Element of Ignis Doesn't Drop
Aestus drops it directly (via chest bobbing at the right side of your UI), while Ignis does not, so you have to manually pick it up from the reward chest that spawns after its defeat.
Since you said you did loot the chest, I assume it must be a new bug as it did drop for me just a couple of days ago.
Start the customer support ticket now. If you get the item, great — you can update the ticket to say the issue is resolved.
If not, then you won’t be waiting as long to help resolve the issue.
Is it possible that you missed looting the chest the first time you killed Ignis after being eligible for the drop? If so, the game’s reward mechanic might think you’ve gotten the drop (even though the collection doesn’t).
Other possibilities: you got it on a different character or you already converted it via druid stone. (I’m sure you’ve thought about both of those; it might be worth double-checking, if only because it doesn’t take long to do so.)
Regardless of what happened: good luck and please let us know what you find out.
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It drops from the wyvern itself like the eastern one.
When I was trying to get the Aestus and Ignis stones, I killed Asestus first and got it right away. I went and helped finish off Ignis next (got event and loot credit), but I didn’t get the Ignis drop. I tried again the next day (after the next Daily Reset), killed Ignis first, and I got it.
The wiki also states that the items drop from the Daily Chest (and links to the boss/Ancient Chest). https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Element_of_Ignis
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Element_of_Aestus
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The wiki also states that the items drop from the Daily Chest (and links to the boss/Ancient Chest). https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Element_of_Ignis
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Element_of_Aestus
That explains then why they didn’t receive it: If you have already killed Aestus on the day, the daily reward has been used up (as both count as one event).
Weird that it dropped from the daily chest when I got it from a chest that fell where it died.
I hopped on the map last evening for a few minutes before heading off to bed, saw Ignis was up, flew there, died (because the client hadn’t loaded the corrupted fire texture yet and I landed in a huge patch of it), hurried back again because Ignis was almost dead, got a few hits in, got the daily chest and a small event reward (wiggly chest), but again no Element of Ignis.
Start the customer support ticket now. If you get the item, great — you can update the ticket to say the issue is resolved.
Good point, I plan on doing so tonight.
Is it possible that you missed looting the chest the first time you killed Ignis after being eligible for the drop? If so, the game’s reward mechanic might think you’ve gotten the drop (even though the collection doesn’t).
Possible (it was late and I was tired), but not super likely. But if so that would point towards the cause of the bug: the Element of Ignis should drop whenever the necessary conditions are met (the collection is unlocked, Element of Ignis is not yet part of the collection, the player got kill credit for Ignis at least for the first time that day), and not attempt to do so only for the first time these conditions are met, regardless of whether or not that attempt succeeds.
Other possibilities: you got it on a different character or you already converted it via druid stone. (I’m sure you’ve thought about both of those; it might be worth double-checking, if only because it doesn’t take long to do so.)
Never hurts to double-check the bleeding obvious, precisely because it is bleeding obvious. :-) But no, I can rule out both of these.
On a possibly related note, like this guy I have never seen anything in Hanjo’s third tab, regardless of which of the backpack collections was unlocked and which items of the current collection I had already acquired.
Weird that it dropped from the daily chest when I got it from a chest that fell where it died.
Pretty sure that was how it was for me as well.
If that is the case it provides another possible cause. If you are too far away when it dies then the item won’t be there because you were too far away for loot to drop.
I got both elements on the same day on the same character. I had to do two different cycles. I killed Aestus then went to Ignis. Died during the fight with Ignis, respawned but it died on my way back.
If that is the case it provides another possible cause. If you are too far away when it dies then the item won’t be there because you were too far away for loot to drop.
I’m leaning towards this idea or something similar myself right now, although see below. I submitted a CS ticket slightly more than an hour ago, and anyone with any sense of irony can probably guess what happened next: I got into a map with a nicely advanced map event chain, killed Ignis again, and the Element of Ignis finally dropped.
To sum up:
1st kill: in the air on the way back to Ignis from Mariner’s Landing WP after having died. No Element of Ignis.
2nd kill: in the air on the way back to Ignis from Mariner’s Landing WP after having died. No Element of Ignis.
3rd kill: alive and on the island. No Element of Ignis.
4th kill: in downed state on the island, minimal event participation. No Element of Ignis.
5th kill: alive and on the island, Element of Ignis finally dropped.
So whatever caused this less than robust drop behaviour, at least I have the thing now and can farm for the remaining druid rune stones…
So whatever caused this less than robust drop behaviour, at least I have the thing now and can farm for the remaining druid rune stones…
Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting us know.
John Smith: “you should kill monsters, because killing monsters is awesome.”
Don’t forget to update your CS Ticket to let them know you no longer need assistance.
If that is the case it provides another possible cause. If you are too far away when it dies then the item won’t be there because you were too far away for loot to drop.
I’m leaning towards this idea or something similar myself right now, although see below. I submitted a CS ticket slightly more than an hour ago, and anyone with any sense of irony can probably guess what happened next: I got into a map with a nicely advanced map event chain, killed Ignis again, and the Element of Ignis finally dropped.
To sum up:
1st kill: in the air on the way back to Ignis from Mariner’s Landing WP after having died. No Element of Ignis.
2nd kill: in the air on the way back to Ignis from Mariner’s Landing WP after having died. No Element of Ignis.
3rd kill: alive and on the island. No Element of Ignis.
4th kill: in downed state on the island, minimal event participation. No Element of Ignis.
5th kill: alive and on the island, Element of Ignis finally dropped.So whatever caused this less than robust drop behaviour, at least I have the thing now and can farm for the remaining druid rune stones…
There are also some overly complex requirements for kill credit/participation in this game. For example I can quality for the champ bags from all 3 champ in the jungle wurm pre but still not quality for event credit. Not even bronze. At other times I cam basically just stare at one of the mobs in an event and qualify for gold …
I got both in the same day which had them as a daily too. With that said, for Ignis it was a “press F” loot unlike Aestus.
Don’t forget to update your CS Ticket to let them know you no longer need assistance.
I did that before coming here, but yeah, always update those tickets, people!
I got both in the same day which had them as a daily too. With that said, for Ignis it was a “press F” loot unlike Aestus.
I only had to press F to loot the daily chests when Ignis died while I was still on my glider on the way back to the island. Otherwise, autoloot did the job, including the last time where the Element of Ignis was simply one of the things that dropped into my inventory when Ignis died.