Legendary enemy didn't drop legendary item

[Titaniumwo1f]

I ran into super mutant lair, which has legendary super mutant skirmisher, and I killed him, but he didn't have any legendary item with him. Is it a glitch or something else?

[WildCat]

Sometimes legendary enemies indeed have no legendary item on them, sometimes when you kill a legendary enemy a nearby NPC can take it from the corpse.

[Titaniumwo1f]

Originally posted by WildCat:

Sometimes legendary enemies indeed have no legendary item on them, sometimes when you kill a legendary enemy a nearby NPC can take it from the corpse.

I'm quite sure that no NPC was nearby to grab it, except beefed up Codsworth.

[WildCat]

Codsworth or any other robot companion won't pick up anything on their own. Legendary enemies without legendary item on them are very rare, i've only had a few of those after playing over 1500 hours and most of them on survival for best legendary enemy spawn rate.

[King Terry A. Davis]

Originally posted by WildCat:

Sometimes legendary enemies indeed have no legendary item on them, sometimes when you kill a legendary enemy a nearby NPC can take it from the corpse.

thx

[Viper]

I imagine there is a % chance to drop a legendary item. Although it is probably high..maybe 95%.

[King Terry A. Davis]

Originally posted by Viper:

I imagine there is a % chance to drop an item. Although it is probably high..maybe 95%.

i think so

[Ihateeverybody]

I have had this happen with Ghouls before (more than once in different games at the same place, can't recall where).

Easiest way to deal with it is to imagine it was useless and go on with your life. The Rolling pin of who gives a #($* (allows you to avoid quests being forced on you). The Tire Iron of utter despair (causes you sit down and cry for shaun when used).

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Those actually would make a good mod.

[Kasane Randell MFer]

I've had this happen a few times. But I mostly got a better grade of junk for crafting though.

[Trathnona]

Was this Lair between between hangmans alley and Diamond City? Cuz there is a Legendary supermutant skirmisher there that never drops a Legendary ever for me in all my playthroughs

[Yhwach]

Every time I've fought a legendary enemy they've dropped a weapon or piece of armor, this Is the first I've heard of it.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

It happens, but exceptionally rarely, I believe it to be a bug, not an actual design feature, but someone better at reading the scripts in CK should comment.

Also, sometimes a "Legendary" Enemy spawns, but is not actually legendary. (IE: Does not Mutate)

Additionally, some corpses can spawn legendary from random events, most notably the Dog and Radscorpion event, the "Test" event where a bunch of pack corpses are found around a leveled Deathclaw, and Dr. Forsyth's note, where one of the dogs can spawn Legendary despite being dead.

[ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰]

Ive only ever seen it happen once, it was a legendary gunner piloting a hijacked vertibird.
it didnt even leave a body either, just a plain laser pistol

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Originally posted by ᵏᶤᵚᶤ‰:

Ive only ever seen it happen once, it was a legendary gunner piloting a hijacked vertibird.
it didnt even leave a body either, just a plain laser pistol

Without finding the body, you wouldn't really know if it worked or not, as if it was a low DPS weapon (Even something amazing like an Explosive Double Barrel Shotgun) or piece of armor, they wouldn't drop it physically.

[ⓀⒾⓦⒾ‰]

Originally posted by Hobo Misanthropus:

Originally posted by ᵏᶤᵚᶤ‰:

Ive only ever seen it happen once, it was a legendary gunner piloting a hijacked vertibird.
it didnt even leave a body either, just a plain laser pistol

Without finding the body, you wouldn't really know if it worked or not, as if it was a low DPS weapon (Even something amazing like an Explosive Double Barrel Shotgun) or piece of armor, they wouldn't drop it physically.

well i shot down the bird and the gunner bailed the wreck, i ran up to it and blasted it point blank in the face with a shotgun.
it just disappeared and the pistol was at my feet
weird af, who knows

[Xcorps]

Get used to it.

In the span of 30 minutes I killed a Legendary Repair Bot (lvl75) a legendary albino deathclaw (lvl45) and a legendary raider (lvl45). I got trinkets. Maybe 700 caps worth of minor armor peices with an effect and single mod weapons.

Random drop legendaries are nothing to get excited about or spend much time on.