scrappy1342 wrote: »An empty coldharbor lot isn't worth this kind of effort, especially if it is not going to fall unless you purchased the pass.
i think i saw you ask this before. or maybe it was someone else with the same avatar. i figured someone would have answered but maybe not. i got the coldharbour estate as a drop on my alt account. which has never bought anything, never spent a dime, has no paid for dlc's/chapters (i have the ones that were given away and a friend gifted me murkmire so she could run me through brp), have never had a sub on that account, and do not have the content pass. i started out doing some extra blue boxes every day to try to get the house. the crafting ones because they are easy. but after reading post after post here about abysmal rates, decided to just stick with the gold boxes, which i only get 2 of without a pass. have the pass gives more chances, but you certainly don't -need- it to get the house to drop
I didn't actually ask about it, but I have mentioned that such statements are being made in the social chat. Good to hear that someone who did not purchase the pass and is not working on the island got the lot. In the end, I just don't find the awards worth the effort. I was actually spending most of my game time playing a really old game called Seven Wonders instead of ESO because I got tired of the frustrations of game freezing and 'lame' rewards. Sad but true.
LootAllTheStuff already told you about the bolded bit, but you decided that because the post started with "I hate to break it to you" (which is a common phrase that people use when they're about to tell someone something that if they had known sooner may have caused them to do things differently) you decided that they were being rude and you didn't want to read the rest of the post. Sad but true.Saying "I hate to break it to you," sounds rude so I am ignoring the rest of your post and your account. I am done with rude posters.LootAllTheStuff wrote: »LootAllTheStuff wrote: »It seems that these daily crafting quests have been created in theAny chance of boosting drop rates of the bone shards, despite the wall falling a lot of us will be left still having to aid to bring the wall down to try and get the event rewards we still need!
I wonder if the problem is that the loot roll is structured as a % chance on a % chance? A bit like the Pyandonean motifs from fishing - a "rare" chance to get a bottle, and then a "rare" chance that the bottle contains a motif. The result is that getting a motif equates to legendary odds, even though the drop chance in the bottle loot table is something like 5%.
If they did something similar with the fragments - say an x% chance to drop a rare item, then a y% chance it's a fragment, but there are 2 (? or more?) fragments. That would explain the abysmal RNG on it, because the overall chance of getting the one you want has been massively diluted by all the prior rolls.
ETA: This sort of stuff is why I will always advocate for curated drops on special event items like this.
I don't have Solstice so I do benefit from completing this event. I was completing the dailies for that chance drop of a Coldharbor lot. Since that drop is a replacement drop for something that was already a rare drop, it is a very rare action. Playing the same set of quests every day to gain that 1:1,000,000 item was making the game feel punishing. I wanted to stop playing the game. I took the mature route and stopped completing the event instead. An empty coldharbor lot isn't worth this kind of effort, especially if it is not going to fall unless you purchased the pass. I pay $180 every year for this game, why am I asked to pay more to play? The RNG is so bad in so many places that I have lost interest in many of the collectable items and some resources, like the Nirns in Craglorn only.
I hate to break it to you, but you could get that drop without having the pass - the rarity had nothing to do with access to Solstice, and the drop could be obtained from blue as well as gold boxes. I did in fact get the plot of land, although I have no idea what to do with it, and I don't have Solstice either. But as far as I am concerned the drop chance really is too low for a special event without curated loot.
Okay, as I found out, this book (Worm Cult Correspondence) can apparently only be taken by people without Solstice, because the required quest is somehow skipped by the owners of the chapter.
Sorry? This is news. Where did you get that info? Which quest that should be? Do you have any details?

On two my charactersthis stage is skiped.