Philo mats need to go

[CYoung187]

Soon enough Darklight will be no different then the i55 AK/WP gear that everyone passed on before. Then people will be begging for crafted mats.

[Felis]

Soon enough Darklight will be no different then the i55 AK/WP gear that everyone passed on before. Then people will be begging for crafted mats.

I doubt it. Darklight gear (except the ilevel 55 dl weapons of course) give you around 800 GC seals. 3 DL gear = 1 highlevel mat.

But in one you are right. Soon peopl would only do the dungeons for tomes and mats. DL gear only to turn them into seals and buy then with them mats that was not dropped (dl gear as tomes for crafting mats).

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

Agree, it's ridiculous to put old philo mats in chests that drop after you killed a boss. Side chests are fine, but any of the philo mats is a poor reward for killing a boss.

(and given the fact you can turn in old pinks, greens, and blues at your GC now for seals, buying the philo mats with seals shouldn't even remotely be a problem)

[SeraviEdalborez]

(and given the fact you can turn in old pinks, greens, and blues at your GC now for seals, buying the philo mats with seals shouldn't even remotely be a problem)

Volume. 2500 x 9 x 5 x 8 = 900k seals for all mastery recipes.

This is also assuming you aren't using any seals on retainer ventures (1k for 5), which is by far the most efficient way to get those, or that you need to spend seals to rank up on a new character, or to buy GC furniture.

Every seal saved is worth something. Yes Filtered Water and Cooking Sherry are duds, but that doesn't go for most of the rest of them.

[TheUltimate3]

Every seal saved is worth something. Yes Filtered Water and Cooking Sherry are duds, but that doesn't go for most of the rest of them.

They could have at least put the crafting stuff in a side chest. Beating Diablos and the only thing that drops is voidsent blood when I could get one of the new green items is sad.

[Jinko]

I quite like them, I spend most of my seals on venture coins so welcome the boss drops in dungeons, they should probably be a chest item and not a boss chest drop though.

[Ninix]

I don't think they need to go, I just think they need to not be in the same loot pool as all the other shit.

Right now, some of the chests can drop one item from:
-Up to 8(?) different crafting materials
-Six sets of Darklight armor pieces and accessories (tank, healer, caster DPS, bard, monk, dragoon)
-Six sets of brand new level 70 armors many people are hunting for vanity

The chance for a particular item you're hunting for to drop is extremely low when compared to the fact that it takes anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes to complete a run of the dungeon. I believe some of them are itemized this way (I think one chest in the middle of Brayflox HM only drops Darklight accessories?) but the last boss's chest seems to pick from a huge pool.

Please consider shifting the loot pools around such that one chest only drops Darklight, one only drops crafting materials, and one only drops the new i70 sets.