Ifirit, how it could have been done better.

[Murugan]

Yoshi-P says he wants crafted items to be the best so crafters are needed.
Players want the drops they worked so hard for to actually be better than some cheaply made crafted item with 1 materia on it.
Ifirit drops simply piss players off to see items going to the ground.

Solution
Make the drop the HORN, and have crafters make the weapons!
So simple.

Well I for one support this and long have as it actually works.

Ignore the laughable "elitists", and WoW "Need for Greed will solve everything" detractors (more like Need for Greed solves absolutely nothing, and is a pointless system that would not fit this game's design one bit). This is a great idea and always has been. The loot system under the original NM's was the best loot system this game has ever had.

Incapacitions affecting drop rates, materials which could be crafted it was great. I wish some other people would quit the game so their terrible ideas on game design would no longer infect these forums.

btw with as many times as I have killed ifrit "doctor" mog (if you are a real doctor) I doubt it will be satisfaction I feel. This even coming from someone who camped kings for years in XI, it is not comparable it is a terrible loot system especially with such little endgame content for us to do (not excused by it as another suggested).