I just used 1239 raid tickets and only got 1 SSR hammer. Is that drop rate normal, or am I just unlucky? I don't think I can farm another 3000 tickets...
1000 tix 1 hammer 1 dark eido
Don't worry too much about trying super hard to MLB a 2nd copy, just 1 additional copy is fine (although more is welcomed, ofc). The Dephyne hammers are basically fillers in the grid anyways because they can't be MLB, you'll want to replace them with Nephtis/Samael hammer whenever you can, and each additional LB is about 300 atk (400 with hammer bonus), which is not nothing, but not a big enough deal to really worry about by the time you have phantom grids going (particularly because dark - and if you're maining dark, you'll probably already have the hime hammers anyways). The biggest thing they do is allow you to power the phantom hammer's 30 assault skill, which will make up for having 2 filler, non-mlb weapons. Hell, even if you got zero additional copies, using a dark SR hammer as filler works fine. The most important part of the hammer grid is the 3 UE hammers (if you are thinking of splitting anything and bricking, these are what you want to use it on).
The truth is, until raid weapons get MLB (maybe years from now), going hard in these events is generally just not worthwhile. And since it's dark, just doing the minimum and keep waiting is imho the best approach. By the time they actually become good again (and I hope they do), the meta may have already changed drastically.
Arent we able to find out how future meta is like by looking at the previous 1 year version of the Japanese version?
And my following ~1000 Tickets found me 1 Eidolon. And one direct drop.
So I'm still one weapon short. And one Eidolon short of a third Delphys, if I even want that, har. Too bad it's not gonna happen. Just didn't get to farm nearly as much as I wanted as work and RL got in the way.
So anyway, I thought I'd make a video of the quick and easy off-element kills I was doing, but of course it turned ugly: