this is really odd...but you aint going to believe me

Ok, i was farming in HM in gates of kryta for decayed orr emblems and trick or treat bags and suddenly i notice i was taking constant 5 armor ignoring damage. Then I looked the damage indication stuff on the left side of screen and i noticed the life stealing icon you see whenever u get hit by a vampiric weapon in pvp. It turned out that one of the skeleton rangers have a vampiric weapon (and consequently dropped a vampiric dead bow with a vampiric mod). I didn't get the screenshot so i tried doing the run again (and sadly, the skeletons weren't using the vampiric weapon on me again this time). Apparently, this is one the rarest incidents in guild wars where mobs use vampiric weapons like we do (much like 1/100,000). Since I didn't get a screen, no one is going to believe me.

I've seen it happen before, so I believe you.

I'm fairly certain people will believe you. Monsters hold the items they are using, and when they are killed and a weapon drops, its usually the one they were just using as you were battling them. This is noticeable alot with the Sorrow's Furance greens (Like you can tell if Drago is wielding his bow).

It's happened to me when I farm. Not often mind you, but I remember farming the undead in the First City as a 105, and i kept seeing vamp damage. After the mob died, one of them dropped a gold sephis axe with a vamp mod.

It's sort of nice actually, it means you're going to get a gold

I've seen a screenshot of this. I've also had it happen to me before. :3

That's pretty cool, actually. I wish you could see things like this more often.

I've seen wierd stuff like this...farming bergen a skeleton sorceror wiedling a Defender shield...dropped it...but I've seen mobs carrying other stuff that they don't normally and that hasn't dropped.

And it doesn't always mean you're getting a gold either.

I just like it because it makes the game a bit more deeper and interesting : )

why is it weird when things make sense? ^^

Because (sadly) most of the time in GW, logic is lacking. So wee!

I've come accross many foes using vamp weapons, though most never seam to drop them for me.

The better question I think is why do the Charr not drop elemental weapons when most of them use a conjure enchantment??

its completely untrue that mobs always drop what they are carrying. like fire imps, carrying shields pretty often, but i rarely have one drop from them

I think vamp mods only drop from golds, which is why it was said to drop. Also, H/H steal drops.

I've seen vamp purples and blues.

imperfect vamps (1:1) were blue. Zealous used to be a blue mod as well. There was an update sometime around Factions that made all vamp mods gold.

This was true when Sorrow's Furnace was initially released, but a later update made all bosses carry their weapons when possible.

They don't always drop what they're carrying, but they have a chance to drop the items they hold.

hehehe, off course we believe you, where else you think vampiric weapons come from? from the monsters in the game we farm !

This happened to me in NM the last time I did the mission. I almost died cuz I got cornered by 2 Rangers with Vamp bows.

Correct... Too bad the acolytes in NF don't always drop the weapon they are carrying. :/

Wait till you run into mobs with +20% humanslaying mods.