why are minion drops so rare?

[Synestra]

Brayflox Longstop HM.

Tell me nothing can be worse than that.

You can do it solo un-synced, got my opo-opo after 2 runs and sold it few days ago for 2.4mil. I actually went there to farm cokes and other mats so it was more like extra bonus at the end.

[WinterLuna]

Good way to make things hard to get: Louisoix minion as an automatic reward for clearing Coil.

Bad way to make things hard to get: make them entirely RNG based.

I'm not saying it has to be RNG. I agree with you. Except what even furthers my point is T13 was nerfed already plus it can be done unsync, so even Louisoix isn't necessarily hard to get anymore.

[Iromi]

Because for some reason glamour and fluff content is the real end game. :/

Oh and fishing....fishing is actually fun tho

[Zumi]

Some guy on my server is always buying out all the Lesser Pandas, and Galekittens then reselling them for around 1m more then what he bought them for. So yes I welcome higher drop rates on minions especially the hard to get leveling dungeon ones.

[StouterTaru]

because farming 5m gil is an impossible task? get one gatherer to 60 and you have it in less than 1 week if you gather the usefull stuff (adamantite, porcini, whatever)

Read the context of what you replied to.
-Most people can't get a nutkin because they are extremely rare, and are on time gated content
-If most people followed your DoL suggestion, nobody would make any gil gathering
-On a server where you can easily farm 5m gil a week farming, 5m won't come close to buying one

[Morningstar1337]

Because for some reason glamour and fluff content is the real end game. :/

Oh and fishing....fishing is actually fun tho

Well if the only other options are at the extremes of the difficulty scale, are obsoleted immediately when its beaten or is...whatever the hell Ravana is...

[DreamAngel-Ren]

I hardly ever get the latest minions when they drop. So, I just go to the market board and get the minions at the cheapest price; I already got the ugly duckling and owlet.
The freakin' "batcat" and lesser panda never drops for me DX On the MB, they pretty much costs your soul on my server. x_x

[Tint]

Some guy on my server is always buying out all the Lesser Pandas, and Galekittens then reselling them for around 1m more then what he bought them for. So yes I welcome higher drop rates on minions especially the hard to get leveling dungeon ones.

so this guy can make millions with only a few minutes work over the week? yeah, really hard to get money...

[Zumi]

so this guy can make millions with only a few minutes work over the week? yeah, really hard to get money...

To do what he does requires camping the Market Boards almost all day.

[ServerCollaps]

Read the context of what you replied to.
-Most people can't get a nutkin because they are extremely rare, and are on time gated content
-If most people followed your DoL suggestion, nobody would make any gil gathering
-On a server where you can easily farm 5m gil a week farming, 5m won't come close to buying one

there are tons of possible ways to make the required amount of money in no time

anyway, if nutkin becomes more expensive more people will start doing maps again, more unhidden maps will drop, more nutkins will flood the market etc.

after 3.0 release they dropped to 2m gil because there were like 20 on the market after 1 week, because everyone did dragon/wyvern maps