Ebon Shield?

RomansXXI
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Does it exist? I’ve been farming Crypt of Hearts 1 and 2 Vet and Normal almost every single day at least 10 times a day for the past 4 months with both guildies and randoms and have been offering a 10k gold bounty on anyone who can find this ever elusive shield. I’ve received every weapon and every piece of armor in every trait from every single set in those dungeons and never have seen a single Ebon shield and neither has anyone else. What the hell is the drop rate on this thing? I feel like I’d have better luck getting a radiant mount opening 15 crown crates then getting this shield.

Can someone confirm that this shield does indeed drop or has dropped WITHIN the past 6 months? And that I’m not losing my mind entirely? If I have to do Crypt one more time I might cry, even spell power cure wasn’t this level of impossible.
  • Colecovision
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    PC/NA - I have at least one from a vet chest. Probably 2 weeks into looking for leviathan stuff. That was 2 or 3 months ago. Hundreds of chests later, still just one leviathan necklace and 1 leviathan ring. Lots of ebon everything and I could equip a trial team with lich gear.
    Edited by Colecovision on March 23, 2018 11:31PM
  • RomansXXI
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    I have 6 pieces of leviathan rings and necklaces it’s ridiculous
  • witchdoctor
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    Rule #1 of gear farming: you will get a metric plethora of the set you could care less for.
  • Alamakot
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    Ebon shields exists, have on my tank (PC/EU). But got them long ago...
  • Unfadingsilence
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    I have a total of 6 on Xbox NA easy to farm on normal and get it from the first and last boss
  • AlienatedGoat
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    Dropped 2 shields a few weeks ago.
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  • ssorgatem
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    I got 2 of them in 3 runs of normal CoH two weeks ago.

    Just what I needed for my health tank.
  • Armatesz
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    Ebon shield does drop, but is an extremely rare drop to find. Kind of like trying to find an overwhelming surge resto staff.
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  • PerArdua
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    Yes they exist but if you are wanting them for a tank I suggest not using weapons and shield as when you bar swap yours (and everyone in range) health will drop then regen back . Not a major issue but I have seen big hits turn into 1 shots because of this
  • Peekachu99
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    Farm chests on a magikaNB. Honestly for anything non-DLC this is the way to go. You’ll get a shield in 3h or less.
  • RomansXXI
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    Peekachu99 wrote: »
    Farm chests on a magikaNB. Honestly for anything non-DLC this is the way to go. You’ll get a shield in 3h or less.

    I think my problem could be that I’m grinding on my tank and they obviously aren’t going to give me a tank set on my tank character. I’ll try farming on my healer now
  • starkerealm
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    PerArdua wrote: »
    Yes they exist but if you are wanting them for a tank I suggest not using weapons and shield as when you bar swap yours (and everyone in range) health will drop then regen back . Not a major issue but I have seen big hits turn into 1 shots because of this

    This is why I decon or vendor Ebon weapons and shields when I get them. I think I've vendored two or three shields.
  • Albino_Dunmer
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    Lol I’ve tried farming for a Lich Resto staff in Crypt of Hearts...I’m at well over a hundred runs and I’ve issued a 100k bounty every run when not running it with friends. Major pain in the ass. I have notoriously bad RNG though. I just buy everything I can with gold. Still haven’t even gotten Leviathan daggers.

    It’s like that dungeon is cursed or something...
    Edited by Albino_Dunmer on March 24, 2018 8:15PM
  • grkkll
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    Lol I’ve tried farming for a Lich Resto staff in Crypt of Hearts...I’m at well over a hundred runs and I’ve issued a 100k bounty every run when not running it with friends. Major pain in the ass. I have notoriously bad RNG though. I just buy everything I can with gold. Still haven’t even gotten Leviathan daggers.

    It’s like that dungeon is cursed or something...

    Ruzozuzalpamaz's Charged Barb, seemed fairly common, think I have 5 or 6 across ALTs, they would have dropped while healing though
  • starkerealm
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    Lol I’ve tried farming for a Lich Resto staff in Crypt of Hearts...I’m at well over a hundred runs and I’ve issued a 100k bounty every run when not running it with friends. Major pain in the ass. I have notoriously bad RNG though. I just buy everything I can with gold. Still haven’t even gotten Leviathan daggers.

    It’s like that dungeon is cursed or something...

    Wait, what?

    857A5BCBA37D7A96CD9575469D5351DD9E717920

    EDIT: Also have two of the unique, Sharpened, inferno staves from that set... and a unique frost staff. :\
    Edited by starkerealm on March 24, 2018 9:07PM
  • RomansXXI
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    This is why I decon or vendor Ebon weapons and shields when I get them. I think I've vendored two or three shields.

    When you equip 2 shields and 2 weapons of a specific set on both bars you do not see a stat change as the stats are identical on both bars. I usually just make sure both my shields also have the same trait and quality. I’ve tested it with my groups using plague doctor
  • Lightspeedflashb14_ESO
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    RomansXXI wrote: »

    When you equip 2 shields and 2 weapons of a specific set on both bars you do not see a stat change as the stats are identical on both bars. I usually just make sure both my shields also have the same trait and quality. I’ve tested it with my groups using plague doctor

    Your health doesn't change but the group's does.
  • Katahdin
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    RomansXXI wrote: »
    Does it exist? I’ve been farming Crypt of Hearts 1 and 2 Vet and Normal almost every single day at least 10 times a day for the past 4 months with both guildies and randoms and have been offering a 10k gold bounty on anyone who can find this ever elusive shield. I’ve received every weapon and every piece of armor in every trait from every single set in those dungeons and never have seen a single Ebon shield and neither has anyone else. What the hell is the drop rate on this thing? I feel like I’d have better luck getting a radiant mount opening 15 crown crates then getting this shield.

    Can someone confirm that this shield does indeed drop or has dropped WITHIN the past 6 months? And that I’m not losing my mind entirely? If I have to do Crypt one more time I might cry, even spell power cure wasn’t this level of impossible.

    I have 3, one from a chest (I think) and two from the end boss of CoH2 on normal iirc, might have been one of them from CoH1 though, all on normal. It isnt that common
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  • ANGEL_BtVS
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    I actually had an ebon shield drop this past week from a mob in the dungeon. That was a nice surprise. I now have two - but based on the above I probably shouldn't use them. Wonder if ZOS knows about the glitch and if they are planning to fix it.
    Edited by ANGEL_BtVS on March 27, 2018 12:04PM
  • lillybit
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    Had one drop yesterday, in sturdy too, and I almost never run either of the CoH dungeons - it wasn't even from a boss, just a random drop from the first group of mobs right though the door. Shame of it is I don't play a tank, probably never will and I couldn't get anyone else to take it, so it's now sitting in my bank taking up space because I couldn't bring myself to decon it.
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  • Asardes
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    From what I've seen the end boss drops generic jewlery slightly less than half the time and generic weapons, including shields abut the same, with the rest being the boss' named drop, which is often a weapon. Since there are 12 types of weapons including shield, and 3 sets, the chance for getting a shield or resto staff is slightly less than 1/72. So you're looking at ~1.2% chance of getting that shield or resto staff from the end boss and much less from the chests since you have armor mixed in as well there. As others have pointed out using Ebon shield is bad since you make the HP of everyone else in the group bounce up and down for ~1.5K every time you bar swap. That's why every build guide recommends using Ebon on the body. The chances of getting Ebon armor pieces is much better, since you have multiple bosses in dungeon, and you only have 7 possible armor slots. So you're looking ~5% from any one of them, 4 times better odds than weapons. On the other hand the Lich resto is pretty good, since that's a set you can proc from the back bar. I have been using it for quite a while on my Sorcerer in PvP. Leviathan set is utter garbage though, since you can craft or easily farm much better ones.
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  • lardvader
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    Yes got 2 infused in October / November 2016. Don't use them because of the bar swap issues. Still keeping them just in case.

    Same for Worms - have all weapons in good traits but can't use them in groups. Works well for solo play.
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  • Merlin13KAGL
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    Your health doesn't change but the group's does.
    In the case of Ebon, it doesn't matter, unless you bar swap at the exact moment someone would get one-shot without the extra 1k health.

    You have two scenarios:
    1. Someone's at full health: You swap, they temp lose 1k that regens back (or gets healed by HoTs that are probably already ticking anyway) No worries here.
    2. Someone's not at full health, and since Ebon changes max health, not current health, they will effectively see zero difference either way.

    You want to steer clear of sets like Imperium weapons for the temp loss for this reason, but with Ebon, it will not be noticed.

    Just because you don't like the way something is doesn't necessarily make it wrong...

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  • josiahva
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    RomansXXI wrote: »
    Does it exist? I’ve been farming Crypt of Hearts 1 and 2 Vet and Normal almost every single day at least 10 times a day for the past 4 months with both guildies and randoms and have been offering a 10k gold bounty on anyone who can find this ever elusive shield. I’ve received every weapon and every piece of armor in every trait from every single set in those dungeons and never have seen a single Ebon shield and neither has anyone else. What the hell is the drop rate on this thing? I feel like I’d have better luck getting a radiant mount opening 15 crown crates then getting this shield.

    Can someone confirm that this shield does indeed drop or has dropped WITHIN the past 6 months? And that I’m not losing my mind entirely? If I have to do Crypt one more time I might cry, even spell power cure wasn’t this level of impossible.

    Of course it exists...but shields are the rarest of all drops. I have an Ebon shield...because like ALL shields from sets that interest me even marginally, I stashed it when it dropped. The only easy shields to find are those that are quest items.

    To be honest though...Ebon doesnt even interest me, I still maintain its a garbage set only useful for perma-block tanks that don't have better things to be doing(regardless of how Meta the set is) casting igneous(or fragmented) shield every 6 seconds using some set that boosts magicka regen is superior...or Imperium which procs often enough to be more effective, or hell, even Beckoning Steel...Kags for fast rezzes, etc. virtually any other set offers more utility than Ebon from my perspective. As a tank I NEVER see anyone drop down to just 1k health and recover...its usually 2-3k health for a hard hit...or dead, the times that a measly 1k extra damage mitigation comes in handy are rare indeed. The only reason I even have Ebon gear is for those times I run trials and cant get a spot unless I am forced to equip it because trial elitists think its BIS because "all tanks use it"
    Edited by josiahva on March 27, 2018 5:08PM
  • Slack
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    I have one, but no use for it :neutral:
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  • profundidob16_ESO
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    2days ago one dropped for me while I was running nr 25 normal in there to farm the weaps to no avail....rngesus....
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