51 byakko totems...

[Vstarstruck]

I still think in the end this kind of hardcore grind is not really necessary for MMOs to be successful. It's more a carry over from olden times and having a model where the harder content is more personal, while the group content is more social and about working together than a perfect group performance is the way things should really play out.

agreed. to me it is just stuck in the old days

[Jib]

rngesus shined upon me for byakko ex. In 11 runs, I got mnk weapon, music scroll and dog. Bought War weapon with totems (mnk and war weapons were the 2 main ones I was after).

You ppl make me sick...

(Joking gratz )

[Nezerius]

Even states he would like to know so there is an off chance it doesn't make it into for 4.25 and that is just for susie and lakshi mounts.

And if you take a look at the HW patches, you'll see that SE has never added the mount from an EX trial until a few patches after it's been introduced. If 4.25 adds the Susano/Lakshmi mounts to the vendor, they likely won't be adding the Shinryu/Byakko mounts to it until 4.35/4.45.

As for ways to reduce the amount of RNG on drops, the totems were exactly their way of a safety net. You'll be able to buy a weapon every 10 runs. This wasn't the case in ARR, where you had to farm a primal until it dropped the right weapon.

[Fhaerron]

I got my weapon on my first run and kill.

During Susano though I didn't had my weapon after 10 runs so I bought it with tomes, then the 11th run the weapon dropped >>

[FairlyWitchy]

I think rng hates me for this primal. Keep rolling below 30 for music scroll, have yet to see dog even once after 30 runs, and for 8 turns straight the rdm estoc dropped after I already turned in 10 totems. Most of the other turns were sch book and monk weapons.

[NephthysVasudan]

Acknowleding the weapon did get dropped...and likely may have gotten the mount already - RNG is RNG..its just how it is.

By the time you have enough tokens to buy the mount - you'll likely already have it lol. If not just before haha.

[RosaLunaCelestia]

Im at 80 tokens i wish i had not to wait soooo long for exchange... want mount so bad !!!!

[Dragoon4life]

Sry to hear that. RNG givith and takith. I’ve been trying to get the RMG weapon myself. Lakshmi did two drops which was nice and reasonable. I’d like to see double drops as well, more so especially in all dungeons. Stay strong Brua.

[Kazgrel]

I always buy weapon for main job I’m farming a primal on it I don’t get the drop within first 10 kills...although being I have all crafted 350 weapons, I can opt to just save totems up once I start killing Byakko.

[Burningskull]

Perhaps double weapons isn't something needed till 5.0 when / if they add more jobs again. But for maths sake, lets say you have all the jobs currently at lvl 70 and you want all the weapons for those jobs from Byakko. I think we have 15? jobs right? so that's 150 totems you need should be unlucky enough to not get any of the drops from the kill it's self, plus 99 for the mount. So that's 249 kills of one instance. Again this is just purely hypothetical. I doubt any one's luck is that bad... Unless you are just buying weapons every time you get 10 totems and never get lucky with the mount. However I do think when / if we get more jobs they will either need to make it so we get 2 weapons drops from a boss or increase the chance that the weapon that drops is for the jobs currently in the part.