Please add a pity system to the Raid Tier

[HyoMinPark]

I mean, a pity system is fine for old raids if you’re glamour farming. But they’ll never add it to the current one. They want you to feed the queues for as long as possible.

[Sylve]

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

Used to see these kinds of PF adverts pretty regularly back in HW.
Wasn't unusual at all, all 8 members would pick what they wanted from each floor and then the party would stay together until everyone achieved their desired drop. Worked pretty well back in the day.

[HyperiusUltima]

I mean, a pity system is fine for old raids if you’re glamour farming. But they’ll never add it to the current one. They want you to feed the queues for as long as possible.

I get that, but there's literally no replayability except when you're there farming out the new Tomestone that's coming on the 4th. That'd literally be a reason to keep going because you're also getting Tomestones for your other stuff for Savage. Right now there is no real incentive, and after Shadowbringers and them changing the item drops to all, it shows that it's aged quite a bit the past two years. Having a guarantee of some kind like Savage has would be a godsend. Run all four, get an item(or item(s) as people have said given how exchange rates work in XIV for raid tiers) and then it moves on. Considering that the Normal Raids are still new, they're going to still be done even on Normal Mode since it's still fresh. When it starts to age, the wait times might go up a little; but even then there would still be incentive for the weekly tomestones to reiterate, as you'd be killing two birds with one stone mostly.

We've just been through the same song and dance one too many times already where you have to literally fight tooth and nail to get the piece you need for that floor every week.

[MilkieTea]

I just roll ‘Need’ on everything. Get one drop, I’m golden. Might not be the MOST efficient but it certainly saves wasted angst.

[EmoPanther]

I only ran it once per area last week and got an item every time

[Wolwosh]

I only ran it once per area last week and got an item every time

I'm so happy for you

[Jeeqbit]

I had to farm this much in heavensward once. In my day, we only got 4 loot drops instead of 8 and items like body, legs and rings did not drop from all of the floors.

[HyoMinPark]

I get that, but there's literally no replayability except when you're there farming out the new Tomestone that's coming on the 4th. That'd literally be a reason to keep going because you're also getting Tomestones for your other stuff for Savage. Right now there is no real incentive, and after Shadowbringers and them changing the item drops to all, it shows that it's aged quite a bit the past two years. Having a guarantee of some kind like Savage has would be a godsend. Run all four, get an item(or item(s) as people have said given how exchange rates work in XIV for raid tiers) and then it moves on. Considering that the Normal Raids are still new, they're going to still be done even on Normal Mode since it's still fresh. When it starts to age, the wait times might go up a little; but even then there would still be incentive for the weekly tomestones to reiterate, as you'd be killing two birds with one stone mostly.

We've just been through the same song and dance one too many times already where you have to literally fight tooth and nail to get the piece you need for that floor every week.

And then you would be failing to do what the developers want you to do: feed the queues despite the lack of necessity for you to run the content. You’d be surprised at how many people would just stop running them for the week if they were guaranteed a drop after their first run. As you said, what would be the point (outside of just enjoying the fights)? None. Weekly tomes is weak since you get plenty more from doing 1 expert 5 days a week, or from doing Hunt trains. So, to prevent that, the drops and your rolls are at the mercy of RNGesus. It’s all working as the devs intended.

[Hammerhorn]

Soooooo what my team does is run it together to easily get the pieces but tbh it’s all alt gear trash in a week, buy the new crafted gear penta meld it and your gonna be BIS for awhile. I hate it because it invalidates EVERYTHING you Earned from Zodiark and Hydaelyn but I’ve been around since the beginning so I know the formula this game rolls with , hence why all my crafters and gathers are 90 by week 1. It’s bad design but I’ll be too busy counting all the Gil soon.

[HyoMinPark]

Soooooo what my team does is run it together to easily get the pieces but tbh it’s all alt gear trash in a week, buy the new crafted gear penta meld it and your gonna be BIS for awhile. I hate it because it invalidates EVERYTHING you Earned from Zodiark and Hydaelyn but I’ve been around since the beginning so I know the formula this game rolls with , hence why all my crafters and gathers are 90 by week 1. It’s bad design but I’ll be too busy counting all the Gil soon.

Depends. Some prog BiS for Savage prefers normal mode gear over pentamelded crafted due to substat allocation (DNC recommended some normal pieces over crafted last expac because DNC doesn’t really want skill speed, so it was better to take the normal mode items that didn’t have it if the crafted pieces did; BRD also chose normal mode pieces with Crit over crafted back in SB because of how meaningful it was to the job). We’ll find out on Tuesday. The EX stuff will be irrelevant though.