decaffeinated wrote: »GeneralGrundmann wrote: »Ah, sorry if my wording wasn't clear.
Concerning the rumors: I know personally one player first-hand who just started pvp, didn't know even a single torte recipe and got the lost thesis during his first ten battlegrounds.
If knowing the other recipes would increase the drop rate of the thesis, I would believe that ZOS mentioned that somewhere.
Still, I am also a little superstitious. My main PvP character knows both recipes and always has a molten war torte recipe in his inventory. So far with no success but you never know...
"harvesting" implies you got Aetherial DUST. Which is totally different. Aetheric CIPHERS only drop from NPC enemies.
GeneralGrundmann wrote: »@Fischblut
This is the most recent thread (July 2025) I know of concerning the exact source of the lost thesis, it even has a screenshot as proof:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/681155/chef-arquitiuss-lost-thesis
"It dropped from the odd bal mail you get not any coffer. Just in the mail its self."
Thank you very much, this is great!
Also, I see two Thesis items listed within 5 past hours on EU now, 110 millions and 255 millions. I didn't check if they are still available cause I won't buy, but that's a tiny increase in a drop rate I think