Yes, they do drop. I think I got them the first time I killed this boss. Or the second time, maybe. No more: I did this timeline only twice. So yes, these boots still drop.
The first pair I got took me more than 20 runs. I have gotten a few more since then with a better drop rate. It’s all RNG… happy hunting
I had the worst luck. 24 amulets before I got the boots.
Thats pretty unlucky… the RNG gods definitely dont like you…
last steps of the living where art thou???
there you are!
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Strongly recommend players intentionally porting out before completing the monolith quest to not do so during this encounter (or similar encounters). There is a strong chance that you can break your quest state and unable to progress. We are tracking this internally.
Thanks.
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I have been trying to keep track of how many kills I have done. I believe I am at 72 now and no boots.
I have leveled from 74 to almost 82 on doing this boss and the surrounding echos.
I have had some really bad luck with this game in general.
The worst part for me is how this drop holds my progress. If I’m not mistaken, it’s normal exclusive. If you want it, you have to farm in normal.
At some point, it feels like I’m waiting for the rng to allow me to go forward and experience the other timeline.
The empowered exclusive are fine, since you play the hardest mode and improve the grand blessing.
That being said, I can see the pro’s of this system. With multiplayer up, those who can’t do 100 mono will still have something of value to trade.
All monolith bosses still have the chance to drop their 2 “normal drops” on empowered.
The empowered only drops can also drop on top of the normal drop. (You sometimes get 1 normal item and the empowered drop from one single kill)
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Wait whaaaat? So getting the axe and still no boots is just rng playing with me?
Thx for the good news friend! Brb, I have an empowered Lich to stomp… (thx again)
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Yup, in an empowered monolith, the 85/15 roll for amulet/boots is independent to the 10% roll for the axe.
Yep. First time I did Rahyeh in Empowered mode I got the empowered drop (yes, first time) plus the gloves.
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I just found Exsanguinous while farming the boots 
I did about 40 to 50 runs, still no boots though. How can the drop rate be 15% cuz we should get the boot about 1 in 7 chance, right?
It’s RNG, if you killed Formosus 40 times you’d have a 99.8% chance of getting the boots once, so you’re just very unlucky. It’s not impossible to go that long without a pair dropping, it’s just improbable.
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Can confirm it is completely random. I farmed for the fragments of shattered lance about 20 times before it dropped, these boots dropped on my third kill. Farming particular blessings I am cursed though. Every single mono I have been farming for days has offered every other blessing other than the ones I want
It’s just the nature of the beast. However, having come from another game where pretty much everything is rng I am still way more happy with only having to deal with a few elements of rng here & there in LE. Blessings farming is at least giving me something to shoot for.
I see, I got shatter lance on my first kill lol. Do you fail the quest to re-do the boot or you start all over? I failed the quest to redo it, and it is been unlucky so far.
While i can understand why people would do this, this is definitely an exploit/design overlook.
Prepare, that this will get fixed" and will not be possible in the future.
I would highly recommend people not using this method.
If too many people will get used to this, the whining will be massive.
But i am glad, that this not not how it’s supposed to work.
Hopefully they fix it sooner than later
I do it the way it was intended. I start all over again, but I don’t reset my web & increase corruption until I reach the furthest points out in my initial overall direction. As Heavy points out, the “reset quest” system is an exploit, but also I don’t think it would help anyway. I’m personally convinced that it would annoy the rng gods, and they already hate me as it is.
I have actually got one of the blessings I was after at long last (about 4 attempts on that one) and now I am back trying to get Strands of Soles from Abomination. I’m about 5 or 6 attempts in on that one with no joy, so I’m off to the local farmers to buy some goats to sacrifice to the rng gods… 
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Alright, I will do the right way and see, maybe the drop had be fixed so it won’t work if you exploit the reset.
Got it on my 8th tries