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OmegaShinkai posted...

Flan Princess in FFIV had a 1/64 chance to appear in the last dungeon, and to get Adamant Armor you needed it to drop the Pink Tail, which itself had a 1/64 drop rate

Also the pink tail had a far less than 1/64 drop rate. It was 1/256 but the way drop rates work in FF4 is first it checks to see if 1/32 drops. If it does then it stops dropping items. Then it repeats the process for 1/64, 1/128 and only then after failing those three checks does it get a chance to roll on the 1/256 drop table.

You fight five of them at a time though and sirens guarantee you encounter them so it actually wasn't that bad. Takes maybe 5-8 hours to get enough pink tails for your entire party.