So now that I'm getting a baby soldier all equipped up and ready to go for later levels I thought I'd be a bit more forward-thinking and farm my own symbiants, insomuch that I don't have to raise hundreds of millions to get good QL Artillery symbiants. That of course means farming the pocketboss patterns (and getting eight A patterns for Brutal Rafter before finding a C), getting the Novictum, buying the crystal, having someone assemble it, spawning it and killing it, a process that takes anywhere from 2-3 hours if I'm lucky...
... to get five Operative LH Artilleries from Adobe Suzerain and no other symbs. He's able to drop from a list of seven.
I get that it's a luck-based loot system and there's no real way to "control" it, but why would you ever need a boss to drop quintuple of one symb and nothing else? It's completely frustrating, especially for new subscription players that will inevitably need these symbiants as well and with some slots will have to either camp indefinitely or pay ungodly amounts of credits for single symbs. Is it too unreasonable to ask for much more variation on pocketboss' loot inventories... or at the very least, make pocketboss pattern camping not so utterly terrible that one or two patterns have five to ten times the drop frequency of others in the same blueprint?