FFXIVARR Lower stats for token items

[Orophin]

Well I never said 3 pieces should drop every time, and the game isn't smart enough to see "Oh these people already have all these other pieces of gear, let me drop these other ones instead!" so there's still a bit of RNG working against you. I went 10 weeks in Karazhan in WoW trying to get my tier headpiece before seeing one drop, while the other ones dropped to the ground because nobody even needed them. Just an example, but there's still the possibility you can have that sort of luck where you see repeats of things when you don't actually need them.

Also, I don't want this to sound like a personal attack, but you keep bringing up this "item needs to be 'rare'" argument; all I can see is "I want to feel special because it took me x amount of runs to actually get this piece and everyone else should have the same luck as me." We know that we're going to see guaranteed drops and it should be a given that you're going to see the same things drop more often. This really takes away the idea that most items will be "rare".

They need to create scenarios like the relic weapon quest for things they want to be truly rare. Even that's not the best example because once you beat the RNG gods for hamlet, it came down to having a lot of money, time and a skilled group to do the dungeons/primal fights. But this quest did separate those truly dedicated to the cause from those who weren't. (like me)