Terrible drop rate for Markab(Farkup)

[Orcinus]

First of all, I would really wanted to say something about the sick RNG luck in FF14.
It's pretty much very sucks dealing especially with specific drops that were so scarce yet do no beneficial game enhancing feature.
Drop such as Mounts that drop from Ramuh and Shiva onwards.
As indicated, SE told players that Mount drop rate had increased.
However, i'm presently doing Ramuh EX that drops one Farkup whistle once after 10-20 runs.
RNG pretty much so bad that i manage to rolled 98 once and it fell off to another player with a 99 lot.
It's the best lot i've tried over a total of 90 runs that i did for over a month.
RNG was so terrible and now the mechanism i'm encountering with this primal was so intense that i spent over 10hrs to try for it with so many failed runs.
This is just something like ff11 absorbing player's entire life into it.

[Najara]

Fortunately Mounts aren't a necessity.

[Kiara1]

I think that the ponies are so boring now that they upped droprate, they were rare and unique and now everyone has at least one pony. It sucks that there are so few rare things in this game.

[MistyMew]

Its not relevant that the mount is a "necessity" or not.

If its important to a specific player for any reason...that's reason enough to have a concern.

Too much is based on rng, not just mounts. It is an ancient way of thinking that imo needs to be revamped for a more tasteful design.

I tend to agree with op about rng in general

[Failia]

Pretty sure RNG is a stable to any kind of RPG, whether single player or MMO. Does it suck? Of course. But RNG is there to keep people playing. If everyone got everything they needed within a week and then left, that's not a sustainable population.

Some people complain about token farming for stuff as much as RNG.

[lvlagmarink]

The other day me and my static carry a person from their FC to ramuh ex.. It was 7/8 pre made df.. After winning the carried person won roll of the whistle.. Guess what the person said?
"What's this whistle for?"

[juniglee]

Granted I haven't done Ramuh much (5 runs), but I've been tracking my pony runs since the beginning of 2.5. For me, Garuda is the stingiest - about 90 runs, and only 6 Xanthos Whistle drops. I've won none of them.

In contrast, The first 3 runs of Ifrit I did, I saw Aithon twice, and Nightmare once.

Like you I've had pretty bad RNG too. Lost 91, 95, and 96 on mount rolls. But I'd say don't give up - you'll get them eventually. A friend of mine has been farming ponies for 6 months now, and was overjoyed to have gotten his first pony yesterday.

The easier way would be to form a static, either for a singular pony, or for all of them. However, I find that people generally cannot persevere for the runs - after 30 Garuda runs with only 2 mount drops, my static members were quite ready to call it quits.

I think that the ponies are so boring now that they upped droprate, they were rare and unique and now everyone has at least one pony. It sucks that there are so few rare things in this game.

Doesn't really invalidate the achievement though. There are a lot of people out there without Kirin mounts. Couple that with the fact that I see everyone on my server running around with The Final Witness title, and I suppose Dreadwyrm weapons aren't really that special anymore either...

I think there are more people on my server with The Final Witness title, than Kirin mounts.

[Slappah]

I think that the ponies are so boring now that they upped droprate, they were rare and unique and now everyone has at least one pony. It sucks that there are so few rare things in this game.

I still don't have a pony and I can't even try and count the amount of kills I have between garuda, titan, and levi.

Unless you count the whm pony. In which case..I do, yaaay /s

[Alberel]

I think that the ponies are so boring now that they upped droprate, they were rare and unique and now everyone has at least one pony. It sucks that there are so few rare things in this game.

I'd rather rare things be rare because few people have achieved something rather than being rare because only a few people can get lucky. It's infuriating when a whistle is won by someone on their first run, whilst those who spent dozens of hours farming are once again denied the drop.

[lvlagmarink]

I'd rather rare things be rare because few people have achieved something rather than being rare because only a few people can get lucky. It's infuriating when a whistle is won by someone on their first run, whilst those who spent dozens of hours farming are once again denied the drop.

I'd rather to see quite a run for them instead of lesser runs with rare drop.. And it appears with these drop rates, people are trying to get it way more before 2.5.. more access for me to enjoy the fight.. And i feel like being an oddball in Chaos DC to actually enjoy the fight..