Quote Originally Posted by Elexia View Post
SE did have a better system for it:

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_Fire

However people would be pissed if SE used things from FFXI (even though they have been.)
I liked the system of fighting the summons in FF11 every day if you wanted to. I can't see them using this for any significant content they plan on bringing out though, since they probably don't want to hand out guaranteed loot everyday and then people get bored after a couple weeks.

Garuda was a step in the right direction with getting totems every fight and still having a chance to get an actual item drop.