Item Drops and Finds Version 2 - Post BB

Killing queen/pierre will revive anyone dead in the map, yes. And those people WILL get drops from the chest, because, surprise! they're alive when the drops come out. In von bon and vellum, drops come out on kill and that's a different story. If you are dead when either of the latter two bosses die, you will not get any instanced drops. Unless it was changed recently, and I highly doubt that.

so you don't kill chaos RA every week? oh ok ic