Dishing the Dirt on Droprates

[Chihaya]

Looking at the huge stock of mats on MB here on Balmung, think there's no problem with the supply of raw materials.

Any increase in drop rate will decrease the value and make everything worthless.

Looking back at 2.x, in order to compete with botters, they increased the drop rate and number of mobs for diremite webs, fleece, various skins for leathers etc, effectively cutting the price down to almost nothing.

[Nekodar]

Looking back at 2.x, in order to compete with botters, they increased the drop rate and number of mobs for diremite webs, fleece, various skins for leathers etc, effectively cutting the price down to almost nothing.

At the time we also didn't have retainer ventures yet.

[Nekodar]

Having actually farmed mobs for crafting mats when I deemed my single DoM/DoW retainer was not bringing enough, you get far more drops in one hour than what the retainer will bring you.
The only thing that is actually low drop rate of in my experience is hq materials.

In particular I've farmed Deepeye Tears and various skins.

If I had Ninja at 60, I'd be able to use Mug for higher drop rate.

Grand Company Supply missions combined with collectables is the most efficient way of levelling both crafters and gatherers, which will also reduce by a lot the amount of materials you actually need to level these classes.