Talk:Heide Greatlance/@comment-121.44.242.4-20180113073240/@comment-4511886-20180123010803

It isn't bugged. Every non-respawning Heide Knight has a guaranteed chance to drop an item. However, what specific item they drop is randomized and will be either one of the eligible weapons, or an armor piece.

You farm it by doing the thing you already did. You burn ascetics. This is how all Heide Knight gear is farmed outside of Scholar, and how quite a few items are farmed in both versions. In fact, this is one of the less painless things to farm from non-respawning, because Heide Knights are usually in fairly low-risk areas to ascetic because you can either skip the area by running past enemies, or the area that is affected can simply be avoided completely.