Yoshi P, is this what you wanted? (Terra Branford Blues)

[ServerCollaps]

I have lost count of how many runs I have done and still not gained it. On the other hand I am also being bitten in the arse by the drop rate of the gold packs Zidane and WoL just to add salt to my wound. Yes I know RNG is RNG but spent around 140-150k on gold packs and still neither Zidane or WoL have shown up so I am allowed to be somewhat bitter overt it.

I'm at 650k mgp for gold packs and no zidane, but who cares

atleast 2 warrior of light

[Welsper59]

You don't need those cards, but for those who just want to complete the deck, it will be for sure a brutal MGP sink without getting anything (with bad luck you can waste 10M mgp there and still got no card).

Sounds like normal trading card style packs to me lol. That's essentially what the bronze/silver/gold packs are modeled after. Someone can certainly spend a million dollars on WoW or Magic TCG cards and never pull the rarest card of the series. It's the way the market works when you gamble on something as folly as "luck" or "hope" lol.

[Noxifer]

Sounds like normal trading card style packs to me lol. That's essentially what the bronze/silver/gold packs are modeled after. Someone can certainly spend a million dollars on WoW or Magic TCG cards and never pull the rarest card of the series. It's the way the market works when you gamble on something as folly as "luck" or "hope" lol.

The difference is that with Magic cards you can actually sell your duplicates to other players, so they have a shot at getting that one card without gambling for it. Depending on the card, of course, it can be a lot more expensive than even a thousand booster packs, but if you end up spending a million dollars on boosters without getting it you'll still have lost.

I'm not saying they should make TT cards tradeable, but... it's a very vital difference between the two systems.

[VenuzKh]

Spent 210k on packs so far. I got all the silver cards, but none of the gold rares so far. >< King Moogle and Terra also wont seem to drop! ><

[Konigs]

It took me over 70 runs to get King Mog. I feel your pain.

[SociallyInept]

Been grinding instances for 2 weeks now. I rotate between the dungeons and trials once I get burnt out on either or. I have yet to get a Instance only card such as Tonberry or Odin.

Trials are the worst though never hardly anything in PF anymore since alot of people got their cards around launch, pre-fix when drop rates were high. Honestly don't feel like starting my own PF either to sit there for 2-3 hours trying to fill it when could just be que'ing. I have tried a couple times though. And DF lucky if you can even clear a EX trial that in itself is like a 5% chance on top of the card drop rate.

Sit there trying for Gaius while waiting in que. I've gotten about two stacks of each of his other cards I think except the nero probably close to 30 of those not exactly sure i sell everything off each night before retiring.

I did however win the 10k mini-cactpot once it was the only time I've seen the 7,8,9 number combo come up as-well. Was really excited about it until a person in one of my LS's was talking and had won 9 of them since launch as well as countless 3.6k ones. I'm honestly at my end as far as TT goes though. It would be nice to get my 60 at 49 atm, however I got better things to do like get my crafter caught up.

And personally so sick of dungeon grinding was a long time ago and why I already left game once for a little over a year. Only to come back to the exact same thing times ten, non-stop grinding the same instance over and over again. For everything from gear then it was relic to now odds and ends like cards. Loved FFXI, FFXIV 1.0 meh... it was alright I suppose only played for like 6 months though. But this rng based grind in 2.0+ is getting more absurd with each increase in version number.

Four months from now when they have new cards like everything else they'll just hand you as many of these ones as you could possibly want. So something to look forward to I suppose. Then it will be back to the exact same dungeons again, 500+ times each to grind the new cards and make your 80 or 100 card deck. And after we complete that deck they'll come out with idk dice or something and guess what back to the same dungeon/trial you finally got out of a couple days prior because its time to start the party all over lol..

[RobinRethiel]

Been grinding instances for 2 weeks now. I rotate between the dungeons and trials once I get burnt out on either or. I have yet to get a Instance only card such as Tonberry or Odin. ...

Feeling sorry for you and hope, they will change a good bit of GS, so it becomes more what people loved in FF7. It never was a Casino there and should not been.

There are a lot of games with casinos in it and they always have the same problem:
Problem 1: You only lose and it's just a money sink (like in reality)
Problem 2: you win too much and it becomes the main source for money, because why should you do anything else, if you simply can win it?

[Gurpsmeister]

I'm one of the lucky ones regarding cards. I've seen 3 warriors of light, got terra, louisox, kanesenna, and the admiral all very quickly. Shiva and Bartz tho......they are my nemesis. gaius too...screw that guy.

[Niwashi]

Been grinding instances for 2 weeks now.
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I'm honestly at my end as far as TT goes though. It would be nice to get my 60 at 49 atm, however I got better things to do like get my crafter caught up.

And personally so sick of dungeon grinding was a long time ago and why I already left game once for a little over a year. Only to come back to the exact same thing times ten, non-stop grinding the same instance over and over again. For everything from gear then it was relic to now odds and ends like cards.

It sounds as though yes, perhaps it is time to take a break from this and get your crafter caught up, or some other goal.

The game does indeed have a lot of long grinds, but I've found the best way to avoid burnout on any of them is to frequently alternate between different goals. Rather than grinding the same thing over and over until I get what I'm after, I'll run dungeons a while, then I'll work on crafting for a bit, then come to the Gold Saucer for for some Triple Triad or to run a few chocobo races, then join a group to go after Hunt marks for a while, then maybe switch to one of my low-level classes to level it up for a while, then gather for a bit, and so on. Sure, looking at any one of the things I'm working towards, I take far longer to advance it than someone who's single-mindedly focused on that particular goal, but I'm also far less prone to burnout this way, so I can still enjoy each of the various pieces of the game rather than dreading the grind in any of them.

[Osteichthyes]

Really wish the rewards for the booster packs were higher. Spent too long gathering the MPG to try and get Lahabrea (nevermind anything from the gold packs). Many beastmen cards later and still nothing. Getting really tired of this low drop rate thing. Haven't they learned from atma/zodiac items. This is NOT what people want. Increase the resale value by 10x at least, or increase the MPG gained. That way we might actually be able to recoup our loses.

Time is too precious to waste grinding for a completely random reward that cannot actually be used. Please developers, understand that this content is completely wrong. It only rewards those who sacrifice their friends, family, work and life in general. I don't want to hate the game, but you guys are really not making it easy to actually be excited.