IS there a better way to handle farming Dungeon drops?

[Maulclaw]

In late of last year, I made a thread venting out my frustration with how miserable my experience had become just to get the last two remaining pieces that I needed for my HW glam as I was going through the MSQ. At a time I had spent 7 hours in Sohr Khai just to get the pants and boots I needed. I've ran it a a few more dozen times since then with no luck, even after EW came out.

Is there anything that I'm missing or doing wrong? I've long given up on the concept of even working towards complete Dungeon sets, but I really wanna know if there's a way to actually work towards this properly without having my time wasted to such an extent. Should I just queue rather than form my own parties or go unsynced?

Like, how can people even feel motivated to work towards new gear when stuff like this has been so prevalent for such a long time? I'm all for using tokens to exchange for gear, but purely relying on RNG sounds like an absolutely nightmare.

[Slayer25c]

U get one piece of gear every time u run a dungeon for your class in a hw dungeons

[Slayer25c]

U get one piece of gear every time u run a dungeon for your class in a hw dungeons

At the end of the dungeon run

[TheMightyMollusk]

That only applies for leveling dungeons, not level cap dungeons, sadly. They really should just apply the system universally.

[rainichan]

The Berserker set shares models with some crafted gear. The High Steel set is crafted and you can buy it on the marketboards, and they're dyeable.

[Jettinson]

The Berserker set shares models with some crafted gear. The High Steel set is crafted and you can buy it on the marketboards, and they're dyeable.

I will quote from the thread's OP mentioned just to share the frustration

You're talking about the one that can be bought from the armor vendor in Ishgard, right? Unfortunately, it's green by default and trying to dye it leads to... unsavory results. It just doesn't look anywhere as good as the Berserker set. If there are other variations, I'm not familiar with them.

Also to add, an example of different dye set is the Skallic vs Snow Linen. The former is from the non levelling dungeon , you might have also see a set being sold from mog tomes too and the former is a craftable from EW. Both are dyable but they dye very different.

[Zel_Zackarias]

There's no real way around this other than to get a crafted or reskinned version of something used for a later expansions content.

But you're right. Dungeon loot RNG is abysmal. Running Aglaia for the tank body piece has been a nightmare. How long has that been out and I've only seen it drop 3 times and never gotten it. I've also never seen the majority of the ShB and EW minions and orchestrion rolls that drop from dungeons either. Star Bird? Forget it.

[Maulclaw]

There's no real way around this other than to get a crafted or reskinned version of something used for a later expansions content.

But you're right. Dungeon loot RNG is abysmal. Running Aglaia for the tank body piece has been a nightmare. How long has that been out and I've only seen it drop 3 times and never gotten it. I've also never seen the majority of the ShB and EW minions and orchestrion rolls that drop from dungeons either. Star Bird? Forget it.

I would rather do the Rathalos fight on the hardest difficulty 100 times in a row than deal with uncertain RNG. At least with the Rathalos fight I know I'll be getting pretty much everything eventually, as there's a token system. SE really needs to address this, but googling this up shows similar complaints that go as far back a s the game's release... so I highly doubt they'll ever fix it.

[Frizze]

But you're right. Dungeon loot RNG is abysmal. Running Aglaia for the tank body piece has been a nightmare. How long has that been out and I've only seen it drop 3 times and never gotten it.

I agree that chasing RNG sucks and that adding the guaranteed drops to cap dungeons(i always liked the idea that when the new expansion came out the old one would get the guaranteed drops) is a good ideas. However, this specifically sounds like a you problem. If youre chasing a specific piece and not using a class that can roll need that is a mistake. If you were playing tank, you would have guaranteed gotten this drop the first time it showed up unless youd already taken another piece that run. If this were a leveling instance it makes a bit more sense that you might bring a class who needs the exp over the one who wants the gear/glam, but Aglaia is current cap content.

[BaconBits]

That only applies for leveling dungeons, not level cap dungeons, sadly. They really should just apply the system universally.

God I wish they would do this already. I've been farming Ghimlyt Dark for the maiming chest piece and I've gotten everything except that. There's nothing more annoying than popping a chest open and seeing "Unable to take item you already have" pop up 5 times in a row.