I recently got my mage up to rumor boss levels and have been either receiving terrible RNG or the loot tables leave much to be desired.
I'm obtaining journal entries for them pretty fast (one or two almost each time I hit a tavern), but when I go kill them, they're dropping next to nothing. Granted, I've not reached the dragon or lich yet, but a level 13 mage struggling to kill a 15 hill giant for nothing but gold and a small diamond makes me sad.
I admit this is my first time reaching rumor bosses (I have played a long time, but I get sidetracked or start new characters often), so I'm not sure if this is par for the course or not. However, I'd definitely like to see such bosses drop multiple items from their tables. Maybe one from each of, say, three categories: gem, equipment, miscellaneous. Something like that. I enjoy a degree of randomness to keep the game fresh and interesting, so I'm not asking for massive drop rate buffs, but each of the 5 rumor bosses I've killed so far has dropped only 1 item, and 2 or 3 of those were a single [small!] gem.
When I checked around, I read a few posts which suggested that rumor bosses drop more than one item based on people reporting what they were getting. For example, the post reporting double loot from the troll boss reported three [useful and relatively powerful] items from two kills, for 6 total. Each time, a black shard dropped (of which I have zero despite being on the requisite quest).
Am I experiencing massive RNG failure? Or is this normal, and the people who get 2 or 3 good drops the outliers? Is there possibly something else at play (I'm a mage using Earth Elemental and Summoner I; could kills by my summons skew the drops)?
I'm obtaining journal entries for them pretty fast (one or two almost each time I hit a tavern), but when I go kill them, they're dropping next to nothing. Granted, I've not reached the dragon or lich yet, but a level 13 mage struggling to kill a 15 hill giant for nothing but gold and a small diamond makes me sad.
I admit this is my first time reaching rumor bosses (I have played a long time, but I get sidetracked or start new characters often), so I'm not sure if this is par for the course or not. However, I'd definitely like to see such bosses drop multiple items from their tables. Maybe one from each of, say, three categories: gem, equipment, miscellaneous. Something like that. I enjoy a degree of randomness to keep the game fresh and interesting, so I'm not asking for massive drop rate buffs, but each of the 5 rumor bosses I've killed so far has dropped only 1 item, and 2 or 3 of those were a single [small!] gem.
When I checked around, I read a few posts which suggested that rumor bosses drop more than one item based on people reporting what they were getting. For example, the post reporting double loot from the troll boss reported three [useful and relatively powerful] items from two kills, for 6 total. Each time, a black shard dropped (of which I have zero despite being on the requisite quest).
Am I experiencing massive RNG failure? Or is this normal, and the people who get 2 or 3 good drops the outliers? Is there possibly something else at play (I'm a mage using Earth Elemental and Summoner I; could kills by my summons skew the drops)?