Quote Originally Posted by Aeyis View Post
Its not as rare as you make it out to be. The material types have extremely unbalanced spawning locations. For some the distance between [of one pair] nodes is almost as much as the distance between [of different pair] nodes.

''Oh it only happens sometimes'' That's nice. But that doesnt help anything to restore the morale of someone that did just get few items. RNG (and it having extreme outlayers) is one of the main reasons why not many people do favors.


You also can't just take the cheap way out and call it ''set of favors''. No, you do not get items per ''set of favors''. You get them per favor.
Well either I have really really good luck with favors or people try a single favor and complain that they got under the average yield, generalizing the entirety of favors.

...and I'm certainly not taking the cheap way out by using a set of favors. 1 Red Gathering Scrip Token buys 5 favors. That's why I used that logic. On average, you should be getting more than 10 items per set of favors.

If you want to break that down per favor, that's two items per favor that you need to get bare minimum in order to reach the items necessary to get the materials from the splendors vendor. In only one favor out of at least 60-70 favors I have done have I ever gotten only one item out of a single favor. More often than not, I get anywhere between 3-4 items per favor, which is far more than I actually need, so I am able to get as many as three favor-related crafting mats for every two stacks because of that.

People are so afraid of RNG being against them, which is my ultimate point, that the sheer lack of people actually doing favors is causing the entire market to inflate to obscene levels. Because people are too afraid of not getting a full stack of 10 items per stack of favors (or at least 2 items per favor), the price of base materials are in the millions. And I hate that. Even as a crafter/gatherer who takes full advantage of favors, I hate the fact that you can't spend less than 1.5 million on Balmung for a single Adamantite Ingot.