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    ForteNightshade's Avatar
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    Oct 2013
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    Limsa Lominsa
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    Kurenai Tenshi
    World
    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Paladin Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Liam_Harper View Post
    Ignore Vickii, they're one of the local forum trolls.

    What baffles me is how people don't understand that adding items to a token system doesn't make them less rare than something you might get on your first run. If the hair and mount cost 999 silver coins or whatever it would be just as rare, if not rarer because it would still take over 50 runs and only the dedicated will get their hands on it. The only thing it does is add QoL so some unlucky person won't statistically get the short end of the stick and end up with nothing after 100 runs.

    Rng is an old, outdated system. The people who like rng don't want rarity, they want to get lucky every so often and have a "rare" item without having had to work too hard for it.
    Case in point, the two Unreal mounts. Both still sell in excess of 15-20M despite having been available for months. Granted, I don't love the whole fox nonsense but the takeaway here is there's a consistent grind that will inevitably guarantee you the reward over time with RNG being a bonus instead of a hindrance. With the hairstyle, it feels blatant they know people will stop running it after finishing their preferred relic. So they made it obnoxiously low in the hopes of keeping them there, spamming it.
    (7)
    "Stand in the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters."
    "The silence is your answer."


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    SturmChurro's Avatar
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    Feb 2017
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    Gridania
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    Sturm Churro
    World
    Marilith
    Main Class
    White Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by ForteNightshade View Post
    With the hairstyle, it feels blatant they know people will stop running it after finishing their preferred relic. So they made it obnoxiously low in the hopes of keeping them there, spamming it.
    They reeled me in for two more relic weapons than I had planned, just because I wanted to make my money back after having bought the hair. I thought doing it 75+ times would have netted me something, but apparently not.

    I'm pretty much at my limit now though. I'll start another relic quest, and just do it passively. If I get CT in roulette 15 times, and eventually get back to DR, I'll consider doing it again.
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    Oichi's Avatar
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    Okimi Shikinami
    World
    Cactuar
    Main Class
    Bard Lv 100
    53 runs here. Got the barding on the 42nd (yay? I guess?). No mount, no hair. Spent all my essences too. I am very tired of it all by now. And no, I am not going to buy either of them from the market. And in fact, I feel stupid for doing so many runs. There is a reason I dont play chance games irl, lol.
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    Last edited by Oichi; 02-27-2021 at 09:18 PM.