Salvage Changes

[Kirbyprime]

I would say luck, based on the day and night thing, my group shouldn't have gotten any NM pops during the day (bees) but we got to the Rampant at 4:00 in-game time. Either that or it's moon phase, forgot to screenshot the moonphase and I forgot what it was at the time =(

[Wizerd]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

[Avinor]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

Yes, you are certainly more deserving of drops. My heartfelt condolences at having to deal with other people's percieved luck at an instanced event.

[Wizerd]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

Yes, you are certainly more deserving of drops. My heartfelt condolences at having to deal with other people's percieved luck at an instanced event.

I never said we deserved deimos, we don't even want that anymore since the DRK got it. The point was that we don't get the drops we want, where as other groups who are new are getting all the drops they want.

[Eldelphia]

Words fail me. Get back to discussing Salvage changes, please.

Has anyone else noticed the following:

Higher spawn rates of Gate Widow / Skirmish Pephedro (one group saying it spawned multiple times, Wafik's getting boned)
Increase in cell drops from Wamoura / Flans on 1st / 2nd floor of Bhaflau

No Gate Widow/Skirmish Pehpredo for us at all on the run to Bhaflau we did since the update. Cells seem more or less the same. We're always swamped in them and we can't blame it on a thf.

[terraflarex]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

Yes, you are certainly more deserving of drops. My heartfelt condolences at having to deal with other people's percieved luck at an instanced event.

I never said we deserved deimos, we don't even want that anymore since the DRK got it. The point was that we don't get the drops we want, where as other groups who are new are getting all the drops they want.

Like hell!
Macha's Coat for the love of god... Stat!

[LD]

...so Salvage is better now, right? (Y/N)

[terraflarex]

Easier. Too easy in some cases.

[Almalexia]

Definitely better. We can now complain about 35s full time and cells will never distract us again.

[LD]

cells will never distract us again.

and that's all I needed to hear. Thanks.

[Almalexia]

I... I meant in the discussions on BG. You still actually need to farm the things to some degree. It's not like there's a Jailer of Fortitude made entirely out of imbued items wandering every floor of Salvage and you can just pluck Opacus cells off their asses.

By the way, great gimmick for Salvage II.

[LD]

I knew what you meant, if people have nothing to reasonably bitch about while trying their best, then the problem is solved.

[Wizerd]

I knew what you meant, if people have nothing to reasonably bitch about while trying their best, then the problem is solved.

Eh, I killed all 6 Opacus dropping Lamia on 1F last night and got only 1 Opacus Cell, plus the one from the starter chest making 2. I don't think drop rates are up at all in Arrapago, personally, except the QQs being able to drop Prae/Incus now.

Also killed 6 Undulatus dropping Lamia on 1F and only got 2, was kind of disappointing.

We had a lot of complete dud Lamiae last night, more than I usually saw before the patch, it was quite irritating. HP drops are worse than the patch for us also, and Incus drops are the same.

[Xerlic]

Wow. Every lamia we killed dropped something on our last Arrapago except one. The first RDM on the SE path on floor 1 didn't drop anything, but we've never gotten anything to drop from it ever. We think that it doesn't drop cells at all. Can anyone disprove this?

We also got tons of Humilus Cells. Everyone on the run had one and this isn't going out of our way to get them.

[Lhexh]

Exact opposite of us. Ever since this update we haven't been able to get HP cells at all. We always clear SE wing completely and pre-update we used to get 3-4 HP cells at least reliably but in the 3 runs since update we've gotten 0, 2, 1 cells forcing us to go east on 3F every time for more HP.

[Genosync]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

so like I heard thief helps get more drops

and I also heard said group you're getting pissed off at because they're getting some kind of drops at least brings two thieves at a minimum and sometimes 3, and then got like 3 LV35 pieces last night (demios body, freya feet, hikazu or w/e legs, yes, two drops off chariot, it was amazing)

so maybe you should bring like thieves.

(also that only puts us at two body pieces in 15 runs, so I wouldn't think it's that amazing)

[aurik]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

so like I heard thief helps get more drops

and I also heard said group you're getting pissed off at because they're getting some kind of drops at least brings two thieves at a minimum and sometimes 3, and then got like 3 LV35 pieces last night (demios body, freya feet, hikazu or w/e legs, yes, two drops off chariot, it was amazing)

so maybe you should bring like thieves.

(also that only puts us at two body pieces in 15 runs, so I wouldn't think it's that amazing)

Beats our 1 body piece in 22 runs handily, and yes we always have TH2+

[Genosync]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

so like I heard thief helps get more drops

and I also heard said group you're getting pissed off at because they're getting some kind of drops at least brings two thieves at a minimum and sometimes 3, and then got like 3 LV35 pieces last night (demios body, freya feet, hikazu or w/e legs, yes, two drops off chariot, it was amazing)

so maybe you should bring like thieves.

(also that only puts us at two body pieces in 15 runs, so I wouldn't think it's that amazing)

Beats our 1 body piece in 22 runs handily, and yes we always have TH2+

doesn't hurt to have like, more than one thief. seriously.

they have hand-to-hand and do slightly decent damage. we get through all the regular NMs in like 50-60min now, and that's with us being a little lazy.

[aurik]

I'd rather have 1 thf and only 6 people, we have no problems killing everything in the zone. Getting drops is a different story.

[Wizerd]

Has anyone else noticed an influx of new and undeserving groups getting tons of 35 drops, where as groups that have been around a while are getting nothing?

This has been happening to me and frankly it's pissing me off. At least 20 arrapago runs and we've seen 2 Deimos's Cuirasses only, 1 went to a MNK cuz we didn't need it, and the other we just the other night, went to a DRK fortunately.

so like I heard thief helps get more drops

and I also heard said group you're getting pissed off at because they're getting some kind of drops at least brings two thieves at a minimum and sometimes 3, and then got like 3 LV35 pieces last night (demios body, freya feet, hikazu or w/e legs, yes, two drops off chariot, it was amazing)

so maybe you should bring like thieves.

(also that only puts us at two body pieces in 15 runs, so I wouldn't think it's that amazing)

Beats our 1 body piece in 22 runs handily, and yes we always have TH2+

doesn't hurt to have like, more than one thief. seriously.

they have hand-to-hand and do slightly decent damage. we get through all the regular NMs in like 50-60min now, and that's with us being a little lazy.

The second THF isn't increasing your drop rate Geno, you guys are just getting lucky. 'sides, it only pissed me off that night cuz we were having such a shitty run with HP cells and such, we had to skip Bhoot to kill what we wanted. We bring 7 people typically, including one THF.

Frankly, I don't want body pieces, I want pieces people are actually going to be able to upgrade (Feet/Legs are cheap). Apathy buys out all the Khroma ore and Imperial Wootz Ingots because they have money. Another thing is it's just slightly annoying because, at least from what Restrat told me, it sounds like you guys aren't even going to make an effort to upgrade your gear until you move servers. Who knows when that'll be, it certainly doesn't seem soon.

2 Deimos in ~20+ runs, and only 2 Deimos, kinda bites... And there's no way you've done 15 Arrapagos with your new LS, wouldn't around 8-10 be more accurate? Not that it matters, I'm just a frustrated player who can't get drops despite knowing what I'm doing.