4-man dungeon bosses not lootable, is it a bug or working as design?

midore

First time encounter on one of my character lvl 37 in Volenfell. 2 bosses (golem in steam room and the final 3 golem bosses) all were unlootable after the fight.
In my party there was a VR12 party member. Also I had done Volenfell as few days ago on another character. So I'm not sure, if the boss is on loot-timer, or someone higher lvl than dungeon helping might affect the loot or just simply bosses do not drop loot all the time. (even if its trash loot)

Pls advise.

AshySamurai

Yep. I'm also had this situation few times. Mates can loot boss, all fine for them, but I cant.

SirAndy

I wonder if the VR player pushed the level requirement for the whole dungeon up to his/her level? If you're 5 levels or more above the mobs level you won't get any loot. That is true for any zone, not just dungeons.

That's the only thing i can think of. Volenfell is what again, level 35ish if memory serves me well?

I soloed spindleclutch the other day with my VR 12 and i did not get a single loot item from any of the mobs, as expected.
;-)

TehMagnus

It's Lag. ZOS hasn't rebooted the servers for 1 month, this is part of the things that happen.

UrQuan

With the current system (no idea how it will work once dungeon scaling is introduced) having a high level member in the party shouldn't affect the loot the other players get. I did the 3 level 28-31 dungeons yesterday using my level 41 healer in a group with 3 party members who were all in the appropriate level range. As expected, I didn't get any loot from anyone (except for the quest rewards), but the other players I was doing the run with got loot.

So yeah, I don't know why you didn't get any loot, because you were supposed to get it. Sounds like a bug, but I have no idea what would cause it. Were you having lag/latency issues?

Natjur

You only get loot if your within 5 levels of the mob's level.

If you are grouped with someone outside that level range, you have to do 25% of the damage to 'mark' the boss as loot able by youself. (it is possible to heal and mark the boss as loot-able, but its not as clear if the main dps is a player outside the loot level range)

So if some high level players are running you through an instance, get them to heal and let you do 25% of the damage before they kill the boss or you will most likely get nothing.

Also some dungeon quests require you to kill some bosses to update, and again, they may not update if you do not do around 20% of the damage (but get the group let you do 25% to make sure it updates) So high level players are useful powering you through the instance for the free skill point, but not for loot, unless they let you do enough damage on the boss.

In general, if the player\players in your group who are outside the loot range, do over 75-80% of the damage, the other members within loot range will get nothing.

UrQuan

Natjur wrote: »

If you are grouped with someone outside that level range, you have to do 25% of the damage to 'mark' the boss as loot able by youself.

So if some high level players are running you through an instance, get them to heal and let you do 25% of the damage before they kill the boss or you will get nothing.

Really? Wow, I didn't know that. So that would explain why the other players in my 3-dungeon run yesterday got loot just fine even though I was 10 levels above the guys we were fighting: because I was primarily healing and letting the 3 other guys do the vast majority of the damage.

Talrenos

WHo cares, its poor design here, but even if it worked, your loot would be 2 Gold.