Just killed a Dragon in The Middle of Field, and Got no loot.

[TheLastOfTheMohicans (JAC)]

Meanwhile going to the southwest stone fort my group and I encountered a dragon. It took us a good 45-55 minutes to kill it, and in the end there was no loot. The dragon kept claiming it was our master, and for a fight that was so long it's disappointing to have no loot whatsoever.

Has anyone else have had this problem?

[Nightwalker]

Of course. Sometimes things drop and some times nothing does. Same with non draconian
beasts.

[Bearded McGee]

What Night said, but also Drakes/Wyrms/Wyverns have a 100% drop rate when it comes to horns and wing parts so even in the off-chance that the RNG gods are against you, getting loot is a given if you know what to do. You can even break the horns and wings AFTER the thing died for a little while (when it starts decomposing you can't break it apart anymore).

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

The problem isnt that you got no loot, the only loot to expect from dragons in Gransis are dragon body parts and dragonforging your gear (with a pretty low success rate), it's that it took you so much time to accomplish.... as pawns would tell you, It's okay to just run away if an ennemy outmatch you, you know ? No matter what is the reason why it's outmatching you... lack of gear, too low level (lack of skill and augments) or lack of experience in fighting such ennemy.... a dragon is at the very worse a 10 minutes fight.

Loots on ennemies start in BBi, and only on mid bosses type ennemies. Also that loot is cursed items that you need to purify using RCs to turn them into something usefull.

[TheLastOfTheMohicans (JAC)]

My main pawn and I are level 37, and I get the other 2 pawns at around my level as well as often as possible. If your fights with a dragon only lasts 10 minutes, you must be either much higher level, or using some cheat. I use augments, my gear is leveled up, and I kept attacking the heart of the dragon and asked all pawns to help/heal.

[zadymek]

Originally posted by TheLastOfTheMohicans (JAC):

If your fights with a dragon only lasts 10 minutes, you must be either much higher level, or using some cheat. I use augments, my gear is leveled up, and I kept attacking the heart of the dragon and asked all pawns to help/heal.

Does this look like cheating to you?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1441887039

This isn't about level, it's about ...many things. Strategy for one.

Using magick, preferably not fire, is more effective against tanky dragons like Drakes than physical blows.

Also there are vocations and Vocations. Notably hybrids are much more potent than others, and magick using ones even more so. This all naturally stems from skills at your disposal and not necessarily stat gain.

Last but not least is tactics: hitting the heart is a good...start. Making dragon reel on the ground is the key to increasing your damage output - in case you didin't notice the beast is heavily armored. This way not only you who is attacking the heart can contribute to damage.

BTW What is your party composition?

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

"I cant do it so it must be a cheat".

Can we all agree to name this a "noob gamer move" and make a meme out of it ?

Just go watch some guide/tutorial video on youtube (search for nihil 0.0 check the playlist about how to handle specific type of monsters and the ones about how to play your favorite vocation), because from level 20 the poor hellfire grove's drake is a 10 minutes fight.... if you go there solo playing a vocation that have no ranged attacks to knock it off the sky when it takes off (aka warrior, fighter).
For anything else, it's just depend on how many time the dragon takes off to fly back to his spawn point, but I'd give it an average of 6 minutes.

In pre-grigori Gransis monsters level cap is 30.
If you're level 37, that must be the reason why you didnt get the tension combat music (designed to warn you when a fight is in your defavor) and also why your pawns didnt tell you it was okay to run away from that fight, they must have though of it as an easy fight given the level gap.

But dont feel offended, there's nothing wrong in being a newbie at anything, we all get there at some point (and go back to it when we stop playing a game for long enough).... just take it as a hint that there's much room for improvement by learning how to handle that type of monster...