Six months of Sortie would feel better if Sortie were a more efficient use of our time.
There are a lot of ways SE could tweak things to make it feel less bad without making prime acquisition any faster.
If you could spend an hour a day and walk away with 150k EP, a little progress towards a +2 earring of your choice, and 500k~1m in drops on top of the muffin rewards, people would be a hell of a lot more enthusiastic about Sortie, boring or not.
Completely agree. Especially on the earring part. As i'm farming my 1m Gali I get more annoyed at how broken the JSE earring system is.
Looking like a 4% chance of a +2 earring from a +1 case. With 22 jobs, we get a 0.1818% chance of a +2 earring for a specific job from a +1 case, or 1/550. Now what are the odds of perfect augments? 20%? We get 1/2750 chance of a perfect aug +2 for a specific job per +1 case.
With a suspected 1% chance from upstairs bosses and coffers and a 5% chance of basement bosses and coffers (except aminon 100% drop), the +1 case drop rate is pretty poor. For the average group not spamming aminon, an average of one +1 case a week is realistic.
So at one chance of a perfect augmented +2 earring for a specific job per real life week it will take on average 53 years. Even a group doing aminon as much as possible and getting a +1 case a day you are looking at 7.5 years to get a perfect augmented +2 earring for a specific job, by which time the same group would have completed all of the prime weapons to final stage even if the cost per weapon is 10m gali. You should have all jobs perfect augmented +2 earring by then, but still..
Pretty certain this makes the odds of obtaining a perfect augmented +2 earring for a specific job the worst odds in the history of the game by far.