random loot from monsters?

[Lex]

On my run I somehow managed to

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get a frost arrow from first skeleton archer

on level 3. On replay I am not able to get it again - was it random loot?

[stepsongrapes]

"Intermittent" would be a better description. The skeleton archers only drop frost arrows, though they don't always do so.

[Lex]

So if they have it in inventory "to drop", is there any way to make them drop it? Like not let them to shoot at all?
In other words:

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is this frost arrow first one they are using or it is just some simple % chance to drop?

[stepsongrapes]

So if they have it in inventory "to drop", is there any way to make them drop it? Like not let them to shoot at all?
In other words:

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is this frost arrow first one they are using or it is just some simple % chance to drop?

I highly suspect that there's merely a % chance (or at least there's always uncertainty involved). I've killed them without them getting a shot off and didn't get a drop. Conversely, I've killed them after a fair amount of shots and gotten a drop.

[Xai]

Seems its useful to save the game before fight and load if no drop

[Hissssa]

I think it has to do with how quickly you kill them...as in if they get to shoot several times they might use them up. I noticed this when I was playing the first time but forgot; when I tried to kill them again and prevented them from shooting I got arrows.