9S Automaton is not appearing per patch notes

[shandreax]

9S Automaton is not appearing per patch notes. I had buds in other parties they also confirmed the did not have it appear also.

Date & Time: 07/20

[Zofis]

I experienced the same thing. I ran the raid not long after maintenance ended and can also confirm that the chests were only dropping the usual loot.

[KDSilver]

9S is not a guaranteed drop.

[Zofis]

9S is not a guaranteed drop.

Per the patch notes, 9S and other items like the Stuffed Android Units "will now appear in a treasure chest allotted to each party of an alliance when undertaking the Tower at Paradigm's Breach" meaning the intent was to have all of the drops be 100% for each party akin to what was done with the previous two alliance raids and their rare drops in 5.5.

[KDSilver]

Per the patch notes, 9S and other items like the Stuffed Android Units "will now appear in a treasure chest allotted to each party of an alliance when undertaking the Tower at Paradigm's Breach" meaning the intent was to have all of the drops be 100% for each party akin to what was done with the previous two alliance raids and their rare drops in 5.5.

9S was not a 100% drop at first.
Now, it's still not guanranteed, but instead of fightning your roll with 23 others people, it'll only be with your own alliance.
That's what it actually means.

[Zofis]

9S was not a 100% drop at first.
Now, it's still not guanranteed, but instead of fightning your roll with 23 others people, it'll only be with your own alliance.
That's what it actually means.

I'm aware, but the issue at hand is the patch note wording—both in English and Japanese. The patch notes clearly indicate that the intent was for there to be parity between Tower and the previous two raids in terms of drops now because it's identical in wording to when the other items were made 100% drops in 5.5 proper.

[Alchalant]

Yeah the issue here is that it’s not working like the update to the other raids did. And we want to bring awareness to the devs to see if this was intentional or not- so they can check out the loot tables and make adjustment if necessary. The minion collectors noticed this immediately this morning due to previous update on others raids and anticipating the 3rd nier raid being unlocked in the same way.

[Dirk_Jongeh]

Had the same issue, plus in duty finder it will also give the message, Reward already received after completion. Reward already received should not appear anymore since weekly restrictions have been removed.

[Baxcel]

Had the same issue, plus in duty finder it will also give the message, Reward already received after completion. Reward already received should not appear anymore since weekly restrictions have been removed.

That's normal for the rewards already received.. its meaning for the item you cash in for materia(I forget the name an ain't home to check) those are still once a week on the newest raid as they always have been.. once EW comes out with its 24man that will be removed from the ShB one

[worldofneil]

Thanks for creating this thread, I have the same concerns, but you need to edit your first post to use the template (in post 2 of their stickied thread):

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-THIS-FIRST%29

If you don't they'll likely just close and move this to "Insufficient information" / "Not a bug report".

I don't disagree at all with what you wrote, but it's just how they work