Ancients no longer dropping anything?

I've killed a whole bunch of ancients over the past few weeks using Beginner Dream Catcher and Fomor Knight Lance (not Bare Hands), not even a single piece of gold was dropped. Is it just me or am I really unlucky?

Doesn't CP have something to do with drop rate? It lowers the drop rate if it's weak or weakest. They still drop things for me, so you're probably just unlucky.

CP affects drop rate to some degree. I have gotten items and gold from weak/est before, albeit it not a lot of gold and it was typically a gem. What were you hunting?

My daily routines typically revolve around going to Muyu Desert, Cor, Hot Springs, so basically anything around there.

I don't recall CP ever affecting drop rate...

Ancient drop is always a hit and miss for me. Some days it drops, some days it doesn't.

In fields(outside of dungeons, shadow missions, etc.), monsters categorized as weakest(idr if it applies to weak) don't drop from their normal droplist(they still drop gold, and certain quest/event specific drops).

After hunting 4 Burgundy Bear the Ancients and 4 Plateau Wild Boar the Ancients... I only managed to snag a 3cm Diamond and a pile of gold, both from the bears. Blah...

Yeah, it's definitely hit or miss. Sometimes I'll get gems/gold from 5 ancients in a row; other times I'll kill 15+ boss ancients and get nothing and then kill an Ancient Young Porcupine and get an upgrade stone. All depends on how the Mabi-gods are feeling ;-;