Monsters using Weapon MODs?

First off, apologies if this is common knowledge, but I have been playing GW for nearly three years and have never noticed this:



After slaying the harpy, I picked up a gold machete, which happened to have a vampiric hilt attached. As I've said before, I've never noticed this. Is it a fairly normal occurrence?

Ya, any gold weapon droped by a enemy has a random chance of getting any mod. This does not mean the enemy was using the weapon though. Unless you can cap a vid of some enemy's health going down because of a vamp weapon, then it will remain true that enemies weapons are unmodded

*edit- I just looked at the picture -.-
That's wierd, I guess enemies weapons can be modded, or else this is a glitch/bug

normal. probably not common knowledge but it has been this way for quite some time. i'm not sure if every mod works this way but i know the vampiric shows through because a while back i would see it every now and again with skeleton archers outside of bergen hitting me with vampiric weapons.

Every once in a while this happens, Many times over the years in Old Ascalon just North-East of Sardelac Saniturum, there is a grawl that sometimes wields a "different" hammer than the rest who then drops said hammer in purple or gold. Its pretty cool that these things happen sometimes.

Some monsters will also have shields equipped and take less damage then their counterparts.

Yea almost all the times in Nahpui Quarter mission, on HM

If you solo it all of the Birdies wielding celestial weapons drop them

That explained why that Bladed Aatax took 2 less damage from Sliver.

Vamp is the only one you can see without help, but not the only mod that monsters use. Some monsters always deal Elemental damage, but some do so only if their weapon is modded with an Elemental string/haft/hilt/etc. This can be seen by using Mantra of Flame/Frost/Earth/Lightning and gaining the energy. Not easy to find, but possible. Only thing 'bad' about monsters using modded weapons is they don't suffer the drawbacks. So the vamp mods dont' give the monsters health degen, and the zealous weapons don't effect their energy regen.