Nemo Ante Mortem Beatus
Yeah, I also noticed I didn't actually lose any of the loot when the quest finished. And that's good about the marketplace; that means farming the items myself wasn't a complete waste of time.
BTW, does anyone know the drop rate of the various loot in this game? The wiki lists what the enemies drop, but not the drop rate for each item. I mean, I know there are a lot of variables (ghi, luck, your CL compared to the enemy's CL), but there must be a constant for each item/enemy, right? For example, Alarmskeeters seem to drop Bronze a lot more often than Taiko Drums.
I don't think anyone has gone to the trouble of doing the calculations because of all the variables to control. I think the only thing close to it is when the best level to farm yellow rooms in DMS was experimented on.
One of the former devs may know, or Swarf perhaps. But given gaia's priority list, it would probably be forever and a year to get an answer.