For the love of Hydaelyn SE! Stop with pointless drops!!

[Dree-Elle]

I may dislike the "crafting mats dropping instead of gear" as much as any of you, but I think I see a possible reason as to why it was done. To keep players running the content, not simply to loot, scoot, and unsub until the next major patch because "there's nothing to do".

If so, well played, SE. Well played. *continues hunting Magician and Divine Death set pieces*

[repoe]

I may dislike the "crafting mats dropping instead of gear" as much as any of you, but I think I see a possible reason as to why it was done. To keep players running the content, not simply to loot, scoot, and unsub until the next major patch because "there's nothing to do".

If so, well played, SE. Well played. *continues hunting Magician and Divine Death set pieces*

I played ffxi from na release till about 3 yrs ago. When I quit I told myself no more mmo games for me, well here iam. Id say definitely well played lol

[Nestama]

I may dislike the "crafting mats dropping instead of gear" as much as any of you, but I think I see a possible reason as to why it was done. To keep players running the content, not simply to loot, scoot, and unsub until the next major patch because "there's nothing to do".

If so, well played, SE. Well played. *continues hunting Magician and Divine Death set pieces*

That may be enough to keep you motivated to keep playing, but for (I assume) many others, seeing Filtered Water (example) always being the final chest drop is incredibly demotivating and frustrating (more so than losing to another players roll). There is the "I am sick of seeing Filtered Waters dropping all the time. I'll quit until SE fixes this!" group of people amongst the "nothing to do" people.

[Alcyon1]

That may be enough to keep you motivated to keep playing, but for (I assume) many others, seeing Filtered Water (example) always being the final chest drop is incredibly demotivating and frustrating (more so than losing to another players roll). There is the "I am sick of seeing Filtered Waters dropping all the time. I'll quit until SE fixes this!" group of people amongst the "nothing to do" people.

Many players don't give a rat's ass about the skin and glamour. Many players are doing the hunts/dungeons to get stuff i90 and i100. Many players don't give a rat's ass about i55-i80 pieces of stuff.

Stop with the stupid sentence ""I am sick of seeing Filtered Waters dropping all the time. I'll quit until SE fixes this!", of course someone would say this, but you can always find someone who's quitting for whatever reason.

[Nestama]

Well Hunts don't drop Filtered Water 99% of the time, so...

[Apl_Juice]

I may dislike the "crafting mats dropping instead of gear" as much as any of you, but I think I see a possible reason as to why it was done. To keep players running the content, not simply to loot, scoot, and unsub until the next major patch because "there's nothing to do".

If so, well played, SE. Well played. *continues hunting Magician and Divine Death set pieces*

Again, missing the point. This is an MMO; people expect to grind. We aren't asking for instant gratification, but as it stands, a 5% drop rate is outrageous. I will get my Allied Seal body piece before I get my i80 dungeon armor at this rate.

[Kaonis]

I may dislike the "crafting mats dropping instead of gear" as much as any of you, but I think I see a possible reason as to why it was done. To keep players running the content, not simply to loot, scoot, and unsub until the next major patch because "there's nothing to do".

If so, well played, SE. Well played. *continues hunting Magician and Divine Death set pieces*

Then they did the absolute worst way to keep players. I want some of the gear that drops from there, but frankly I don't have the time, nor the motivation to run the content when I know that there's probably a solid 60%+ chance every chest will screw me over. It's stupid crap like this that makes me glad I'm canceling my sub this month. The motivation for doing the content shouldn't come at the expense of the player, ever.

I mean seriously, SE has been doing this crap loot tables since 2.0, they need to finally realize having such huge loot tables is the most absurd thing ever. I've never played an MMO where the drops were so terrible and required hours and hours of grinding just to even SEE a single drop. Hell I've run a lot of dungeons and there's still gear from the newer ones I've never seen drop once. The devs need to get with the times and stop trying to make this an EQ era game and actually let people have enjoyment from the game instead of making it a massive grind fest for the hopes the RNG gods pity you.

[Ryothen]

Great points made all around. Really hope Yoshi-P will address this in the next live letter, or we get some admin love on this thread. The whole thing is incredibly irritating. I just want to see some gear. Since the patch I have personally not seen any gear drops from final bosses in any of the three dungeons. On all other bosses I could probably count on two hands how many times I've seen gear drop.

EDIT: Looks like something is gonna happen with this based on Live Letter Q&A

[Bushido_Brown]

Great points made all around. Really hope Yoshi-P will address this in the next live letter, or we get some admin love on this thread. The whole thing is incredibly irritating. I just want to see some gear. Since the patch I have personally not seen any gear drops from final bosses in any of the three dungeons. On all other bosses I could probably count on two hands how many times I've seen gear drop.

EDIT: Looks like something is gonna happen with this based on Live Letter Q&A

Seeing that question answered made my day, and it's great to know that we weren't the only ones asking for this change (Yoshi-P even joked about the mat-loots). Now the only question is how long before it will be implemented.

[Isaccard]

Seeing that question answered made my day, and it's great to know that we weren't the only ones asking for this change (Yoshi-P even joked about the mat-loots). Now the only question is how long before it will be implemented.

The real question is when. "Looking into it" and actually do something about it are two different things.