Luminous Crystal Drop Rate

Lets be productive about the relic quest, seeing as complaining isn't going to make it go any faster.

I'd like to attempt to estimate the Luminous Crystal *CoughAtmaCough* drop rate through crowd-sourcing. Kindly fill out this quick survey if you have time!

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Thank you for your time!

Its taking way longer than a ilvl 170 weapon is worth at least...

Almost 10 hours now and only 3 crystals...

Pathetic.....

I got 5 of them just in a few hours this evening.

Can you get crystals without quest active?

I must be lucky. I started on mine this evening and had 4 crystals after two hours.

Done. I estimated to the best of my ability. I didn't grind for too terribly long after release (only an hour or two) and receieved one drop; today, I farmed for a few hours and received three drops. I'm also seeing reports of people getting up to five within a day, and I haven't really heard anyone say that they've received none after a decent amount of grinding.

I'm assuming the drop rate is not the same as it was when Atma was released. Given how difficult Heavensward FATEs are in comparison to ARR's, plus the fact that we now need 18 drops instead of 12, I think it's safe to assume the drop rate was increased by a fair amount.

I got one in 3 FATEs but I had to stop, it was late in the night.

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Originally Posted by Sinfel

Its taking way longer than a ilvl 170 weapon is worth at least...

Almost 10 hours now and only 3 crystals...

Pathetic.....

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Figured I would get the quest for my Ninja, and get the stuff while leveling my other classes...at this rate Im not gonna have anything leveled in the end. RNG For ya

Around 45 minutes of FATES in Western Coerthas for 3 Crystals.
It was early in the morning so not that many people around and FATES took a few minutes each.

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7 Earth and Ice
8 Lighting
6 Wind

All in 12 hours of farming.
Started grinding a level 50 MCH in Western Coerthas, currently 57 after 12 hours of fates now moving to the Hinderlands.

I got 4 Ice in about 40 mins. That's all Ive done so far.

When I got off work and played four hours I got a whooping six crystals so I thought it would be quick so started up again today after work and after 4 hours I had received a whooping one crystal so I turned the game off immediately and went to go do something fun like see Star Wars haha but I kind of noticed that you should receive one between 1-2 hours

Azys Lla 3rd Fate,4th Fate and 9th Fate for all 3.
Coerthas Western Highlands- Probably over 30 fates for all 3.
Dravanian Forelands - Probably over 50 fates for all 3.
Dravanian Hinterlands- 1 so far from around 12 fates.

I finished Coerthas in somewhere around 40 minutes. Sea of Clouds took about an hour and half. Churning Mists was 2/3 after an hour, and then nothing for another hour after that so I moved onto the Forelands for a change of pace and got 1/3 in about another hour. I left to reissue ventures is why I'm basically in hours here.

That's all the further I've gone so far.

Took me a total of 11hrs to get all my crystals, now to get drk weapon :3

I'm at 3 days with over 18 hours grinding, 1 ice crystal. This is beyond disgusting Square...

I got all mine in roughly 6 hours I think of on and off fate farming, I just decided to tough it out (hate fate farming) I really do hate this format though, since you will have people who get all their crystals in a few hours and people who get squat for the same time and effort, which is just disheartening.

I think I read somewhere that even Yoshi-P wouldn't like to do this step, when the director doesn't want to do content in his own game, you know something has gone wrong. I admit, the relic grind did bring lots of activity to empty places, but that is small comfort for the people who have had terrible luck.