Alexandrites

[deshende]

I'd go out on a limb and say 100% on nms now for cotton purse.
Did bhaflau ramparts run tonight. Saw 4 gate widows and 2 pedi-bees, each dropped a cotton purse (no armor though ; .

People that used them reported getting between 6-17 alex per purse.

Here's to hoping that adjusting alex drop rate included boosting rampart nm spawn rate!

[Mokou]

We didn't have the right jobs/people to do boss, but we got pouch from Hammerblow, Gears and CC, Gear dropped 35 too which is nice. We also got 3 Alexandrite from a single Gear while killing gear train. 51 total.

Edit: We didn't get pouch from Gear or Dekka so it's not 100%, maybe 50%.

[Amele]

Let's assume cotton pouches drop from all NMs. Has anyone defeated an NM, a unique mob that can drop armor, without receiving a pouch?

yes, our first QQA tonight did not drop a pouch. one of the QQTH's didn't either.

our lowest was 6, highest was 18

I'm going to say that 20 is probably max

didn't do boss, we didn't have enough healing for it hah.

[Darkslitter]

Lin Purse from boss =o 76 from it HOLY FUCK total of 122 from SS run

[Slott]

linen coinpurse off boss. 99 alexandrites.

[Darkslitter]

linen coinpurse off boss. 99 alexandrites.

wow way to one up me

[Slott]

156 total alexandrites from run.

[vinelle]

From our Arrapago run tonight. Only 2 single drops from maybe 12 gears/ramparts.

Pouches are bazaar-able.

Woefully inadequate bump so far.

[Waef]

Nice, I was gonna guess the ones from bosses would be ~50-75, but it looks like maybe 75-100? Either way, if you can do a boss every day, and average about 100/run, that's only 42 weeks! Well...at least it's better than 27 years.

[Slott]

Have 87k ichor 150k tokens, 1/50 assaults...but fuck this alexandrite step. This is still worse than original relic, and since i have a mandau and relic/mythic is gimped offhand, I lost a shitton of desire to complete this.

[Kylen]

Looking like ~200-250 Salvage boss runs to get enough Alexandrite for 1 person to upgrade? Thanks but no thanks, SE.

[Darkslitter]

Looking like ~200-250 Salvage boss runs to get enough Alexandrite for 1 person to upgrade? Thanks but no thanks, SE.

seriously, this alone would take the same amount of work to get a normal relic, then combine that with over 100 nyzul runs that can't be done while you're doing the salvage runs. Not to mention it'll take 50 unique assaults which while you can probably do some of them while you're spamming salvage, you won't be able to do salvage every day if you don't do a select few of them. Oh yeah you're not allowed to get einerjar items for about 25 weeks worth of einherjar. Hmm I can't think of anything else to make this a huge pain in the ass...oh i know a few titles that are inconvenient to get because by themselves the NMs are useless.

That's enough bitching from me... sorry to rant, but seriously...

[Lyramion]

30k alexandrites are a real punch in the guts. "dratically reduced" should in no way be more than 10k

[Arthars]

Have 87k ichor 150k tokens, 1/50 assaults...but fuck this alexandrite step. This is still worse than original relic, and since i have a mandau and relic/mythic is gimped offhand, I lost a shitton of desire to complete this.

yo

i already gave up on nagi + the fact that nagi's WS and enhancement sucks lololol

maybe i should make knife for my thf......but hell do you think its better to make a mandau? lolol

[SamanosukeShiva]

did arra

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3143/...228a78d6_o.jpg got 12 alex from this

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/...5b162f2f_o.jpg
got 9 from this

[Slott]

Yeah, offhanded mandau doesn't even give 20 atk anymore. Fuck this. SE is retarded, 30k is a stupid number. This is like ROZ relic in addition to needing all the other bullshit steps. All the other steps could be done with friends gaining points together, and this part shits all over that. Retarded, purely fucking retarded.

[Kaylia]

21 alex...lucky you.

The requirement is bullcrap, and I hope they nerf it again. There has to be at least 1 person per salvage group who will attempt to upgrade (at least for the first year), and I can't imagine seeing a ton of affordable alexdrite out there.

[edit]
Let's keep crying until Square enix nerf it again....it worked well lately, and I wouldnt mind another nerf here.

[Kilhart]

First RR we attempted spawned 5 Gate Widows, and all 5 of them dropped Cotton purse. Alexandrite ranged from 9-17 per purse. Next spawned 0 NMs, so yeah. I can't say for sure that it's a 100% drop from Gate Widow, but I'd probably bet small sums of money on it.

[Arthars]

looks like better to pick either relic or mystic..........

and for now it seems relic cheaper + way better in terms of stats, damage and WS lolol

only 1700 currency needed! compare to months effort and 30k rocks

[Kaylia]

looks like better to pick either relic or mystic..........

and for now it seems relic cheaper + way better in terms of stats, damage and WS lolol

only 1700 currency needed! compare to months effort and 30k rocks

Don't forget the "occasionally attack twice". It has the potential to be much better than any relic. But yeah..the requirement is lol'able right now