Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.62.142.87-20140331201702/@comment-64.136.199.56-20150428010832

Late, late, late to the party~

As for why I'm here, I want to ask a question that, on this wiki, has never been specifically answered, to my knowledge.

First off, I haven't read the parts of the light novels that explain this, nor do I know the location of said parts, otherwise I wouldn't ask the question. But I've been reading around the wiki, and I've seen people comment (in threads like these, mind you) that Reki's storytelling in the novels didn't "leave anything out". Thus, if it really was said in the novels in as vague a fashion as I've seen on this wiki, then my question has already been answered.

I keep seeing people talking about how the Elucidator is the fiftieth floor boss drop, all across the internet. But even so, its actual wiki page, last I checked, just said it was a drop from -A- boss on floor fifty, rather than specifically stating that it dropped from -THE- floor fifty boss.

So, my question is: in the novels, the source material, was the Elucidator mentioned specifically as the fiftieth floor boss drop, or was it mentioned as just a drop from a boss on floor fifty?

If this wiki's page on Elucidator is wrong, and it really comes from the floor fifty boss, then I'll fault the laziness/ignorance of the people allowed to edit the article. However, if it really was only said to be a drop from a boss on floor fifty in the source material, then I have to wonder just how many of you are making assumptions of what is fact based on less evidence than what is needed to truly cement it as fact.

There are several other types of mobs that drop rare items on defeat, so it's not like floor bosses are the only monsters in the game capable of doing so. For example, Nicholas the Renegade was a flag mob by technical classification, and an "event boss" by player misnomer. He dropped a near-useless revival item that was probably only programmed into the system to cement the cold, cruel reality of death to the player it dropped for. But the fact remains that the item was unique, powerful in its own way, and didn't come from a floor boss.

Thus, I think that if the Elucidator wasn't mentioned to have specifically dropped from a floor boss, then we've been totally off in referring to it as if it did. As I believe Gsi himself said somewhere else on the wiki, Reki "didn't leave anything out" in his narrations (I think he said it in reference to the abilities of Excalibur on a Q&A thread linked to its page). If it came from the floor fifty boss, he would've made it so that came out, one way or another.