Demiatma drop rates are unacceptable

[Altina_Orion]

I know i'm late to respond to this, but they absolutely are not. It's a one time step and then tomes. It took me like 3 days of semi-hardcore play (we'll say 7 days of casual play) to get there. Frankly, they should have made the first step even harder than this.

[MicahZerrshia]

I know i'm late to respond to this, but they absolutely are not. It's a one time step and then tomes. It took me like 3 days of semi-hardcore play (we'll say 7 days of casual play) to get there. Frankly, they should have made the first step even harder than this.

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.

[YovelaLindswood]

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.

My idea was to have two fates spawn instead of the boring one fate train. That way you could divert to the areas you needed to maximize your chances of getting your lowest ones up to the rest. Also it would give some much needed player agency to the content.

[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.

[MicahZerrshia]

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.

Yeah, cause RNG can't do RNG things and just suck somtimes lol. Just because there are averages doesn't mean diddly since outliers can and do exist. Having a failsafe due to such outliers should be taken into consideration.

[Khryseis_Astra]

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 only got extras in 2 colors, but like you, I’m holding onto them until this entire relic process is done just in case. Not that I really think they would repeat this step with the exact same drops; it would probably be some other annoying RNG drop crystal entirely. lol but who knows? Maybe we luck out and can trade them for some gold or silver someday…

[hunter2]

I finished my grind, with a total of 25 demiatma earned. According to the Occult Crescent achievements I did exactly 100 CEs and 175 Fates. Taking the stated rates of 20% for a CE and 5% for a Fate gives me an expected value of 28.75 Demiatma, so I was actually slightly unlucky.
As a one-time grind it was excellent, I think the devs tuned it perfectly. I'm very very glad to not have the lazy tomestone relics of Endwalker. I have plenty of complaints about the current direction of the game, but they did really well here.

[NaoSen]

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.

[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

[Kunzite_Lockhart]

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