This whole event was so boring and i didnt get anything useful in the boxes either. With this progress, the wall will come down in late december...

Marto wrote: »

PDarkBHood wrote: »

In Coldharbour, when looking for vitrified souls the Spider Daedra do not drop the vitrified souls(??). Killed many and no drops. All the other daedra seem fine and can be done in under 15 minutes. But nothing from Spider Daedra.

The NPC that gives the quest explicitly says Worm Cultists are the ones carrying Vitrified Souls. Drops from Daedra seem to be only a bonus.

Not true. She says both Daedra and Worm Cultists. See picture below:

Sometimes I can loot a ton of bodies at siege camps and sometimes not a single one, even if I do all of the damage to a specific enemy. I can’t seem to find any logic to it. So while some people say “just do the siege camps and you’ll get the vitrified souls”, it seems to be yet another case of rng.

dcrush wrote: »

Sometimes I can loot a ton of bodies at siege camps and sometimes not a single one, even if I do all of the damage to a specific enemy. I can’t seem to find any logic to it. So while some people say “just do the siege camps and you’ll get the vitrified souls”, it seems to be yet another case of rng.

I hit Siluum this evening and was averaging about 1 in 5 dropping vitrified souls. I was often getting 2 at a time, but that may be a side effect of loot CP buffs? It did seem as if certain enemy classes were more likely to drop souls than others, but it was a relatively small sample so who knows.

Its kinda weird, usually either nearly all mobs at a siege camp assault drop souls for me or none of them do...like its either shut on or off or has some sort of internal cooldown

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

Its kinda weird, usually either nearly all mobs at a siege camp assault drop souls for me or none of them do...like its either shut on or off or has some sort of internal cooldown

Same for me. I logged in this morning, tp to Solstice, grabbed the camp quest and the soul fetch quest, waited until the next camp got active, was one if the first ppl arriving there and start hitting the mobs, and non of these mobs spawned any loot. Same for the second camp I did.

So something is clearly bugged with those souls drops at siege camps.

I am on PSEU and so far I farm the same spot and got the 15 souls in always under three minutes.

But that doesn't mean that other players have different experiences!

If someone doesn't get any drops for hours, what remains as possibilities? That the zone, the npcs, the player character and/or the rng itself is bugged? *shrug*

Gabriel_H wrote: »

The camp mobs seem to have a cooldown on being lootable. Looks like around 5 - 10 minutes.

Then it shouldn't be an issue for first camp you do after logging into the game.

tomfant wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

The camp mobs seem to have a cooldown on being lootable. Looks like around 5 - 10 minutes.

Then it shouldn't be an issue for first camp you do after logging into the game.

Depends on where the cooldown is. If it's on the player then yes, if it's on the mobs then no.

I've found that dolmens can be a quick source of vitrified souls, especially if you're able to kill and loot the Worm cultists at the beginning and if the final boss and/or its mobs involves a Coldharbour daedra that can drop vitrified souls. In Alik'r I can usually get this done within about 4 dolmens, which go very quickly because of all the players there. But it usually goes even faster for me in Glenumbra, because there are usually fewer players and it's easier to get the cultists at the beginning.

Seems quick
Can do 6 dailies for Vitrified Souls a day and it takes about 20 minutes total for all 6

Though ZOS has never acknowledged it, we've known for years that the RNG in this game forms patterns. Think, for example, of all the times you've attempted to bash a chest with an 85% success chance and got four failures in a row. Statistically, this should be a thing that happens occasionally, but as most of us know, it's not occasionally; it's the rule.

The same is true of all sorts of things in this game, and we seem to be seeing a rather extreme version of it in these fetch quests. The Vitrified Souls quest, the Creature Fat, the Golden Sap, etc . all seem to have long periods with no drops at all followed by periods of extreme generosity from the game. You might kill thirty or more of the appropriate mob without a drop, but once the seal breaks, you'll often get them on every mob until you complete the quest.

It's really frustrating, because my time is too precious to do PvRNG these days. It's far too precious to me to play against broken RNG.

Simply put: If you actually score enough damage on a monster to be considered for a loot drop *at all*, then EVERY eligible monster should drop at least one Quest Coupon, of whichever form these Quest Coupons take (Vitrified Souls, Creature Fat, Undead Essence, Golden Sap, Furs), even if it is the only thing that the monster drops.

Going through about 40 mobs, and only half of them drop loot at all even when you manage to solo-kill them (i.e. you KNOW that you've done enough damage to qualify for loot), and of the 20 that drop loot, only 3 actually drop the relevant quest coupon, is simply not fun.

Especially when you had to run around like anything, actually trying to find the mobs in the first place because other players are getting to them first and you're racing around in ever decreasing circles in a zone where 90% of the mobs die before you even get within range of them.

And then let us deal with the situation at siege camps, where frequently one doesn't even get to see the mobs *at all* because there are so many players spamming so many effects that the screen slows down to a crawl and the first load of mobs don't even appear on your screen until the rest of the crowd has cleared out of the area because the reaper is already destroyed. On many occasions I don't even get to see the *boss* even if it's still standing for 30 seconds, I have to guess where it's standing and fire at that area, and it doesn't actually appear and render on my screen until after it's dead.

And yet, at the same time, the 16 million HP that it has (and, worse still, the 30 million HP at the centre camp because that one spawns TWO bosses) will be totally absurd once the event is over and once we get to the position of having to call out in chat for even 2-3 other people to come and help.

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Vitrified Souls from Aldunz Delve? Almost gave up. 15 minutes of mostly just me doing the circuit where all the Daedra and Cultist spawns were, and getting absolutely nothing - over half of them had no loot whatsoever. A good chunk of the rest had only gold or junk.

A one minute run through any of the taken over PDs will next you 15 souls.

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Gabriel_H wrote: »

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Vitrified Souls from Aldunz Delve? Almost gave up. 15 minutes of mostly just me doing the circuit where all the Daedra and Cultist spawns were, and getting absolutely nothing - over half of them had no loot whatsoever. A good chunk of the rest had only gold or junk.

A one minute run through any of the taken over PDs will next you 15 souls.

Honestly never tried the PDs, because the delves were usually closer to where I happened to be. Still not going to bother any more, though - the apex reward is not something I want, and there's no other reason to keep plugging away at it.

While the public dungeons would be better due to more mob density and faster spawns, it's not really a "you" problem - zos has confirmed that there is a bug causing inconsistencies with the quest item drops.



(From the pinned event thread).