I think that maybe you needed uncontaminated blood. Blood mixed with dirt or pet hair would be worthless I think.

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he donated blood earlier that day, how else do you think you beat him? attacking a donor while he's weak... shame on you.

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I think its less about the organs and more about "How the hell does this bird have somee cloth, a sword, a shield, some gear, a trinket and money on it"?

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I have an explanation for it: you wouldn't exactly be fighting very much if every single boar dropped a liver. You would just do a lot of running to get quest XP rather than actually killing things. This would just be boring, though whether or not it is more boring than killing boars for an hour is beyond me.

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I agree with number one. Blood on your axe is probably contaminated and unusual for Alchemical experimentation.

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Yeah, the first post is probably right, lore-wise.

And Jack? If they made it so that every boar dropped it's liver, they'd just increase the amount of livers you needed to finish the quest. So they didn't do it just to make it harder.

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Didn't you know that orcs carry a vial of their own blood around? Because when they die it all evaporates.

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Well they all have blood, but only a few of the orcs carry their blood around in handy little vials.

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hehe my comment spawned this :p

it is true though..

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Number four has it summed up nicely. If you had needed 5 livers then you would only actually kill 5 boars to get them and then run back to turn in the quest. The game would literally be spent checking things off a shopping list and how fun would that be? I get a sense of accomplishment (after many minutes of cursing and frustration at low drop rates) when I've finally gathered everything required to complete a quest.

Plus, it's just a game.

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It's done for a psychological reason.. they won't want quests to seem arduous and long. A quest that says, 'kill 100 boars and return to me when you're finished' would seem much longer than a quest that says 'bring me 10 boar livers' with a 10% drop rate.

100 vs 10.. it's all about making the quest seem shorter an easier than it is, before you go out.

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Well if #2 is right... then you should at least be able to loot the cookie or the orange juice.

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I've thought about that over and over while questing.

"I'm supposed to collect 6 Murloc spines...and out of the 17 Murlocs I've killed, only 3 had spines. Weird."

My only semi-logical explination is that I'm just hitting them too hard, shattering their litte backbones and skewering them with my polearm. I like to think that when an animal doesn't drop the needed body part, it's because it was totally unsalvageable. When you look at it as "Oh man, I pummeled that vulture so hard, I couldn't even collect a decent liver from him!", it seems to make questing a little more fun.

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I agree with Becca thats the same way i thought about it...helps me from going crazy during the quest. lol

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It's like the turtle meat quest in Hillsbrad. No matter how much you pummeled that giant turtle, there should still be enough usable meat there to feed a small tribe.

And yes, as far as game mechanics are concerned, there are of course myriad good reasons why this is the case - but some of us need a little story to it.

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How many times do you hit him before he's dead? Maybe... ten? Twenty?

Ten or twenty deep gashes will make him bleed out fast, so you can't get enough for the vial. For maces, you get pulped flesh and thus have orc mush, not blood.

Guess my mage gives the blood freezer burn.

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Great Goretusk Snouts. I really had a hard time as a lowbie to acquire those. Other than that, no complaints :)

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I've always figured it's due to the fact that whatever organ you are looking for was damaged during the fight, although it would be hard imo to do alot of damage to all four zebra hooves.

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I'll buy the explanation on internal organs being useless beacuse of to much damage, but how about bone fragments (for the AD turnins if you still remember those)? They drop from *skeletons* and should be all over the place. Come on, a strat/scholo
run should net you truckloads of the stuff! There's no way that axe/sword/whatever of yours can literary pulverize every single bone in the body (how come the money is still there then?).

Jereth's comment about turtle meat in Hillsbrad is another one that doesn't make sense lore wise.

Ofc, game wise they all make sense, but that's not what the question was about...

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How about when multiple people are on a quest to get a [Head of ...], and everyone can loot the head? Are we supposed to believe that these bosses have 5 heads all of a sudden? Give it up... there's no rational explanation.

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