Four-leaf Mandragora Bud  

If it does bring good luck where do you keep it?
on your characters inventory like equipment etc...
or
in your mog safe?

There is no "Luck" in this game.
All drops are programmed to drop at a set rate percentage so luck is NOT involved, just mathematics.

in every final fantasy game luck is a real factor and certain items bring more luck.if your not a believer then dont carry 1, if you are 1 or 2 inventory slots taken up doesnt really matter much.1 thing i did notice was when i got the bud i went too the fortune tellers in jeuno and for the first time they told me Fortune: favourable, so i might just hang on too 1...just in case.

How i read here in this Forum it say's we have to put this in the Inventory to get a lil bit more Luck on Droprate (5%).

If we Eat it it gives us VIT: -5 AGI: 3, what does make maybe sense, because the MOB is harder and the Drop is better, but i don't count on that.

I let my in Inventory and try to get the Wild Rabbit Tail too.

I wondering if its really helpfull or not.

ok this is how it works 2 leaf mandy bud gives you luck for drop on normal mobs and 4 leaf helps you out on bcnm and nm drops. For another thing yes you do have to eat it to get luck bonus. I just wanted to clear this up for the peeps who care.
ow ya BTW i have tested this many times every time i have used one in bcnm ksnm or anything with big ticket items i have got really good drops.

Edited, Aug 15th 2006 at 2:06pm EDT by evenmorechronic

what ARE the 3 "luck" items..this, millionaires desk and what else? :S

I normally dont get pulled into this "luck increasing" crap, however, is 4-leaf used in any quests? any synths? anything at all? SE wouldnt make a RARE EX food thats worhtless, so to me, logically, theres a good chance this is a 'luck' item

Leveling COR and going after the three famous lucky items. I originally went to the Yuhtunga Jungle and was there for two days with no drop ><.

Now I am convinced that the Mandies in the Jungle DO NOT drop Four-Leafs. So I head off to kill Alraune. Went as PLD/THF and got this in about 12 kills.

Off to the Tree...

here's my personal experience.

When I fought Tom Tit Tat, I stole this.
Got the Fruit Punches to drop 5 sec later.

Since i've had this in my inventory I am 1/1 on Spiny Spipi, 2/2 on Bomb King, 1/1 on Orcish Barricader.

Also have TH2...I think this is a TH+ item.

Thats just my 2 gil......

I have a friend that just did under observation and ate this.... he got peacock charm to drop... have another friend thats 0/30 >.> so.... i think it migh give ya sum sort of TH when ya eat it ya? :O

ok say that it was true that this gave a TH1...if I have TH2 will that like delete my TH2 with TH1?? if so then im throwing this off the highest tip top cliff in Gustaberg lol

There seems to be a debate about hidden luck affects. Previous FF games have a luck stat, which *subtly* affect a majority of elements in the game mechanics. It would make a lot of sense then that luck is certainly a hidden stat, and therefore would have hidden boosts. This is always going to be a point of speculation until someone from SE itself comes out and puts the rumour to rest, true or false.

I swear by the luck items, Im not after a debate on this, I have the space so I choose to carry them, also got the mill desk. Its a personal choice.

Just as a point of interest though I get nice claim rates on beasty seals and kindreds in ptys. one pty I got 6/7 beast seals...... a friend (This is NOT my maths) worked this out as a 1 in 55,987 chance...... may have just been my night I guess!

Have also got the chest 3/3 times in Treasures and Tribulations in Balgais Dais.

Now all I need is a FF Lottery!!! Now THERES a good fun idea!!!! 1000 gil a week, 6 numbers....... you know the rest. lol.

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Someone else got the Tom pop so I started farming for Silk Threads around the spawn area while still killing Mandragoras. I killed a Mandy and got the 4-leaf. My drop rate for the Slik Threads actually seemed to decrease.
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was experimenting with 4-leaf and silk thread the other day, and i think on a particular day silk threads actually dont drop that much. i'm still new and that time i didnt know anything about the moon and the days and how they affect things. so i'm guessing on a certain day the threads dont drop, because i (thf32/rng) did not get a single drop after killing like 20 over crawlers in Saruta, and when the next day came, the drops were back to normal.

this is my first poast so bear with me,
i got a 2 leaf drop off a tiny mandy just outsite windy woods, 5 kills later another tiny mandy droped the 4 leaf.

mabey haveing the 2 leaf increases your chances of geting the 4?

i only read like half of these post so if some1 alrdy said this im sorry. first off DON'T eat it ...second it increases the chances of obtaining items in treasure pool ...its not the same as TH.

Well my first lucky charm, a wild rabbits tail, dropped for me when i was leveling bst around Buburimu Peninsula. Then I go back there again, and guess what, I get a 4 leaf mandy bud. And coincidence or not, my luck has doubled. Just today I finished up mining and ended up with 3 platinums. Normally I never find those, or if I'm super lucky, I get one. Could be the lucky charms or maybe not. I'd rather eat the cereal if not. :P

I also want to brag about getting my Limit Break 1. I had 3 friends help me get it the other day and the Ninja had a 4 leaf bud. Well we first went to get the papyrus. Dropped on first mob. Then we went to get exoray mold; dropped on 2nd exoray. Then we went to get the item from bombs in Garliage Citadel, dropped on 2nd one. They were in utter shock on how fast we got them lol.

Edited, Tue Oct 11 09:11:24 2005

I have TH2 already, and eating this didn't seem to do anything. Beware if you eat one, as it takes at least 1 hour to wear (didn't time it). I got a pt invite right after and had to suffer having no acc food for a long while (if it helped with drops, it would have been worth it, but if anything I'd say drops were worse).

I got two within 30 minutes of killing mandies around the Buburimu Penninsula OP (a good place to farm since they drop cotton here).

i don't think it's superstition at all. there has been "luck" items since forever. i carry this and a lucky egg (and i should grab a wild rabbit's tail) everywhere i go. in every party about 80% of the Kindred Seals drop to me. given.. i suck at lots, but when it comes down to waiting for items to drop from Treasure, i usually get the good shyt :) (i DID lot highest on Assault Jerkin awhile back, but in THAT case, i think was just coincidence)

BUT.. it DID take a couple of weeks of it sitting in my gobbie bag to kick in.

just sharing the good news.

and "don't knock it till you've tried it".

I just got this night before last. And not long after I got it, about 4 crawlers in a row dropped silk thread.

So I got to thinking. There probably is something to this thing. :)

But, I think maybe it has a condition. Maybe it's only effective during daylight. Also I saw that my drops were less than stellar on darksday. If anyone wants to test this, that'd be sweet.

This isnt a lie:

I used this right when I entered dynamis sandoria, andthe FIRST MOB we kill, the 100 peice drops!!

THen later my SMN af feet dropped and i won the lot :3, coincidence maybe?

wooo i got sozu rogberry and use this, then if @#%^in die >< wooo life sucks i wasted this >< gah i hate tonberries, friend killed... no drop on knife -.-/

i think u must use the 4leaf! I was 0/14 on NM ashmaker gothblut, with 4leaf and 3leaf in my inventory (the bud in inventory never gave me a better droprate; and, the yagudos in giddeus always drop much necklaces). Then i used the 4leaf when i was rdm46/blm21, i caught the NM and got the priests robe. Also i got chest key from the first cursemaker i killed.
I dont think, that there changes anything, when u have it in the inv, because u cant equip the mandybud.

Its very rare, but u should use it. And i think it isnt soooo hard to get a 4leaf again. Try it with a job, that is 6 leveles higher, or so, than the mobs.


Edited, Sat Jun 11 06:54:09 2005

I got this around 2wks ago and it doesnt seem to have done much?
I helped LS guy with subjob items, and before when I camped emperor I was generally getting worm every 8-10 kills max, and it took 50+ kills to get it...
Then I must've killed around 70 ghouls to get magicked skull and no drop at all before he had to go ; ;

Then I do G1 and was there for 90, probably more kills across 6 NIGHTS!!! >< before I finally got a drop.
I killed a sapling in latheine and got first ever drop of herb seeds and vegetable seeds =P ...dont know if this is a particularly rare drop but I aint had either of them before, and got both at once lol
It is food though, so I was thinking...maybe you have to use it to gain the luck?
I dont want to go wasting it on the crappy food stats it gives, but it is beginning to bug me?
Next time I kill Jaggedyeared Jack or if I ever get near Stroper Chyme again (lol =P) i'll scoff it and see if I get drop! ;)

I've drop the 4leaf
Then the same day I've drop the monster signa

I decide to keep it in my inventory to keep testing: (bst/war never being thf) :p

- a lot of necklaces drop, more than without
- no drop from Torrent again 0/4 (except deodorize) (¬_¬')...
- neither from Lizzy (but only 0/2)

I guess if 4leaf gives luck, it a +1% drop rate and not a kidda hidden TH1 or TH2 :p



Edited, Thu May 26 12:02:01 2005