Sortie +2 Earrings Do Not Exist

There isn't really a complaint here. It's clearly written in a way that expresses support for the team and love for XI. It's moreso laying out drop rates from their sample and asking for clarifications on why drop rates tend to skew toward the base 6 jobs. Also asking if they're considering adjusting the drop rates by job to make for a more balanced gameplay experience for all jobs. (Tbh I feel like the "balanced gameplay experience" could have been explained a bit better, but that's just splitting hairs...)

Yes there is a note specifically about the +2 earring rate as earned from +1 boxes:
ジョブの分布率や入手率の違いを考慮した上で、+1のケースや+2のイヤリングの入手率を改善することは考慮されているでしょうか。
"Given the differences in earring distribution among jobs and acquisition rates, are there any plans to adjust the acquisition rate of +2 earrings and/or +1 boxes?"

The skew towards the base 6 jobs is pretty hard to argue against, but a sample size of only ~1k +1 boxes still leaves plenty of room for variation (consider the movement of BRD and COR between normal and +1 boxes). DRK is definitely getting boned though lmao.

There isn't really a complaint here. It's clearly written in a way that expresses support for the team and love for XI. It's moreso laying out drop rates from their sample and asking for clarifications on why drop rates tend to skew toward the base 6 jobs. Also asking if they're considering adjusting the drop rates by job to make for a more balanced gameplay experience for all jobs. (Tbh I feel like the "balanced gameplay experience" could have been explained a bit better, but that's just splitting hairs...)

Yes there is a note specifically about the +2 earring rate as earned from +1 boxes:
ジョブの分布率や入手率の違いを考慮した上で、+1のケースや+2のイヤリングの入手率を改善することは考慮されているでしょうか。
"Given the differences in earring distribution among jobs and acquisition rates, are there any plans to adjust the acquisition rate of +2 earrings and/or +1 boxes?"

The skew towards the base 6 jobs is pretty hard to argue against, but a sample size of only ~1k +1 boxes still leaves plenty of room for variation (consider the movement of BRD and COR between normal and +1 boxes). DRK is definitely getting boned though lmao.

It's something like 8:3:1.5:1:1 for +6:+7:+8:+9:+10 augments. Veryyyy poopie.

Just got this a few minutes ago

Seems kind of like the HQ rates in crafting. Roll for HQ. If you HQ, then roll again for the type of HQ: HQ1, 2, or 3. This would be like...a tier 3 craft or so. Trying to get a T3 HQ result on any item, regardless of your skill or equipment, is pretty obnoxious and generally involves many, many attempts (unless you get crazy lucky)

Much like Shinryu, SE loves to dangle that carrot attached to a string that you may sometimes get close to, but they keep pulling it away. And by the time you finally get the carrot, you've wasted an extraordinary amount of time. Enough time that could have been spent, you know... actually doing something enjoyable with your life. This isn't fun. It is work. And they make you work so super hard for rewards that really aren't worth the time because they don't want to spend any extra resources on making regular content.

Either way, I am not surprised by how low the drop rates are. The sooner players get what they want, the sooner players unsubscribe and SE loses money.

Just a couple small math corrections.

4% * 4.55% is 0.182%, not 1.82%
4.5% * 4.5% * 4.5% is 0.009%, not 0.09%.

(0.05)*(0.071) is actually 0.355%, even worse.

Curious if the crews that are hitting Aminion every day or 2/3 days have piled up a bunch of +2s. Seems feasible some of them maybe at 6 or 7 +2 earrings

and i see some Old Case drop +1 ear

Considering they planned for this to be the final content of the game, they likely set up the drop rates to be extremely low assuming people would be playing it for a very long time.

Because they're they only cases that can...

and i saw Ra'Kaz. Sapphire drop from Acuex with thf Treasure Hunter

and i saw Ra'Kaz. Sapphire drop from Acuex with thf Treasure Hunter

Someone opened blue chest when acuex died.