the lot system is not bad. In 1.0 it took me 57 kills on ifrit before I saw even 1 weapon and it was for cnj, it wasn't until the 70th something kill did I get my bow and my 80th-something that I got my axe. PLUS we had to farm 5 drops in between to enter AND go back to grid to get a new ki AND run all the way back to the node to enter the fight. Same with Garuda and the Good King Moogle Mog. You wanna talk about how bad it is now? HAHA its fantastic nowadays. Heck even the difficulty of the fights are nothing compared to what they used to be.