WoD Loot Needs Fixing

[Maero]

Soo after week # what 4 or 5 and still no drop, sigh
Last night especially urked me, mind you not first time it has happened but terrible alliance (wiped 3 or 4 times) and at the end what drops again, Ninja Gear. Seriously this loot system is complete junk sorry to say.
Bard gear this, Ninja gear that, for god sakes there are other classes. I just want the damn caster robe already in which it seems others have had no problem getting

[KittytheSheGeek]

I am to tears. I am so frustrated over this. I have run World of Darkness at least 30 times this week, and I cannot get the one drop I need: The Bard Chest. And now, I've missed my drop this week all because I haven't seen it drop ONCE.

Please RECTIFY THIS. IMMEDIATELY.

You know what I saw in all those runs? DRG and MNK gear almost every drop. Just like CT and ST. There is no excuse. Either fix the RNG or make sure the loots drop FAIRLY.

A lot of people, at least on the server I'm on, had similar problems with their drop, unless they were a DRG or MNK. This is beyond unfair and unnecessary to players.

"Just get the Ironworks chest". I don't want the Ironworks chest, the stats as a Bard are basically useless. And besides, I should be able to get the drop I need 20 runs into a dungeon.

The chest piece was the first thing I got...

[DarkDedede]

They should make it so if a party doesn't want a piece of loot, it should become available to the rest of the alliance. There's always the possibility that someone outside of the party might need the gear that everyone passed on. Also, if they didn't allow rolling for the leftover loot until after the Cloud of Darkness battle, it would help to ensure that less people would be willing to drop out in the middle of the raid.

[Firepower]

They should make it so if a party doesn't want a piece of loot, it should become available to the rest of the alliance. There's always the possibility that someone outside of the party might need the gear that everyone passed on. Also, if they didn't allow rolling for the leftover loot until after the Cloud of Darkness battle, it would help to ensure that less people would be willing to drop out in the middle of the raid.

What an excellent idea!

Up to the point of free looting when the later patch comes in I'd probably say a good 50% of gear goes to waste. I've seen alliances where there's entire parties of BRD's and in my party there is no BRD but a BRD piece drops and it just falls to the floor where I am sure someone in the other party would of taken it.

I always run every week for tank or mnk pieces for my retainers, and pick whichever piece that I need drops first, as the weeks roll on it gets more difficult as the amount of items I need get less diverse and I need to start grinding a single boss. It would be nice if I had the added opportunity when nobody wants the mnk boots in other parties from cloud of darkness that I could take them since I still need them.

[DenebPunkin]

SE will never attempt to provide a solution that could give you what want faster.. this is a subbed based game.. they will do anything and everything to make you play longer... and at the moment.. Mr. RNG is their number one weapon of mass depression that does exactly that.

[Kinseykinz]

Having to do several dozens of runs for a single piece of loot is not okay whilst someone can get theirs in a single run. Sure, some RNG is good, but at this point it's not even funny.

It's not all about CATERING, it's about having a solid chance and an alternative that doesn't rely on the whims of RNGesus. That's why there should be a dungeon token system as well; enough completions of the said instance, and you could just buy your gear if it doesn't drop. It gives a person a solid road to actually WORKING towards it.

Fyi I'm not even farming for the top, not crying for not having it, simply making a point. This game's loot system is mostly garbage as it relies heavily on RNG.

First off, you're assuming when I 'lot that item on my first run' and win it, that I went in purposefully hunting for that exact item...which I likely wasn't doing. When it comes to the WoD gear, I have very much a 'If this drops, I'll lot on it, but if not any backup item for job A, B or C is also fine'

So when you see me lot (and win) on the Tank pants....when I came into the instance as a BLM, know this. I lotted on those pants so that I got a drop for the week, which netted a gear upgrade on an alt class for me (actually 2 classes). It doesn't however mean I went in with the plan of farming 'Tank pants' I seldom play my tank...I just like to keep it geared 'in case' + with level cap being raised soon, I decided upgrading my tank gear might be useful when (if) I begin leveling it.

Also, for the most part, this gear is either 'glamour fodder' for many folk or secondary set items. You have tome pieces you KNOW you can buy with x amount of grind each week. And if you are doing FCoB, you also have that gear to potentially upgrade with if it drops. But the tome gear (the gear you CAN count on earning when you want it/based on your tome grind), while not always 'BiS' is 'good enough' for any and all content you currently can do in this game. Plus, with the 'weekly CT>ST>WoD quest' you get a 100% chance of getting an upgrade item for your tome gear. So even if RNG hates you that week, and you lack a drop, the reality is you STILL are earning at least one gear upgrade via the Carbon stuff.

[Buff_Archer]

Still more runs with DRG, not a single drop, not even an ACC/SS piece. Last boss, Caster Coat. Hmm I have 130 Augmented Ironworks caster top, but the WoD one has Crit/Det which is much better for me in i80 lvl synched Frontlines PVP so time to Greed, and got it. To go with the nice caster shoes from WoD I Greeded week before. If it wasn't for the loot lockout, we'd have much less luck on greed for the things we really want, since it's a sacrifice we're making, to say it's worth forfeiting gear for the class we came as for the rest of the week, to have this instead. After the lock is gone, almost everyone rolls who doesn't have it because there's no trade-off involved which would have it going to only those to whom it's more important. So take advantage of this time and greed anything you would really like to have that comes up on a different class... if it doesn't get needed, odds are good.

[Laerune]

Two weeks ago it took me 32 runs to get the caster robes, the reason why it took me so long was, because the item never dropped before. Now I am trying to get either the caster boots or pants. It has been 16 runs and so far zero caster item has dropped at all. I do not mean the item dropped and I lost it, no caster item dropped at all...

I know random is random, but seeing 16 runs with only Bard/Dragoon and Monk stuff makes me cringe. I dont know if its the RNG hating on me or something is wrong with the RNG, but I was hoping for RNG to be more random and not drop the same Dragoon items for 16 runs...

[aerialrave]

Most chest pieces are rare, that goes for all classes in all 3 versions of CT.

I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you might want to consider giving up and taking the Ironworks after all.

It may have useless stats, but at least it will give you a bigger Dex bonus when you Augment it to i130. It will also pad your ilevel if you could consider that a consolation bonus.

[Windklinge]

so weekly loot lock is beeing removed in about 2 weeks i doubt they will do anything about wod. lets hope they learned for heavenswards content from this