How many was the most times you ever grinded an instance for a single specific item?

[Saiah]

I have yet to see the plague bringer coat drop.

[Morbid]

A bajillion!

[Culfinrandir]

I have a FC mate that ran Pharos Sirius an uncountable number of times for the Zeta questline drop (long before the nerfs). Even now he's traumatised whenever you mention the place, poor lad.

[Ronove]

I've also run the Great Gubal Library for the caster coat and I lost count how many times I ran that. I would switch between SMN/BLM and just run it a few times every other day. I felt so bad for any under lvl 60 tank I was paired with since it was before the ilvl sync so I'd be ilvl 200 with the poor leveling tank. Everything died really fast though. When I finally got it I just told myself: NEVER AGAIN.

Of course then the Plague Bringer caster coat came out so it's not even glamoured at the moment.

Edit: Oh! And also the Bard/Machinist top from the Aery. I was running that on Bard well into lvl 59 before I just gave up. Maybe when my Machinist gets up to that level, I'll spam it some more. I have the MNK/NIN top but have never once seen the BRD/MCH top.

[UnstablePersonality]

I've also run the Great Gubal Library for the caster coat and I lost count how many times I ran that. I would switch between SMN/BLM and just run it a few times every other day. I felt so bad for any under lvl 60 tank I was paired with since it was before the ilvl sync so I'd be ilvl 200 with the poor leveling tank. Everything died really fast though. When I finally got it I just told myself: NEVER AGAIN.

Of course then the Plague Bringer caster coat came out so it's not even glamoured at the moment.

Edit: Oh! And also the Bard/Machinist top from the Aery. I was running that on Bard well into lvl 59 before I just gave up. Maybe when my Machinist gets up to that level, I'll spam it some more. I have the MNK/NIN top but have never once seen the BRD/MCH top.

I no longer regret keeping a copy of the bard/machinist top from there.

[Artemiz]

I remember doing Ifrit HM back in the day 36 times to get the weapon which was an upgrade for me at the time, I should have just done the relic but thought it would be better to get ifrit weapon first, I was wrong.

It was actually harder to do Garuda though, back then it had about a 40-50% clear rate in DF and I lost count of the amount of wipes never mind runs where I didn't get the drop.

[Donaria]

Hmm the longest grind session for me would be farming atma pre-buff spent about 2 week, 4-6 hours a day in western thanalan....blahhhh

[Ehr]

Longest time I ever spent grinding a single thing was Atma of the Fish (pre-buffed drop rate). Took me about a total of 15 to 20 hours total over a period of about 5 days to get it iirc. While farming dungeons I'm probably gonna go with doing countless Mythflox and only having seen the Baby Opo-opo drop once and losing the roll to my brother. Still don't have it :/. I also did about 25ish runs for the Demon Gloves of Casting from WoD.

[AskaRay]

Did about 50 runs of Copperbell HM for the zeta drop. I still have PTSD flashbacks whenever I go in there.
Did about 40ish runs of Great Gubal Library for the ranged gloves. I literally started /cheer ing in the dungeon when they finally dropped. My party told me to stop so I just up and left because I didn't need to be there anymore and it was about ten hours later.
Took months of Ramuh farming for his stupid bow. I got literally every other drop multiple times before the bow dropped. I lost track of how many times I've beat his beard in because it just makes me cry a little.

EDIT
Oh yeah I forgot
Trying for the BARD CHEST from Ex roulette..............ever since the patch dropped........... ex roulette at LEAST once a day and I just got it maybe two days ago. FML

[Silica-chan]

about 60+ runs of LotA for the healer body. Got really mad at the end lol