Quote Originally Posted by Tano View Post
90%?

- Hamlet defense drop is RNG. Can take you 3 attempts or 1500. Average based on % is 720 (VERY FUNNY!!)
- Material drop from CC/AV is RNG.
- Getting a IV materia is either a good amount of money or a great amount of luck.
- Double meld is ONLY luck. Can blow up 0 items or 1000.

So far the only part that is not based on luck is the 25k gc seal farming (that is probably 1% of the total process).

Or are you saying that Hamlet Defense and raids are hard to do? Thay do not require great skill. You just have to repeat them over and over and over 1000 times. I stopped to have fun after the first 20 runs.
It hasn't cost me hardly anything to get IV materia except time and some grinding which I was doing to level up anyway. If you havent figured out how to make or buy cheap convertable gear that has a chance at being IV materia by now, I don't know what to tell you. Were you on Masamune I would be happy to give you some of what I got in storage.

I just think most of this seems less difficult than half the crap you had to do in Xi. Drop rates or no. If you all see it differently then thats fine, opinions are like assholes after all. I just don't see the point of bitching about something that many of the people posting in this OP were just posting in another about how the stats for the relics weren't even that great. So many are complaining about having to do something for a piece of equipment they dont even want? It always going to be something ......