Dress Material and Mariner Cotton Cloth drop rates are awful.

[SannaR]

If you don't want to rely on RNG then that's how it works. Other people are taking the time/risk and you get the item in exchange for gil. This annihilates the whole RNG requirement and thus the thing you have a problem with is no longer a problem. Now, we've moved the problem to "I feel this thing is too expensive", which... I dunno, deal with it. There's far more expensive stuff in the game and it's in fact the key to a healthy player economy.

If you wanted to complain about the drop rates for untradable items then fair enough. But RNG isn't an issue with things that are widely available on the marketboard.

The prices for Boarskin maps on Midgardsormr is 39,901, Peisteskin are going for 38,985, Unhidden Leather are 289,999. Mariner Cotton Cloth is 84,649 and Dress is 131,993. And even though I could afford to buy enough so that I can get them checked off in my crafting log I'd rather not. I'm not even asking for a huge increase in their drop rate. Yet with your and others replies it comes off as though I'm asking for them to drop every map. This coming from a person who knows how abysmal the drop rate for the Lesser Panda is and who farmed Morpho for days only to end up getting one the day before they added it as a reward possibility from the Firmament. I still have the Arhat Fending gloves alluding me. But let me guess you and the others were also against it when snubble tuffs drop rate got a boost?

[hydralus]

The prices for Boarskin maps on Midgardsormr is 39,901, Peisteskin are going for 38,985, Unhidden Leather are 289,999. Mariner Cotton Cloth is 84,649 and Dress is 131,993. And even though I could afford to buy enough so that I can get them checked off in my crafting log I'd rather not. I'm not even asking for a huge increase in their drop rate. Yet with your and others replies it comes off as though I'm asking for them to drop every map. This coming from a person who knows how abysmal the drop rate for the Lesser Panda is and who farmed Morpho for days only to end up getting one the day before they added it as a reward possibility from the Firmament. I still have the Arhat Fending gloves alluding me. But let me guess you and the others were also against it when snubble tuffs drop rate got a boost?

So in 2 days you get enough maps to afford 1 piece of mariner cotton cloth or 4 days for 1 dress material. Sounds fine. In a little over a month you can get everything you want. If you're really Hell bent on getting them yourself in some kinda ironman playthrough where you're not allowed to use the marketboard then that's just a self-imposed torture.

I dunno why someone who complains about being bad with RNG would advocate to keep RNG involved in a 'solution'. Wouldn't you feel even worse if they doubled the drop rate and you still couldn't get any? I know I would. My proposed solution involves 0 RNG.

I don't care one way or another. Give it 100% chance drop, give it a .01% drop. It just seems like a problem with a very easy fix you can accomplish right now.

[Gemina]

So in 2 days you get enough maps to afford 1 piece of mariner cotton cloth or 4 days for 1 dress material. Sounds fine. In a little over a month you can get everything you want. If you're really Hell bent on getting them yourself in some kinda ironman playthrough where you're not allowed to use the marketboard then that's just a self-imposed torture.

I dunno why someone who complains about being bad with RNG would advocate to keep RNG involved in a 'solution'. Wouldn't you feel even worse if they doubled the drop rate and you still couldn't get any? I know I would. My proposed solution involves 0 RNG.

I don't care one way or another. Give it 100% chance drop, give it a .01% drop. It just seems like a problem with a very easy fix you can accomplish right now.

You're not wrong about anything you're saying here. However the issue isn't a nonsensical determination to beat out RNG. The issue is choosing to have that battle full-well knowing what it entails, and then requesting a more generous drop rate. I am not quite sure how OP can still get the same sense of accomplishment in this case. There are also more acceptable means to battle with RNG such as big game fishing. OP might want to give that a go if she doesn't already.

[DixieBellOCE]

So in 2 days you get enough maps to afford 1 piece of mariner cotton cloth or 4 days for 1 dress material. Sounds fine. In a little over a month you can get everything you want. If you're really Hell bent on getting them yourself in some kinda ironman playthrough where you're not allowed to use the marketboard then that's just a self-imposed torture.

I dunno why someone who complains about being bad with RNG would advocate to keep RNG involved in a 'solution'. Wouldn't you feel even worse if they doubled the drop rate and you still couldn't get any? I know I would. My proposed solution involves 0 RNG.

I don't care one way or another. Give it 100% chance drop, give it a .01% drop. It just seems like a problem with a very easy fix you can accomplish right now.

or they could just.. craft and sell ANYTHING in the game and make millions of gil a day.. and then just buy it and make some other person suffer the grind to get the cloth.

[SannaR]

or they could just.. craft and sell ANYTHING in the game and make millions of gil a day.. and then just buy it and make some other person suffer the grind to get the cloth.

Again it's not about if I can afford to spend gil on the mats or not. Gil isn't the problem.

[Liam_Harper]

Again it's not about if I can afford to spend gil on the mats or not. Gil isn't the problem.

Then there is no problem. Cloth is available for gil. Gil is easy to obtain. Cloth is easy to obtain.