Maelstrom weapon dropping in nMA ?

SolidusPrime

I ran it 5 times over the weekend. I got:

-resto
-resto
-resto
-sword/mace

Then on the last ( and deathless) run I got some frost or cold mace, with an armor or ring of the same set. It was stuff that drops from the chests in between rounds. I took a SS of it in case it was a mistake.

TemplarHealz

I didn't get maelstrom loot out of my final chest. I submitted a ticket and they told me I don't always get what I want.

I understand that... I do assume that the game gives you a RNG bonus as a reward. I'm fine getting 5 ice staffs in a row. I'm not fine with not getting any maelstrom items at all.

Sounds petty, but this may be the thing that makes me finally quit this buggy money grab.

CleymenZero

Foefaller wrote: »

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zvavi wrote: »

SolidusPrime wrote: »

I was in the middle of a veteran run when the update occurred. Think the rewards will be the new stuff, or should I restart?

Should be the new stuff. Don't see a reason why wouldn't it be, I don't believe drops are determined at the beginning of the run. If they are, it is inefficient programming.

Efficiency is irrelevant. It would be a design choice.

Problem is that it would be a dumb design choice to have separate loot table for old and new version. It isn't like they increased the difficulty.

Not like they increased vMA difficulty either, but I still don't have my drops upgraded.

Wish they would give a longer answer other than "No upgrades."

Is it "No upgrades, because we want you to grind vMA all over again."?

Or "No upgrades, because we literally do not have the functionality our on end to do replacements on such a mass scale."?

Or was it "No upgrades, because the coding for items is a nightmarish mess and it would be practically impossible for us to pull it off with no hitches that could even result in people losing the MA weapons they already have ^{_{even if we weren't ZOS.}}"?

It's why communication is important, because I honestly think it's 2 or 3 or some combination of them, but without any straight answer from ZOS everyone is going to assume the worst, i.e. the first one.

I don't know why people keep theorizing that they don't have the capacity to upgrade the weapons when they'll literally update tons of sets every patch.

Not only that, but they can upgrades PvP pots to act exactly like weapon and spell power potions.

There's a myriad of examples showing that it's not an issue of being unable to, it's a conscient choice.

My bet is they want to revisit other trial gear sets like Perfected VO and perfected Alkosh for example. They don't back down because they don't want people asking for upgrades for these sets but it's so different but they don't understand that.

There were no weapons dropping in nMA and now there are so obviously the pre-Greymoor weappns should've been upgraded. On the opposite side, regular VO was dropping in both vet and normal so there's no telling what had been farmed on what difficulty so of course there shouldn't be upgrades.