I went through months of T5 wins pre-2.2 and never even saw my weapon. We got a looooot of SCH books, though. After coil 1 was unlocked, it took me weeks of farming to get my weapon, and by that point it was almost a mute point. I haven't beaten T9 enough times to complain yet, but I've yet to see my weapon there either. RNG is RNG, but I'm less annoyed about T9 because, while the weapon damage increase is certainly nice, the stats themselves aren't as downright sexy for SMN as the T5 book was. I like the direction SE took with the oils/sands/tomestones (not counting the argument about their availability in ST). I hope in the future, they will consider a token-like system for weapons like these (drops from the hardest current endgame dungeon). But, until then... RNG will be RNG. =/ Sorry about your group's luck. I feel you there.