PLEASE CAP THE ZODIAC DROP RATE

[FranSeara]

I really want to know about, does the boss room show an orange circle?

I have the exact feeling, that after the patch. Something BROKE on me, I was getting decent drops before patch.

Anything of interest in your log will be colored in Red or orange when you go near it. Now, having too many open quests in your log will limit the amount of areas in game that will be colored red/orange. Try opening 20 quests at one time, you will not have a red circle around every area of interest. This COULD be just a limitation of the game system. ( but why risk it, clear out those old quest) Again, this all superstiton not backed by stats. Boss areas will be shown in red when the zodiac quest is active as one of your top 5 open quest. You can still get drops without the red area but the drop rate SEEMS to be very LOW, I've gotten drops about 1/20 times. With the red colored boss room my drop rate might be 10/20. Again guessing, I don't keep stats.

[FranSeara]

Basically "I/We may wanna start eating a Bucket of KFC everytime I/We go up to Bat." (AKA Wade Boggs)

[kuikui]

How the hell are you not banned and this post not deleted for dropping the F bomb? I was banned for 3 weeks just for saying " F you spell check " but I used the full F word...yea 3 week ban for that.

anyhoo, so to add something constructive to keep me from another ban...I agree with OP. I have 2 light stages to go and I begin the same dungeon grind and I do not look forward to it at all.

[Jinko]

Really need a system the more you run, the higher chance it will drop... instead of plain straight line %.

I dont want to end up running 70 times AK normal...

That just utter boring for me.

This is the thing though, how the dev team haven't cottoned on that this is driving people to hate the game is anyones guess.

Lets hope they have a solution for this in 3.0.

We are all familar with grind and MMOs going hand in hand but there is a thing as pushing your players too far and the whole relic chain is most definately going too far especially when you consider the steps it takes to go from the start to a Zeta.

[CBF]

How the hell are you not banned and this post not deleted for dropping the F bomb? I was banned for 3 weeks just for saying " F you spell check " but I used the full F word...yea 3 week ban for that.

anyhoo, so to add something constructive to keep me from another ban...I agree with OP. I have 2 light stages to go and I begin the same dungeon grind and I do not look forward to it at all.

It must have been your context. I'm an adult and will speak whatever way I want within reason of course, and there is still always a filter, to... filter, explicity words.

Anyway, I only have 5 dungeons left, so I guess I'll see this ludicrous quest to the end. I've come this far... o.O

[SekhmetM]

How the hell are you not banned and this post not deleted for dropping the F bomb? I was banned for 3 weeks just for saying " F you spell check " but I used the full F word...yea 3 week ban for that.

anyhoo, so to add something constructive to keep me from another ban...I agree with OP. I have 2 light stages to go and I begin the same dungeon grind and I do not look forward to it at all.

Lol yeah the moderators on this forum are ban happy.

They ban you for anything in these forums. They don't even give a warning or let you explain yourself.

I was once banned for linking to the shop page of a person's 3D printed chocobo project. Topic was about 3D printed ffxiv stuff. They said I was advertising. Gave me 2-week ban. Didnt even ask me to remove the link they just up and banned me.

[Felis]

Just completed my Zodiac just recently and here are the numbers (took me 25 days overall to include slacking a bit on some days)

Dzemael Darkhold - 2
Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) - 8
Halatali (Hard) - 4
Snowcloak - 14
Aurum Vale - 3
Haukke Manor (Hard) - 9
Lost City of Amdapor - 4
Sastasha (Hard) - 2
Wanderer's Palace - 31
Copperbell Mines (Hard) - 40
Hullbreaker Isle - 3
Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard) - 1
Amdapor Keep - 23
Pharos Sirius - 8
Tam Tara Deepcroft (Hard) - 5
Stone Vigil (Hard) - 11

total = 168
average = 10

Don't look too bad

[Nyalia]

Yeah, most people are reporting numbers that are totally legit for the drop rate everyone's been quoting (10%). 160 dungeon runs for Zodiac. Compare that with Nexus pre-patch, which took 250 dungeon runs (no bonus - 167 with bonus). Sure, you also need a bunch of resources, but those are honestly pretty trivial compared to the cost of the Novus step, especially if you went with DET as one of your maxed stats. Zodiac isn't that bad, it's just the lack of a progress bar that has people freaking out.

Personally, I've gotten 12 of the 16 dungeon drops so far. AV took me ~15 runs, HM HM took me ~18, and SV HM took me ~6. The rest were ~1-3. Because I overlapped my Animus books for PLD with my Zodiac dungeons for BLM, a ton of my runs counted for both relics, making it feel even quicker.

I'll have my BLM Zodiac (and PLD Animus) by tomorrow night, hopefully, unless I get really unlucky like some of the posters here to make up for my overall good luck. Honestly, all the stages feel like they're taking the same amount of time for me.

[Ahzarhuuk]

I can't even begin to fathom doing multiple weapons past the Atma stage...

Going for Longinus and that's all I'll be able to muster. Though to see the same RNG Hell from the old Atma days creeping up into the Zodiac stage isn't encouraging...

[Nexxus]

I did farm Dusk to Down the day before yesterday, got 1 item on the 30~40 Run i've done. As for Today, i've got 4 items (it was Full Moon lol).
But... i'm totally agree with the OP, the farming is going to make me crazy, i just want to insult the first new gamer that come with no exp/stuff in dungeon because i'm to tired to explain everything and lose time on it.

Farming Zodiac is making me really bad...