Just a regular day of TT

[Sho86]

This was meant to be side content and yet I'm seeing people grind this harder than zodiac and gear. Everything in this game right now are huge grinds on top of luck of RNG. Then to pour salt in the wound we got a TT tourney coming up, joy. Wasn't there a slide somewhere from one of the live Q&A with the quote "If its not fun, we're doing it wrong." Well...

[Orangekun]

This was meant to be side content and yet I'm seeing people grind this harder than zodiac and gear. Everything in this game right now are huge grinds on top of luck of RNG. Then to pour salt in the wound we got a TT tourney coming up, joy. Wasn't there a slide somewhere from one of the live Q&A with the quote "If its not fun, we're doing it wrong." Well...

I think you may have answered your own question there. It's a Japanese-developed MMO. Eastern MMOs have a tendency towards being grindy, to the point of excess. That's just how they like them over there, I suppose. Unfortunately it means FFXIV has... a long, tedious grind in virtually all of its worthwhile aspects. Which stinks. I love the game a lot, but my loathing for grinds has it so I haven't progressed beyond Zenith for my Relics, haven't leveled even half of the classes, and have barely glanced at Crafting and Gathering.

[Leory]

oh so i have been lucky on behemoth lost 50% of the time and got 1 card and that was behemot!

[Rath]

5 star cards with only the NPC dropping them seem to be quite a bit better for the drop rate. 5 star cards with NPC and a DF seem to favour the DF method. I could not get gaius from the imperial, but got on my first try in DF for praetorium.

[Aeyis]

5 star cards with only the NPC dropping them seem to be quite a bit better for the drop rate. 5 star cards with NPC and a DF seem to favour the DF method. I could not get gaius from the imperial, but got on my first try in DF for praetorium.

I believe thats incorrect. All 5 stars from NPCs seem to share the same random droprate. The 3 from NPCs only that I obtained all took me several hours each, but I've heard of several others getting them a lot faster, even multiple ones.

Controversially I've yet to see any DF card drop. Whatever the drop rates on NPC or DF cards are, I think it's fair to say they are incredibly random.

[Luminius]

Its really hard rng.... farmed Battle on the Bridge a lot and not got Gilga til now. Yesterday i did latest Hildibrand quest and enabled Keep and lucky as i am i got Bartz as a Firsttimer ^^

[Spawnie]

took me 1100 + wins to get the twins card i quite enjoyed farming the npc while waitin for my zodiac dungeons to pop now working on cid card doesnt bother me at all gives me somethin else to do while waiting :3

[Freyt]

I use Frixio, Ixal, Scarface, Mutamix, and Memeroon.

If Imperial plays Bahamut to the right, I play Ixal to the top left.
What follows is either Nero or Gaius to capure Ixal on the right. Either way, I'm playing Frixio in the top left corner.
If I captured Nero, then I only have to capture another card, simple task.
If they played Gaius earlier, then I'm baiting out their next card. If they play to the left or the bottom, then I capture both Gaius and Bahamut with a 2 facing their new card. If they play Livia at the bottom left, then I use Memeroon to capture back my Ixal and their Livia.

Then I've won.

If it's my turn first, then Ixal to the top left again. If followed by Bahamut/Nero, then Mutamix to top right; if instead followed by Gaius, then Scarface in middle. If captured Gaius, they'll capture Scarface with Bahamut or Nero; if Bahamut, capture Ixal with Memeroon (leave Bahamut for last); if Nero then capture either Ixal or Nero.

[Erudain]

So I did around 30 Dragon Necks between yesterday and today, got 5 Ultros cards and 0 Terra, did 10 or so Big Keeps 0 Bartz and did around 20 Shiva HM and got 0 Shiva.

Result after 60 trials = 5 ultros cards which I already had....
And they are trials, fast stuff you do in 5mins....I'm scared of farming Sastasha, Cutters Cry o DD for those uniques...