DPS Quota to get drops?

JKith · August 2016

If someone knowledgable in this area could shed some light.

I'm a healer, and often times in harder vet dungeons, such as vCOA my group is taking so much damage (depending on how OP they are of course) that I have to focus pretty much solely on healing. On these occasions I NEVER get drops. I get lame blue or purple decon items.... while the rest of my party gets drops. The occasional Shard on the boss or mobs, a ritual of ret DoT and heavy resto attack is basically all the damage I do on those runs. On runs where my group doesn't take THAT much damage and I have time to DPS I get drops which leads me to my question.

Question: Is there a DPS quota to get a drop? If so,.. i think that's so stupid!!!!... If you're a healer, it should look for HPS too then if it needs some sort of quota.... if not, why on earth would I not get drops when my other group members do... just random chance?

Mojmir · August 2016

Drops are quite random,I've run with healers who get decent stuff. It's not based on damage done though

Erasure · August 2016

If you are getting any loot at all from the enemies the party dispatched, then you are getting drops as you should. Whether you get what you'd like to, is a different discussion

There are addons which can display what items your partymates receive, if there's something specific you're after and you don't trust them to mention it. BoP trading has made gear grinding much friendlier, so see if you can ask or bargain for what you're after.

CasNation · August 2016

You're just getting screwed by RNG. If you run the newer dungeons, aka CoS, RoM, WGT, etc., you will notice that you ALWAYS get a drop from one of the sets. The old dungeons have different design mechanics that are more random. Hopefully this gets fixed in update 12.