EX Primal Pony drop Rate

Has anything happened to the drop rate of these mounts since the introduction of Triple Triad and cards as drops within extreme primals?

I've literally been farming Ramuh and Leviathan the majority of the week, 3-4 hours a day, and I've seen minimal results compared to patch 2.5.

Today I've spent around 6 hours farming Ramuh and I've seen 2 ponies.

Is anyone else experiencing a seemingly decreased drop rate on these mounts since 2.51 or has this just been really bad luck the entire week?

Rng

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Started farming Shiva pre-2.5 and continued post-2.5 for the pony.

Have over 80 wins.

Haven't seen the pony drop once. From what I can tell it has a <1% drop rate.

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Originally Posted by Velox

Started farming Shiva pre-2.5 and continued post-2.5 for the pony.

Have over 80 wins.

Haven't seen the pony drop once. From what I can tell it has a <1% drop rate.

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Pre-2.5 My FC probably did 40 runs and never saw a pony.

We did 12 post 2.5 and saw 4 ponies!

RNG is RNG. But it's definitely not 1% anymore.

It is the joys of rng.

Did some card/pony farming since Triad came out in our guild.

Shiva Night 1 4/17 ponys.
Ramuh 1/3

NIght 2

0/21 Shiva Pony

Night 3

0/33 Shiva Pony

We got 4 ponies in a row the night before last from Shiva, but before that we'd only seen it twice out who knows how many runs. :(

Atma rate is supposedly 12.5% right now, and it took me 5 hours to get one in eastern thanalan when I was doing it for white mage a couple of months ago. Just how things go sometimes. :(

I've done a little over 30 Garuda EX runs and saw three ponies drop. That puts it at close to 10%. Of course it seemed like less because the first one didn't drop until clear 22.

Shiva seems worse then the others for sure been doing a lot of df of her and seen very few drops.

In my most recent shiva farm we did 6-7 runs. Card dropped twice, pony never.

One night, I did a string of Garuda Extremes to get my entire group Garuda ponies (for real). One person already had it, so we were only going for seven. It took us 30 runs to get 7 ponies. So, 7/30 = 0.23, or 23%. If I had to guess off of my experience alone, the droprate is either 20% or 25%. It may be less than that. Possibly 10-20% for other sample sizes as large as ours. However, as cited above... some people go for dozens of runs and don't see a single pony. So, it's all a mystery unless we truly add up a huuuuuuuge sample size, but I don't think anyone is dedicated enough to document that.

Really? Do people even know what rng is? You have to make a whole new thread, on top of the 50 threads that already exist on the subject, to have people explain that rng is rng. Nothing anyone can tell you will be anything more than anecdotal and devs rarely discuss drop rate percentages all they ever say is its been increased.

I got my pony from Ifrit instantly. First time, instant pony drop. Needed 4 times for Xanthos pony.

Holy necro batman.

This thread was made back in ARR before HW came out.

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Originally Posted by stulticaeruleum

Holy necro batman.

This thread was made back in ARR before HW came out.

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Some kind of… hot tub Time Machine

They should really consider locking topics once they pass a year or so without activity.

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Originally Posted by Nox

Is anyone else experiencing a seemingly decreased drop rate on these mounts since 2.51 or has this just been really bad luck the entire week?

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Wait, is this a thing?

I ran them all years ago and got all the mounts, but I don't recall it being too terrible. In HW I remember 8 level 60 (or at least > level 50) Tank groups grinding Garuda for the Tank achievements and her mount (and the black Nightmare one) dropping left and right, and I soloed some at 70 to get the ones I hadn't gotten and don't remember them being hard to get. Since they drop from the chests, being unsynced don't matter.

Did they nerf the drop rate since then or something? I was unaware of it if so...and I got mine at various stages from 2.5 to 4.4 or somewhere there abouts.

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Originally Posted by stulticaeruleum

Holy necro batman.

This thread was made back in ARR before HW came out.

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<checks date>

Lol, that explains the oddly specific reference to 2.51. XD Saw the Hrothgar face as the OP and it didn't even occur to me it could be that old. XD

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Originally Posted by Calacitea

I got my pony from Ifrit instantly. First time, instant pony drop. Needed 4 times for Xanthos pony.

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Well, the drop rate was significantly lower when this topic was posted, and these were being done synced.