I have noticed there is no thread here that discusses this new addition to the game.
Since i come back to FFXI a few weeks ago, i can honestly say im not an abyssea person, what i have noticed is that the majority of players are out doing abyssea while older content is left alone, therefore demand for certain drops have increased a lot, due to the overwhelming job leveling of jobs like WHM and NIN.
When i started to farm, i noticed i would get Treasure Hunter Effectiveness.
At the moment i have THF 90 (TH3) plus a Thiefs Knife and Assassin Armlets +1, this brings me to TH5(TH3+2 to some people) and its really helped with those rare drops.
When i first started using TH5, often i could get Treasure Hunter effectiveness 7 early on in a fight, then it would go up to 8 after some work and stop there, but for some odd reason, one day i come back online and it had changed, so i only get 6 at the start, and 7 max.
Im still using the exact same gears for TH5, tried switching daggers around, but i can never reach TH effectiveness 8 again, im wondering if anybody else noticed the same thing?
Its hard to show any evidence into exactly how TH effectiveness works, i do know that if you have less TH, (i have been thf 90 before and took out my armlets and thiefs knife) like if you have TH3, the effectiveness went down to 4 > 5 although this was when my TH5 was doing a max of 8
The only time i have noticed my effectiveness have an impact on drops was in a Dynamis Tavnazia run, its very difficult to get effectiveness to go up in dynamis due to the speed the mobs die, but more often then not, if i got some effectiveness on it, we had 1-2 drops from the monster.
Let me know what you think. :)