Restoration Staff of the Red Mountain

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Platform: PC NA
Location: Stonefalls (Overworld, Delves and Treasure Chests)
Issues:

Sets that grant a bonus to melee damage will now drop more intelligently (i.e. a set with melee damage will no longer drop with a bow or stave).

All I seem to be getting for Red Mountain weapons are Destruction Staffs and Restoration Staffs, the problem with the Restoration Staff is that it is impossible to trigger the 5 set bonus. Why does this item even exist?


*Edit*

I'll post some pictures of the Restoration Staffs when I have the opportunity this evening.

Alucardo

Just gonna leave this here

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Alucardo wrote: »

Just gonna leave this here

I would be thoroughly disappointed if I picked that up

Alucardo

xRIVALENx wrote: »

Alucardo wrote: »

Just gonna leave this here

I would be thoroughly disappointed if I picked that up

Oh trust me, I was.. finally drop a weapon and it's a healing staff. Training trait was just the icing on the dog poo cake.

xRIVALENx

Nearly spit out my coffee reading that! Excellent way to start the morning off

pretzl

Intelligent drops are a *** joke anyways.
How is Ebon resto staff in charged considered "smart loot"? How about Destro staff of Alkosh in decisive?

This *** was supposed to be fixed with this patch, @ZOS_GinaBruno . It clearly isn't... Will we every get any clarification on this?

xRIVALENx

More surprises.....

Will add once the character handles disappear from the items just in case it is frowned upon

Mojmir

I got a bow for the mothers sorrow set, and it's 160 training lol

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Mojmir wrote: »

I got a bow for the mothers sorrow set, and it's 160 training lol

Sounds just wonderful. Found a Staff of the Dreugh King Slayer and a Maul of the Warlock yesterday...

Pallio

Got 2 Restoration VO staves yesterday, great job ZOS.

Ahzek

Actually its not completely wrong, as stupid as that may sound at first glance.

Especially a destro staff, with the 3 hit component of force shock, could make quite some use out off red mountain. Obvisouly the set is stam based, so there are limitations, but in a world where hybrids are viable a red mountain destro is quite the intruiging option.
That said hybrids arent viable (at least not for non templars) and thus such a drop simply leaves disappointment.

On a trivia note restro staffs can trigger red mountain with light and heavy attcks, since it does not have the "melee" requirement of other sets.

Zaldan

any chance ZO$ can remove ornate trait from quest rewards now we can get set items from quests, nice blue quality 2hander in seventh legion set with ornate, such a waste

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Ahzek wrote: »

On a trivia note restro staffs can trigger red mountain with light and heavy attcks, since it does not have the "melee" requirement of other sets.

May have to give the restoration staff a try this evening, I had assumed that light and heavy attacks were not weapon abilities.

ZOS_GinaBruno

We're going to dig into this one. Thanks for the reports and screenshots!

Paulington

I asked this before and the reply was that the "intelligent" drops were only designed for sets that give certain bonuses. For example you should never get a restoration staff of the set that gives extra DW ability damage.

However, it is incredibly frustrating to get endless ice staves of Alkosh from vMOL last chest. .

Chew_Magna

This is still happening quite often, items dropping that have no reason to exist. I haven't seen any change in the drop rate since 1T arrived.

xRIVALENx

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

We're going to dig into this one. Thanks for the reports and screenshots!

Thank you for the response!

If we come across more items of a similar nature should we continue posting pictures? Some of these sets may still have some relevance if run along with the Pelinal's Aptitude set.

Panth141

Does this include the Lightning Staff of Agility I got yesterday?

Preyfar

Panth141 wrote: »

Does this include the Lightning Staff of Agility I got yesterday?

Or all the resto and destruction Briarheart gear... that's almost all I get. If it's a weapon damage set I almost only ever get staves. Seriously, I got three sharpened Sunderflame staves, and it just... kills me, man. It kills me. I get sharpened in the things I can't use and Training/Prosperous in the things I can.

Koolio

2 sharpened elegant bows yesterday.

NBrookus

Ice Staff of the Sun... that one really hurt.

zerosingularity

You know that most likely ALL sets are not dropping intelligently? The number of resto staves of stamina sets and such are staggering. I suggest checking every set, and also checking to make sure that the intelligent drop function is turned on.

SirDopey

I'm at work so don't have screen shots but if red mountain shouldn't be dropping restros then why the hell does mother's sorrow drop a bow?!?!?!

Sedrethi

From what I could tell, most of the sets in the game still aren't dropping "intelligently" chosen pieces as mentioned in that patch note since One Tamriel's launch.

SirAndy

I have one in purple as well, gonna mount it to the wall at my house ...

olsborg

LOL that ice staff of the sun ^^ zos is trolling

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zerosingularity wrote: »

You know that most likely ALL sets are not dropping intelligently? The number of resto staves of stamina sets and such are staggering. I suggest checking every set, and also checking to make sure that the intelligent drop function is turned on.

Almost seems like it is doing exactly the opposite of what it was supposed to do.

raidentenshu_ESO

Is there any reason why this set has a restoration staff?



I got this from a Dolmen in Auridon. (PC-NA)

leowkwok

Here's my contribution to the non-intelligent drops.

AbbieGoth

@leowkwok actually that's a very, very good piece!! Sword-wielding spellcaster is actually ideal for magicka DPS - while dual-wield is preferred for the extra item, both dual-wield and two-handed have a passive bonus that increases overall damage, and this includes magicka!

leowkwok

@AbbieGoth Ah, well I'm pretty new to this game. I was thinking having that set on a staff would be much more beneficial. Didn't think many players who wield 2H would focus on magic attacks more than physical attacks