Slots

[Neosutra]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but do the slots dissapear after trading one card to them?

My group has popped one of them before, and cant for the life of me remember if it stayed up after we did.

Edit: Anyone notice only the first gear we kill in any room drops a card? Or has anyone else had other gears in the same room drop armor/cards?

[Hiruke]

Yeah, it was mentioned. Slots unfortunately do disappear once a card is traded.

[Neosutra]

Ya, thats what I thought I remembered. Kind of a bummer since we get 2-3 cards a run.

[Sci]

Card drops are random, you can kill a room of gears with no drop, but they aren't a rare drop.

We've tried various things with the slots, I collected all 4 cards and traded them to a slot and nothing happened. I've traded the 'wrong' 3 cards to a slot individually and nothing happened. And we've traded two of the correct card to a slot, the NM pops, but only one card is consumed.

[Neosutra]

Card drops are random, you can kill a room of gears with no drop, but they aren't a rare drop.

We've tried various things with the slots, I collected all 4 cards and traded them to a slot and nothing happened. I've traded the 'wrong' 3 cards to a slot individually and nothing happened. And we've traded two of the correct card to a slot, the NM pops, but only one card is consumed.

Ya, i guess the only unanswered question is if the slots respawns anywhere.

As for the gear drops, idk, maybe its just my group, but whenever we farm them:

No drops from entire room or First one drops card.

Maybe if gears are part of a "clear all these mobs to pop X", they dont have to drop anything, but if they are just a room full of gears, then just the first will drop cards.

Perhaps just coincedence, but 5/5 on getting card on first drop from each room, and nothing from the other gears.

[Wulfgang]

We've actually had the highest armor drop rate from the gears, two dropped Njord's Trousers back to back in Bhaflau and a Bhaflau Card on like the 3rd kill. Don't rule them out if just trying to farm.

[Sonomaa]

we should do a salvage gear location complilation, so we can maybe finish some pieces

[Sci]

You can kind of see that already on the wiki. http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Category:Salvage

So as of now people could be upgrading the Ares body and Marduk Hands.

If you trust the info on Airforce's site http://f31.aaa.livedoor.jp/~airforce/salvage.html

Then combining the two sources you could upgrade:
Skadi Feet
Morrigan Hands

I'm already pretty sure some of Airforce's information is incorrect, like lvl35 Skadi feet dropping from Dekka.

The biggest missing puzzle piece for most upgrading is the lvl35 piece NMs. All the missing Poroggo Madames in Zhalyom, popping the dormant ramparts in Bhaflau, just killing the qiqirns in Arrapago, and Citadel Chelonian in Silver Seas.