Talk:Monsters/@comment-92.146.42.201-20190720211919/@comment-209.217.215.18-20190729115149

Maybe they are available in the location but only with a specific play mode or anomaly in effect? I haven't got a clue, but I can't remember the last time I got one of the harder to get weapons searhcing a location. My main source of weapons is the spring totem, at level 2 it starts giving a weapon each day.

I decided some time ago to never fight monsters unless I had a quest to do so because then you end up needing to find them because you've used them up. Now I have a stockpile of them. When there are quests there can be anywhere from 1 to 3 collections from a particular monster. That means as many as 15 collection items and it averages about 3 fights to get each collection iterm, that means 45 fights on average. The number of weapons you need for this varies by the number needed for each monster:

3 => 45 4 => 60 5 => 75

And that is then minimum number of weapons I want to have on hand. I will fight monsters when I do not have a quest but before I do it's because I have many times those numbers. I have so many of every type of weapon now that I never need to look for them. As the last person said, trying to find weapons by searching locations in ineficient unless you have a boost running that increases weapons drops.