Are drop rates for same set items different?

Fajin

It seems like some parts of sets are vastly more rare than the others. For example yesterday I was farming BC1 with a group and nobody got jewelry parts for Jailbreaker set, nor weapons (only I got 1 bow) we did like 5 runs, so that's 20 pieces of loot per boss. Same with other sets in the dungeon, we managed to get full attire but not jewelry and weapons, and we had tons of duplicates.

Another example is City of ash 1 burning spellweave inferno staff. I made countless runs and nobody in my party has ever got the staff.

Finally Mother's Sorrow Inferno Staff. It's really rare and thus costs a lot on the market, however I quite easily get Ice and Shock staves from the same sets.

Should it be that way or are those drop rates manipulated so they are rare when in fact they should be equal with other drops?

GreenHere

Weapons & jewelry can only drop from the final boss in dungeons, and from the chests scattered around. So make sure you're checking for those; they spawn in fixed locations, randomly. Maps are available online to see possible spawn points.

Definitely slows down the grind, by design.


EDIT, to clarify :: Final boss in the dungeon can also drop any other pieces too, if I'm not mistaken. So it's possible on them at least, but the chances are still slim.

jle30303

I believe the final boss in a dungeon will drop a weapon OR a ring OR an amulet, from any of the three dungeon sets from that dungeons (1 light, 1 medium, 1 heavy)

All other bosses drop 1 armour piece (head, shoulders, legs, feet, hands, belt, torso) from any of the sets.

Chests I think have the same pool as bosses. I think chests and bosses do NOT drop the body armour.

So if 4 people ran a dungeon 3 times and only got 1 weapon from the desired set - check for rings and amulets, and for weapons, rings and amulets from the other two possible sets too.

SidraWillowsky

As others have mentioned, weapons and jewelry only drop from certain sources in dungeons.

Bu I absolutely believe that drop weights are weighted by design to make certain set pieces more difficult to obtain. It's an MMO after all; they're designed to be as addictive as possible.

Brrrofski

Like others have said, in dungeons, certain bosses drops certain bits. Weapons and jewellery will only drop from final boss. You'll get one or the other.

Other bosses might only drop waist and feet, or chest and legs for instance.

As far as overland goes, certain things give certain bits. Delves gives feet and waist. Dolmean give jewellery etc.

As far as the bits you want, such as mother's sorrow destro. The reason it seems less, is be wise you want 1 thing. So the other 11 weapons are not what you want, which makes it seem like the piece you want never drops.

Even with just destro, fire is one of three. So it might seem like frost and lightning drop more often, but because there's two of them. Getting the destro you want is 1/3, getting the destro you don't is 2/3. But, getting a flame staff is the same chance as dropping any weapon.

That's just one set. Consider that there's 3 overland sets (and dungeon), then getting what you want seems like a tiny chance. But, it in reality has the same chance as anything else to drop.