Thread: Am I missing something? or does the Saruman T1 Loot suck?

I'm not sure if I'm trolling, complaining, or just confused. We've been running Saruman T1 with our kin and taken him down a bunch of times now. But last night after the hard work (and 2 lag related/purple cloud wipes & link dead tanks/healers) we too him down again... and again got a small handfull of seals, a second age symbol, and a bunch of vendor trash... the only thing we've seen out of a bunch of successful runs is a single cloak clasp. This was of course after previous weeks of wiping and learning the mechanics before we started beating him. We're kinda wondering what's the point? Sure its a fun run, but we'd get far more value for out time to just swap to alts and run the wings again...(it actually seems like the loot is better in the wings, which seems awefully confusing)

Am I missing something? Are we just sucking on the random loot generator?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Wisp701

Am I missing something? Are we just sucking on the random loot generator?

Thanks

Nope, you're not missing anything. It does indeed suck.

The Codex of Ancient Knowledge is a pocket item I got from there and I looted it hoping it would get a buff in the upcoming patch (this was a while ago). It never got the buff :-/

It's incredible how sucky the loot is compared to the other, more easy fights in the Rings before it.

T1 loot is junk in the wings too, at least saruman you can get a clasp ...but it is t1 and t1 loot has never been great anywhere

As has been already said, you're not missing anything - the loot is rather inferior. Then again, it should be - it's T1, not T2 or T2C.

Saruman T1 is easy (pugged many times per week on Evernight at least, it's the same on most servers I imagine) and effectively drops the best necklaces & cloaks in the game for most classes. What more do you want?

I'm sick of all the warden loot that drops in all the wings and Saruman that NOBODY wants... Where are all the wardens? Oh that's right they don't raid, they just solo ####.

Originally Posted by Vysion34

I'm sick of all the warden loot that drops in all the wings and Saruman that NOBODY wants... Where are all the wardens? Oh that's right they don't raid, they just solo ####.

Problem with Warden loot is that there is no competing classes rolling for it whereas other loot you have multiple classes that wish to obtain the item. Unfortunately this wasn't taken into account and warden stuff drops at the same rate as other items.

There is also the factor that the warden is not a very desirable raiding class and more often or not the loot suitable for them is not even taken out of the chests.

It's all about the cloak clasp (50% drop rate).

Originally Posted by Vysion34

I'm sick of all the warden loot that drops in all the wings and Saruman that NOBODY wants... Where are all the wardens? Oh that's right they don't raid, they just solo ####.

speak for yourself. I don't even know what all this talk about "all this warden loot" is all about. there's less desireable loot in Orthanc for my warden than any other class I raid with. well, maybe equal with captain. but i'm still perfectly happy raiding more often with my warden even though there's little I want other than 1st age or clasp (what other there is certainly isn't warden-specific), because warden is fun and raiding is fun, and raiding on warden is more fun.