Sheogorath will soon claim my sanity…AND CHEESE!

elven.were_wolf

I'm going to be driven to insanity over here!

I have been hunting enemy collectable trophies for over a year and now after One tamriel it's even harder to get the collectables. There is so much player traffic that farming these is an utter nightmare!
For instance two weeks ago I decided to continue my wraith shackle hunting after a few weeks off. I started in "westtry" because it's one of the few places inhabited by a moderate population of wraiths. The problem is it's in Glenumbra, so there are sooo many new players doing the quests in the Zone that there are hardly any wraiths to kill! After suffering 6 hours of farming daily for a week, I moved to "Vhatacen" ruins in Cyrodiil and FINALLY got it after a full day's worth of farming.
Now the last collectable I need for my undead hoarder achievement is the Crypt Jar. I'm farming the mobs in Craglorn around " The seeker's archive". I have been going at this for more than 7 hours a day for about 4 days now and I'm about to lose my cheese!

Don't get me wrong. I love that a vast amount of players are joining the adventure in Tamriel and that it's more lively than ever. But the drops rates for collectables are sooo low and there are not enough enemies left alive to even kill (especially in the case of wraiths), that I'm about to get some screws loose, move to the shivering Isle's and chant "Cheese" all the while huddled in a corner somewhere suckling my thumb!

I'd rather farm a dungeon for a monster helm, or replay vMSA than mindlessly kill the same enemies in the same spot over and over and OVER again.

I feel if the drop rates are increased it would actually make it fun, instead of an internal struggle to prevent my sanity from slowly slipping away and trying to keep it together!

I've done all of the fishing achievements. And while I was doing them I though at the time that fishing was unbearable. Well, now I can tell you that collectable hunting is 1000 times WORSE. DX

I like to complete as much as possible in games that I am really passionate about. But this is getting REEEAAALLY taxing on me.

DigitalShibby

Not knocking what you uh.."enjoy" doing.. but what is the point? Maybe it's because I was gaming long before achievements existed, or maybe I just don't understand it.. but once you collect everything you need to does it do anything? Is there some shiny reward or something valuable or just a little ding and 5 minutes of yay me at the end? O_o

WhiteCoatSyndrome

The upshot is that you can't outlevel the monsters anymore.

I would like to express my irritation that we can't transfer trophies between our characters however. My alts have a bad habit of picking up the trophies I still need on my main.

Tabbycat

There's plenty more cabbage where that cheese came from.

Do not worry OP. Uncle Sheo has faith in you.

Keep it up and good luck!

As a side note, have you tried asking others to group up with you so you get more drops? I am thinking it wouldn't hurt asking. Increase your odds.

TheShadowScout

elven.were_wolf wrote: »

But the drops rates for collectables are sooo low...

That's what makes my sanity suffer. Its such a pain to try and farm for trophies, spending hours upon hours and not getting any... and then killing some random skeleton that got in the way somewhere, and getting your sixth chattering skull.

If they -ever- make a "hunter" crafting skill line, with a passive that raises the trophy drop rate to something above 1%, I know a character of mine that'd spend good skill points on it, just to get through that mindnumbing trophy hunt...

Or something like an consumable trophy chance boost item? Like the psijiic ambrosia experience boost drinks, increases chance for trophy drop to 10% for 10 minutes, and equally difficult to make? But it'd be sooo worth it to pop one to get past the hours of trophy farming...

elven.were_wolf

DigitalShibby wrote: »

Not knocking what you uh.."enjoy" doing.. but what is the point? Maybe it's because I was gaming long before achievements existed, or maybe I just don't understand it.. but once you collect everything you need to does it do anything? Is there some shiny reward or something valuable or just a little ding and 5 minutes of yay me at the end? O_o

It's just that I get a lingering satisfaction of looking at my acheivements and seeing them completed. Oh, and I'm a completionist when to comes to games I like.

elven.were_wolf

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

The upshot is that you can't outlevel the monsters anymore.

I would like to express my irritation that we can't transfer trophies between our characters however. My alts have a bad habit of picking up the trophies I still need on my main.

I'm on console, so I unfortunately never experienced the privilidge of trading trophies between alts.

TheShadowScout wrote: »

elven.were_wolf wrote: »

But the drops rates for collectables are sooo low...

That's what makes my sanity suffer. Its such a pain to try and farm for trophies, spending hours upon hours and not getting any... and then killing some random skeleton that got in the way somewhere, and getting your sixth chattering skull.

If they -ever- make a "hunter" crafting skill line, with a passive that raises the trophy drop rate to something above 1%, I know a character of mine that'd spend good skill points on it, just to get through that mindnumbing trophy hunt...

Or something like an consumable trophy chance boost item? Like the psijiic ambrosia experience boost drinks, increases chance for trophy drop to 10% for 10 minutes, and equally difficult to make? But it'd be sooo worth it to pop one to get past the hours of trophy farming...

I understand this completely. When I first started hunting the wraith shackle a few months back in westtry before the One Tamriel update, aflter hours of farming, I got two chattering skulls in a row! After that I took such a long break from collectable hunting because of the frustration and the toll on my sanity and patience.

elven.were_wolf

Several weeks later and still no Crypt Jar! Instead I got a petrified Spider egg AGAIN from a random spider that got in my way. My vision is starting to blur with Narwhales!

elven.were_wolf

It's June. 4 months of continuous farming. No Crypt Jar!

I'm hearing laughter in my ears. It's RNG!! Or sheogorath.

Seriously, ZOS. Please. Pleeeeaaase get the drop rate on these collectables adjusted .