Any reason to do resaerch on alts?

OWLTHEMAD

Just as the headline says.

Also any reason to invest in any other passives other than hirelings and material level?

I heard recently these things effect your master writ drop rate. If its true does anyone have any numbers or stats on these or a link?

tmbrinks

Yes, researched traits does increase your master writ drop chance.

As far as links, they've been posted in here occasionally. The link in my signature is to a spreadsheet and thread that has had some discussion of it.

From my research. Base drop rate of master writs is about ~4-5%. Learning all 9 traits will increase this to about ~7-8%, then motifs can push it to ~15%.

The specific number have NEVER been stated by ZoS, nor will they ever be in all probability.