Just finished up playing TT with Tataru before Patch 3.1 this week... I have more losses than wins before of that DAMN combine of Chaos and Random rules! I mean COME ON! I only have 58 cards and even still you PICK the cards with so low numbers and Tataru has cards with 7 - A ranks and I can barely do anything against her and just have to get lucky in my cards and the placement of Tataru's cards to net a win and when I do it's usually her card that drops... and it's dropped 7 times for me! So many losses, some random draws, and very few wins.
Honestly don't know HOW they think this is a good idea! It's utter B to the S... sucks! Now if the NPCs had other cards with lower numbers for Random to make it even I wouldn't mind as much, but nope. Or at least make different "levels" of Random where only certain Star Rank Cards can be in random and the others are omitted. Like you can only use 3 - 5 star cards in Random (3-5) against Tataru so only cards you and she has are Rank 3 and above can be used and Card Ranks 1 - 2 will NOT be selected for Random. That would help ease the stress a bit.
I wanted that Lightning Card at least, but it's bull that she has like 2 Legendary Cards in her Deck and 3 Cards that have two 9s and 2 cards with two 8s on them and it covers her blind spots well you need to be super lucky to beat her. This is not fun, never played FF8 TT and because of FFXIV's version I will be weary to try it myself. I really really hate TT most of the time and trying to do the Achievements for them for extra cards... not worth it if most NPCs use the bloody Random rule all the time.
I seriously want to take a bat and go over to SE's headquarters... and smash their computers that host the TT files and ERASE it from the game. Or at least hack into the files and make all NPC's card have 0 on all sides so we can curbstomp them from all the hell they've given us. I'm tired of these unfair cheap shot advantages these NPCs.