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

[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