1% drop rates... a thought expriment.

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Challenge? What does challenge have to do with luck?

A game is a strict set of rules designed to give you a challenge. You beat it by becoming better at it through the understanding of game's mechanisms. From newbie to mastery the progression in small steps is visible to you till you finally beat it. After you killed levi for 10 times or so it's fair to assume you're beaten the challenge the game gave you for that particular fight.

After that, trying to farm some ridiculous 1/800 drop you're not dealing with challenge anymore but with luck. An arbitrary number that doesn't take your skills into account, something you can't get better at no matter what. For me luck goes completely against what a game is. One rewards the one that masters the game and the other rewards in random.

You can always do better after you beat something for the first time, beating it a lot is what leads to mastery. Agreed, yes once you win the battle, the loot dropped is all down to RNG luck. The challenge is in farming it until the desired loot drops; and you roll high enough to win it.
Conversely, all other loot in this game is just handed out freely. In Aion, you were lucky if good loot dropped at all, let alone be something you needed. You could even roll items and trade them to your friends (within a time limit). Should SE bend to the whims of the entitled in this age where a certain % of people don't want to work hard for things? They probably will but I hope they have some rare items for players to pursue, skill based and luck based.