Loot Table in in the new Expert is horrible

[Teiren]

The devs really have their heads up their asses for this expansion. Are we supposed to celebrate a design plan of literally "obsolete upon inception?" From one item per chest to no gil from enemies to unfun new Job actions, it's gotten really aggravating lately. It was all cute and funny during ARR because the game was new, but it'd be nice to get real now.

[Azper]

Yeah, I don't see why they made the drops the way they did when Law practically rains from the sky if you want 170/180 gear. Granted these are 185, but still. -_-

[Felis]

The gear is outdated when it comes out, they might as well be as they offer nothing different from the old ones.

How was it possible for you to equip every battle class with ilevel 185+ gear before 3.1?
I know it was not possible with the uncapped law gears, seeing that they are only ilevel 180. And every other gear after law have a weekly cap before 3.1

[PFM]

I have literally only seen plaguebringer drop. I'm not even joking. I'm not sure other items EXIST.

[Mimilu]

Can we at least get rid of the potions, ethers, and elixirs, please?
They rarely-if-not-ever see any use (because you designed them to be lackluster but that's another issue for a different thread...).

[Moqi]

How was it possible for you to equip every battle class with ilevel 185+ gear before 3.1?
I know it was not possible with the uncapped law gears, seeing that they are only ilevel 180. And every other gear after law have a weekly cap before 3.1

I'm going to assume you're being intentionally dense to troll since everyone else gets what I'm saying except you. Have fun.

[Nuinn]

The answer is very simple. Poor design choices don't mean poor revenue - We all still grind and pay for our subs no matter how intentionally stupid the artificial length of the game is made. They knowingly exploit that, nothing more.

[Colorful]

The answer is very simple. Poor design choices don't mean poor revenue - We all still grind and pay for our subs no matter how intentionally stupid the artificial length of the game is made. They knowingly exploit that, nothing more.

We're still going to be running these dungeons on the daily for Esoterics, there's a thin line between a grind and being burnt out and they're very quickly approaching that line. I know that I've been burnt out to the point of unsubbing temporarily, and that's something they fail to understand by making literally everything they implement a grind (even Triple Triad, which is meant to be "fun", but we're not allowed to have fun, Yoshido will not allow it).

[Noxifer]

The dungeons released in Patch 3.0 had a higher amount of equipment drops so that players can upgrade their item level on their path to, and at, level 60. However, for dungeons introduced in Patch 3.1, we took into account that many of the players will most likely own higher item level equipment than those that can be obtained from the dungeon, therefore we have set the amount to one.

....On their main job, maybe. But, you know, the basic concept of this game is "level up everything!", and people are therefore still gearing up their secondary and tertiary jobs. Add to that that the "higher item level" gear is in many cases job-specific (for people who are equally comfortable with those jobs that share gearsets, such as tanks, healers, casters and ranged), and the one gearset that isn't either restricted by weekly loot restrictions or top-skill demanding (or both) isn't always the optimal in stats. So I'd say that people are still gearing up.

And also... why should it be easier to gear up at one stage than it should be to gear up at another stage? O.o And why should you put more restrictions on gear because it's not considered 'gearing up' (even when it is)?

I just don't understand the logic.

In 2.x, because of there being three Ex Roulette dungeons, the new glamour gear got divided up so each piece dropped in two dungeons, with pieces of each gearset being divided up into different dungeons (so you couldn't, for example, spam the same dungeon and get all pieces from one gearset). This meant that each dungeon had a smaller loot pool (2/3 of the total amount of gear), plus the last boss dropped two pieces IIRC, which meant it was slightly easier to get the particular piece you were after. To emulate a similar "ease" of acquiring gear -- that already then was outdated by the time it was released -- it would make sense to have more than one piece drop from chests.

[Katlyna]

I concur the loot table is entirely too large. Likewise we have the accessories drops polluting the chests in-between in such a way they make it feel even worse. And the terrible thing is most of us just want the drops for glamouring <face-scrunch> I can't imagine how rage inducing people would be about the drops if they were actually trying to get the gear for equipment slots?!