For the love of Hydaelyn SE! Stop with pointless drops!!

[JonBigwood]

Basically having the crafting materials drop in chests are a huge problem, especially for new players, and messes with gear progression.

Hi, not that I like crafting materials, even if they sell well. :-)

With myth tomes easily available with no weekly cap, no weekly cap in CT nor in first Coil, and soon obtaining soldiery tomes, new players have much easier access to good gear.

But it is not in a slow progression first ilvl 60 then 70 and up, as you can soon access at the same time the soldiery ilvl100, the myth ilvl90, the CT ilvl80 and the ilvl60 and 70 drops. And when geared, they can farm at least some of the Coils.

It's not like before, that the ilvl90 myth gear took many weeks to obtain, and in the meantime you bit by bit obtained the CT gear when it dropped (maximum 1 drop/week) and bought the Darklight ilvl70 or got ilvl60 drops. Coil drops were really hard to get, just 1 try/week and see if it drops and you get it.

[Kaonis]

Posting this cause it's relevant (more so for any of the devs that might read this).

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...you_with_gear/

Basically on reddit this topic is being discussed and the consensus is it's crap that the chests drop crafting mats.

[Sadana]

Damn, I thought they had changed this. We got no crafting mats in Hullbreaker Isle or SV HM and a FC mate of mine also got the Harvest robes from SV. I figured they were a common drop. orz. Tam Tara HM was nothing BUT crafting mats. I guess I just got really lucky in the first two.

[Karyou]

It's annoying for a few reasons. When they were added to the dungeons of 2.2 it made it nearly impossible to get a specific piece of gear. The dungeons in 2.2 had a chance to drop two different sets of gear, but mostly they dropped crafting stuff. So if I were going for a specific piece of gear (say, the Darklight Caster robe) for vanity, it's nearly impossible to get it. Two sets of armor AND crafting stuff in the same dungeon was way too much, especially when it seemed like crafting stuff dropped the majority of the time.


Still, I understood they needed a place to put those things and some people wanted them, so I didn't complain about it. Even if I never got the pieces of gear I wanted for vanity. Now, 2.3 comes out and they have some awesome looking gear in there... and I'm literally ONLY getting the same crafting stuff. They no longer need a place to put them since they were in the previous three dungeons, so it really feels like they put them in here for the sole reason of making it harder to get the new gear. But when you're going for one specific item for vanity, it's hard enough to get it out of the sets for all the jobs.

At the very least I beg Square Enix to lower the drop rate of the crafting stuff to less than it is now, or make it so it can't drop from the final boss chest so we're at least sure to get ONE piece of gear.

[NyssaElf]

I got the bard top last night from Hullbreaker Isle's last Boss.

Thank you!

[Xenolithium]

As someone who doesn't want to craft, and wants to get as much vanity gear I can get...I am honestly at the end of my rope with these decisions SE makes. Sorry, but no, a final Boss should in no way drop a junk crafting mat. In fact, no boss should. Either make it so bosses or mobs throughout the dungeon drop the mats on death like gil, or make one chest dedicated entirely to mats and one to gear. Seriously.

[Xenolithium]

Posting this cause it's relevant (more so for any of the devs that might read this).

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/commen...you_with_gear/

Basically on reddit this topic is being discussed and the consensus is it's crap that the chests drop crafting mats.

THAT'S MY THREAD! YAY!

[ryebot]

I agree emphatically. I'm really getting tired of having crafting mats show up in dungeons after beating any boss, let alone the final boss! I had enough myth to buy a full i90 before I even had a single piece of i70 Darklight armor.

Put the mats in the side chests, they already get ignored by most groups I run with, so it'll give us a reason to open them.

I'm not a crafter, and most of the mats I get go for hardly anything on my server. I run dungeons because I want fun gear, even if for glamouring or seals alone.

At the very least, let us be able to buy some of this gear with myth in the same we we can buy some of it with GC seals. I run dungeons for gear! I don't have hours and hours to run the same places over and over. I feel like I'm paying them to let me work a second job.

[LyrioDC]

Really? I saw Potash going for as low as 400gil, filtered water/minium/voidsent blood/whetstone have almost no value as they are, the only ones that have any decent value is maybe Lime Sulphur and Peacock Ore. .

Leviathan server has Potash for 10k, it was barely 2.8k before the patch.

[Alistaire]

If only there was some kind of forum code that would prevent these threads unless OP provided a non-retarded alternative to whatever it is they need "SE to stop right now!"