FFXIclopedia talk:Drop Rate Policy

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Drop rates are currently way off do to some using Treasure Hunter while others are not. From pain staking data collected from a player on Fenrir that took the time to always kill 100 of a mob for their data collecting, and made sure that farming was not done during full or new moons, the following base drop rates appear to be true

• These are base drop rates, no TH
  • Common = 16%
  • Uncommon = 8%
  • Rare = 4%
  • Very Rare = 2%

There may also be Very Common and Extremely Rare drops By applying other known game mechanics I hypothesize that drops work on a 256 value, much like haste do to the repeated pattern of power of 2 in the drop rate percentages. We are currently working together to try try and figure out exactly what each TH level does.