Quote Originally Posted by Yukichi View Post
Item drop eidos and the snatch ability increase the amount of bronze and silver chests only. Stars are in gold chests, so their drop rate won't increase. The eidos are better suited for lower level dailies and other quests where the sought items are in bronze and silver chests.

During advent events, only N, bronze and silver mats will increase. I've tested using a MLB anzu with a support sleipnir, anzu or vlad, D'Art with snatch 2nd and Mammon for 3 events, casting snatch on every enemy in rounds 1 and 2, and using all 3 snatches twice on the boss. In the end, the increase was 5-7%. It saves a few battles when the rewards you want require a majority of non-gold mats. Reduced elemental boost from the eidos and reducing damage in order to cast snatch often offsets time saving, so It's best to use them in a way that doesn't slow you down too much.
Granted 15 runs isn't much, but couple that with the fact that I used double drop eid during last raid event and got 0 SSR drops, along with my other union member who has tested it and noticed a difference, and I think we may be onto something, like maybe there is a cap on the number of chest drops, and too much item fin will push you to the cap with bronze and silver chests, not allowing the golds to drop.

How about phantoms? They drop from the pearly chest, right? Are they effected by item find?