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Boss drops on the 1st run fixed?

LoLoBootyLoLoBooty
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edited April 4, 2017 in General Discussion
While playing on a fresh character I noticed that when beating a boss for the first time you only get generic drops. For example I was running Hilder Forest and on each first run I would only get Obsidian, or Ebony cloth, or enhancement stones. Then on the second run I might get Matur hair or some boss specific drop. Considering the craft recipes are already ridiculous this is the type of thing that makes it that much harder to collect mats.

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  • 2edgy4u2edgy4u
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    i think you're just unlucky. though i'll pay extra attention as my karok starts hilder forest soon to see if i can disprove this properly
  • IkarsuIkarsu
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    RNG in a nutshell. If you're grinding troll mats, from personal experience you're in for a fun run.
  • LoLoBootyLoLoBooty
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    2edgy4u wrote: »
    i think you're just unlucky. though i'll pay extra attention as my karok starts hilder forest soon to see if i can disprove this properly

    Well I hope you report back. I definitely think this is a thing not just in Hilder Forest either. I've seen the same behavior in any S1 episode for a boss drop (that is not a break-off).
  • DownIoadDownIoad
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    I was playing two new characters over the past weekend and I did not happen to notice 'generic drops' but what I did notice what that I had to run some story quests more than once to get the story item.

    In the past I got the story items every time 100% if my memory serves me correct. I found this to be odd.
  • PrototypemindPrototypemind
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    Some of them are RNG. I've only had it happen on two characters I think, but for instance, the Giant Yeti Horn from Snowman Alert doesn't drop if you get the wrong room configuration for the map. I can't recall any boss drops behaving one way or another the first time through, but it wouldn't surprise me. Easy way to increase the grind & time played.
  • 2edgy4u2edgy4u
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    DownIoad wrote: »
    I was playing two new characters over the past weekend and I did not happen to notice 'generic drops' but what I did notice what that I had to run some story quests more than once to get the story item.

    In the past I got the story items every time 100% if my memory serves me correct. I found this to be odd.

    had to run prairie entrance twice to get all 4 quest items, because there seems to be a limit of 3
  • 2edgy4u2edgy4u
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    i got harma bone necklace, matur hair and zyarga sword fragment first time running those.
  • Order5Order5
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    I think if you have a substory, bosses and mini-bosses are almost guaranteed to drop the item you need. Prairie Entrance has always had a weird thing with the mushroom, but usually it was because I had to manually pick it up instead of assuming auto-loot would handle it. The small yeti horn in Hoarfrost Depths is a similar thing where you have to manually pick it up from killing common yetis, but this is also RNG based because you may not get any maps with yeti mobs in Snowman Alert.