BIG Problem in Brayflox's Longstop Dungeon

[Mythrella]

RNG is RNG.

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OP many of us have been victimized by the RNG gods.

I solely ran Darkhold for 5 levels, taking a break only to do normal Garuda kill. No quests, just Darkhold farm after farm. I saw the item I wanted drop once and lost the roll. And don't get me started on how many AKs I have run, waaaay beyond the weekly myth cap even, for a pair of mythological pants.

Obviously I have not been sacrificing enough lalafells to appease the RNG gods. I will be attempting to rectify this oversight next week. ♥

[Lstkaws]

It sucks, but that's how it is. Still trying to get Garuda's bow and wile for BRD and WHM respectively. Second Ifrit run my mnk claws drop, but did about 20 Garuda runs before I saw talons. Had one AK run that dropped almost nothing but toxotes gear which almost completely outfitted my BRD. Good luck and happy hunting.

[Delsus]

I have yet to win the lottery, it must be biased against everyone in the North!!!

Seriously 10 runs is not enough to aggregate data to determine any drop rates, say tank gear is favored over 1000 runs and I might believe you, the last 10 runs of Garuda HM I haven't seen an axe, does that mean it's the rarest drop in the world?

(I'm still waiting for Garuda H2H, bow and BLM weapon, last time I saw the bow I rolled a 1)

[Evangela]

I got my last part of Battlemage set at level 46.

more than 40 runs in 3 days.

you're just 38 and start complaining? try harder.

[necrosis]

Nothing is worse than when something drops from a chest that everyone already has so it hits the floor. I have seen this many times running Longstop.

Still need the battle mages hat.

I also think its BS that only certain parts drop from certain chests. ALL parats should drop from ALL chests. Why? I have been in 2 Longstop runs where the tank bails after the Eft/Dragon fight because the chest did not have what they wanted.

[Lstkaws]

I have yet to win the lottery, it must be biased against everyone in the North!!!

Seriously 10 runs is not enough to aggregate data to determine any drop rates, say tank gear is favored over 1000 runs and I might believe you, the last 10 runs of Garuda HM I haven't seen an axe, does that mean it's the rarest drop in the world?

(I'm still waiting for Garuda H2H, bow and BLM weapon, last time I saw the bow I rolled a 1)

I see that damn axe drop all the time. I even have one, no interest in leveling war on this character. It was a greed run and I confused it with the WHM weap Garuda's wile. I was so stoked until I checked my inventory and saw it was the axe. Kind of felt bad I hope none of the other individuals had war leveled.

[Dreamer]

May I suggest learning how ignorant it is to use an hyperbole before typing?

Might I suggest contributing to the thread instead of snarking at random posters with snippy remarks?

I work in software development myself. I understand how random number generators and chance works. What my post was meant to convey is that you can't always sweep things like this under the rug citing RNG when a sufficiently large sample size is reporting an unusually large number of outliers. It may be bunk, sure, but it's worth the effort to look at the issue.

[Casper]

The Rng system is designed to drop only loot for classes that are not present in your team. If you go for a 8 man run with 8 distinct jobs only the gear for the 9th will drop. True story. If you are not convinced, check on the forum, and you will see that every single thread about loot explain how the Rng is against them, no matter their class, thus provly without the shadow of a doubt that the Rng system is set up to drop only loot that nobody can have.

Let's now move to the next topic and discuss how people eating aoe's is always solely because of lag.

[Kimzark]

I had to answer in here... i were always so angry too with the dungeon times for DPS (my main is BLM) and i also saw many drops for tanks... but you're thinking only in your belly. here some other points of view:
1st- Tanks are the most rare job in every mmo. Therefore "IF" (and notice it's a big IF) there is any plot to increase tank drops, is actually to make people play more Tanks... its an incentive to make people play that less played job.
2nd- RNG is a bastard. I made myself a tank and ran brayflox 2x... i got everything for tank except chest (ring included) therefore i had at lv 32 almost full set... you know when i got my chest? 15% to lv 35... after 8-9 runs of full infantary/battlemage drops i finally managed to grab my chest (and almost useless since im about to go quarn).
3rd- If that is your first job... just make it to 50 asap... after that you can help lower level members on brayflox, or find yourself a party of people to go there only to farm gear for vanity... after all if you're playing a mmo just for vanity... something is wrong.

It helps to just ignore the fact your stuff doesnt drop at first, because if you keep with that mentality... GL getting the ring on AK... it took me way over 50 AK runs to get my demagogue ring, just to replace it 2 runs later for AF2 ring, not to mention i've been looking for my strategos head piece and ring for... idk years (lol).

[Dyrstahl]

You're right to be frustrated but there's no need to get angry. And ending every sentence with a "!" makes you seem angrier. Kind of makes it look like you're yelling at all of us.

I don't agree with this. IMO exclamation marks doesn't necessarily make you come off as angry. In fact, I like to use it almost in the opposite way. It can be used to make the sentence a bit less serious/uptight.

See examples:

Hah you're an idiot. <--- sounds hostile.
Hah you're an idiot! <--- less hostile, makes it come off as more of a casual tease.