Why do dungeon and delve bosses sometimes drop no loot?

N00BxV1 · June 2018

I've noticed while doing public dungeons and delves that sometimes bosses will drop gold and xp - but no loot. This happens when I'm solo as well as when others are around so it can't be a 'minimum damage' thing like at dolmens. This also doesn't happen very often and is unpredictable, so I don't have any pictures or videos.

What is the reason for this? Is it because there's a cooldown on drops (lame), or is this a bug? Why am I being punished for killing things too fast?

eso_nya · June 2018

In pub dungs theres a 3 or 5 min cooldown on loot when u kill the bosses to fast.

VaranisArano · June 2018

There's approx a 3 minute timer on delve boss loot. This is especially noticeable during the Witches Festival event when people kill tons of delve bosses for the plunder skulls.

N00BxV1 · June 2018

eso_nya wrote: »

In pub dungs theres a 3 or 5 min cooldown on loot when u kill the bosses to fast.

VaranisArano wrote: »

There's approx a 3 minute timer on delve boss loot. This is especially noticeable during the Witches Festival event when people kill tons of delve bosses for the plunder skulls.

I suspected it was because of a cooldown... What kinda reject puts a cooldown on loot drops?! smfh Isn’t it bad enough that we usually have to wait 5 minutes for bosses to respawn because we walked into an instance that someone else just cleared??? Come on zos...

nudel · June 2018

It's to combat botting, which was rampant at launch until they instated the cooldown. Literally 10-20 bots camped around a spawn, instakilling the boss as soon as it appeared. You'd be fighting to get a hit in just to get credit for the kill. You know how anchors are in Alik'r with mobs dying as they materialize...yea every delve used to be like that.

I'd take a cooldown over that any day of the week.

N00BxV1 · June 2018

nudel wrote: »

It's to combat botting, which was rampant at launch until they instated the cooldown. Literally 10-20 bots camped around a spawn, instakilling the boss as soon as it appeared. You'd be fighting to get a hit in just to get credit for the kill. You know how anchors are in Alik'r with mobs dying as they materialize...yea every delve used to be like that.

I'd take a cooldown over that any day of the week.

So in order to combat botting their solution is to make things a burden for actual players. Gotcha. zoslogic

How about making the instances private (or at least a choice), and once it's cleared you have to exit for it to reset, just like in group dungeons. I've never heard of bots farming in group dungeons. But maybe that makes too much sense.

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Why do dungeon and delve bosses sometimes drop no loot?

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