mattaeus01b16_ESO wrote: »

Soooooo, it seems you can do the Dark Brotherhood quest "Marked for death" over and over and over... and get Ill gotten rewards.
Is this not considered repeatable?

came here to say this because someone pointed it out to me in zone. i did two of them back to back, got junk and decided it's not worth the time with my sub ending on the 8th and i still have a little content to get through before i lose access to it. could have sworn i read somewhere from zos that these instantly repeatable quests would NOT give the bags, otherwise i probably would have been doing them on day one. i'm assuming the instantly repeatable thieves guild quest probably also gives the bag, but the drop rate is still going to be just as bad.

not sure why they are punishing players like this. i'll add it to the growing list of reasons of why i dropped my sub. if they didn't want ppl to profit off of the furnishings, they could have upped the drop rate to something like the jubilee bags and made them bound. or maybe they do want ppl to be able to profit on them because this is going to make them so expensive the ppl who want them are going to have to pay an arm and a leg for them

I dunno.

I got One.


with my RNG that's pretty good.

I was too busy with work and Oblivion to engage with the event until the weekend. I talked to guildies about the results they were seeing from the event, and decided it wasn't worth my valuable time to bother.

50 Ill gotten goods opened...





Actual furnishings... but nothing new.
Still, its up from the first 200.

LouisaB75 wrote: »

Well, so much for my intention to pick up where I left off yesterday to try to raise my bounty some more in the hope of better loot. Bank Holiday Monday and maintenance again. I strongly suspect that by the time maintenance is over my bounty will have cleared and I will be back to square one with no time to build it up again to yesterday's level and no time to play tomorrow since I am back at work again and the event will be over by the time I log on in the evening.

bounty shouldn't take long. the bounty bonus caps out at 1500. not much time left to get things from it the way they did the drops though. absolutely deplorable... you might have better luck doing the dark brotherhood contracts with elam that are instantly repeatable. they give a box every time. of course it has the same horrible drop rates as boxes obtained any other way

Last day of the event I decided to farm other rare stolen items. Meh.
insanely rare drop + unknown increase in drop rare = sigh

Over all, I would like to say that this event DID NOT instill joy. It was over grindy, drops were non existent for the most part. People in my 5 guilds did not take part.
The ones that walk away from this happy would be the grinders like myself that then turn and sell said rare items for bank. The grinders like me that want to collect, are left in the dark.

Not fun... Much like the Murkmire Event.

Again... Not fun.

I got another bag yesterday, which, again, only contained clutter to sell.

I built out a thief character and got my bounty WAY up just for this event - and was truly excited to participate in this event. I even made a specialized build for it (Khajit nightblade with stage 4 vamp, Draeloc Brae and Night Mother's armor with the Shadow Queen's Cowl). When the event dropped, though, I was sorely disappointed. Not only was the fencing cap not actually increased 100% (it went from 140 to 190), the amount of extra gold was minuscule, and as people have noted here, the Pouch of Ill Gotten Goods had a horrible drop rate - and when you got them, all they usually contained was additional stolen loot - and not even high level stuff, usually just white or green items.

This thieving event is simply going to be a waste of everyone's time unless they make some improvements. My suggestions are:

1. Remove the cap for fenced items completely while the event is active. This is the kind of Role play event that I will only participate in with 1-2 characters at most, so raising the cap by 50 and calling it a "100%" increase is misleading and nonsensical.

2. Increase the amount of gold you get from fenced goods by 100%

3. Increase the drop chances of the pouch of ill gotten goods by a lot.

4. Increase the chances that the pouches will have good items in it. How much this needs to be increased will depend on how often the pouches drop. The more often they drop, the less often they need to cough up a good loot item.

5. Give us better information re: how X amount of bounty (lets say 1000 in bounty) will increase your drop chances for the pouches. We should know this so we can figure out if it is worthwhile to prime our characters by getting immense bounties.

6. How about increasing drop chances of those counterfeit pardons?

If they did this, I would literally focus farm this event and have a great time doing it. While it was fun to get a little bit of extra for pickpocketing and murdering NPC's during the event, overall, I didn't find it worthwhile to try to farm. It's definitely a fun concept, but it also needs a lot of work.

Got myself a sizeable bounty and plenty of heat and started engaging with the event

Bags weren't particularly forthcoming and the drop rate for the 'event furnishings' was laughably inadequate.

Proceeded to apply the lesson I learned in the 2024 anniversary jubilee and dialed the engagement right back. Replaced my usual dailies to burn through enlightenment with TG/DB dailies and that was that.

Bad idea to have this event at the start of a Golden Pursuit.