Is anyone else having an issue in the follower dungeons no loot dropping off of any of the bosses? I have run about 6 of them and only received loot in one of those. My RNG isnt that bad when i do regular dungeons. I typically squeak out a piece per dungeon. Follower dungeons though… nothing. Anyone else having same issue?
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Sometimes RNG smiles upon you, sometimes it punches you in the throat.
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Yeah what I read said you were supposed to get all the loot the followers ‘would have’ gotten, but in practice that has not been the case. At least for me.
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Unfortunately unless RNGesus blesses you, you’re unlikely to run across loot. Even standard dungeons and raids will at times leave you with nothing. And I do mean nothing, not gear, trash, or gold.
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I’ve gotten a few pieces on one , none on another… seems normal to me. RNG is RNG.
Or RNGesus does his favorite thing: give you an item you already have. Great for the other plate wearer(s) grouped with me, but less so for my sanity.
If it’s like regular dungeons, it’s 20% chance to get loot.
I have received loot. I do 2-3 follower dungeons a day on weekdays. That said, I couldn’t imagine doing follower dungeons as “seriously” (using it to level many alts) as I am without heirlooms. This is not a reliable gearing method on its own while leveling.
I’ve run about 6 of the followers on 2 alts, 1 Blood Dk and a mage. 4 were solo and 2 with my wife and I haven’t gotten Sh!7, not even XP really. What’s the point when I could Pug on normal, and suck, and still almost definitely get through it with Loot and XP to help level? Just give us deployable target dummies, that’d be way better than these worthless time wasting dungeons.
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It’s basically using personal loot. You get lucky or you don’t.
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Yes in fact I sent in a bug report. We should be getting at least 1 piece a dungeon. Would be nice if more but 1 piece isn’t asking for much.
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I think my worst run of bad luck so far has been 3 consecutive follower dungeons without a loot drop of any kind. But it’s gone the other way too where I’ve gotten everything I was looking for in a dungeon in a single run.
I’ve just run Uldaman 5 times in a row at L70 - not a single piece from 25 bosses. 
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Yeah, I haven’t got any loot of them on my lowbie all expansion. I primarly tank and heal timewalking but occationally when I’m on a dps class I’ll see if I can get a piece just to assist the item dispeariging item level, but you don’t get any loot. I used to get considerably more loot like one piece every dungeon back in dragonflight. It is super stupid. They must have edited the loot tables. Does it occur to anyone at that company that people just went through 3 speed leveling events with mists, radiant echoes and the aniversery event. We are all wearing crap gear BLIZZARD! Have a easy way to gear are alts would be EXTREMELY HELPFUL. I can’t even do msq on my mage. DPS classes take it the hardest. As if it isn’t hard enough to wait indefinately for dungeon ques.
I think it would be a good time to add that I wasn’t a enchanter looking for a way to disenchant greens. I ran them for valour stones when I got my Asus Rog. I would sometimes run them late night at Planet Fitness. It was a good commitment free way to get valour stones where if I DC’d it would matter to anyone. Why does closing every possible mid max strat always have to come at the cost of player experience? I mean why not just make it soul bound or war bound?. Maybe even give it the same status as some of the legendary items where it can’t be disenchanted. If it really has to be all about closing potential mid max outlets why not deny them the disenchant and give it back to the people trying to level characters.
I’ve done over 100 runs of priory follower dungeon (for a recipe). And dozens of the other ones. They absolutely do drop loot. As the other poster pointed out, it counts you as 1 of 5 “players”. So you have a 20% chance at a drop. But they are so fast and so easy you can just spam them if you want the drops. I don’t think they’re great for loot. Maybe get some catch-up gear from the new island?
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A dungeon that takes 20 minutes to complete on a poorly leveled alt hardly justifies a 1/5 loot ratio. Remember the lower the percent chance especially when you get stuff like a 20% chance nothing is garanteed on that denominator. You can run 5 and kill 25 bosses and get nothing. The new island is endgame content with 580 vendor gear. That’s can’t be worn on your alt looking to get from 50-60.
Did you make an appropriate offering on the Altar of RNGesus before queueing? Remember: child sacrifices will give the best rewards.
It is a perspective thing: I see garbage odds as a problem for player experience not an opportunity for sacralige that won’t do anything for the problem: garbage odds in a program. Sacrilage wouldn’t improve your Alox: go program head/tails coin flip with 10,000 run sample size before and after your sacrafice and you’ll find there was no reason to kill of your legacy. The odds will still come out to 50 percent if you programed it right and whatever decimal 49.09 to 50.01 and the 50.01 may still be tails after your sacralige. That’s the way math works. I prefer to see if I just say the dirty truth about the statistics on forms because it is less messy that way and might actually solve something. The best critques are those that provide an alternative solution such as not arming disenchant mid maxers with another exploitation outlet.
Who runs them to DE stuff? … As someone who has sold 10’s of thousands of storm dust on the AH I can tell you right now that only the tiniest teensiest portion of my DEs came from follower dungeons. Like maybe 1 out of 1000.
Anyway, they are not great sources of loot. They aren’t intended to be. You could practically afk in them and set the followers to lead. You could press zero buttons and succeed at them.
Their purpose is to teach you the dungeon mechanics/route (at least on normal) in a gentle, less stressful, self-paced manner. They are “story” mode.
I think you should look elsewhere for loot… maybe someone can help you with that if you make a post asking for help with that specifically. I would personally just craft myself stuff but that’s me.