Quote Originally Posted by sarehptar View Post
What I fail to understand is why you continue to try to convince me that I don't understand the rarity of these items... I fully grasp the rarity of these items, just see absolutely no reason for them to be this rare.
Except there is reason. That's what you refuse to understand.

Scarcity increases value. Scarcity increases desirability. Scarcity increases content longevity. Not everyone is intended to get everything they want.

The irony here is that the materials you want are available on the market board in decent quantities if you shop across all Crystal worlds. I did a little window shopping on Crystal before I made that post last night. There's enough materials listed at reasonable prices (I ignored the unreasonable) to make 8 Atrophied Atomos and 16-18 Iron Dwarf. There were 10 Atrophied Atomos available with 7 of them between 255k and 560k. I didn't bother checking on the Iron Dwarf because the mats were so cheap.

There's no reason for SE to increase sources and drop rates when what's already available isn't selling all that fast. They want players buying from each other. It helps stimulate market activity (not to mention activates market taxes, which is one of the few reliable gil sinks in the game). If the materials were selling out as soon as they were getting listed, then they might have reason to increase drop rates and sources. That's not happening.

You could take a small fraction of that 100 million gil you're sitting on and buy what you need then spend one week farming gil to regain what you spent instead of spending 2 months trying to get one single material.

But you refuse to do it. You'd rather complain that you can't get what you want on your specific terms despite it being readily available from a different source.

Whatever. Offer stands on the Corpulence unless one of my friends asks for it first.