Sharpened Weapon Set farming

LadyLethalla

Has anyone researched the set weapon drop rate?
I have been farming for Spriggan's sharpened weapons for 2+ weeks and have managed to get a grand total of one sharpened bow, but have gotten at least 6 of Spriggan's Wolf Jaw... Sharpened 1H weapons though? None.
Of the other two sets I have one sharpened axe and I think that's about it.
The guild trader prices are utterly ridiculous - the cheapest Spriggan's 1H sharpened I've seen is 220k, and I've seen them for 1.7 million.
I've been opening at least 40 chests per day, a few Thieves Troves and farming the three bosses around Ephesus dolmen for hours at a time.

Can anyone give me any advice as to how best to obtain one? So far as I've noticed, dolmens only drop jewellery, delve bosses only seem to drop armour, and the chest armour to weapon ratio (for named items) seems to be about 4:1.
Thanks.

Neoauspex

Farm rubedite ore, deconstruct, sell temper, buy sword.

Prof_Bawbag

Go to whatever public dungeon is located in the area and farm the bosses in there. I've found that's the quickest way to get 1-handed weapons. That doesn't mean you'll not be stuck in there for a week looking for a damn 1-h sharp weapon, but it's the quickest as it involves the least amount of leg work.

LadyLethalla

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Go to whatever public dungeon is located in the area and farm the bosses in there. I've found that's the quickest way to get 1-handed weapons. That doesn't mean you'll not be stuck in there for a week looking for a damn 1-h sharp weapon, but it's the quickest as it involves the least amount of leg work.

Yes, I saw you in Razak's Wheel about a week ago doing just that...
But yeah, been there and done that too. Did you have any luck?

Oreyn_Bearclaw

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

Prof_Bawbag

LadyLethalla wrote: »

Prof_Bawbag wrote: »

Go to whatever public dungeon is located in the area and farm the bosses in there. I've found that's the quickest way to get 1-handed weapons. That doesn't mean you'll not be stuck in there for a week looking for a damn 1-h sharp weapon, but it's the quickest as it involves the least amount of leg work.

Yes, I saw you in Razak's Wheel about a week ago doing just that...
But yeah, been there and done that too. Did you have any luck?

Nah, never got much. I have found two sharpened Daggers of the Red Mountain in Crow's Nest though, so can't complain. Spent over a week farming in there for around 2 hours a-day and on the last day I got 2 of them within 20mins of one another. Was gonna keep them, but wanted to see what it feels like to be an in-game multi millionaire.

I use my Templar for farming because nothing beats spamming puncturing sweep.

S1ipperyJim

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Nah, never got much. I have found two sharpened Daggers of the Red Mountain in Crow's Nest though, so can't complain. Spent over a week farming in there for around 2 hours a-day and on the last day I got 2 of them within 20mins of one another. Was gonna keep them, but wanted to see what it feels like to be an in-game multi millionaire.

I use my Templar for farming because nothing beats spamming puncturing sweep.[/quote]

Great thing about farming in Crow's Nest is you also can farm tons of leather from wolves and refine for extra gold

MakoFore

i have been there on and off for about 3months- not one sharp dagger, only a sharp axe. at my peak i was there 8 days in a row- 3 hours a day minimum- during the hollow jack festival. never dropped. either there is such a low RNG for it- or ZOS limits the amount of sharp daggers out there in the world. either way - its rare. i ve killed so many *** robots i could start a dwermer sweatshop in bangkorai.

worst thing is- first week of 1T - i saw a few sharp daggers going for 50k-100k- and thinknig- "what a rip off - i ll farm that myself- no way am i paying those prices!". it seems a steal now. some smart chaps bought all the sharp daggers first week must be making a killing right now.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO

The best rotation is as follows:

Summoner's camp
Arlimahera's Sanctum
Lakewatch Tower

Do this rotation with at least 2 other party members for faster clears and you are guaranteed to arrive just before the bosses respawn agan which i believe should be a total of 5 minutes including the time spent to travel to the bosses.

The reason for farming overland bosses is:

- Overland group bosses have a 100% chance to drop head, chest, legs, or weapon set piece from the zone they are located in.

So you should get at least 1 Spriggan sharpened weapon around every 5-10 hours of farming (if lucky even more often).

I feel like Wolf Jaw drops 50% of the time from Lakewatch Tower boss that's why it costs next to nothing in guild stores.

omfgitsbatman

And this grind is still better than trying to get 2 sharpened swords of burning spellweave (or of course the VMA grind). #tokensystem #traitchange

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO

This boss rotation is used by so many people that one time we were 2 maxed out groups of 24 members riding mounts to the next boss. But this is shortly after the set came out. I think now that you wont see more than 5-6 people farming this rotation during off hours. I don't know how its like during the day and afternoon as you know: too busy working.

LadyLethalla

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO wrote: »

The best rotation is as follows:

Summoner's camp
Arlimahera's Sanctum
Lakewatch Tower

Do this rotation with at least 2 other party members for faster clears and you are guaranteed to arrive just before the bosses respawn agan which i believe should be a total of 5 minutes including the time spent to travel to the bosses.

The reason for farming overland bosses is:

- Overland group bosses have a 100% chance to drop head, chest, legs, or weapon set piece from the zone they are located in.

So you should get at least 1 Spriggan sharpened weapon around every 5-10 hours of farming (if lucky even more often).

I feel like Wolf Jaw drops 50% of the time from Lakewatch Tower boss that's why it costs next to nothing in guild stores.

Uhhhh yeah... as per my original post, I've been doing these three bosses for hours at a time. During off hours though (when EU is asleep) I can really only go find chests.

One other question... I thought only SOME of the bosses were given an HP buff? Every single one I've seen anywhere now has 1.8mill HP - or if there are two (eg Summoner's Camp) it's split btw them.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO

yea, if there are 2 of them in a location their health is split almost 50-50. If maxed CP all of those 3 boss locations can be soloed but its extremely slow and not worth it if you cant melt them down in less than 10 seconds.

On a side note, once I farmed for a whole day and got nothing, then I logged with my 10lv account and got sharpened dagger lvl10 item on the first rotation. Either ways managed to sell it in guild store for 50k gold to that unlucky soul that did not read the item level before buying

scorpiodog

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

So that's basically a 3 in 1,000 chance - or 1 in 330 chance

You have to kill 300 bosses in the public dungeon in that Zone to just have an "average" chance of getting the item. Let's say there are 6 bosses in the Dungeon, that means you have to do 50 "circuits". Unless the boss spawning is strange like that one in Bal Foyen. Let's say it takes about 45 minutes to do a "circuit" and kill all 6 Bosses.

With these numbers as a baseline, it will take a good player about 37.5 hours of Boss farming the same Public Dungeon to have an "average" chance at a specific weapon they want. If you have bad luck it could be 100 hours. Who knows? Random means random.

In contrast in 40 hours of regular grinding you could have let's say at least 200K worth of gold and maybe an equivalent amount in deconstructed tempers. IDK, but I much prefer grinding to work towards several things at a time - level up and alt , get gold and mats, get new achievements and go to a lot of different dungeons and even get more skill points on alts.

Not only are your odds better farming gold, but you can also add variety of scenery, and switching out your alts will give you a variety of character builds and skills to play so it isn't always the exact same buttons doing the exact same thing every day.

rosendoichinoveb17_ESO

Public dungeon bosses have a chance to drop a shoulder, hand, or weapon set piece from the zone they are located in. Therefore they don't drop a set piece every time you kill one, and I also noticed that not all public dungeon bosses drop set pieces (some never do)

where as

Overland group bosses have a 100% chance to drop head, chest, legs, or weapon set piece from the zone they are located in.

From experience I have had more set item drops from killing just overland bosses. And doing the rotation mentioned above gives you 3 guaranteed set items every 5 minutes, not counting the occasional chest openings.

raj72616a

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

8 traits. but add 1/3 chance to get a weapon instead of shoulder and glove.

scorpiodog

raj72616a wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

8 traits. but add 1/3 chance to get a weapon instead of shoulder and glove.

So that correction changes it to 1 chance in every 1,000 boss kills.

LadyLethalla

Perhaps overland bosses have a 100% chance to drop head, chest, legs, or weapon set piece from the zone they are located in, but I say the chance within that of getting a weapon is lower than an armour piece.
I might start recording exactly what I get while farming those three, what I get in the public dungeon and what I get from chests/troves, for research purposes.

LadyLethalla

VERY happy to say I finally got a Sharpened 1h Spriggan's Sword last night... PHEW.

Takes-No-Prisoner

LadyLethalla wrote: »

Has anyone researched the set weapon drop rate?
I have been farming for Spriggan's sharpened weapons for 2+ weeks and have managed to get a grand total of one sharpened bow, but have gotten at least 6 of Spriggan's Wolf Jaw... Sharpened 1H weapons though? None.
Of the other two sets I have one sharpened axe and I think that's about it.
The guild trader prices are utterly ridiculous - the cheapest Spriggan's 1H sharpened I've seen is 220k, and I've seen them for 1.7 million.
I've been opening at least 40 chests per day, a few Thieves Troves and farming the three bosses around Ephesus dolmen for hours at a time.

Can anyone give me any advice as to how best to obtain one? So far as I've noticed, dolmens only drop jewellery, delve bosses only seem to drop armour, and the chest armour to weapon ratio (for named items) seems to be about 4:1.
Thanks.

I have gotten a Sharpened Axe and Sharpened Sword from the bosses inside of the dungeon. All within a few hours of grinding.

I mean you are doing it right. But are you farming all of the bosses in a circle? I did that this past weekend trying to get a Sharpened Spinner 1h weapon and got one after 6 hours. And I was farming the dungeon in a circle, so every 5 minutes I was getting a drop from the frequently spawning bosses.

It's a big waste of time to kill only 3-4 and wait for one to respawn when you can hit all the bosses and get more chances.

scorpiodog wrote: »

In contrast in 40 hours of regular grinding you could have let's say at least 200K worth of gold and maybe an equivalent amount in deconstructed tempers. IDK, but I much prefer grinding to work towards several things at a time - level up and alt , get gold and mats, get new achievements and go to a lot of different dungeons and even get more skill points on alts.

Not only are your odds better farming gold, but you can also add variety of scenery, and switching out your alts will give you a variety of character builds and skills to play so it isn't always the exact same buttons doing the exact same thing every day.

Interestingly enough, I made well over 100k gold in the 6hours I was farming for my Spinner weapon. So yeah, I totally agree with what you're saying scorpiodog. Having the gold on hand is certainly a great thing to fall back on if you honestly can't get the weapon.

Rataroto

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

Let me math that for you.

Also, because its a overworld set, you have the rng for all pieces. Boy this is gonna be good.
There are 23 possible items of each set. There are 3 sets per zone. So you have a 1 in 69 () chance of getting that sweet sweet sword. Also there are 9 traits for weapons and for armor, so 9. That means that there are 621 POSSIBLE set items you can get.

Your chance of getting a Sharppened Spriggans Sword is 0.161030596% XD

LadyLethalla

Rataroto wrote: »

Your chance of getting a Sharppened Spriggans Sword is 0.161030596% XD

So glad to know that number finally dropped for me last night then!

Mojmir

Problem isnt sharpened,it's what weapon it's drops on.

WuffyCerulei

Rataroto wrote: »

Oreyn_Bearclaw wrote: »

It's all RNG. That is the problem with farming any of these overworld sets in a specific trait. 1/3 chance you get the right set, 1/12 chance its the right weapon, 1/9 chance it's the right trait (not sure all 9 drop, but you get the idea). Those odds are pretty terrible.

As others have suggested, you are almost always better off farming gold and buying the weapon than farming the weapon itself.

Let me math that for you.

Also, because its a overworld set, you have the rng for all pieces. Boy this is gonna be good.
There are 23 possible items of each set. There are 3 sets per zone. So you have a 1 in 69 () chance of getting that sweet sweet sword. Also there are 9 traits for weapons and for armor, so 9. That means that there are 621 POSSIBLE set items you can get.

Your chance of getting a Sharppened Spriggans Sword is 0.161030596% XD

Rat's just trying to keep all the sharpened weapons to himself. Sneaky rato.