Balance: Treasure Hunter & Rare Band

[MakoSipper]

Does anyone know what's a good balance between Treasure Hunter and Rare Bands so I can maximize rare drop chances? I thinking maybe 2 TH / 3 RB?

Or should I use just Rare Bands?

[decimus28]

It's all just awful, tried 5 RBv2. And 4RBv2/THv2. Took me over 500 hours to get all the tails.

[MakoSipper]

Originally posted by decimus28:

It's all just awful, tried 5 RBv2. And 4RBv2/THv2. Took me over 500 hours to get all the tails.

I'm getting better results with 5 RBv2. Less items total, but better ones.

[MakoSipper]

I've run some statistics and, although there's a lot of missing info, I think it's safe to say that using 3/2 (either way, doesn't matter, but having 3 TH should be better since you'll get more common items) should get the best results to find the rarest item. But this is based on a few assumptions:

* Drop rates are similar to FFIV's
* The boosts provided by RBs and THs are the same related to the base item drop and rarest item drop chances. For example, if you have have a base 5% chance that an item will drop, and each TH will raise it by 5% (+100% per item), then I'm assuming each RB will increase the rarest drop chance by 1/64 (assuming 1/64 is the base chance for the rarest drop). I'm calling this boost per item "k".

https://i.imgur.com/UXBk5iJ.png

If all my numbers are correct, you still get about a 1% chance to find the rarest item, even with 5 V2 drop boost accessories. This is insanely brutal, especially if you can only find those enemies on a given moon phase, and even then they're rare.

It was already pretty brutal back in FFIV, but what made FFIV slightly more fair is that you had Sirens. FFIV:TAY is insanely unbalanced when it comes to drop rate... No shame in using a lot of tricks to make this easier:

* Turn the game's VSYNC off (on your GPU's control panel)
* Cheat Engine's speed hack (100x)
* Final Fantasy IV The After Years v1.0 Plus 13 Trainer (no HP/MP loss, enemies have 1 hp, their action bars don't fill, yours are always full, then have like Yang kick or Golbez cast Meteor and all others defend)
* Xpadder or a macro to spam the Enter key to go through the end battle screens faster without destroying your fingers
* Then all you have to do is turn auto-battle on, also some good music, and just walk around (or create a macro for that as well, but I couldn't figure out a way to do it).
* I think each moon phase lasts about 30 real minutes, regardless of what you do and of any spped hacks you might use.

[MakoSipper]

Well, here's an AHK script for running around and hitting enter to fight idle (hit "u" to turn it on/off)

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u::
PressKey := ! PressKey

Loop
{	If ! PressKey
		Break
	Send {Left down}
	Sleep 200
	Send {Left up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Enter down}
	Sleep 10
	Send {Enter up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Down down}
	Sleep 200
	Send {Down up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Enter down}
	Sleep 10
	Send {Enter up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Right down}
	Sleep 200
	Send {Right up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Enter down}
	Sleep 10
	Send {Enter up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Up down}
	Sleep 200
	Send {Up up}
	Sleep 50
	Send {Enter down}
	Sleep 10
	Send {Enter up}
	Sleep 50
}
Return

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