psijic ambrosia recipe fragments

cheeseaddict

In the last 4 weeks i have done the daily writ for provisioning on three characters and have received not one Psijic ambrosia fragment. has the drop rate been nerfed?

Drax76

It appears that the addition of the purple Glass Motif fragments has made the list of what the RNG selects larger. Thus the Gold Psijic Ambrosia recipe fragments less likely for the RNG to select them as a net result.

Flaminir

Drax76 wrote: »

It appears that the addition of the purple Glass Motif fragments has made the list of what the RNG selects larger. Thus the Gold Psijic Ambrosia recipe fragments less likely for the RNG to select them as a net result.

I'd be very surprised... the loot tables for the different writs are totally separate....

Glass fragments drop from Clothing/Woodworking/Blacksmithing writs
Psijic chapters drop from provisioning.

OP, it's probably just the cruel mistress that is RNG... that said I have only seen 1 psijic fragment since IC launch and have been doing 4 top tier provisioning writs every day.

kyrowski

Same here 3 characters every day and I've only received 2 pieces and one of those was the day after I gave up hoping for them and bought the other 6 scraps :-(

Nestor

It took me about a month to make my first recipe, then it took about a month to make my second recipe. I then got two more fragments in the two weeks after that. However since that time, I have not seen a Fragment. I have stopped doing the writs a few days ago. The RNG on this is not favorable lately.

Then again, I see people selling the fragments for 20K in zone chat, and the recipe for 95K to 100K, so somebody has to be finding fragments.

myrrrorb14_ESO

RNG!

I hate you so much...

I got two provisioners going everyday. Got 1 during the first week and 1 during the second week!

I was like cool, 1 per week should take 10-12 weeks to finish.

Nope, got nothing since then. Stupid RNG

reften

I have one character. I have done the writ every day since Psijic was available. The first week I received two pieces. Since not a one.

It was nerfed, and I blame people with 8 characters with level 50 provisionining getting the receipt within 24hrs of the update....so now us casuals are stuck without it unless we want to pay the hardcores, which I refuse.

myrrrorb14_ESO

reften wrote: »

I have one character. I have done the writ every day since Psijic was available. The first week I received two pieces. Since not a one.

It was nerfed, and I blame people with 8 characters with level 50 provisionining getting the receipt within 24hrs of the update....so now us casuals are stuck without it unless we want to pay the hardcores, which I refuse.

Suppose I could level up 6 more provisioners to speed it up, but too lazy. Food for thought though.

MilwaukeeScott

I've been doing the daily writs on two characters since day one and I have two pieces. I have never missed a day.

Ashtaris

I have been wondering this myself. I have two max level provisioners who does the writs daily and have not received a recipe fragment from either one in over a month. Actually, the drop rate for any purple recipe seems to have been nerfed to the ground. Most of the time all I get now is some worthless green recipe or 10 Greens that goes along with my current 3 stacks of 200

GreyRanger

I came over to the forum to post this exact question. I have been doing 2 provisioning writs a day for ages. Weeks ago I got several of the pages and bought the last couple I needed to finish it, but I have not seen another page in weeks. I am assuming they nerfed the drop rate to encourage more crown store purchases. Frustrating. I may give up on provisioning writs because the Psijic ambrosia fragments were about the only reason to do these writs.

Elsonso

I recently wrote a /feedback to them on this subject. It has been a very long time since obtained a new fragment. Could be RNG, but it seems unlikely at this point.

Some people in my guild have recently suggested that the Perfect Roe discovery rate is no longer about 0.8% and has been reduced. These two things form a pattern that is answered by assuming the Crown XP item is not selling well and someone has taken steps to see if limiting in-game production of Ambrosia will fix that.

I am collecting Glass components as fast as I possibly can because, if they have reduced in-game rates for Ambrosia to drive Crown Store purchases, it is only a matter of time before Glass motif fragments and Malachite fragments become hard to find.

As I said in another thread, I feel like I am competing with ZOS over crafting, and we all know who is going to win that game.

Nestor

Ashtaris wrote: »

Actually, the drop rate for any purple recipe seems to have been nerfed to the ground.

I am fortunate in that I have found every Purple Food and Drink Recipe at least once, because they are not dropping any more for me. I barely get any Blues these days. I don't even bother listing the Green recipes in the guild stores, I just destroy them as soon as open the coffer from the writ.

Elsonso

Nestor wrote: »

Ashtaris wrote: »

Actually, the drop rate for any purple recipe seems to have been nerfed to the ground.

I am fortunate in that I have found every Purple Food and Drink Recipe at least once, because they are not dropping any more for me. I barely get any Blues these days. I don't even bother listing the Green recipes in the guild stores, I just destroy them as soon as open the coffer from the writ.

I get purple recipes from provisioning rewards, and it has been some time since I found one I do not know. They sell nicely in the guild store. I suppose this means that ZOS will put new ones into the Crown Store and make the in-game ones BoP so they cannot be sold anymore.

tengri

Now that you mentioned it... yes, I seam to be lacking with those pieces lately.
Got several in the first weeks but then it just... stopped. And I do at least one provision writ per day (sometimes two).

Ourorboros

When Psijic was released, I leveled 7 characters to max provisioning, and was doing 8 writs a day. All my fragments came from only 2 of 3 Belkarth writs. After making the recipe, I stopped doing the daily writs except on those 2. After making the 2nd recipe, I'm down to just a daily writ on my original provisioner, and still getting fragments. This seems lucky compared to other posters.....maybe my signature helps .

However, like others too, purple recipes have stopped dropping. I don't think I've seen anything but green recipes since IC dropped. Maybe this is just RNG, but the timing feels like more than a coincidence.

I_killed_Vivec

Nestor wrote: »

Ashtaris wrote: »

Actually, the drop rate for any purple recipe seems to have been nerfed to the ground.

I am fortunate in that I have found every Purple Food and Drink Recipe at least once, because they are not dropping any more for me. I barely get any Blues these days. I don't even bother listing the Green recipes in the guild stores, I just destroy them as soon as open the coffer from the writ.

This has started to really annoy me.

I don't destroy green recipes, I sell them, but I find I'm destroying at least half of the "rewards" I get from writs - mainly trash ingredients and traits that you can't even sell for 1 gold.

I used to sell green recipes cheaply on my guild store, but people have stopped buying them. I now sell blues equally cheaply - but again there's very little demand. It won't be long before everyone who wants them has all the recipes, at which point they will all be vendor trash.

Tommy1979AtWar

I've not had a Psijic chapter drop since IC was released.

Nikkor

gpkreutzerub17_ESO wrote: »

In the last 4 weeks i have done the daily writ for provisioning on three characters and have received not one Psijic ambrosia fragment. has the drop rate been nerfed?

the drop rates on EVERYTHING have been dropped. its really taken a lot of fun out of the game.

myrrrorb14_ESO

I got a pretty high drop rate for perfect roe, but since I cant use it (recipe wont drop) I put it up for sale.

Ourorboros

myrrrorb14_ESO wrote: »

I got a pretty high drop rate for perfect roe, but since I cant use it (recipe wont drop) I put it up for sale.

@myrrrorb14_ESO If you want XP Potions, instead of selling the Perfect Roe, you could find someone who can use your mats to make the pots for you.

myrrrorb14_ESO

Ourorboros wrote: »

myrrrorb14_ESO wrote: »

I got a pretty high drop rate for perfect roe, but since I cant use it (recipe wont drop) I put it up for sale.

@myrrrorb14_ESO If you want XP Potions, instead of selling the Perfect Roe, you could find someone who can use your mats to make the pots for you.

Dont really need the potions. Just want them because Im a collector, lol. If I had the recipe I would probably use them occasionally, but I am pretty casual most of the time and just enjoy going out into the world and picking the flowers.

cheeseaddict

i had my first one drop today. but yet to get any perfect roe.

jarrandub17_ESO

All ambrosia fragments have stopped since IC for me. Bit ridicule I think

Elsonso

jarrandub17_ESO wrote: »

All ambrosia fragments have stopped since IC for me. Bit ridicule I think

Yeah, no sign that it will be fixed, either.

jarrandub17_ESO

So as soon as I posted this I got one on lol. Wow

cheeseaddict

That's good Karma