Alexander: Who thought this was a good idea??

[RiceisNice]

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It's more on a meta thing of the playerbase than what the developers push for. I mean they designed content in mind that we'd have the dedency to band together and achieve that goal. At least speaking for my server, we have players who sneak into farm parties, players who lie about how far they've seen the fight, players who sell runs, and in general players who can't be assed to play their job properly in a given circumstance. Just yesterday my friend was doing a learning party for Thordan, but the overall dps was so terrible that they could not get past sacred cross. The entire party was equipped with esotaric weapons.

Honestly we shouldn't need the game developers to "push" us to have human decency in an online environment, not completely forego it in favor of being jackasses or benefiting the fruit without the labor. I mean, more often than not, we're seeing people in alexander who can't work their basic job mechanics (like maintaing GL or astral/umbral cycles, and this is something that's introduced to them as early as level 4) or straight up alt-tabbing during a boss fight.

[SendohJin]

just do Expert and get i185.

good players don't do Alexander Normal.

[GaiTsutsugami]

just do Expert and get i185.

good players don't do Alexander Normal.

Lol are you serious?
I know you're desperate to make us all 'git gud' but that is simply not a valid argument, and it makes you sound like a tool.

And yeah, to he people giving the obvious answer (make a party), that is indeed what I shall do. However this post was made even more (believe it or not) out of concern for the rest of the community, who, unlike me, aren't lucky enough to have a great Free Company and great friends made through months and months of playing. I mean I get then it follows that those players stil have a better shot at more gear in a shorter amount of time, but you cannot deny that the system, as it is now, is broken.

[SendohJin]

Lol are you serious?
I know you're desperate to make us all 'git gud' but that is simply not a valid argument, and it makes you sound like a tool.

i have never said "git gud" in any meaningful context. there's nothing "git gud" about doing Expert.

i190 gear is meaningless when i200 gear comes from Esoterics and Void Ark, i185 comes from Expert roulette and i210 comes from Savage, Diadem and Hunts (kind of).

all you want i190 gear for is glamours and a very short stepping stone to Eso/Void Ark gear. in which case the i185s from Expert will do just fine.

yes, the system is broken but it's old and outdated content. Diadem is broken too, i hope they spend more time fixing that.

[Aomine1992]

If they would just remove the lock out for void ark there would be no need for Alex but until then I suffer in silence

Now if the Alex groups weren't so bad as they have been for the last couple of weeks and not wiping 3-4 times before a kill then sure whatever but the time does not match the reward anymore -_- so we need some kind of completion token or something or lower the number of said items for gear just do something

[myahele]

I doubt they'd do anything other than giving out more loot if enough people complain.

At this point, I just need the chest piece to have a complete set for one of my alts ... 2 more shafts to go :-/

[enthauptet]

The loot in alexander has always been stupid IMO. I hit my 20 times of A4 clears and after only one shaft I said screw it and I haven't done it since because it's a waste of my time. At least in other lockout activities I have a chance to be the only one rolling on my loot instead of never getting any, ever.

[NovaLevossida]

I'm not gonna lie. I've won this RNG lottery before (2 springs and 1 lense from A3.) It feels aweful when you're doing things like A1 trying to get a specific item but can't get it, but it feels -great- when you make out like a bandit with -everything-.

Still, I could agree. Perhaps 1 item/instance so people have to make a decision of what they want.

I've had people complain about my RNG greed rolls in Diadem party finder groups. Fair is fair, but I wish people would just stop fussing over RNG when it's fair.

[pushin_tin]

I've talked to other players and I am not the only one very annoyed by this.

Form a party with those "other players" and farm Alex with them until everyone gets the loot they need. For those who somehow don't have an FC who can do this, put up a PF party.

[Nekodar]

You have need/greed protection on full pieces of gear based on the job/role you are playing so that immediately eliminates some competition. With full pieces of gear you narrow down the amount of people based on role then job to around ~1-2 based on party composition, more if you have more of the same type of DPS. If it's free for all the potential is you have to roll against 7 people every time which lowers your chance of winning.

While you have that sort of "protection" in normal need/greed, you can also end up running it over and over and never actually see anything you can need on in those cases. It balances out.
Be able to need only a few items out of a large loot pool, or be able to need everything from a small loot pool.