Random Question Thread (FFXI Related)

Actually, speaking of MMM, trying to farm a Lycopodium Earring is driving me insane. Someone give me a hand with this, let me know if I'm missing anything. I am literally, no exaggeration, 0/345 so I must be (love you, mazecount.lua, thanks to Kayte who posted that!)

I am currently using this:

(in text form, that's 7, 14, 16, 17, 18, 100, nothing else - 7 for plantoid, 14 to make it the Flytrap, 16 to allow Lycopodium Earring to drop, 17+18 are higher level, 100 is go faster / more rewards)

to match this screenshot:
https://www.ffxiah.com/screenshots/82770

I have also tried:
-using 13 (Great Warrior) instead of 14 (Tiny Warrior), which gives the Goobbue instead of the Flytrap.
-adding combinations of 101 (less time), 104 (no spells), 103 (no abilities) to get more marbles.

I have not tried:
-094 (Lost and Found) because per Byrth's research (and hey you just posted here maybe you can confirm this):
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/User:Byrthnoth_/_Sandbox#Voucher_7:_Kill_a_NM

setting Lost and Found lowers drop rate on the actual items.

7, 14(resonating on M02), 16 are what I used to obtain the belt and earring. The maze also has 17, 18, 51, 71 and 94 to completely fill it out in case a more difficult enemy meant higher drop rate.

http://mdh.gamependium.com/strategies/mmm/voucher07.php

I used the same runes as you, but also had 051 (same logic as Zed, thinking that making it harder might improve drop rate), and the earring dropped for me.

I had previously used a setup that incorporated the Lost and Found rune, and went 0/hundreds for the earring (not really a problem, I was mostly interested in the titles). When I switched it up, the earring dropped within 10 runs.

edit: also wanted to mention that I used tabula M02 with rune 007 on light and rune 100 on thunder (no runes on fire and wind). I don't know if any of that makes a difference.

Sorry, didn't read closely enough. The ones that aren't in the .dats don't exist. The ones that affect a specific maze need to be picked up in that maze (e.g. the fishing ones come from the fishing maze, the ones that affect the goblin minigame come from that maze, etc.)

As far as Lost + Found with 07, I was not trying to get any particular item and was just doing it for titles / exploration so I didn't take a screenshot of what I was using, but when I stopped using Lost and Found I noticed an improvement in drop rate. Could be a "did they buff Ridill drop rate this update?" effect because I wasn't rigorously tracking it before/after because I didn't care, but I think I quickly got reraise 3 earrings for several characters after dropping it?

The old lore states that the harder the 07 fight is, the better the drop rate is, Navius / Zedoma seem to be on the right track. You can roughly track fight "difficulty" by how many marbles it yields, so things like the restriction runes (no magic, no abilities, etc.) and the might runes, job runes, magic runes should all help.

Edit: Worth noting as well that dropping Lost & Found really makes a lot of space for other runes that can make the fight harder, so that might be what boosted drop rates for me.

Runes to make it harder + resonating on tabula 02 it is! Thank you all! I'll keep you posted (well, actually, I'll just come back and brag if it does drop.)

Am I having a bout of extreme bad luck?

I have traded 1,584, fireworks, 4 statcks a day for the last 4 days; making 100% sure it is the lead Mirthful Ixion.

I have yet to get an Alicorn mount. I do in fact NOT have it.

Alicorn mount doesn't come from the Ixion, trade to the lead Alicorn in another zone - Qufim Island has Alicorns.

Thank you, I was beginning to get a bit worried about it.

Edit: Also, I feel really dumb. Again, Thank you. Got it in 10 trades.