Tomes vs random drops

[Dzian]

I pretty much agree with this. The same system can be found in raids, with Alexandrian pages dropping in addition to random drops. This gives you the excitement of loot that it may have just what you are looking for, but also provides a safety net against poor RNG.

Yeah it's a great system and it works really well. Progress is guaranteed but sometimes you also get that bit extra out of it.

Sticking with Sophia ex as my earlier example. I was quite lucky in that my first clear netted me the BLM weapon which was exactly the one I wanted to get.

Then I wanted the NIN weapon as my ninja was still running around with a 230 relic. so I went back a few times but had no luck on drops. Got to the point where I had 9 totems so I was feeling quite pumped as the next win I'd have my NIN weapons guaranteed.

Join a pf group and next win the NIN weapons drop and I win them on a greed roll. So now I have my weapon AND 10 totems which I could now use to get something else. BONUS!

I'm levelling warrior maybe I'll get the axe when I get 60. 4 wins later in the same group the axe drops and I ask if anyone's rolling cos I'm 56 so won't roll if someone has it at 60. group says I can have it. great...

I switch to scholar to fill a healer slot in the party and couple of runs later the SCH book drops. W00T!!!!.

As a loot system it works really well. because sure I've been quite lucky on drops and I've been doing the fight for the drops, but there's always been the guarantee that even if RNG hated me and didn't drop it I can get that weapon I want. thus progress has been guaranteed.

In my case I didn't need to use the totems so I'm now sitting on about 50 which is halfway towards the bird if I don't win the whistle before then. If I do win the whistle then great....

it's a system where you can't lose. but it still feels good to win.

it's the best loost system XIV uses by a long shot. miles better than lore/scripture/inserttomestonehere. because the problem withthem is you don't do the content for the rewards only the daily tomes... and ya restricted by weekly caps and all that faff aswell

I like the Tome gear system since SE seems to have odd weights on gear drops atm to the point were healer and tank gear drops more then caster gear

Do you think so. I always see dragoon get like 70% of the drops. even in Sophia. I swear ive seen more lances than anything