Any recommendations on easing Zodiac drop pains?

[Recaldy]

Depending on the dungeon, get some i49 equip and focus on soulbinding.

[Malzian]

What's getting me through my Zodiac grind...
1) Grinding light for my other Novus at the same time.
2) Working my crafts to 3-star at the same time.
3) Triple Triad/Chocobo breaks.
4) Using loot drops to get GC seals to preempt the items for the other quests.
5) Not running the same dungeon over and over (this is seriously where the burn out happens).

Basically... diversify. The more you do along side the grind, the less the grind wears you down.

[Vaer]

Punch the Cuff-A-Cur mannequin 5 times then requeue.

[Zephyranthes]

Watch a movie or some show while farming dungeons and lights. Helps a lot.

[QuinceTaru]

A good social LS that makes you happy helps a lot also. So when you dont get drop they can laugh at you and you feel better

[Waffilicious]

watch tv, do a drinking game out of it, put some music.If that doesn't work like every 3-5 dungeons take a break.

[Brill_]

sacrifice a lalafell to rngesus

[Parodine]

Best thing I can recommend if it feels like you're doing one dungeon in particular a lot, go to another for a bit. I like order, so part of me likes to do one thing at a time before moving on. But if it's going to be the trouble dungeon, it's better to know it'll be last than be in the middle of your grindfest and burn out.

There are some horrifying dungeon atma drop claims, so I'd avoid reading them and hope for the best. And like others have said, stream YouTube, netflix, etc.

[Gunspec]

Convince yourself you are running the dungeons for more reasons than the zodiac. When they changed the desynthing rules in 2.5, I decided to level up armorer desynth. Running as tank, I started farming the ilevel 55 places, then ilevel 60, then 70 and so on. Those armorer pieces kept flowing in, and I got my desynth up to about 80ish. Also, leatherworking desynth net me a bunch of materials to sell on marketboards, while anything I couldn't desynth got dumped into GC for moonstones.

Now with triple triad cards, you'll have a good chance of farming demon wall, siren, tonberry, succubus, sahagin, morbol and ahriman. Duplicate cards bring in some MGP too. So many good things in dungeons these days.

[ruskie]

It helps if you have a dual or even triple purpose to running them. I'm working on mahatmas for my bow, while trying to get the drops for my nirvana - before that I was farming light for the thyrus nexus while trying to get the drops for my bow. At the same time get some friends that have the same goals. It makes it much more fun to do so. Me and a couple of friends tend to queue up for 5 dungeons we need - even if not all of us need all of them. We split them around so that each has a chance at getting what they want, along with any in common. Once we run it(doesn't matter if drop or not) we swap that one out for another and requeue.

And when we get fed up we do maps, choco race, wod/ct/st etc... to break the monotomy.