Extracting tempers - blacksmithing

Kos

I have noticed after patch my hireling sends less tempers and refining ore or deconstructing armor has little chance of extracting tempers as well. I wonder if this has been changed or is it just pure luck?

pavelcherepanskyrwb17_ESO

Kos wrote: »

I have noticed after patch my hireling sends less tempers and refining ore or deconstructing armor has little chance of extracting tempers as well. I wonder if this has been changed or is it just pure luck?

I think that they've increased the chance of hireling of providing at least blue tempers and as for me, I've been getting quite a lot of tempers including gold and deconning also works fine.

Oevaag_Bur

Ye, mine sent me a blue AND a purple in the same mail yesterday

Sabin1269

I've been getting a lot of blues, a couple greens and I think one purple so far! I love it since my two maim toons are still low lvls and I have a crappy chance at getting them when I decon.

Mystwraith

Can't say about blacksmithing but as a Master Clothier I can say that since the patch I have noticed a reduction of anything above blue when processing resources. Played for a few hours today and managed to gather 500+ VR9 resources and never got one gold or purple temper, whereas previous to the latest patch I was getting at least one of each per 100 resources processed.

As for my hireling I was regularly getting a gold temper every other day and I have not had one yet since patch, in fact I haven't had any type of temper since patch.

It's been that long that I can't remember when I last got a blue or purple item that I could deconstruct...

Kos

Mystwraith wrote: »

Can't say about blacksmithing but as a Master Clothier I can say that since the patch I have noticed a reduction of anything above blue when processing resources. Played for a few hours today and managed to gather 500+ VR9 resources and never got one gold or purple temper, whereas previous to the latest patch I was getting at least one of each per 100 resources processed.

As for my hireling I was regularly getting a gold temper every other day and I have not had one yet since patch, in fact I haven't had any type of temper since patch.

It's been that long that I can't remember when I last got a blue or purple item that I could deconstruct...

That was my observation, no gold or purple tempers. More grinding ahead...
I wish I could focus more on the story and game instead of farming resources (I like having better items like most of us). Even before patch I thought the drop rate for those was low but now it's worse.

ErykGrimm

My findings have been the opposite of the trend of this thread. Which is reinforced by the patch notes. 3/3 hireling is providing better tempers than previously. And I have been getting more than honing stones and hemmings since last patch as well.

sandschristierwb17_ESO

ErykGrimm wrote: »

My findings have been the opposite of the trend of this thread. Which is reinforced by the patch notes. 3/3 hireling is providing better tempers than previously. And I have been getting more than honing stones and hemmings since last patch as well.

Yes I am getting lots more blues and purples from hireling and smelting, but as for yellows. I have maxed clothing/woodworking and blacksmithing and farm hard lucky to see a yellow in over 500 refinings and have not seen a yellow in 9-10 'mail-outs' total.

Shiroro

I've noticed a significant drop but then again it has been less than a week. I've gotten yellows from hirelings since patch so it's still possible.

Haewk

Kos wrote: »

Mystwraith wrote: »

That was my observation, no gold or purple tempers. More grinding ahead...
I wish I could focus more on the story and game instead of farming resources (I like having better items like most of us). Even before patch I thought the drop rate for those was low but now it's worse.

Is gold sets required to do end game?

kijima

I have got a rare yellow mat, but mainly blue and purple.

poodlemasterb16_ESO

Indeed I got "2" honing stones yesterday in one mail, the first time I've ever seen that.

Snit

Haewk wrote: »

Is gold sets required to do end game?

Nope. The difference between gold and purple is miniscule. Your main weapon is the only thing that should be a priority to upgrade to Legendary.

KingslayerNanook

I don't believe I've gotten one temper since patch. But then I do have horrible luck:(

p_tsakirisb16_ESO

Hirelings working fine, so is the temper extraction from ores. (Blacksmithing)
I get at least one alloy , 2 solvents per 100 stack.

However,
I do not get a single dwarven oil!!!



Clothing on the other hand with extraction 3/3, 9/9 on crafting and level 50, we are lucky if we get a green temper per 100 stack.

And refined around 1200 void flower over the weekend. Got exactly 5 embroidery and 10 hemming.

Used to get a lot more even from 100 stack before patch 1.2.3

If anyone else has same issue, maybe we need to make a bug report?

Drakoleon

Wasting 3 valuable skill points to get just 1 alloy every week -10 days its....crap Same goes for ore extraction you get 1 alloy every 500 ore with 3 skill points on and 1 every 600 without.... Armor extraction same...crap 1 temper with 3 skill points every 6 pieces and 1 every 7 without!This is my experiance so far

Merlin13KAGL

Sabin1269 wrote: »

I've been getting a lot of blues, a couple greens and I think one purple so far! I love it since my two maim toons are still low lvls and I have a crappy chance at getting them when I decon.

Nothing quite as heartwarming as breaking down a purple in attempt to increase your skill to have it render "no usable items found..."

Kos

Is there any viable source on what the actual chances of extracting tempers are
when refining ore?

SteveCampsOut

I must be playing a completely different game than ya'll! I consistently get Druegh Wax from Madam Firilanya, more apparently since she has taken ill and her assistant has taken over. I just got a Dawrven Oil from one of the Abnab brothers and Pacrooti, well, he's still Pacrooti. What else can I say?

p_tsakirisb16_ESO

I had no hirelings. However since I freed some SP from the latest respec (35 to be precise) and moved the tampering & alchemy to an alt, decided to put 9 points on the 3 hirelings (Smithing, Clothing, Woodworking) on both characters.

Whoa!!! Seems the investment of those points, does actually worth it. Two characters, checked twice a day. In a single week gathered 25 Epic and Legendary mats per craft. (with 2-3 per day from extraction)

Tarkit

Yesterday I got two gold tempering alloys in 1 mail to my VR6 main..