Whats the drop chance for pink tails?

[Heru]

Already used over 50 alarms for summoning the Princess flans and haven't had any drops yet.

[SoloExceptional]

Originally it was 1/64 or 1.56% chance but they patched it in Oct 2021 to increase the drop rate but I could not find what that increase was.

In another forum post, someone indicated that they moved it from the 4th slot on the drop table to the 3rd and it helped substantially. I know I had originally fought Princess Flans for 3 hours and did not have one drop and never tried again since the patch.

[SolusEmsu]

The drop rates for items in FF4 are a lot lower than they might seem at first.
There is only a 1/20 chance an enemy will drop an item at all, and then if that roll hits, it then rolls which item to drop. So the drop chance is not great.

1/20 chance for each Flan to drop an item in general, and then I think a 1/16 for that item to be a tail, or something like that. It ends up being something like a 0.39% chance to get a tail per Flan killed according to a wiki. It is rare enough that I stopped at 1 for the achievement rather than going for 5 to get universal best armors like I was originally planning.

I grinded up to level 90 or so trying to get a 3rd Protect Ring but eventually gave up on that because 4th slot items are so rare.

[Electric Cupcake]

There's no super bosses or bonus dungeons in this version, so tail farming is pointless.

[Haddon]

Honestly, just cheat. Use WeMod, 100% drop rate. It has made my PR runs much less irritating. Also been fun to turn exp earned to .8 so I am constantly under-level and struggling, but because I get all the rare drops I have a lot more options (especially true in ff5 and 6).

[Judeo-communism]

I got mine in about 30 Sirens. It took me well over 80 to get Cockatrice

[Haddon]

Originally posted by Dimlhugion:

Pink Tails, Crystal Rings, and the Wyvern Lance are rather easily farmed via Sirens, which as you're probably aware are purchasable at the Hummingway shop on the moon in the latest update.

Note that "easily farmed" doesn't mean "drops frequently." I simply mean you can stand in one spot and blast through Siren after Siren to quickly chain the encounters. Other rare BiS equips, such as Ribbons or the Artemis Bow + Arrow, require the old "run up and down a corridor" technique -- and you aren't even guaranteed to encounter the enemy you're trying to farm while you do it.

So if you REALLY want pain, try farming 3 Ribbons from Dark Sages + 2 sets of Artemis Bow + Arrow from Moonmaidens in Bahamut's Lair B1. Pink Tails are cakewalk compared to that.

I don't know the specific drop rate but as Haddon said, you could cheat/mod your way to getting them if you wanted to save a lot of time.

Even with the mod, you still have to grind up the items, too. It doesn't guarantee all 3 or 4 drops per mob, just one, and it is usually still their first 2 items. But it cuts the time needed farming by probably 80%

[LightGaming]

Thanks for the WeMod suggestion, I got all achievement related drops in 15 minutes