laurels and silver pledges

Czeri

I ran 3 silver pledges since the update but I never got laurel from the last boss. Even though the first 2 times I knew half the mercenary chapters (I've been saving keys), and by today's pledge I knew all the chapters. I could have sworn I've read that laurel drop was guaranteed if you knew the whole motif. Is it just me, or is it really not dropping?

NateAssassin

I've gotten them from normal pledges.

Czeri

Hmm, guess I'm unlucky. That's better than a bug :-)

NateAssassin

Czeri wrote: »

Hmm, guess I'm unlucky. That's better than a bug :-)

Probably unlucky, there is a bug ATM with getting gear drops on veteran pledges, I did 2 of them without getting a single piece of vr16 trash item, while I got laurels, a crappy agility necklace, and decon stuff from normal pledges.

Twilix01

While we're on the topic how many laurels are we supposed to get from an end-boss? I've only gotten one so far and am unsure if it's just RNG determining number or if it's capped at one per end-boss.

NateAssassin

Twilix01 wrote: »

While we're on the topic how many laurels are we supposed to get from an end-boss? I've only gotten one so far and am unsure if it's just RNG determining number or if it's capped at one per end-boss.

You get one, but unlike the dwemer frames and stuff, 1 laurel = the complete style stone, so as soon as you get it you can make gear with it.

Scyantific

Czeri wrote: »

I ran 3 silver pledges since the update but I never got laurel from the last boss. Even though the first 2 times I knew half the mercenary chapters (I've been saving keys), and by today's pledge I knew all the chapters. I could have sworn I've read that laurel drop was guaranteed if you knew the whole motif. Is it just me, or is it really not dropping?

Veteran Dungeons have the 100% drop rate if you have all 14 chapters learned.

Normal dungeons are 25% of your current drop rate. So if your Veteran drop rate is 50% then your normal dungeon chances are 12.5%, and if it's 100%, then your normal chances are 25%.

i3ig_Gun

I read somewhere in these threads that the more of the motifs you have unlocked the higher the chance of lorels to drop.

Scyantific

MSchroeder wrote: »

There’s been a lot of discussion about the Mercenary motif since it appeared on the PTS yesterday, and we’d like to clear up some misconceptions and answer some questions.

First, we’ve seen your concerns about the time and effort it’s going to take to obtain all the chapters of the motif. We’re aware that some of you feel that the other recently-released motifs are too grueling to get, so we wanted Mercenary to be more easily obtained. Bronze chests will drop a chapter 40% of the time; Silver chests, 50% of the time; Gold chests, 60% of the time.

We’ve also seen some confusion when we say that the Laurels (the style item required to craft a piece of gear in the Mercenary style) are Bind on Pickup. To be clear, when we say ‘Bind on Pickup’, we mean it binds to your account, not your character. This means that any of your characters can earn a Laurel, bank it, and let any of your other characters use it.

Finally, we’ve seen lots of talk about how the Laurels will only drop for characters who know at least one chapter of the style. One thing we didn’t mention in the patch notes, however, is that this is not a simple 0%-100% scale – while knowing zero chapters of the style does mean you won’t ever see a Laurel, having just one chapter means that final bosses from Veteran Dungeon will have a 50% chance to drop a Laurel for you. From there, it scales up linearly to 100% (approx. +4% per chapter). Note that the drop rate of Laurels from final bosses in Normal Dungeons Laurel is always 1/4th of their Veteran counterparts.

If you’re concerned that you now have to get your crafting character suited up and ready for dungeons, consider this: With just one chapter under your belt – likely obtained after only a day’s worth of Pledges – your most Undaunted character will be getting a Laurel about every other run through a Veteran Dungeon.

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