As someone who has run, in total, 12 floors of Alexander...

[nyttyn]

...and gotten not a SINGLE loot token...

All Random loot, where everyone's lotting on the items, and with only 2 items per run to go around, freaking sucks.

[KamikazeMan]

Join a farming party. They usually wait till everybody gets loot before disbanding. Unless you're after specific items.

[Alberel]

Compared to Coil where you could run 100 turns and potentially never see anything drop that your job can use, the loot system in Alexander is MUCH better.

Most of the moaning over the new loot system simply stems from the fact that people are seeing their failed rolls and getting disheartened by it. Every time you ran Coil you were rolling against the server to see if something you could use would drop, it was just hidden and thus players didn't moan about it. Your odds of acquiring loot in Alexander are considerably higher than they were in coil.

[Fenral]

Join a farming party. They usually wait till everybody gets loot before disbanding. Unless you're after specific items.

Guess the grass really is greener on Balmung. Most farms I've ever been in on Gilgamesh clear once and disband because you scrubs aren't good enough. The others were one-shot groups where people almost always bail after getting loot and then we cant one-shot anymore.

[Verius_Nox]

Guess the grass really is greener on Balmung. Most farms I've ever been in on Gilgamesh clear once and disband because you scrubs aren't good enough. The others were one-shot groups where people almost always bail after getting loot and then we cant one-shot anymore.

Most of the time on Balmung, people make a disclaimer that if you bail after getting your loot, you will be blacklisted. Not sure if people really care about that sort of thing anymore, but it does hurt your ability to join further groups for any other content.

[Yumi_umi]

Spend all that effort but cant bother to grab friends and do alex farms.
Well u can always buy loot runs lol

[OliviaBadger]

For what it's worth, the live letter did mention that people are finding the loot wars crappy, and will look into increasing the amount of tokens. Might see this in the upcoming maintenance, who knows.

[StrejdaTom]

I have been farming FCOB for months and got 1 or 2 pieces of equipment? After 1 week of Alex I got 1 belt, 2 jewels and 2 tokens for legs. Not saying it is the best solution but it is definitely better than what we had before (except if RNGesus loved you). As others said, if you join farm party it usually takes 4 - 5 runs untill everyone has what they wanted (I know we get 2 tokens per run, but.. yeah random tokens).

[lololink]

Most of the time on Balmung, people make a disclaimer that if you bail after getting your loot, you will be blacklisted. Not sure if people really care about that sort of thing anymore, but it does hurt your ability to join further groups for any other content.

Yes if people are leaving you should say that you will BL the leavers, it usually prevents people from joining and after being BL from all party makers those guys will have learned their lessons.

[NorthernLadMSP]

Join a farming party. They usually wait till everybody gets loot before disbanding. Unless you're after specific items.

This. Last night I was in a farm party for A4 and I wanted the chest token. Well, of course, I was the last person who hadn't gotten loot and it was almost 3am. I thought for sure that I would get shafted, but people proved me wrong and happily stayed the few extra runs it took to ensure I got my item as well.