I want to get this item, which is necessary for my build. I spent all day yesterday running around looking for the monolith. The drop chance as a reward is ~5%, and the drop chance on the floor is listed in the wiki as “sometimes.” Throughout the whole day and this morning, I didn’t get any boots like that, but I did get rarer items, like Razorfall. Is everything okay with the drop chance for
Army of Skin, or is the wiki lying about their drop rate?
I don’t know which wiki you’ve checked, but LETools simply lists it as uncommon (with a 25% reroll chance). Basically, out of every unique boots that drop, there’s a 5% chance it will be an Army of Skin.
If you use RoA on boots, it has a 5% chance to be one. If you run boot echoes, it has a 5% chance to be one.
Natural drops will obviously be much lower than 5% because you don’t drop just boots. But out of the unique boots that drop, 5% should be an Army of Skin.
That being said, I haven’t had one drop yet and I’m farming 700+. Could just be bad RNG, but it could also mean something is wrong with it, like what happened with the Land Before idol.
I also didn’t have any drop of that one and since they fixed it I had 2 of them drop (within a couple of minutes of each other).
Well, since it’s possible that this is a game bug, that they don’t drop…
Maybe if that’s really the case, it’s worth waiting for patches, because I don’t want to play on what I’m playing on now, and if the boots don’t drop on another build, then alas…
You could have already done this, but make sure to double check your loot filter. I was wondering why the heck Foot of the Mountain was so rare today only to realize 15 runs in I configured my filter wrong on boots.
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Since yesterday, the very first rule is that these boots stand separately, everything has been double-checked)
Well, like I said, it could just be RNG. 5% chance means that one should drop in about 20 unique boot drops, on average. But bad RNG can happen to some people.
There is an 8% chance that they won’t drop in 50 tries. That means that out of 10k players, it will happen to 800 of them. That’s still a very sizeable portion of the playerbase.
You should try to farm at a higher corruption. It improves drops for reroll items.
Might also be worth checking out the trade faction to see if any boots are widely being sold to confirm your bugged drop concerns. Not sure what the penalty is for swapping factions though.
Most stuff drops in 1 to 3 days for me if I set up everything toward getting it to drop though. Thankfully there is only like 3 items I think that are stupid rare in the game still.
You loose all the favour for the faction you’re changing from.
That sounds pretty tame then.
Just checked in legacy (which is annoying for me because I have to leave true offline, but I did it in the name of science 
) and there are 30 listed.
So it’s definitely dropping.
Which means it’s either RNG or the drop rate being lower (either on purpose and LETools is wrong, which is unlikely, or because of some bug).
I wanted try new lich skill, which is basically usable only with these boots (which is super lame btw). So far i dropped like 70 boots without luck. I’m super temptered to give this league a pass as it is the same as last time anyway 
There is a ~97.242% chance of your outcome happening at least once in 70 attempts at 5% odds.
fuck this game 
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I used about 20 boots prophecies (with 2 greater lenses that double rewards) and I got 3 of them (all with 2LP) with half of the prophecies still left to trigger. I wasn’t even rolling for them.
Then after the first one drops, you can imprint them for more drops.
EDIT: it probably dropped more, but I ignored anything that wasn’t 2LP+.
Due to the fact without boots im stuck on fucking normal monoliths i dont exaclty swim among prophecy points. I used like 25 prophecies (obv. without last level) and i dropped exactly fucking shit
ah I almost forgot 25 ascendancy runes that dropped … wait for it … fucking shit.
whining like a little bitch on forum works, i dropped them from fucking 26th asc. rune. Lol
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RNG can fuck you sometimes.
i got left one last boot prophecy, when fulfilled, another two armies dropped … typical
Why is Flay only usable with these boots?
That is simply not true. Flay is perfectly playable without any uniques whatsoever.
the dmg was not there. at least with gear i was able to gather until empowered mono.
It’s a similar situation. I don’t even want to think about the chances of bad randomness, so I think it would be right to always start with something like VK ES, where only two unique items drop on the floor, and everything else comes from bosses.
Of course, there’s also trading, but until it’s like in POE, I don’t want to play with it because it’s not convenient.