Alexandrite FATE drop increase?

[rappa]

One tip:

If you are farming alexandrites, it's better go to low level zones, middle La noscea or western thanalan, that's fates is more easy to complete because there are few peoples doing it and the mob's hp is low.

Usually i kill one mob 1 hit + dot or 2 hits, and you need 10 mobs to complete the fate.

My favorite zone is summeford farms, because there are a fate chain, where the last boss is "chupacabra", i got 6 alex doing that fate, one for the first fate and the second for the last one.

[Bloopan]

When this first started, I would see maybe 2-3 alex a day from doing fates in between waiting for duties, etc (so average around 30 fates a day I suppose). In the past week and a bit I have not seen a single one drop. I must be over 200 fates now (conservative estimate), over about 10 days, and not a sausage. It might just be a coincidence this happened right after the maintenance period - not the last one, the one the Tuesday before. This is on Odin.

Before you ask what weapon I'm using, I'm still getting lights and hitting Gold on all of them, so that's not the issue.

Is this just me or has anyone else noticed a big difference happening in the drop rates?

I can confirm with this, been fate farming and couldnt get jack crap from any

Tried out different zones, no luck

Unusual to not even get one after hours (RNG is RNG I know but after the increase it cant be this bad)

[XiXiQ]

Not just me then. Since I posted, probably another 100-150 fates down over those days and I have got..... drumroll.... ONE. Frankly, the drop rate is the same as it always was - Abysmal. Need to do the low level ones, cannot queue and use choco at the same time.

Had better luck with atma before they lowered the drops on that.

[monochromicorn]

I have terrible luck, since patch hit, I have had 0 Alex drops after breaking 300 fates 2 days ago (using the 3k fate achieve to track the numbers). I'm getting gold on the fates, and still getting light for my pld, and getting gold on blm, relics are novus and animus respectively, in northern thanalan. Not sure why rng hates me, had the same issue with atma pre-buff.

[ChrisRPh]

I have farmed for hours over the last couple of days for Alexandrites and zero. Last week, I was helping my girlfriend farm and she was dropping them 3 every hour. So unless RNG just hates me, there's something wrong with the Alexandrite drop rates recently.

[RaginCajun]

If it makes you all feel better i have yet to recieve a single alexandrite from a fate. Its not that the games rng hates me, i mean it must love me really because none of my retainers are fishers and yet i get a variety of fish everyday. What are the odds of that?

[XiXiQ]

Sadly, it seems the patch that increased the drop rate lasted about a week (that week it looked around 10%). It's back to 1% now (possibly less). Not even "bad luck" explains these statistics, which have been repeatable for at least 3 weeks now.

[IfritReborn]

I do have to wonder why they decided the drop rates needed to be lower than Atma when you need MORE (6x) Alexandrite than Atma at this point

[DenebPunkin]

I do have to wonder why they decided the drop rates needed to be lower than Atma when you need MORE (6x) Alexandrite than Atma at this point

To keep you subbed for longer =D. If the rates have been increased, not by much. I think out of about 300 FATES so far.. I got about 15.. that is 5%... yay. T_T

[SirTaint]

To keep you subbed for longer =D. If the rates have been increased, not by much. I think out of about 300 FATES so far.. I got about 15.. that is 5%... yay. T_T

It was 1% before, confirmed. 5% is a huge increase but the real number is closer to 10%. I have 50+ Alex just rotting on a mule, almost all from Fates since the update. I have zero intentions of doing another Zodiac they just keep dropping.