curated drop bug / Arena 1h-weapons always drop the same type twice

tim77 · November 2021

i might have found another small bug apart from the group-thing and the named-items.
Arenas - final boss chest: if you miss multiple types of onehand-weapons, like dagger and axe, you always get 2 of the same type. So in this example 2x dagger or 2x axe.

Guess it just looks in stickerbook for both weapons to find the same missing one and doesn't consider its own, second drop.

edit:
Or i had really bad luck on these items so far.
Whats your experience on this so far?

phaneub17_ESO · November 2021

That sounds more like a good thing if someone plans on dual-wielding the same set, but yeah I've gotten multiple duplicates 3 to 5 of the same item after doing a run around of World Bosses, Delves, and Public Dungeons. The general idea is you need to bind that item, add to your stickerbook, so that way the game knows you collected it or else its going to keep giving you duplicates. I usually don't check until I'm done for the day, may need to break that habit.

tim77 · November 2021

ah should have mentioned.... i meant drops from a arena... like mahlstrom final chest.

if you drop onehand-weapons, you always get 2 at the same time (from the same chest). for me these two have been equal. So no chance to bind one of it and then loot the other one. When you open the chest, the decision was already made.

redspecter23 · November 2021

I went into normal Maelstrom only missing a 1 hander from the 1h/shield set. It gave me two swords at the end, even though one likely should have been a shield I already had.

It seems there is some wonkiness going on with any of the items that drop 2 at a time. Hopefully they can figure this out before the next double drops event.

katanagirl1 · November 2021

Personally, I would not want to have to run an arena twice to get both weapons for dual wield, I would prefer they leave it as is.

That is more important than the sticker book.

tim77 · November 2021

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Personally, I would not want to have to run an arena twice to get both weapons for dual wield, I would prefer they leave it as is.

Not sure what you mean?
Of course you get 2x Dual Wield/1Hand Weapons and you should do in future runs. I just noticed you always get the exact same type twice.
So no chance to get a sword and a axe. Or a dagger and a axe in one run. You always get 2x dagger or 2x axe or 2x sword in one run.
So lets say you only miss all these 4 types any more (sword, axe, mace, dagger) and want a dagger without reconstructing, in the worste case you have run 4x the arena. (Filling stickerbook will always need 4 runs if it stays like now)

1st run: 2x axe,
2nd run: 2x mace,
3rd run: 2x sword,
4th run: finally 2x dagger

And as a side joke:

katanagirl1 wrote: »

That is more important than the sticker book.

No. NOTHING is more important that the sticker book

katanagirl1 · November 2021

What I meant is what someone said above, the one hand weapons are paired (the same) as designed for wielding. I know some players mix up dual wield but it is more common to have the same.

Arenas were designed with these drops in mind, not drops to maximize sticker book filling per run, since obviously such a thing did not exist then.

My comment was that I would not want them change it to instead drop a dagger and an axe because I would have to run it again to get another dagger if I wanted to wield them.