I’ve been trying to farm light and dark mats to evolve some monsters since I hit a power wall in the story. Wouldn’t be an issue except for one thing…the 42% cath rate combined with the ridiculous low spawn rate is killing my soul. It feels like fire\water\earth mats have a collective 90% spawn rate while dark and light have the remaining 10%. It took me 3 keys to get one halolamp and I got lucky because I caught it in one of the sub fights. I have NEVER seen a halo or dark materials spawn in the guaranteed capture fights of any tier.
So that means 10% chance to find one with 3 chances per 25 or 30 tickets and then once I do find one I have the 42% barrier to contend with. And let’s be honest, that 42% is bs. Anything lower than 70% feels like 5% realistically. All the rest of my monsters take mats from an event that isn’t currently open so it feels like I just have to either get REALLY lucky or wait until the events I need open up to evolve the other monsters.
There needs to be a way to up your capture chances by using silver to craft special cards or something. Make it super expensive if you want but give us something. I’m so sick of being powerless to do anything and this level of ridiculous odds stacking in layers is ticking me off. I like the game but this one aspect is soul crushing.
I’m not even going after mythicals here. I can see those being a grind and a half. I’m talking basic monsters. The more tickets I have to use ramming my head against the rng wall is getting maddening. It’s not like there’s even a strategy to it. I played all the darksouls games through without guides. I’m fine with difficulty and grinding. But this is just too much. If you’re going to have that low of a capture rate then at least let us target the element.
There’s a super power up event every 2 weeks that drop target elements, no catching required. All you have to do is complete the level. And it also costs only 25 tickets for 3 materials of the element you choose. The only rng then is a cycle between the different ingredients like: lamp, bottle, etc.
You get 3 ingredients of the element, all of which are a random mon from the above cycle.
It’s your bias. When you are desperate for those items, they never seem to appear, yet when you don’t need them you get plenty and you don’t remember those.
Sometimes luck is also simply against you. I was once trying to farm Crystalmouths from the Mouths of Truth -mission and they don’t even appear every time you do a mission. I got ridiculously unlucky and had to do over 20 missions to get TWO of them. Btw that’s counting only the missions where they appeared so I probably ended up doing close to 40. And when I don’t need them I always get them on the first try. Fortunately those missions also give a lot of XP so you will get rank ups and extra chances.
That said, I feel like the ingredient farming missions are stuck in 2017 and need an overhaul. Like Kirisune said, the “Elemental dungeon” is infinitely better than the regular missions even though there’s a lot of rng involved in that too.
Funny you mentioned dark souls, there are plenty of items there with drop rates of less than 10% Proof of a concord kept grind is real…
Also, make sure you use a monster with the skill “Lifeflip enemy” so you always get the max capture chance.
you boy to give a trick that the development not want to know if you put mostruos of darkness in your team ingredient that less will leave is the dark but if you put mostruos light on your computer is more likely get ingredients of darkness this technique I have worked ~~ 85% of the time
Proof of a concord kept grind is real…