I’ve submitted this as a ticket in the past and been informed it’s working as intended, but I’m really starting to believe that can’t possibly be true.
In Ulduar, the 4 keepers ; Hodir, Thorim, Freya and Mimiron drop 2 chests upon defeat if the hard mode is activated/achieved. Every week Mimiron’s hard mode chest has 1 hard mode only item in and his normal chest has 3 items from his normal loot table, working as intended.
However, the other 3 spawn their hard mode chest and it only ever has gold and occasionally a Runed Orb in it. At first I thought maybe it’s only a chance you get hard mode loot and upon searching previous forum posts and WoWHead links it seemed to be implied that the hard mode loot had been added to the normal chests loot table. However I’ve been clearing Ulduar weekly farming xmog for as long as I can recall and Hodir, Thorim and Freya have NEVER dropped a hardmode item in their normal chest (at least since Ulduar was merged with the timewalking change). I believe that either the hard mode flag is not functioning properly and not allowing the loot to drop in the first place, or the hard mode chests for these 3 bosses are completely busted.
As an added piece of information, other bosses with hard modes only have 1 chest and add the hard mode loot to said chest (Flame Leviathan, XT-Deconstructor, Iron Council, Vezax and Yogg-Saron), it’s only the 3 listed keepers that appear to be having an issue.
If people have actually received hard mode loot from the 3 aforementioned bosses, even letting me know that it does still exist would be good to hear. WoWHead just lists their drop chance as ??? out of xxxx, so I would assume that no one with the WoWHead client installed has had them drop either.
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Can confirm this is an issue for me too. Been running the raid for months now to try to get these last few transmogs, and the heroic chests never give anything.
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Updating to say that the prepatch hasn’t appeared to have fixed anything. The 3 aforementioned bosses have not dropped a single hardmode item in the 2 months since I made this post whereas every other boss has. The transmogs from these encounters are effectively unobtainable until this is fixed.
All 3 bosses have 11 hard mode items out of a pool of 27 items total and without the heroic chest dropping anything drop 3 items per kill. If it’s been set at an equal chance of looting a hardmode item vs a normal item for the assumedly 1 item drop that can be from hard mode, you’re talking a roughly 40% per kill you get a hardmode item. To have gone literal tens of weeks of killing all 3 bosses and seeing absolutely no hard mode items, it’s surely in the realm of impossibility statistically.
Can the devs see data that shows when these items were last looted? And if so when it was last looted on Frostmourne, as myself and the guy that responded are both from the same server.
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Bumping, I have the same issue.
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These 3 chests are still not working. No hard mode loot has dropped from Hodir, Thorim or Freya in well over 2 years. That’s just not statistically possible. Can this please be looked at instead of instantly dismissed as no issue when I report it?
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I have been farming all transmog, from vanilla up over the last year. I have 60 characters across my account that I run weekly, all lockouts until 100% completion, so I have a lot of personal data for drop rates, regardless of ability to equip. This is the very first time I have come across this issue in any dungeon or raid. I have run Ulduar hundreds of times over the last several weeks and can confirm, the following items have never dropped, which are all hard-mode off the raid bosses you have mentioned:
Hodir:
Icecore Staff
Ice Layered Barrier
The Boreal Guard
Bitter Cold Armguards
Thorim:
Gauntlets of the Thunder God
Combatant’s Bootblade
Freya:
Petrified Ivy Sprig
Serilas, Blood Blade of Invar One-Arm
Gloves of Whispering Winds
I have experienced the no loot out of the hard-mode cache and consistently three drops off of each of these bosses in the normal-mode cache every attempt, excluding patterns and orbs.
Someone mentioned Wowhead’s drop rate percentage being ??, but I have seen ?? percentage on items that do and do not drop, so it really does not mean much.
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I hadn’t farmed Ulduar in a while but I noticed this today and it definitely isn’t ‘working as intended’. I have the mace on 5+ characters so I am very familiar with the chest drops and this isn’t normal. The only one that works is Mimiron.
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Bumping this up. Been trying to get transmogs from Ulduar for months, hard mode chests for Freya, Hodir and Thorim don’t drop any gear, only gold, Runed Orbs and patterns.
Bumping up as well, the hard mode loot for Thorim, Hodir and Freyja isn’t dropping. I ran Ulduar with ten characters last night and not a single piece of hard mode loot dropped. Just gold and runed orbs.
Still not fixed, don’t think it ever will be, but I’ll bump it all the same.
Still broken this go-around of timewalking.
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Still bugged, kinda annoying as part of a set I want to complete needs the loot from Thorim’s hard mode.
Still broken, definitely not working as intended.
I’m not sure the exact date as I hadn’t noticed any hotfix notes, but it looks like this has finally been fixed.
Just received hard mode loot from all 3 of the aforementioned bosses for the first time in years.
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