Demiatma drop rates are unacceptable

[Carin-Eri]

No joke, I'm actually holding onto the additional candies I got. I'm too scared for the devs to pull another middlefinger and actually tell us next step that you can use them for whatever devilish thing they would come up with. The player outrage would be colossal, but I still don't trust them one bit.
And in the case they actually do listen to your ideas for exchanging them, which I do appreciate, then keeping my useless candies will be sound anyway.

I'd say your concerns are justified to be honest - this image from the Live Letter livestream doesn't fill me with confidence in that respect!

[Kunzite_Lockhart]

Low drop rates are just a "feature" deal with it!

[Altina_Orion]

Lucky for you. Meanwhile I am sitting on 10+ materia for all but the SW corner, of which I have a whopping 0 demimateria. Went to farm outside the zone, 3 days of farming fates annnnnd still 0.

Should have been just 18 demimateria, the 6 different colors from very varying locations with no conversion method was a trash idea.

I don't believe that. at a 5% drop rate, you should get it within 120 for one type of materia, which would take a few hours for sure. If you have zero, you haven't worked for 3 days unless you are doing like 30 minute days.

[Nadda]

I don't like RNG grinding in any MMO.

This one wasn't BAD. but like...

Man can't you just like have me grind 999 of something? Ya know lol

For me grinding is fun when I'm building towards something and I can see the progress.
When it's RNG, you can enter into these states of frustration because you're no longer seeing any visible progress. You're going fate to fate, CE to CE and nothing for hours.

I know for my last Demiatma I as stuck getting the Verdigris one. I was definitely crashing out at the end.

Ask for the phantom jobs.

I do think that there should be some form of pity system for those.

Either a Job soul fragment where 10 times and you can make a Soul Shard?

OR

If you max out allllll the other jobs they are automatic upon completing the CE. I think that's fair and fun gameplay.

[Valence]

Well they gave the official response in the latest live letter of them thinking the drop rates are fine as is and wont change them as a result.

They sure do love their pachinkos over there

[SeriousPan]

I've almost finished getting the phantom jobs finished in mastery. I still don't have the freaking Berserker or Ranger jobs unlocked. I've done the CEs countless times and received nothing. I shouldn't get near 100% completion on levelling and not have the jobs drop. At that point the drop rate is unacceptable for me. I swear they adjust RNG on an account basis and some accounts just have worse RNG than others to try and keep content relevant and have certain players always grinding so they can keep the numbers up.

That's how desperate I've gotten. Tinfoil hat theories on why I don't have the stuff I need.

[Supersnow845]

I do think the 3 soul shards should have bad luck protection

If you have 9 stacks of mastery and somehow still have none of the soul shards then they should guarantee a drop of the next soul shards CE because that’s a case of your phantom experience being actively wasted because you can’t spend it on anything

I can’t imagine having that bad luck though, I’m hoarding like 25 ranger souls in my inventory hoping square will up the turn in rate