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Blue quality and better gear

XavierCrutch
So far I've only gotten anything better than green quality from boss mobs and the occasional quest. Is it possible to get blue or better items just as a random drop from normal mobs or from chests?

I've gotten some motifs and a recipe, but no armor, weapons or jewelry.
Edited by XavierCrutch on April 20, 2014 5:18AM
  • BlackSparrow
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    What level are you? They seem to get more frequent the higher level you go.
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  • tw1jaysin
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    You'll start seein more blues once you get to lvl 15+ and purples when ur 30+
  • Taran
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    treasure maps also lead you to blue items
  • XavierCrutch
    Ah, okay. Thanks. I wondered if it was a level related thing or whether anything higher than green was simply not in the loot table for normal mobs.
  • Loxy37
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    If you actually managed to get a few hits on those public dungeon bosses then you get blues from those but the bots and locust campers make it hard. Also those world bosses (Skull and Crossbones on the map) also drop blues sometimes.
  • Lazarus_Long
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    Mini-anchor bosses and regular Anchor bosses also tend to have good drops. If you go to the big anchors save some AoE for the end.
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  • LIQUID741
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    Mini-anchor bosses and regular Anchor bosses also tend to have good drops. If you go to the big anchors save some AoE for the end.

    Must have the worst luck on anchors, they dont seem to drop anything for me other than disappointment.
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  • Tiyamel
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    have gotten my blue drops from public dungeon bosses and the odd random drop from mobs in open world. oh and a couple from chests you have to pick the locks on, rewards from quests, and so on, waiting to get a few more levels so i can start seeing purples :)
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  • Alurria
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    It seems to me I heard that not all blue drops are better than green even when the same level etc... I could be wrong can anyone verify that just because it's a different color it doesn't necessarily mean it's better? Sorry it's early and I can't remember where I saw or heard this.
  • BETAOPTICS
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    It seems to me I heard that not all blue drops are better than green even when the same level etc... I could be wrong can anyone verify that just because it's a different color it doesn't necessarily mean it's better? Sorry it's early and I can't remember where I saw or heard this.

    Same level but rarer rarity items always are better unless they have bad enchantments but they can also be re-enchanted most of the time. However, it goes without a question that a level 15 blue is worse than level 19 green in many cases. The difference is not that significant.

    And yes, the rarity is tied to places and level of the places. So 30-40 I saw my first purple, and now they drop semi frequently just like blues started dropping from 16-25 levels.

    Legendary items are the exceptions for any level though as they can only be gotten trough crafting and maybe as a rare boss drop, latter unconfirmed and based on my assumption, someone clarify this.
  • Comaetilico
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    blue drop are better than "similar" green item... that is to say if you take 2 item with the same "effect" than the blue one will be better (higher armor and higher "effect").

    The problem lies in the fact that not all dropped item have a reserchable effect (incresed enchantment efficecy, increased armor, and so on...) so if you compare a green item with reserchable trait and a blue item without any than the green item will probably be better (aside from armor... unless the green item have the increased armor trait)
  • rdj3700
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    the way TESOs quality system of loot is this:
    white<green<blue<purple<gold = novice<apprentice<adept<master<legendary so if you have two items of the same level a green name would be better than white name, blue would be better than green and so on. Gold named items would be the best.
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