1% drop rates... a thought expriment.

[Kuwagami]

Why would you want to make something particularly desirable that rare?

I should let you answer yourself, but here is why : it's desirable. Thus people will do it regardless of the odds. Thus the content gets longevity. Because now people can't do stuff for fun and desperately need that carrot.

Very few of your paying customers get to enjoy it. You'll probably end up annoying more players that can't have it than you'll please by having it be a rare item.

1) that's the point. Few people getting it and having shinies. Been like that for ages.
2) if people get upset when they can't get a rare item, honestly, the MMORPG genre isn't for them at all. Rare items are supposed to give rewards for particularly skilled players, dedicated enough players or lucky players. It is supposed to create the will to do better or to try a bit more.

Besides, there's nothing particularly special about the tidal weapons. Either the stats or the looks. So it makes very little sense for anyone to try to make it "rare". It's an inferior alternative to animus or weathered because it can't be upgraded further.

if it's sub-par to anything else, why do you want it in the first place ? Because it's here ? You're not entitled to get everything that exists in the game. (Having access to it at some point, yes, but that's already achieved. You *have* access to the mirror.)

I don't believe they're using mirrors to make tidal weapons rare, anyway. It's a carrot on a stick for those who choose to chase it. Keep Levi EX as relevant content for longer. Get people to keep running it after they've gotten their weapon to give others an opportunity to get a weapon too. But I believe it's a bad way to set up the carrot and stick because the results can vary so wildly. You could be done after 1 run, or not finish it in 1000 runs. If they don't get their carrot, they're going to get tired of chasing things eventually.

if it wasn't to make tidal weapons rare, it wouldn't be here at all. All the weapons would directly be i95 or i100.

and grats at discovering how RNG works in MMOs for rare items. But people won't get tired. They'll switch to the next carrot and continue forth. And eventually they'll realize that the carrot isn't here because they are ought to get it one day. They'll know that it's here because one day they could get it.



side note : an "easy to get" carrot on an easy content such as Leviathan would be an horrible idea. Everyone would get their tidal weap in a month, and the content would become useless for 2 month.