Dev/Reps - Any plans to increase the availability of certain item drops?

[Ooshima]

Nope, it should still be locked. They could make the last CT boss drop either a Sand of Time or an Oil of time, but same thing - once you lot, you are locked for the week. It should not be a guaranteed drop and yet, totally farmable. It would make the drops from coil a total joke.

Plus, most people do mix and match for BiS, and it's noted that the soldier tomes seem to focus on a lot of "unwanted" secondary stats, such as skill speed for BRD/PLD and how the healer set benefits mostly SCH due to massive critical. I'm not into every class's BiS but generally I get the vibe from my raid members that only about 1/3 of the 12/13 pieces of their BiS is soldier pieces.

So.. that's approximately 4 pieces of gears requiring sands/oil to upgrade. Not a lot really. Assuming you can clear T9 before 2.3 (quite a handful of teams already on T8 and T9), in 2.3 you have 12 weeks time of farming coil - which means 24 sands and 24 oil dropped, assuming split equally, 3 sands and 3 oils each player, which should be sufficient for your BiS needs.

And assuming you can get either a sand or an oil from CT per week, that's 12 of such items. Really more than enough, even if you want to gear 2 classes by the end of 2.3