[request] increase Alexandrite fate drop rate

[Mature]

apparently is 10% right now . Should give an increase to 25%

[rappa]

Where is the dislike button?

[Mature]

What is there to dislike? I farmed fates for 6 Hours yesterday and got 2 drops....

[Squrilruler]

It used to be ~1% iirc. The ~10% is fine.

[XiXiQ]

It used to be ~1% iirc. The ~10% is fine.

The drop rate is not 10%. It was 10% for the first week, it's back to 1% or less again. I have done 500 fates and got a whole 3 of the things.

[desufin]

That sounds like a good idea actually. I wouldn't mind that. Some of us work 46 hours a week.

Exactly, I try to log in everyday to do my mission and get my daily map, but some days I don't even have time for that. Hence maps should have better output.

The basic nature of something meant to take a long time to do cannot be magically catered to someone that does not have the time to invest into it. Thinking you should have special treatment for having less free time is beyond silly.

The drop rate is not 10%. It was 10% for the first week, it's back to 1% or less again. I have done 500 fates and got a whole 3 of the things.

Can just be stroke of bad luck. I got two in about 2hours earlier today and my friend got 2 back to back yesterday. 10% doesn't magically mean every 10 FATE's, unfortunately. The droprate is fine tbh, farm soldiery/allied seals if FATE grinding isn't to your liking.

[XiXiQ]

Can just be stroke of bad luck.

There is no such thing as a "stroke of bad luck" 3 weeks running. Something is wrong with it, plain and simple.

[Nekodar]

The drop rate is not 10%. It was 10% for the first week, it's back to 1% or less again. I have done 500 fates and got a whole 3 of the things.

I farmed 19 alexandrites from fates yesterday... 133 fates from start to finish.
Among those there was a few (less than 5 I think) that I only got silver on, but I'm not sure if gold is required to get an alexandrites so I count them all.
This was with a relic weapon animus equipped.
What weapon were you using?

Edit:
I stayed mainly in low level areas like Western Thanalan, Central Thanalan, Middle La Noscea during my farming. Tried some other areas too, but I found those the best as the FATEs go down really quick.
I used the counter under achievement Destiny's Child (Battle -> Battle) to keep track of how many FATEs I completed.
Since I'm still below 3000 completed FATEs, that works fine.

[XiXiQ]

I farmed 19 alexandrites from fates yesterday... 133 fates from start to finish.
Among those there was a few (less than 5 I think) that I only got silver on, but I'm not sure if gold is required to get an alexandrites so I count them all.
This was with a relic weapon animus equipped.
What weapon were you using?

Edit:
I stayed mainly in low level areas like Western Thanalan, Central Thanalan, Middle La Noscea during my farming. Tried some other areas too, but I found those the best as the FATEs go down really quick.
I used the counter under achievement Destiny's Child (Battle -> Battle) to keep track of how many FATEs I completed.
Since I'm still below 3000 completed FATEs, that works fine.

I used my novus, then my nexus after the lights phase completed, and was in the exact same areas as you. You are seeing a 20% drop rate, which is also way out of the norm.

I did 3000 fates long ago, so cannot count using that method anymore.

[XiXiQ]

I farmed 19 alexandrites from fates yesterday... 133 fates from start to finish. This was with a relic weapon animus equipped. What weapon were you using?

Nexus. I did an experiment today. I did what I typically do, tallied 32 fates and 1 alex drop solo (as I was waiting for DF). This was actually a good day, as one actually dropped. This method, same amount of fates daily for 2 weeks, and I would see a drop every second or third day at most.

I have an animus as well, so I changed to that and started using my choco. The results were startling - 22 fates and 6 alex drops.

So is it a difference in drop rate per weapon? A sliding scale with animus around 15%, novus around 5-10% and nexus still a poor 2-3%? or the fact you are in a party changing the drop rate? (I hope it's the former, the last thing I want to see is yet another thing you can't do while waiting on the DF)

Too early to tell, I will make another tally tomorrow using animus without the choco out and see what transpires.