Does the Medusa destruction staff drop in anything besides ice?

AlextheMuspel

Offered 100k on my 20th run for inferno Medusa and my pugmatetook the offer. Got lighting on my~4th run in a chest.

KaGaOri

Have done solo run of Arx Corinium every day for last three weeks. No Medusa inferno yet (or ice - not like I want it), but got lightning one (my sorc will have to make do with that for now) and healing staff. Also could build ladder out of all the Lamia healing staves I've gotten. Missing only six items from each set now. Fingers crossed, Medusa inferno will drop eventually (and before this dungeon costs me my sanity).

Nova Sky

ESO is getting better and better at being a farming simulator.

xAarionx

Murphy law: It'll only drop it when you don't need it anymore

Seriously happened whith my tzogvin dagger.
Had more than a Hundred runs to drop one

After that I did one run to a pledge, an droped two of them at the same run

Djennku

I have all of Arx collected, so yes, it does drop. It might not drop the same for you as someone else though, as that's just how RNG works. It took me over 50 runs to get the lamia maul from there, which was the last piece I needed. I also know someone who consistently went into vMA over 100 times and all they got was resto staves. Best of luck in your endeavors though! I hope you eventually find those staves.

cyclonus11

RNG - R stands for Rigged.

Rigged Number Generator.

Why is it that there's always ONE set piece per zone that's nearly impossible to get??

spartaxoxo

cyclonus11 wrote: »

RNG - R stands for Rigged.

Rigged Number Generator.

Why is it that there's always ONE set piece per zone that's nearly impossible to get??

Because if you don't remove collected drops from the loot table, then the more gear you collect the less likely you are to pull a piece of gear that you need.

So for example in Arx there are 66 pieces of gear you can get. If you have no pieces of gear, obviously then you're odds are 100%. But if you have 5 pieces of gear, your odds lower to 61/66 pieces or approx. 92%. The more you collect, the lower the odds you'll get a piece you need.

Also not every boss drops the entire loot table. Only the last boss drops all the weapons while early bosses drop the gear. So you get more pulls for the armor than the weapons. That's why there's usually a weapon that is particularly stubborn to drop.

In order for this not to be the case, they'd have to rig it in your favor by removing collected items from the pool

cyclonus11

spartaxoxo wrote: »

cyclonus11 wrote: »

RNG - R stands for Rigged.

Rigged Number Generator.

Why is it that there's always ONE set piece per zone that's nearly impossible to get??

Because if you don't remove collected drops from the loot table, then the more gear you collect the less likely you are to pull a piece of gear that you need.

So for example in Arx there are 66 pieces of gear you can get. If you have no pieces of gear, obviously then you're odds are 100%. But if you have 5 pieces of gear, your odds lower to 61/66 pieces or approx. 92%. The more you collect, the lower the odds you'll get a piece you need.

Also not every boss drops the entire loot table. Only the last boss drops all the weapons while early bosses drop the gear. So you get more pulls for the armor than the weapons. That's why there's usually a weapon that is particularly stubborn to drop.

In order for this not to be the case, they'd have to rig it in your favor by removing collected items from the pool

Something's not quite right with this. I breezed through all of the DLC overland zones without this problem. With base game overland zones, there's always 1 set piece per zone that takes forever to get (never drops, and takes forever before it appears on TTC).

Diminish

I got a lightning staff one run, and then the next day I was farming it more with a friend for an inferno. I ended up doing 2 runs that day. First run I got a lightning staff and inferno staff. I gave the lightning staff to a random that was in our group since both myself and my friend already had it. We did the second run because he still needed a necklace, and on that 2nd run I got another lightning staff. Gave that one to a random in the group as well. I ran it in total ~40 times solo, and ~20 times with a group, and out of the ~60 or so runs I got 3 lightning, and 1 inferno staves. The drop rate for both myself, and my friend was not great, but definitely not horrible. I knew people grinding AY daggers/axes for over a year... many runs through vHRC a week.

Didn't vote that I was holding it because, well, RIP PS4!

B0SSzombie

This is a real Shoe's-on-the-other-foot situation for me as a Tank.

Had to spend dozens of hours as a Tank to grind Alkosh weapons because that's what was expected of me, and now I'm watching all these Magicka DD's suffer the same fate.

I feel for you all, I really do.

Bobby_V_Rockit

The frost staff and bow are the only items I have not gotten in my sticker book. Was pretty pissed because I wanted to try a frost staff on my warden DD lol

Matchimus

Everything had dropped for me in arx except Medusa inferno. Since all I was doing was farming it I didn't renew my subscription and took a few days off. Guess what dropped on final boss the very first dungeon after resuming the search? Subscription renewed.

Zer0_CooL

Its the same with all dungeon weapons. Best chance are chests. Thats how i got my bsw and overwhelming infernos, after an uncountable number of runs.

Ardan147

It took an ungodly number of runs, but I eventually did get a Medusa inferno staff.

patdedub

Transmute if you have flame staff easy to make another one in your trait

UrbanMonk

I had a hard time getting Ice staff for my iceden..

Qagh

I was solo in Arx C. and i have it from the first Chest. First run for the set btw. 😃

Villanelf

KaGaOri wrote: »

Have done solo run of Arx Corinium every day for last three weeks. No Medusa inferno yet (or ice - not like I want it), but got lightning one (my sorc will have to make do with that for now) and healing staff. Also could build ladder out of all the Lamia healing staves I've gotten. Missing only six items from each set now. Fingers crossed, Medusa inferno will drop eventually (and before this dungeon costs me my sanity).

I share your frustrations! Stopped counting after my 50th re run and took a break from farming it.

CableBomb

scorpius2k1 wrote: »

And now they added Medusa to that type snore fest of a grind.

1. Player's choice to farm. Every vTrial and vDLC can be completed at the highest and most efficient terms without this Stave.

2. It is incredibly refreshing to have an MMO that occasionally makes use of older content instead of leaving it to die because there is zero reason to replay.

scorpius2k1 wrote: »

ZoS, please, for the love of sanity and FUN factor, do something about your RNG methods because they are pretty outlandish.

See: Transmute and Sticker. This is an MMO and grinding is good for the game. It's like vegetables for children and the reaction thereto.

DonGodJoe

83 runs .. got it from 4th chest (still missing shock one tho)

but its same as with any other weapon in dungeons.. the drop is just insanely low
for example im trying to farming day night maelstorm for inferno winterborn and im still being fed with same weapons i have already collected

Septimus_Magna

After farming solo for a week I just queued as a tank (DD with inner rage) for normal Arx and offered 100k for the medusa fire staff in advance. One of my group members got it from the last boss on the 4th run and I could eventually buy it.

Fun fact for sorcs farming solo, you can streak over the drawbridge so you only have to kill the warmashu boss, final boss and mobs near chests. To streak across the bridge you have to hop on the left pillar, on the left side you can jump over the invisible barrier and streak across. It helps if you move forward slightly while streaking to gain a bit more distance.

Edit: the Medusa set is worth the grind though, I really like it with Siroria or False God on my magsorc.

Hawco10

I have inferno and lightning. Both dropped from chests.