Quote Originally Posted by Endemerrin View Post
Our linkshell is nearing some 70~80 speed runs over the past week with only so much as a single eyepatch to show for it, nothing else. Yet we look at some shells that run at the same time and the same length as we do, and they're getting one, maybe two pieces of gear per night. Yet we continue to succeed over and over to no avail.

It's just incredibly demoralizing. I really don't see how such a low drop rate is justified. I could understand for body pieces to be as low as they are, but everything else? Come on. Not every single piece of gear should have absolutely abysmal drop rates. The whole excuse of "Oh, there's other content" or "The best gear should only be available to the hardcore" is a load of BS. My linkshell does run rather hardcore. Almost every run is a speed run, and on raiding days we'll go for 6 hours+. Yet are we being rewarded? No, we're not. Not even remotely.

Other content? We've all cleared that months ago and have nothing to gain from it. The Darkhold has nothing of value other than GC seal items. Most our members are 7/7 Ifrit and Moogle, or don't care about specific weapons. All we have right now is CC/AV, and it's treating us worse than Ifrit and Moogle did in previous patches.

Not fond of the coin idea, but I like the thought of a point system. You gain points for each objective you complete in the instance, with a speed run giving the most points. All DL gear except the bodies could then be available for purchase with these points.

Seems simple, fair, and rewards effort instead of driving people to the brink of just quitting.
Endemerrin I feel your pain. We're in a pretty similar boat (although recently we've had a little luck in AV). We're 2/million in cutters cry with the only drops being 2 sets of heavy darklight gauntlets. Thats great for the tanks in the LS, but we've yet to see a single light-DD darklight piece so its been frustrating for the LS members who are looking for those pieces.

Also, at this point people are starting to get bored with the raids - doing a speed runs over and over isnt very exciting. And having a crappy drop rate is quite demoralizing.