Why don't Allience Raids drop rings?

[Morningstar1337]

Okay, rings are wonky, you can equip two of the same yet most are still unique-locked, which means you need slightly better rings to get to that ilevel threshold. Alliance Raids, are usually considered catch up content, but they only drop non-acc gear.

While I am aware that there are other sources of equivalent rings,and that there are crafted non unique rings that are just as powerful (if not more given the potential made possible by pentamelds), I do believe that having more sources of rings of the same ilevel coudne't hurt

what do you think?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Dun Scaith had a weekly quest added to it to get accessories, but Orbonne didn't follow suit.

[SomeRandomHuman]

There's a reason they removed belts from 24 man raids. Why would you roll on a piece of gear that gives less stats than any other equipment slot that drops. You have tomestone rings(capped and upgraded uncapped), 8-man raid ring, crafted, and then the dungeon rings. The same applies to belts. That's 6 different rings from that alone. 7 if you include savage 8-man. They also usually only have 1 meld slot unless it's tomestone or savage raid.

Point: you wouldn't roll on them in 24 mans anyway because you'd rather take the bigger upgrade from the 4 major left-side pieces.

[Barraind]

There's a reason they removed belts from 24 man raids.

Belts are not a glamor'able slot, which is the biggest reason they got axed.

Rings make the most sense of potential non-major leftside pieces. If you aren't raiding, rings from alliance raids would compete for available best in slot, where they arent for any other slot.

That's 6 different rings from that alone. 7 if you include savage 8-man.

There are 2 rings at max (non-weapon) ilvl: savage and upgraded tome, and 2 at -10 ilvl: upgraded crafted and tome. Upgraded crafted rings only have 1 materia slot. Alliance raid is max ilvl -10.

That said, anything that lowers drop rate for glam pieces is probably not worth it.

[Doozer]

It would be nice if alliance raids dropped accessories, and having the option to get decent ilevel ones from that repeatable quest for Dun Scaith was nice. I wish we could do that again.

[Stepjam]

Personally I'm glad they don't drop rings. I largely get alliance raid gear based on cosmetics, so accessories would just dilute the pool of what's available.

It was already annoying enough in older alliance raids when you get nothing but belts in a chest. I know accessories have a cosmetic element, but they are so small and often hidden that I'd prefer that they remain out. Besides you can get accessories for stats from plenty of places.

[Doozer]

Personally I'm glad they don't drop rings. I largely get alliance raid gear based on cosmetics, so accessories would just dilute the pool of what's available.

It was already annoying enough in older alliance raids when you get nothing but belts in a chest. I know accessories have a cosmetic element, but they are so small and often hidden that I'd prefer that they remain out. Besides you can get accessories for stats from plenty of places.

They could just double up on the drop slots. One armour and one accessory. I feel like some dungeons do that, maybe I'm wrong.

[kaynide]

As said, not always the case but accessories (and weapons for that matter) were something that was part of alternative content. If memory serves, trials were often used in 2.0 for accessories with a shift to the 8 man raid. Especially since it typically just took 1 token to get an accessory.

I want to say they divide it up to encourage people to do different content. In addition if 24 man raids DID drop accessories, it would double the number of weeks to get the full set of both armor and accessories.

As is, one could do both the most current 8 man and 24 man raids to get geared up in a rather reasonable amount of time, especially if you just went for accessories in the 8 man.

This doesn’t even take into account tomestone gear which typically is fairly competitive as well, especially as it is upgraded using 24-man raid tokens.

So as is we typically already have crafted, tomestone and 8 man raid sets, all fairly competitive...in addition to 24 man raids already tied to tomestone upgrades, I don’t really see the need to add more unless it was an alternative grind a la Bozja.

[Vahlnir]

I'm glad that they don't, and I'm also glad that they abandoned belt drops. Seriously, no one is running 24 man raids for belts. They are there for the glamour mostly. I really did like having that quest for Dun Scaith every week though, so I wouldn't mind seeing something like that again.

[Mhaeric]

Gear drops are just for glamour in 24 person raids. You can use the weekly token to upgrade a Crystarium ring.