Do I have to run stam toons to get my magica gear?

f047ys3v3n · July 2016

So, after my first few runs of VSO HM I though great, ZOS has listened, this is a piece of content where we can actually get the gear in a reasonable amount of time. One bound jewelry peice of run and only 3 sets it could be from. Even better, based on what others got it looked like drop rates were more or less equal on the three sets all of which are good by the way. Vicious is best in slot for all stam PVE, Infallible is best for many mag dps though not all and has a great group buff, and Eternal is one of many possible best tank sets depending on a lot of build specific factors.

Many runs later I have come to suspect that "the D" was in fact hidden in that first impression. I have 9 Vicious with more than 2 complete sets, a complete set of eternal, and 1 single peice of infallible. Surprise surprise, the stam DPS friends I have seem to all have the opposite problem.

I would like a real genuine and honest answer to the age old question of whether or not drops in ESO are effected by account, build, or builds of the player getting them. I might add that in most games they are.... Need or greed systems exist so that players actually get what they want. ESO seems to me to be covertly doing the opposite and I would like a bloody definitive answer as it totally makes sense to me that I should have to run completely different builds than what I best run in some of the most difficult content in the game to get the gear that I need to run that most difficult content in the game better.

This is my RNG rage post for the day.

Ep1kMalware · July 2016

my stamplar is swimming in divines infallible. But I've got 6 rings and 2 vo necklaces. o=took like 200+ runs to ger 2ndivines pieces, infact I was sternly told to run it my mnb. soon as I did I completed what I needed 3 or 4 runs.

Panth141 · July 2016

Well, with update 11 you'll be able to trade the BoE drops with your teammates in the trial

DenniMyuu · July 2016

My Magblade got her gold jewelry Infallible Aether together in three runs. I am still looking for Vicious Ophidian necklace though.

Duiwel · July 2016

I wish this were the case OP my Magplar only gets Elegant ect.

Never ever get Vicious Serpent

Kelces · July 2016

Funny, I thought the same way in other games aswell, maybe you are just unlucky...

baratron · July 2016

Panth141 wrote: »

Well, with update 11 you'll be able to trade the BoE drops with your teammates in the trial

And from the PTS, this works very well in dungeons and normal Trials!

Sadly doesn't help with Maelstrom though, being solo.

elantaura · July 2016

To answer the question that titles the thread.... Yes .. Yes you do.
There is no other known way to assure a drop that than to run a character it is absolutely useless for.
Further to that to ensure an armour trait you want. Make sure your character is running every other trait.
RNG then sees you have need of these other traits and gives you what you don't want.
So to summarise run the exact opposite of what you want.
I'd like to say I am being sarcastic but..today after many varied runs my magblade got viper boots x3 ,skermisher stuff, hercines necklace and pants, ebon stuff. And finally it completely trolled me with ice staff of the druegh King.

dtm_samuraib16_ESO · July 2016

It's because they do not want you to get it.
I ran a mage, I kept getting heavy armor, some leather too.
NEVER light.
I made a warrior, and guess: he gets, indeed, medium and light.

Bah.

AugustoCP · July 2016

My Magplar healer just received 2 rings of Vicious Death (both arcane), and 2 legs of marksman(divines and impenetrable). Just saying.

f047ys3v3n · July 2016

current count:
6 vicious necks
5 vicious rings
1 Yakuda neck
5 Yakuda ring

0 Infallible neck
1 Infallible ring

Thats right, 17 total jewelry peices and only 1 is infallible 1/3 chance my hind quarters.

Anhedonie · July 2016

Dunno, I got yellow infaliable aether jewellery on my magdk. RNG being rng.

f047ys3v3n · July 2016

It took 20 jewelry pieces for me to get a full set of infallible. Current counts.

7 vicious necks
5 vicious rings
1 Yakuda neck
6 Yakuda ring

1 Infallible neck
2 Infallible ring

N0TPLAYER2 · July 2016

When I beat vma on a magic Templar I got a axe and shield. So I believe your theory holds up.

Dromede · July 2016

I didn't know Eternal Hunt was a drop set - i've never had it dropon neither one of 3 toons (magicka templar, magicka sorc, stamblade). I'm still waiting for a VO gold ring to make the 5-piece set complete. Overall, i made about 10 vso runs, so i think i got pretty lucky.

On another note, i have only 1 infallible piece of jewelry and 4 sashes in all kinds of crappy traits. Maybe you're onto something here lol.