[Non-Crown Experience Booster] Psijic Ambrosia

Faunter

Psijic Ambrosia is a non-crown experience booster consumable that was found in the game files. The provisioning recipe needed to craft this drink appears to be split in 7 chapters. Once you have found all 7, you can combine them to form the legendary quality recipe. However, it is unknown if there will be a small chance for the full recipe to drop as well, much like the fabled golden Dwemer motif. The method of obtaining one of the ingredients needed to craft Psijic Ambrosia, Perfect Roe, is also unknown at this time. The 50% increased experience bonus from it appears to stack with other food and drink bonuses, but I wonder if it will also stack with the Crown experience booster. Thoughts?

traigusb14_ESO2

Rare fishing ingredient!

Trollwut

That's cool!

And it means to me that this is the "non-money aequivalent" for the upcomming Crown Store item.

Faunter

I hope this brings more life to fishing!

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byrom101b16_ESO

Extremely low drop rate rare fishing ingredient (tedium guaranteed and only a viable activity for the very small % of high hours/day hardcore players) or quick cash payment for the same kind of item from those without the time and interest to do the most boring activity in the game.

But this makes it 'fair' OFC!

Someone do the maths on the non-xp-earning gametime wasted fishing to get the ingredients to make a potion to give you a 50% bonus to the time it takes to get your xp...

Hillarious...

Additionally, this stuff will be sold for a fortune but needed most by the very players who don't have massive amounts of gold due to less play-time.

So basically, unless you are a hardcore player putting in huge hours, this makes the ever growing CP point difference between them and casuals even worse. It will accelerate.

More CP elite = less competitiveness = less players. More cash required to keep up with hardcore by casuals with more money = more pissed off casuals = less players.

You couldn't make this stuff up...

Genius...

[Moderator Note: Edited per our rules on BASHING AND SLANDEROUS COMMENTS]

Master_Fluff

Frost Miriam, eh? Not an easy ingredient to find. So this will cost lots of shiny gold to make.

Turelus

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

NewBlacksmurf

Cool

Rook_Master

Is it confirmed that the Roe is a fishing ingredient?

Xendyn

ulrik.igerupb16_ESO wrote: »

Frost Miriam, eh? Not an easy ingredient to find. So this will cost lots of shiny gold to make.

I get it in Prov writs pretty much every day

Ruben

byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »

Someone do the maths on the non-xp-earning gametime wasted fishing to get the ingredients to make a potion to give you a 50% bonus to the time it takes to get your xp...

If you spend time farming it will be for the gold, not the XP. Expect it to be (very?) expensive.

AlnilamE

ulrik.igerupb16_ESO wrote: »

Frost Miriam, eh? Not an easy ingredient to find. So this will cost lots of shiny gold to make.

You only get it from provisioning writs or hirelings. Same with Bervez Juice. So this drink will use both purple ingredients and a gold one.

Fun stuff!

traigusb14_ESO2 wrote: »

Rare fishing ingredient!

I'm hoping so!

byrom101b16_ESO

Ruben wrote: »

byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »

Someone do the maths on the non-xp-earning gametime wasted fishing to get the ingredients to make a potion to give you a 50% bonus to the time it takes to get your xp...

If you spend time farming it will be for the gold, not the XP. Expect it to be (very?) expensive.

Exactly - the people already with a vast lead on banked gold will get further ahead, like being CP kings wasn't enough for them.

idk

byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »

Extremely low drop rate rare fishing ingredient (tedium guaranteed and only a viable activity for the very small % of high hours/day hardcore players) or quick cash payment for the same kind of item from those without the time and interest to do the most boring activity in the game.

But this makes it 'fair' OFC!

Someone do the maths on the non-xp-earning gametime wasted fishing to get the ingredients to make a potion to give you a 50% bonus to the time it takes to get your xp...

Hillarious...

Additionally, this stuff will be sold for a fortune but needed most by the very players who don't have massive amounts of gold due to less play-time.

So basically, unless you are a hardcore player putting in huge hours, this makes the ever growing CP point difference between them and casuals even worse. It will accelerate.

More CP elite = less competitiveness = less players. More cash required to keep up with hardcore by casuals with more money = more pissed off casuals = less players.

You couldn't make this stuff up...

Genius...

What makes it fair is anyone and everyone can obtain it with a little work in game or a lesser quality one via crown. It's a choice and a fabulous choice at that.

[Moderator Note: Edited quote to match moderated version]

UrQuan

Xendyn wrote: »

ulrik.igerupb16_ESO wrote: »

Frost Miriam, eh? Not an easy ingredient to find. So this will cost lots of shiny gold to make.

I get it in Prov writs pretty much every day

Exactly. It's only rare (read as: completely unavailable) for people without provisioning hirelings, and who don't do provisioning writs. If anyone has trouble getting Frost Miriam or Bervez Juice, it's their own fault for not bothering to do the writs (which are the best, most reliable source - as well as giving you a massive return on your tiny investment of provisioning mats).

Zhoyzu

Faunter wrote: »

I hope this brings more life to fishing!

you can fish in this game?!?

UrQuan

byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »

Extremely low drop rate rare fishing ingredient (tedium guaranteed and only a viable activity for the very small % of high hours/day hardcore players) or quick cash payment for the same kind of item from those without the time and interest to do the most boring activity in the game.

If it drops in a similar fashion to rare fish, then all you need to do is get a group together and go fishing together. You'll get it much much much faster with a group fishing the same holes together, and if you hop on teamspeak to make it a social activity you'll have fun doing it.

Sausage

Bring it on, whats better than console launch. I keep fingers crossed they get this right.

Faunter

I find it very interesting that the recipe requires both Frost Mirriam AND Bervez Juice.

Acrolas

Faunter wrote: »

I find it very interesting that the recipe requires both Frost Mirriam AND Bervez Juice.

It's to make sure that it tastes like bull ***.

UrQuan

Faunter wrote: »

I find it very interesting that the recipe requires both Frost Mirriam AND Bervez Juice.

At a guess I'd say that's because it's a drink, so it should use bervez juice, but because drinks are generally less popular than food, more people are sitting on stacks of bervez juice than frost mirriam. So to help make sure that creating it uses up ingredients that you would find useful for other things that you also want to use, it uses both. That helps make it a more meaningful choice: "hmm, do I make this psijic ambrosia even though it'll use up the ingredients I need for my favorite food? Is it worth the cost of playing without that food?"

Just a guess, though.

Exstazik

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

JamilaRaj

byrom101b16_ESO wrote: »

Someone do the maths on the non-xp-earning gametime wasted fishing to get the ingredients to make a potion to give you a 50% bonus to the time it takes to get your xp...

Don't be such P2W alarmist. Perhaps it will possible to buy ingredients or potions for gold from bots or other players. So, if you save enough gold by buying crown store repair kits, you will be able to afford XP boost like the better people but without spending crowns.
Unless XP bonuses stack, if not outright multiply, in which case you will get XP bonus but the better people will get still better XP bonus, which they deserve anyway.

Xendyn

Looks like I'm going to be waiting to finish up that Master Angler cheeve now.

UrQuan

Exstazik wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

You must have been fishing by yourself instead of with a group...

Exstazik

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

UrQuan wrote: »

Exstazik wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

You must have been fishing by yourself instead of with a group...

when you are fishing with group it's not up chance...Example:the pole have total 15 and the amount of attempt is: 15/ *total_player.So it's just less attempt on each pole--->more poles for X time.

vovus69

That's great actually - at least we can get something new

UrQuan

Exstazik wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Exstazik wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

You must have been fishing by yourself instead of with a group...

when you are fishing with group it's not up chance...Example:the pole have total 15 and the amount of attempt is: 15/ *total_player.So it's just less attempt on each pole--->more poles for X time.

That's completely false. ZOS has said many many times that the more people fishing the same hole, the higher the chances of any given cast of the rod getting a rare drop. If you had done any significant amount of fishing in groups as well as solo, you would see that it's true. I've found the ideal number of people to fish with to be 4-6. More than that and you start using up the holes too fast, and spend too much time finding new holes. Fewer than that and it takes way more casts of the rod (and way more bait) to get your greens and blues. In a 3 hours or so of fishing with a group of 4-6 I expect to get every single green and blue fish available in a zone - typically 5-10 of each green and 1-4 of each blue. In the same amount of time fishing solo I expect to get maybe 1/4 of that.

MissBizz

UrQuan wrote: »

Exstazik wrote: »

UrQuan wrote: »

Exstazik wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

Now I am glad I saved up those 2,000 worms...

i spent ~900 worms for 1 blue fish...so this ROE can be a pain in ass and 2k of worms not enough))

You must have been fishing by yourself instead of with a group...

when you are fishing with group it's not up chance...Example:the pole have total 15 and the amount of attempt is: 15/ *total_player.So it's just less attempt on each pole--->more poles for X time.

That's completely false. ZOS has said many many times that the more people fishing the same hole, the higher the chances of any given cast of the rod getting a rare drop. If you had done any significant amount of fishing in groups as well as solo, you would see that it's true. I've found the ideal number of people to fish with to be 4-6. More than that and you start using up the holes too fast, and spend too much time finding new holes. Fewer than that and it takes way more casts of the rod (and way more bait) to get your greens and blues. In a 3 hours or so of fishing with a group of 4-6 I expect to get every single green and blue fish available in a zone - typically 5-10 of each green and 1-4 of each blue. In the same amount of time fishing solo I expect to get maybe 1/4 of that.

Yes, you get a group together and fish for an evening and you most likely will complete ythat zone. I get WAY more rare fish with groups than solo, and I stop to fish solo a LOT

nimander99

YES!!!!!!!!!