Pretty much the title but this applies to other arenas as well.
I've been running vMA trying to get the Frost Staff and I've been (annoyingly) getting the Maelstrom S&B with multiple different one handers. Why is this a thing? To my knowledge there is no benefit to running any one 1h mace/sword/axe/dagger over another alongside a shield so what's the point of clogging up arena drops with these useless combos? Is it just a way to lengthen the grind?