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Perfect Roe removed, reduced drop rate or horrible RNG?

  • newtinmpls
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    Smitch_59 wrote: »
    I got one perfect roe this evening, along with four of the same rare green fish within about 10 minutes.

    I HATE you forEVER

    /pout
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  • UltimaJoe777
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    Sylance9 wrote: »
    There is an addon that tracks how many fish youve fillet and how many out of those you got a roe on and calculates a drop percentage based on it. out of the thousands I did it was a steady .7-.8% drop.

    http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info958-VotansFishFillet.html

    Yeah that says nothing about the actual drop rate.
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  • Elsonso
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    Sylance9 wrote: »
    There is an addon that tracks how many fish youve fillet and how many out of those you got a roe on and calculates a drop percentage based on it. out of the thousands I did it was a steady .7-.8% drop.

    http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info958-VotansFishFillet.html

    Yeah that says nothing about the actual drop rate.

    Votan has a dodgy Fishing add-on that automatically fillets the fish for you and counts the Roe drop rate. My feeling is that this violates their prohibition on automation, so I use this add-on but have modified it so that it can only do one fillet at a time. It gives me the count without having to write my own program to do it and keeps me from any potential wrath from ZOS if they ever decide that it is a violation of the ToS and start cracking down on it.

  • niccolo91
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    1 perfect roe at fish number 160 currently on fish 325 and haven't had one since hoping soon!
  • menschie
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    Just started fishing today ... 1 roe out of 135 fish = .74% ... fits right in with what everyone else is saying. Roe are going for about 12k in Craiglorn. So, about an hour, 1000 gold from rare fish plus the 1 roe ... not the least return from time spent I've ever had in the game that's for sure.
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  • BabeestorGor
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    19/1657 (1.14%)
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  • dodgehopper_ESO
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    I don't bother. I went through over a thousand fish and never got a perfect roe. I did not continue. It is an excessive waste of time and not fun, so why do it? Leave fishing to people who are willing to scrape by for it or the folks who like playing a bad fishing simulator.

    I'd like to point out my luck in acquiring Nirncrux has been equally bad. I find other ways to make money and buy what I want.
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  • FortheloveofKrist
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    Stop watching the clock, or looking at how many pages are left in the book, or [pick your own analogy] and you may enjoy the fishing a little more.

    I spent almost an hour fishing last night. Just closed my eyes, lied back on the couch, listened to the water running and the birds and other sounds in the game, and hit the X button on the PS4 controller every time I heard the "bite". I opened my eyes 30 minutes in and, without my knowledge, saw that I caught three greens, one blue, and one Wet Gunny Sack with two Kuta.

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