Quote Originally Posted by Swisha View Post
Team up with friends or LS mates and pool your totems. It will only take a few runs to get a weapon. Then the only challenge is to find people who will stick around after they've got what they want. But that's a different issue all together.
That's simply not the case. Last 2 sets of runs I was a part of, we got 1 totem (total for the group) in 5 runs, then 2 totems in a seperate 7 runs. Oh and even though we're all friends, no one feels it's a good idea to give totems away (because of the drop rate) unless someone is already close to 10 or unless that person already has what they want from ifrit, but that's beside the point...I'm just going to use the numbers.

Whatever...lets go crazy and say we kept a pace of 2 totems every 5 runs, which is better than we experienced. That's 25 runs for 10. So, if you are blazing through ifrit and being as efficient as possible, you might spend 20 mins per run (5 to kill, 15 cooldown) = 8 players devote 8hrs 20mins to get 1 weapon for 1 person via totems. That's if everyone can stay focussed on this singular goal the entire time!

I'm not saying that's the average for everyone...obviously it's random. But that's not an uncommon situation. Now in 25 runs, someone is bound to get a weapon drop or more, but it's still a crap shoot on whether those people can use the drops in the first place (may be a dupe, may be for a unleveled class).

I'd better stop rambling, because this has all been said before, but you guys who have had luck (for yourselves and for others) just need to realize....it doesn't work out for everyone who beats the primals a ton. IT JUST DOES NOT.