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Knights aren't dropping loot [Resolved]
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: mdaikon.8509
The first day, I ran the event three times (9 knights). First time, before the patch, got chests off of two of the three knights. After the patch, I got nothing (this is all solo on an engineer).
The next day, I ran the event three times again (8 knights as we failed to kill the third one on the first attempt). I got chests on all of them. I only ran a party for the 3rd event.
What I found interesting is that I didn’t always get the chests immediately. I hung around healing some of the downed people and tried looting again and got the chests maybe 15-20 seconds after the event was finished. In one case, after defeating the 3rd knight, I had gotten the chests about 10-15 seconds earlier, but when I looted again after getting my attunements, I got a power core (the only one I’ve received so far).
Maybe it was more proximity to the dead knight than time or maybe I’d somehow pleased Zommoros and he was rewarding me, I’m not sure, but I thought I’d through this out there as I was having issues the first day.
I was wondering how rare getting them from the 5 box reward was. The first time I finished the event, I grabbed the 5 boxes instead of the scraps and ended up getting 3 sets of the ugly things. I’ve done the event 3 or 4 more times since (always grabbing the boxes) and haven’t seen another (thank goodness, lol).
This is probably a bug that will be corrected, but I’ve noticed that the FT #2 skill will sometimes double-hit if you let it go to the extent of it’s range without manually exploding it. I was a little surprised to see Orr trash lose 2/3 – 3/4 of their health from one hit. Started paying attention and I’m definitely seeing the ~1800 from the trail and ~4500 twice from the explosion. That may also explain some of the obscene number of apparent hits I’m seeing when I fire it into a group of mobs. It’s not a bad amount of damage for a 6 sec cooldown. It didn’t use to do this before they allowed you to explode the shot early and I’ve never seen it double-hit when I do explode it early.
I was using FT with pie and ghost pepper poppers before the nerf, so the high number of crits made the FT ideal in that situation (healing for around 1000hp per mob per flame jet), but was ready to give up on it with the new IC on food until I discovered this.