so long compared to most others that people are familiar with to speed run.

Still on Aurum Vale :( at the moment after it took 12 attempts at DD to get my drop

Depending on the dungeon, get some i49 equip and focus on soulbinding.

if you do a Sac pull all the way to the Boss rooms those pre 50s take about 10 mins at most. had to do DD like 7 times.

I honestly felt my mental well being give out at about 0/34 Stone Vigil HM. I was about to start crying. :/

Easing it? Go do something else when you feel you're about to crack. Go eat something or just ...do whatever else that isn't filled with RNG pain.

What's getting me through my Zodiac grind...
1) Grinding light for my other Novus at the same time.
2) Working my crafts to 3-star at the same time.
3) Triple Triad/Chocobo breaks.
4) Using loot drops to get GC seals to preempt the items for the other quests.
5) Not running the same dungeon over and over (this is seriously where the burn out happens).

Basically... diversify. The more you do along side the grind, the less the grind wears you down.

Punch the Cuff-A-Cur mannequin 5 times then requeue.

Watch a movie or some show while farming dungeons and lights. Helps a lot.

A good social LS that makes you happy helps a lot also. So when you dont get drop they can laugh at you and you feel better :)

watch tv, do a drinking game out of it, put some music.If that doesn't work like every 3-5 dungeons take a break.

sacrifice a lalafell to rngesus

Best thing I can recommend if it feels like you're doing one dungeon in particular a lot, go to another for a bit. I like order, so part of me likes to do one thing at a time before moving on. But if it's going to be the trouble dungeon, it's better to know it'll be last than be in the middle of your grindfest and burn out.

There are some horrifying dungeon atma drop claims, so I'd avoid reading them and hope for the best. And like others have said, stream YouTube, netflix, etc.

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This may not be overly helpful, but hunker down and accept the fact that RNG hates you. I went into all my runs expecting to get nothing - so I wasn't disappointed when I didn't get the drop and I was happy when I did. It sounds corny, I know, but changing my point of view helped calm the rage of it not dropping. I started to enjoy the runs more because I was there to have fun, and less focused on the end drop.

Also, Netflix. Lots and lots of netflix.

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I took a similar approach. I didn't focus on, "OMG I only have 3 out of 16 drops. This will take forever!" I just set smaller, short-term goals. Like, I would aim to get one drop each day.

Convince yourself you are running the dungeons for more reasons than the zodiac. When they changed the desynthing rules in 2.5, I decided to level up armorer desynth. Running as tank, I started farming the ilevel 55 places, then ilevel 60, then 70 and so on. Those armorer pieces kept flowing in, and I got my desynth up to about 80ish. Also, leatherworking desynth net me a bunch of materials to sell on marketboards, while anything I couldn't desynth got dumped into GC for moonstones.

Now with triple triad cards, you'll have a good chance of farming demon wall, siren, tonberry, succubus, sahagin, morbol and ahriman. Duplicate cards bring in some MGP too. So many good things in dungeons these days.

It helps if you have a dual or even triple purpose to running them. I'm working on mahatmas for my bow, while trying to get the drops for my nirvana - before that I was farming light for the thyrus nexus while trying to get the drops for my bow. At the same time get some friends that have the same goals. It makes it much more fun to do so. Me and a couple of friends tend to queue up for 5 dungeons we need - even if not all of us need all of them. We split them around so that each has a chance at getting what they want, along with any in common. Once we run it(doesn't matter if drop or not) we swap that one out for another and requeue.

And when we get fed up we do maps, choco race, wod/ct/st etc... to break the monotomy.

I've given up with Dzemael for the time being, ran it about 20 times so far with no luck, so it's probably going to be the one I save for very last. For all the others, quene into all of the ones you currently need to do at the same time. Always have all four of the quests up if you can, and Join in Progress and try and quene for each of them. If you get lucky on a drop for one of them, put another dungeon in in it's place in the DF. In-between runs, if healing is getting you worn out, change to a Tank, or change to DPS, if it's the right time of day. I was doing Triple Triad the other night while waiting on my quenes, you have to be keeping busy while waiting, never just sit there and stare at the game searching for people.

Netflix and youtube and Hulu and the like also help a lot as well.

I had a bad streak and went a full week straight getting no drops, running 1-2 dozen dungeons per day.
If you get that level of misfortune, I recommend just.. taking a break from the game for a while. Find something else to cheer you up. Have a potato. Watch Groundhog Day or something..

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It helps if you have a dual or even triple purpose to running them. At the same time get some friends that have the same goals. Me and a couple of friends tend to queue up for 5 dungeons we need - even if not all of us need all of them. We split them around so that each has a chance at getting what they want, along with any in common. Once we run it(doesn't matter if drop or not) we swap that one out for another and requeue.

And when we get fed up we do maps, choco race, wod/ct/st etc... to break the monotomy.

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After I finished (YEYY FINALLY) light farming with those dungeons for my sch book I was definitely pissed off by getting "forced" to use only this 1 class for a while. Now I ask my personal Asny which class to go as when we q together (sadly atm different dungeons but well may the RNG be with us). Its fun to use classes you have barely played since you brought em to level 50 ^^
besides that the choco races / GS distraction / raids :)
We yesterday even had funny luck on Dcs... we egi tanked snowcloak till Fenrir after first boss and bard tanked AK after first boss through as in 2 runs after each other tanks dcd and who needs to kick em if you can have the fun :p

PS: First Nexus made me sick of tanking this 1 sick or healing (dungeons with horrible tanks) but now getting atleast back to enjoy tanking :D

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Also, Netflix. Lots and lots of netflix.

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Isn't it great to know you need another form of entertainment to get through some of the content in this entertainment?