Please add a pity system to the Raid Tier

[HyperiusUltima]

23 times. Twenty-three times. I've had to go in. I come out empty handed. I've carried a few groups as Healer and even then I got nothing.

It is extremely demoralizing when nigh consistently you get 1s and 5s and 10s or get outrolled when you roll a 91 just to get the piece you want. I understand the grind is there because "We need to help others clear for the first time!" I know it's there for that reason. It's just extremely frustrating running the same fight over and over and over 23 times straight and getting nothing out of it to the point you basically just don't feel like it's fun anymore for the week. Sure, we have Tomes! But those devalue extremely quickly until we get the Weekly Tomestones.

We need a pity system that allows us to exchange for pieces on Normal Mode clears and checks to see if you've received the reward for the week from that specific fight. Make it a weekly. Run the fight 4 times and then get a Normal Mode Token for that week to exchange for any piece you want to get for exchange. It'll clear out the Reward for that specific fight for that week once you obtain the token, and if you've already cleared out the reward for the week, you can't get the token.

It is just extremely frustrating running these fights right now.

[Roda]

Could also pf it. Run it, at most, 8 times and you're guaranteed a piece.

[HyperiusUltima]

Could also pf it. Run it, at most, 8 times and you're guaranteed a piece.

Most of the time I've seen PF be pretty dead in regards to this content unless you're in a static that's willing to run this weekly for everyone's pieces.

[Eli85]

The way loot drops in normal mode is one of the weakest aspects of the game. OP, your situation is an outlier, but I remember on week 1 having to run the second boss 7 times before I got what I wanted. It sucks.


Honestly, I'd be happy if there was just Raid Tokens that drop from every boss, to every participating player, guaranteed. One per boss, for a max of four per week. Keep the current exchange rates. So you do the four bosses, then you exchange for whatever you want. Yes, it leads to less re-runs (and so less playtime, which is important to developers), but it would make normal raids so much less frustrating.

[Atamis]

Are you only rolling on chest tokens and thus lock yourself out of everything else? I have no pity for greed.

[HyperiusUltima]

Are you only rolling on chest tokens and thus lock yourself out of everything else? I have no pity for greed.

This isn't about greed. It's about getting what people want for the week. You need 4 tokens for Chest/Pants. That means an entire tier's worth of exchange for just a week. We aren't even in Savage yet. People gearing up for Savage want this gear so that when Crafted comes out, they either A) Craft whatever they need, or B) work weekly to get the pieces they need for iLv bumps.

You get 1 piece per fight. 4 Fights. Each with a weekly lockout.

As for what @Eli85 mentioned, I think that'd honestly be a good way to do it. We get Blades every time we beat the 4th Boss every week, and that goes towards the Tomestone Weapon Upgrade when we get to the 7th week; 5th week after Savage is out.

[Jennah]

The crafted gear is almost certainly going to be of the same ilvl; just get that if a piece continues to elude you.
50/50 on which is better due to secondary stats. The secondaries matter, but not at the cost of your sanity.

[Cadmar]

Yeah, I get what you’re saying, but I feel like if I ran it even half of what you did I would just settle for another piece and try again next week for the piece I was looking for.

[Lunalepsy]

23 times. Twenty-three times. I've had to go in. I come out empty handed. I've carried a few groups as Healer and even then I got nothing.

It is extremely demoralizing when nigh consistently you get 1s and 5s and 10s or get outrolled when you roll a 91 just to get the piece you want. I understand the grind is there because "We need to help others clear for the first time!" I know it's there for that reason. It's just extremely frustrating running the same fight over and over and over 23 times straight and getting nothing out of it to the point you basically just don't feel like it's fun anymore for the week. Sure, we have Tomes! But those devalue extremely quickly until we get the Weekly Tomestones.

We need a pity system that allows us to exchange for pieces on Normal Mode clears and checks to see if you've received the reward for the week from that specific fight. Make it a weekly. Run the fight 4 times and then get a Normal Mode Token for that week to exchange for any piece you want to get for exchange. It'll clear out the Reward for that specific fight for that week once you obtain the token, and if you've already cleared out the reward for the week, you can't get the token.

It is just extremely frustrating running these fights right now.

23 times? I remember when I had to kill thousands of monsters for that 0.01% loot drop. They don't make them like they used to!

[Driavna]

The system it's like this to "trap" certain players to keep that que moving. I mean, now each boss drop 8 tokens so in reality there is no reason for having different currencies. All turns could give 1 to each member and let them buy whatever they wanted with current cost.

Anyway as a tip, if you haven't done this yet out of desperation, try to hold a little bit the rol for the piece you want so others distributed first. FFXIV player base is rather casual and a good amount of participants will roll for every items just to get something and move on, unless you end with players wanting to get X glamour.

At the very least will incrase your chances a bit.