Primal drop system, still no changes?!

[Quesse]

Just wait it out and quit QQing over small stuff ....

If you think Ifrit/Moogle battles are the small part of 'endgame' content, what is large??? 8-10 months is not soon. The year is not even close to half over. That happens in July. By my calculations, that's $80-$100 of my money which is not a 'gift' so that they can be working on some 2.0 which I may or may not play.

[JasonMarkle]

If you think Ifrit/Moogle battles are the small part of 'endgame' content, what is large??? 8-10 months is not soon. The year is not even close to half over. That happens in July. By my calculations, that's $80-$100 of my money which is not a 'gift' so that they can be working on some 2.0 which I may or may not play.

Primal battles aren't endgame content. Endgame isn't even in yet. That will be 2.3 with the Garlean stuff. Also, read the part about consistent PUGs. That will seriously solve a lot of the problem. That's how my LS did it, and everyone had their weapons much faster than waiting around for each individual person to get x amount of totems for Ifrit or Mog weapons. If you have consistent pick up groups with the same people the same can be applied and everyone can get what they need.

[ArkNova]

After reading this thread and looking at some of the wins to weapons ratio I asked my friend the other day how was she doing on Ifrit. She said 151 wins, 2 totems, 0 weapons. I asked her how is she keeping track just giving a rough guess or what? She said she screenshots EVERY opened chest and makes a portfolio of it. To keep track that way must really lower your spirits looking at all those screenshots and only dark matter and vampire plants to show for it. I promised her she will have my totems until she has a weapon of her own. If SE really does justify this as balance it would be like saying "Sorry Timmy but no matter how hard you try you'll never get what your striving for because we think there is enough of it out there already." If this is their idea of balance they might as well hand out cards saying what items your allowed to quest for. Remember you could be that Timmy

[Jinko]

After reading this thread and looking at some of the wins to weapons ratio I asked my friend the other day how was she doing on Ifrit. She said 151 wins, 2 totems, 0 weapons. I asked her how is she keeping track just giving a rough guess or what? She said she screenshots EVERY opened chest and makes a portfolio of it. To keep track that way must really lower your spirits looking at all those screenshots and only dark matter and vampire plants to show for it. I promised her she will have my totems until she has a weapon of her own. If SE really does justify this as balance it would be like saying "Sorry Timmy but no matter how hard you try you'll never get what your striving for because we think there is enough of it out there already." If this is their idea of balance they might as well hand out cards saying what items your allowed to quest for. Remember you could be that Timmy

Sadly many people don't care about Timmy unless they become Timmy.

I don't really plan to do much of this content until SE fix the loot situation, of course that means I lose out but I'm not boring myself stupid to get these items, they aren't much more than novelty weapons anyway, everyone has one.

I'm WHM and BLM as my main classes which makes me even less motivated to waste time to do them, maybe if Garuda's weapon has decent healing stats I will make an effort to get one of those.

[Wevlum]

Yeah current game isn't what SE are working on it's purely 2.0.... that's why we're getting additional storylines added that won't be repeatable when 2.0 is out. Some peoples' logic just amazes me.

Also it's not QQing over something small, it's a terrible mechanic that hundreds of people disagree with and it will put people off playing. It's also an issue they could easily solve but they prefer to artificially draw out the content using bad drop mechanics.

[AlaulaTheGreat]

You know, I wouldn't QQ over Ifrit fight if I at least got a (appropriate) consolation prize. Like maybe 250 company seals (350 is full company party) instead of dark matter. But Yes, I really would hope that SE would just answer us over why the primal loot drops straight to inventory instead of the horrible personal loot pools.

[Wevlum]

You know, I wouldn't QQ over Ifrit fight if I at least got a (appropriate) consolation prize. Like maybe 250 company seals (350 is full company party) instead of dark matter. But Yes, I really would hope that SE would just answer us over why the primal loot drops straight to inventory instead of the horrible personal loot pools.

Because servers...or something. They literally cannot change parsimony so that the mp reduction is taken off before casting it rather than after apparently so nothing surprises me by this point. They could show us a room full of linked SNESs and tell us it's the servers and I'd believe them.

[Majidah]

They could show us a room full of linked SNESs and tell us it's the servers and I'd believe them.

hello new signature

[Elexia]

hello new signature

Shame that BS add-on for SFC was more stable.

[stanleyyoung]

fair idea for primal drops. allow all players to get either a kup nut or totem 100% drop for a win, and make it so its untradeable & cant be transfered between peoples loot. then have it were u need say 15 kupo nuts or totems for each weapon for the npc.(personally 20 is too many and 10 is to little, 15 allows SE to keep ppl playing but allowing ppl to obtain thier goal over a fair amount of time without them gettin dragged along like we are now with these crappy drop rates.) if you have all weapons 7/7 from the primals and still have kupo nuts or totem u should be able to trade them to a npc for seals, say for example 1 nut/totem=250 seals, also if u get a weapon drop and want a different weapon you should be able to trade for one you want to the npc. then keep the current drop rate for the weapons but allow ppl to pass them to someone else who needs instead of having ppl get a weapon they already got go to waste or allow ppl to trade mutliple weapons in for seals.