30 days almost up and I still can't enter endgame due to droprate

[cloverkitty]

GC weapon -> Ifrit weapon
Damage: 38 -> 39
Strength: 11 -> 13

Let me ask again, do you honestly think +1 damage and +2 strength is going to be the difference between holding and not holding aggro?

Better yet, get an Aeolian Scimitar +1 and put some materia in it.
If you have the gil of course there is better, much better than Ifrit.
If you had time to 205 runs you have time to farm up the resources to make a decent weapons (or buy on from the boards).

[Vmage]

If you had time to 205 runs you have time to farm up the resources to make a decent weapons (or buy on from the boards).

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you should have spent your time in CM farming tomes, do you realize how much cash you could have had from selling potash/paecock ore/animal fat etc

your hq'd ilvl55 crafted weapon is equivalent stats to a garuda weapon (10 ilvl higher than ifrit) before you put any materia in it

in 200+ ifrits you could have easily made enough gil to acquire one of those weapons

edit:

just looked you up on the lodestone - if you plan on being a career tank and you aren't just after weapons for the sake of getting a weapon, you should finish your gear

you've got a few thousand tomes worth of darklight to purchase before you really need to worry about which weapon you need to get

to reiterate: you should not be wasting your time on ifrit, you should be farming philo tomes

in version 1 we had the excuse of "nothing better to do than farm primals" myself killing ifrit 70+ times before I got any drop from him, and that wasn't even one I could use.. yet

you don't, you have the option of jumping past the ifrit weapon entirely by simply buying an aeolian +1, and if you've actually killed ifrit as many times as you claim, you could've had the cash to buy one outright several times over if you had spent your time elsewhere

[Lasteran]

87 Ifrit HM wins here. I have never seen my PLD sword. It has never dropped. I have 5 other Ifrit weapons for classes I never intend to play.

I gave up and just started crafting instead.

[RhazeCain]

Successfully tanked Garuda with all DPS relics (most +1s too) and me ilvl 55 GC weapon. Same for many an AK run, although those made me work a lot for agro.

[AridElf]

You honestly think a +5ilvl weapon is going to make or break your ability to hold aggro?

Going from ilvl 45 to ilvl 55 drastically increased my ability to hold aggro in AK. It went from struggling and occasionally losing aggro due to the dps being better geared than I to holding it all the time. +5 may not be a lot, but it sure does count.

[LunarEmerald]

Going from ilvl 45 to ilvl 55 drastically increased my ability to hold aggro in AK. It went from struggling and occasionally losing aggro due to the dps being better geared than I to holding it all the time. +5 may not be a lot, but it sure does count.

+5 sounds a lot more impressive than +1, which is the weapon attack difference.

i45 to i55 is +6 weapon attack difference

[C-croft]

+5 sounds a lot more impressive than +1, which is the weapon attack difference.

And the +1 still does count.

[LunarEmerald]

And the +1 still does count.

Barely. Putting your 30 puts into STR does more than 1 WP difference.