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    heavy metal plates

    so im trying to upgrade my masamune, was curious what everyone else was doing to farm these up, i realize its meant to be a time sink, but after spamming aello last night i ended up with one pouch with 10 plates after 40 kills, i feel like i could be doing better

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    It's all about the Aello with tons of mules

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    mules? and should i worry about proccing, or just kill kill kill, ive got 5200 voidstones so thats not an issue

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    Like extra accounts. This content was designed with droprates based around the assumption of up to 18 personal drops. And SE has remained adamant about that so doing just 1 character is pretty poor. And yeah trying to get a proc or 2 is good unless it's during campaign and you already capped

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    ahhh, ok, yeah that makes sense, thanks, so basically its gonna take fucking forever lol

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    Most people that farm them wait till campaigns and have multiple characters and even then a lot of times group up. Most others buy them or get them from ambuscade for efficiencies sake

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    Odin heavy metal plates x99 are 70k a stack. Is that a lot? I know nothing about it but am curious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalmado View Post
    Odin heavy metal plates x99 are 70k a stack. Is that a lot? I know nothing about it but am curious.
    Um what? Are you sure you don't mean single? Because according to the ah the lowest median server price is 65k a single with the highest being 80k

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    Quote Originally Posted by dasva View Post
    Um what? Are you sure you don't mean single? Because according to the ah the lowest median server price is 65k a single with the highest being 80k
    My fail. I just looked at the front page of ffxiah.com. To my credit, it does say Plate Of Heavy Metal X99 79,000. So I read that as 79k per 99.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kalmado View Post
    My fail. I just looked at the front page of ffxiah.com. To my credit, it does say Plate Of Heavy Metal X99 79,000. So I read that as 79k per 99.
    just a note, the front page of ffxiah.com always shows the price of the SINGLE, even when showing the stack listed. Not sure why it does that, but good to remember to click the actual item before you think you're gonna find a great deal when you get off work and get home!

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    Not looking forward to upgrading my lv90 masamune for this resason...

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    1212 plates to go... fuck. my. life.

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    That's only 85m gil!

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    Just check out the requirements to get final version of any rme lol

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    ill take 10k plutons over 3k rift cinder any day

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    I just bought all my heavy metal plates, as farming them yourself is very inefficient except for maybe during campaign.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Surealistic View Post
    ill take 10k plutons over 3k rift cinder any day
    I mean sure but it still sucks and there is absolute zero reason to do 3k riftcinder trials. Hell there is literally only 1 reason to do the 3k riftdross trial and it's still mostly pointless and terrible (read I'm totally 1k into it)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fwahm View Post
    I just bought all my heavy metal plates, as farming them yourself is very inefficient except for maybe during campaign.
    Pretty much this I've tried farming without the campaign up and it is a waste of time.

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    Except the developers themselves said lights beyond 150% red (1 cell) to unlock the plate slot have no further effect on drop rate the campaign is just a placebo effect if you want plates, if anything more red will mean more "high quality" drops replacing the metal slot which is shared (junk armor/weapons you don't want)

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