EX mount drop rates still trash.

[SaitoHajime]

For the love of god please increase the drops rates. Do the devs really think it’s fun, running the same trial repeatedly, possibly 99 times is fun? Just to roll single digits when they do drop? When people can be doing other content or leveling other jobs..

[koko-on-da-forumz]

It's a relic from when they pretended to give people a reason to keep playing past patch day.

If you're not having fun, don't do it. But there's really nothing else to do, and they can't design infinite interesting fights every patch.

[Zumi]

Its always worked that way. EX mounts have a very low drop rate when they are first released, they get a first buff and a second buff later down the line. They been doing this same formula for awhile now.

[Jeeqbit]

After most ex trial releases, I have not even seen it drop or only seen it a few times without looting and had to get the 99 totems.

It is genuinely something like a 2% drop rate until they buff it and make it able to be bought with totems.

I think the drop rate is fine, but I would prefer to only have to do it say... 25 times. However, I appreciate that they made most of them only need to be done 50 times in Endwalker at least.

[Aurelius2625]

According to a third party website, I have over 116 kills logged of EX1. I have LITERALLY never seen the mount drop once. Not once. Not even drop. Not even drop to roll and lose to. EX2 I have seen the mount about five times. I have won the mount on that last time. I sincerely was gaslighting myself into believing that the EX1 mount simply didn't exist and my game was bugged...in a multiplayer game lol.

[BigCheez]

No. If you don't want to grind it out, don't grind it out. The problem here is people thinking that they need to obtain every item in the game, not the drop rate. An MMO needs at least a few flashy things that are very hard, time consuming or require luck to get. We don't need to get rid of the few that remain in XIV.

99 totems over the course of the next 8 months or so, until they become available to buy with totems really isn't that much. It's 1 clear every 2-3 days. If you want the mount but don't want to farm out a drop or the totems, wait until the drop rates are buffed and you can do it unsynced later.

[koko-on-da-forumz]

An MMO needs at least a few flashy things that are very hard, time consuming or require luck to get. We don't need to get rid of the few that remain in XIV

Holding up the ex mounts as examples of this is wild.

Those things, and savage mounts for that matter, are a dime a dozen shortly after launch. The only things you can flex come from long grindy achievements, which I'm sure OP wouldn't like very much either.

[BigCheez]

Holding up the ex mounts as examples of this is wild.

Those things, and savage mounts for that matter, are a dime a dozen shortly after launch. The only things you can flex come from long grindy achievements, which I'm sure OP wouldn't like very much either.

Not really. The ex and savage mounts are generally fairly desirable on launch. They become more accessible later in the contents lifecycle but I think that's ok.

[DrForester]

There is no good reason to make people wait 8+ months to buy the mount with totems. That should be available immediately.

[Toutatis]

Meh I just get the clear and don't bother with the mount. I queue when I want and if I get it, good, if not (missing 2 lynx) I do it when they increase drop rates. It's just a useless pixel mount that changes nothing in my life. I find zero enjoyment from doing the same fight over and over