Feedback on Occult Accessories

[HazamaKawa]

I want to preface my post with the fact I probably spend more time in here than the average player, I dont say this to make myself authoratitive on this subject but to let people know I enjoy the Occult Crescent as an overall gameplay ecosystem and wish to see it and future related contents be better than what it currently is.

As it stands accessory drops are way to low to be worth grinding to obtain. Having anecdotal drop rates lower than the demi-atma, which was already considred by some as too low, is not the way to have people engage with this content. I want to point out that having there be DoW and DoM gear split is good addition in my opinion as it gives players the social encounters of trading their drops with other players which is nice. However, i cannot excuse such abysmal drop rates mixed with getting gear you may neither desire or use.

I'm going to present some thoughts I have had on improving the expereince whilst keeping accessories being a grind and inviting player trade.
Firstly adding a visible pity system; such as a currency trade in, whether that is 9999 silver/gold exchange, sanguinite trade,"accessory fragments" where you need x amount to make into a accessory or a token system akin to the bicolours. Having a way to visibly track your progress would make the experience feel less like an endless grind and more of an actual path to power.
Secondly is just increasing drop rates (atleast to around demi-atma aquisition) but splitting each accessory slot to a different activity e.g. CE=Ear, Fate=Neck, mob drop=Wrist, bronze/silver chests=ring and then pot/bunny chest=deep ring.

I believe both or even just one of these methods could improve player enjoyment and retention in Occult crescent when it comes to the grind for this loot.

[Supersnow845]

Demi atma droprates are 1/5

Accessories are 1/10000

Accessories are too low but Demi atma drop rate levels is way too high for them

[Catastrophe573]

Demi-atma wasn't low at all. The 20% figure quoted by the post above me sounds about right. So maybe 3 dozen Tural fates or OC CEs per color? Yeah that's fine. That's probably what I did.

If the accessories really are 1/10,000 that's incredible. Exploratory Missions are supposed to be like old-school MMOs inside your modern FFXIV. So I guess here's your super-rare equipment drop? It's tradable for millions of gil by the on the markerboard!! Just like an old-school game. Good luck. At least the accessories aren't needed for anything.

[HazamaKawa]

You would be hard pressed to not join an instance during the first few weeks of the relic step starting and hear people talking about the demi-atma drop rates being "too low". I dont think atma drops were too low, but the point isn't to say statistically the drops were actually pretty high its about the players perception of drops.
I said to bring them around demi atma drops and not to demi-atma drops, even if you were it's still now a 1in10 toss up on whether you get the accessory for your role of choice. The gear is not actually valuable except for the artificial inflation via low drop rates so there's no reason for this to be a low drop rate unless it was actually powerful loot.

Having "old school mmo grinds" would be fine.. if it wasnt an item that is only releveant to a one area of the game that is going to be irrelevant to grind past the lifespan of the content islands updates. These items can be put up for sale for 10s of millions of gil but they are not worth the gil when they are neither worth spending gil on from the fact job mastery and a +2 gear set are already overkill when looking at forked tower even if you want to see it as a way to make gil the drop rates make it so any other form of earning gil is more worthwhile.
If you want to add proper "old school mmo grinds" have them in the overworld and have it release at the start of an expansion not in sidecontent that will be forgotten in less than a year

[Kaldiin]

I had all phantom jobs maxed prior to 7.4 and I came back to FATE/CE farming to level up the 3 new jobs. By the time I was done, not only I didn't drop a single accessory, but I didn't see a single person in my groups or even in the public channels claim getting one.
That is extremly discouraging, especially since I am now overflowing with silver coins and I have no reason to farm again save for accessories which don't drop at all.

And I am not going to spend dozens millions on items that are only useful in side content (and do not provide an "insane" bonus there) and have no particularly appealing skins.

If there is no update regarding the ways to obtain them, then I am completely giving up.