Monk and Dragoon Drops In Crystal Tower....

[Farrell]

This is honestly absurd and really needs to be looked at. I had to run about 25 CT runs last week to get a single piece of healing gear, and this week I have ran five so far and only seen one tank piece and zero healing pieces. It's a complete joke that the two melee classes has a 90% drop chance on every boss in the place. If nothing Else why mot make a boss drop all the healer stuff, one drop tank, and the other two split dps drops. I mean that way you could see a healer item in under 30 hours...

[Lyrro]

I'm so sick of CT that I will opt out after the first two bosses if I don't get the item I'm looking for. I would literally much rather stare at the 30 minute ban timer than do a full ct run at this point. When CT first came out I had a major problem with bard gear dropping at every single, now it's always either dragoon or bard with monk at a close third. I've done nine runs this week and so far I've been able to predict which class' item will drop from each chest, because it's always dragoon from the first two chests, bard from the third, and I don't even look at the last chest, I just leave because I know the items I'm looking for don't drop from it.I've done well over a hundred CT runs since the dungeon was released and I've gotten five pieces of gear out of it. At this point I honestly hope the dev who thought making you run the same dungeon 20 times a week for a chance at getting one drop gets fired, or the team of devs if that's the case. There's a fine line between extending the life of a game by adding grinding, and making the players want to quit because they're sick of grinding for no reward. Some might argue "you get myth tomes" but you only get myth tomes for the first nine runs, it took me twenty eight to get my pants. "You get philo tomes" I don't need philo tomes, I can't use them to get any better gear than what I've got and half the time I end up wasting them on pointless entertainment. What I do get out of CT is a nice repair bill and the desire to quit the game because I'm sick of being able to predict what items are going to drop and knowing they're not items I can even use.

[TitanACU]

I'm so sick of CT that I will opt out after the first two bosses if I don't get the item I'm looking for. I would literally much rather stare at the 30 minute ban timer than do a full ct run at this point. What I do get out of CT is a nice repair bill and the desire to quit the game because I'm sick of being able to predict what items are going to drop and knowing they're not items I can even use.

This is why I don't look for only a specific piece of gear. There is a 1/36 chance that you will get it per boss and you piece only drops from a specific boss. Therefore if you run CT not knowing which boss it comes from then its a 1/144 chance of getting what you want. Since i don't know where every piece come from, i run CT twice to try and get my most desired item. after that i increase it to gear from 3 different classes. i cut out the pieces i already have and the one next one that i plan on getting myth for. other than that i leave it open since my Mains(both Tanks) are i87.All i need for them is two allagan accessories. my alt(monk) is getting myth now, so BLM, WHM, and DRG are getting CT gear. Being open like this makes things less frustrating. This is an MMO and getting max gear lvl in this game takes a fraction of the time and grinding that most MMOs do. Ask anyone who played FFXI.
The RNG affects ppl differently. For me, all i saw was bard and blm gear(until i wanted it) now i see tank gear all the time.
You need to be patient and be thankful that you can even get that kind of gear this early in the game. Especially your relic. Prior FF games took a year+ to get a relic. It took my best friend 6 years to get one in FFXI.... so yeah, complaining in this game will get you no sympathy from the devs.

[Vyroxe]

At this point I honestly hope the dev who thought making you run the same dungeon 20 times a week for a chance at getting one drop gets fired, or the team of devs if that's the case.

Would you rather just run CT once a week and not get any gear at all? This could be a viable option too so that you don't have to run CT 20 times a week, but instead, once.

After previously playing MMOs that only allowed one run per week which usually didn't drop my class's specific item, I honestly like this system. Sure, I understand it gets frustrating, but it's even worse when you have to wait a week before getting another attempt at seeing what drops.

[Darkwalker53]

This annoys me too as I see an unusually large proportion of Dragoon and Monk gear drop. When you really think about it the caster dps, healing and tank gear should be the most common as they encompass two classes each with the other sets being less frequent. This is definitely not the case as my stats will show. (see next post)

[Darkwalker53]

In little over two weeks I have run CT 35 times in which I recorded the drops by class.
Monk - 28
Dragoon - 32
Healer - 22
Tank - 10
Caster DPS - 23
Bard - 22

Which is 137 of 140 drops - probably missed the other 3 due to sobriety issue...

As you can see there is no real balance in the RNG with the disparity between the single class use gear (ie Monk or Dragoon) compared to that of a dual use piece (ie Tank).

[3rdeye]

Its pure randomness i believe

I run it for 20x times, and get all my warrior i80 gear, meanwhile very few i see any dragoon drop (just1-2 times).

But in other end, i see many caster and healer stuff. I have 1 run that all of them are caster stuff, and believe it or not. I did 3 run in a row, and on all 3 i see royal vest lol

Its pure luck dude, go meet with some shaman or something to increase your luck before going to CT

On my end also, have very bad luck in ultima. run it for 30 times already, never see choker of fending

[Ardan]

Took me about 15 runs for my fuma feet.

[NintenPyjak64]

I finally got Bard body after I gave up on Bard body. Skipped like 3 weeks looking specifically for BLM or BRD body. Now that I want BLM or MNK body... "Oh look at what I just got"

[YunieAura]

Haven't seen MNK chest drop. Ever.