Quote Originally Posted by Matsume View Post
Oh...so that's why my Standard Synths fail 3 times in a row after using Makers Muse...

Jokes aside, you are correct in your explanation of the RNG. But the specifics of the formulas are different depending on the activity (crafting vs mob drops) and up until now the only thing i have said is that *maybe* darklight drops *could* be affected by an additional performance factor including but not limited to time.

It i's a theory, simply put, that acknowledges that the drop rate could be affected by additional performance factors. And it is a valid one at that, as hard as it may seem to prove.

Honestly, it's a running joke in my ls, and all I want to see are some numbers from the players that spend way more time than I can farming this gear. I have seen various percentages from various players such as yourself ranging from 10% to 1.57%.

That being said, I have yet to see some spreadsheet data myself. Nor could I verify the truth of such contents other than by repeating the experiment myself. This is the scientific process that us old time FFXI crafters have applied over years time so as to increase our HQ % rate sometimes fruitful and other times mystical...

Thanks.
With smaller data sets... the numbers will be more erratic...
You could go in 10 times and get 1 darklight piece every run and assume the number is 20%
But on a long enough timeline... with enough data points... the actual drop rate would be more consistent across all linkshells.....

Like if everyone tested it over 5,000 runs... I am sure the numbers would be a lot closer to each other

With that being said... in the absence of proof that there are any other factors.. and no one willing to test if there are... We must assume there are not

Perfect runs don't increase your drop rate directly...
But they do increase your speed times, which means more runs in a given amount of time....
Shaving 3 minutes off each run could allow for an extra run at the end of the nite before people have to go...

It's like Pixie hate, the direction you face, the moon phase

People love to believe in myths