Quote Originally Posted by dalta View Post
sorry but i think this is out dated now
i desythed 4 bestmans and 5 brides maids and all i got was spruce lumbers and undyed felts
Your problem is that you have a very small sample size. RNG is RNG, but the drop rate of FC3s from sandals is approximately 1 in 6. You'll get runs of nothing for ~20 in a row, and then you can get four in a row. That has happened to me on multiple occasions. FFXIV uses a true random number generator, meaning each RNG check is independent of all other RNG checks. It is possible to fail with a 90% chance 40 times in a row (which you may have experienced melding your Novus...). If you do fail a 90% chance 40 times in a row, the probability of the 41st attempt succeeding is still 90%.

What the 16% drop rate of FC3s from bridesmaid's sandals really means is that if you desynth 10,000 sandals, chances are good that you will wind up with ~1,600 FC3s, and that's still not a large sample size.

If you don't want to utilize RNG-based methods for acquiring FC3s, I recommend buying them from the MB. At least on my server, last I checked, they were selling at the MB for only a little more than they cost to obtain yourself via desynth. I did the math earlier in this thread for how much they cost to obtain yourself via desynth at various LTW dSkill levels.