No inspiration from stolen items

Psych32

After the imperial city patch, I noticed that I have not been receiving inspiration from items that are stolen. My blacksmithing skill is 19 and I have the perk to use orchialium ingots and im getting no experience from deconstructing stolen orc items. Is this happening to anyone else?

Kammakazi

Are you PC

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO

As there is a risk of stealing their used to be a reward not nerfed it stealing and deconstruction of the gear was to much reward.

josh.lackey_ESO

I am on PC, and I have noticed I get very little inspiration from stolen items. It's similar to the zero value items that you pick up in the world. However, if I launder the items, they give a normal amount of inspiration.

qpviper1qp

I've noticed the same thing on xbox one. It isn't giving the xp gains that it used to.

DaveMoeDee

I noticed I was getting just 400 for deconstructing some Stolen gear with my vr5. I was going to level a third vet character for writs and better hireling deliveries. Seems like it would take too much effort now. I'll still steal for mats though with my higher level character. Maybe I'll stop selling intricate items to level the third character.

Psych32

No im on the ps4, I used this method cause most of my friends dont play the game regularly anymore and I couldnt find people who wanted to trade lvl 28 gear.

Blood_Oracle

I read on Reddit that you have to launder the stolen item and then decon for exp/mats.

CGPsaint

Blood_Oracle wrote: »

I read on Reddit that you have to launder the stolen item and then decon for exp/mats.

Source? How recent did you see this?

Blood_Oracle

CGPsaint wrote: »

Blood_Oracle wrote: »

I read on Reddit that you have to launder the stolen item and then decon for exp/mats.

Source? How recent did you see this?

Submitted 2 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/elderscrollsonline/comments/3lv58e/psa_stealing_armorweapons_to_deconstruct_for/


I haven't tested it out yet but I wonder if it works.

Edit: A user said the following: ''And I tested the laundered vs stolen for materials, and I averaged the same amount from both - so, if doing just for mats, save your gold people! Just deconstruct them stolen.''

I guess it's worth decon stolen items for mats.

azza_ten

Yeah I have noticed this as well. By reducing the ip gained from deconstruction it has turned a simple and fair processes into a ridiculously slow and grinding process. If it isn't broken don't fix it. It has made it near impossible for solo players to level crafting.

Daily crafting mission do very little to increase your characters crafting level as you can only do them every 20 hours. On completion of each quest the ip has been increased a little but not to a point were you gain enough experience to raise your levels by much barely na quarter of a level. it's a poor trade for the decrease in deconstruction xp. Previously in around 8 hrs of game play i could gain two crafting levels without too much repetitive game play.

I recently contacted support to pass on some feedback and to say that myself and many of my online gaming friends are seriously considering a move away from the game as these types of "changes" do little to enhance the gaming experience. The word throughout the online community is similar that by making levelling a chore rather then a reward it takes away from the fun of the game and after all that's what it's made for. I imagine like my friends and i the other ESO members will soon tire of it and cancel their subscription.

newtinmpls

The pickup items on racks - even if not stolen - have really low inspiration too. It's not just the stolen ones.

However if you improve them first, it adds a LOT. My vet 1 was deconning items off racks for something like 300-400, and when he improved an item to green, it gave 3000 some.

Kind of expensive if you don't have a lot of green improvment materials, but if you really need the points and are close - it could be worth it.

S_Schofield

I have a VR11 and a Crafting VR10 that I started late with and I found that if I grind with the 11 and put all the loot drops in the bank and then withdraw them with my 10 and then destruct the,m the amount of XP i get is about 6 to 9 k per item, I did 35 items Yesterday and received 171000+ xp and 4 levels, if you had a friend in the same guild with a higher level this would work as well