Furniture Material drop rate feels a tad too low.

leothedino

So, I think all in all I have looted over 100 wood nodes tonight and I have only 5 heartwood that's dropped for making furniture. I am not sure this is worth the work, at least, I am not having fun anymore and I am utterly overwhelmed at the thought of how long it is going to take me to make a tables and chairs (between 6 and 10 per piece), let alone beds, wardrobes and counters.

Usually I don't mind a daily grind (for basic materials or to stock up for writs), but wanting something badly, so I can go craft, usually isn't this tedious or dull. I think they need to increase the rate in which these nodes drop their resources. Does anybody feel the same? Has anybody had more luck? Is it just terrible RNG? Should I complain about cancelling my sub to not really do it and just throw it around as an empty threat because I actually love the game? :P

Korinth

A tad?? I just spent 1 hour looking for Bast.... I got 2 of them. I need 10 for 1 stinking curtain. And this is on my Lvl 50 Clothier with all skill points allocated....lol

Ya...a tad low I would say. Waiting for the fix before I waste anymore time.

disintegr8

Am waiting for patch to hit console but I think it just seems that way because you have so much you want to make right now. I remember thinking that way about my first character and finding the mats and improvement tempers for his gear as he progressed. I was always waiting to get enough mats to make or improve this or that.

How long did it take you to get enough gold improvement tempers for your first set of legendary gear?
For me it felt like forever but now I keep a stock of 150 of each and still manage to sell plenty.

Once you have a satisfactory array of furniture in your house, you will carry on as normal and just make new things as you find the resources.

leothedino

@Korinth do you think there will be a patch? Is there any word one is coming to fix it?

@disintegr8 that's actually really insightful, I guess when you put it like that I can empathise with the thought process.

Tashira_Ronin

Do you have cp in the green tree to improve nod drops? I also have ponts in the other green tree for chest rewards?

Narvuntien

I agree needs to be bumped up from 1/10 to 1/3 or 1/4 at least.
Should be as common as provisioning mats.

They could easily do that next week, and the system would be 100 times better.

CMFan1966

Is it possible to find furniture that has already been created or do you only find patterns, recipes and blueprints? I haven't found the first bast yet, but I'm getting decorative wax like crazy.

sigsergv

I think it's perfectly fine. You are not supposed to do everything in first day.

ihartsnape

CMFan1966 wrote: »

Is it possible to find furniture that has already been created or do you only find patterns, recipes and blueprints? I haven't found the first bast yet, but I'm getting decorative wax like crazy.

I have found a stack of papers as well as an inkwell from stealing. I placed them in my house and am now searching for a quill.

I spent around 5 hours this evening gathering mats, and I wasn't able to gather very much of the new materials. The drop rate did feel kind of low.

Tannus15

The drop rate is too low and too unpredictable for sure.
In my opinion you should get 1 furniture item per resource node. At the moment we're getting 1 in 20.

leothedino

sigsergv wrote: »

I think it's perfectly fine. You are not supposed to do everything in first day.

A fair point, but I also don't want to spend a week making a chair, so...

Imryll

With bast I suspect that the problem is not so much drop rate as a long-standing art issue. ZOS was persuaded to change the appearance of jute during beta, but at most levels the fibre plants are considerably less visible than logs and ore nodes. I have a lot less bast than heartwood and regulus, but I'm pretty sure that's because ore nodes are glow-in-the-dark red and plant nodes tend to blend with other grasses causing me to overlook them. I've always harvested more metal and wood than fibre, despite my characters all wearing light armor.

cheemers

I hope they do improve the drop rate because as it stands currently it just stifles creativity. One point that is slightly overlooked is that the proportion of players who harvest nodes is probably much larger than the proportion of players looking to create lots of furniture. If things pan out, there should soon (maybe not very soon, but eventually) be plenty of furniture mats on the guild stores.

Also i believe the next festive event for April's Fools Day rewards you with a guaranteed furniture mat for every daily quest you complete. That's 6 per character for crafting writs only, and just think how quickly you can do the 15 or so cyrodiil town quest dailies per town.

Finally, thanks OP for posting a reasoned and ultimatum-free topic. Your last line definitely got a chuckle out of me

Sigtric

RNG strikes again. A ton of it is dropping for some people and not so much for others.

MarrazzMist

Agree. Farming mats is the grind I usually enjoy, but getting so little in return is making me little tired allready. Plus, I never thought I could have too much refined wood, metal or cloth, but now I do o_O My guild trade slots are full...

I don't want everything in first day, but farming mats and plans 7 hours in first few days, I can make two maybe three things for my house. I'm fine with the pace blueprints drop, but unhappy with heartwood expecially.

It'll take me atleast 2 moths to get my medium house furnished. And that is if I play everyday (which I can't, usually) and do nothing else in the game.

ShadowHvo

This thread 100%

The drop chance for the new material is simply far too low, especially when we compare it to how much we actually need in order to craft the furniture that we need and/or desire.

Seeing an increase in drop chance for the newly added Homestead materials would be a very nice needed change.

MissBizz

Tad is an understatement.

I don't know many designs yet... But I actually can't craft any of them.

leothedino

I did notice, however, that the special wax (from urns and trunks) has a very high chance to drop. Looting 10 urns in a row and I walked away with a good five or six. This tells me perhaps there is a miscalculation with their numbers and the other materials are under performing.

BRogueNZ

They've already gimped herb prices i was liking the fact there's another drop from nodes to make up for it. as coomon as provisioning mats.. seriously..

KaiDynasty

The drop is too low

Nebthet78

I'm thinking that the RNG on the drops of the required mats right now is probably been set low for the sheer purpose of driving players to the crown store to buy a few furnishings for their homes in addition to the dummy.

But I agree with others, the drop rate for the required materials are actually very low for the amount required to make the items. As a maxed out Crafter 10/10 level 50 etc, in all crafting I would have expected to have these drop from all nodes harvested and not just a few.

probablyafk

Petition to have heartwood added as a random item to crown crates. I think you'll find your petition well received in ZOS-marketing land...

Wolfchild07

Thankfully, trees and rocks are 100 gp each. Since I prefer the beach at Hunding's, it's not so bad for me. But yeah, the drop rate is pretty terrible for mats.

KingYogi415

Clearly meant to push any sane person to just fork out real cash.

Dissapointing...

johu31

Brought up on pts numerous times.. ignored.

SirIronclad

KingYogi415 wrote: »

Clearly meant to push any sane person to just fork out real cash.

Dissapointing...

I hope I can stay sane enough to NOT support this business model introduced with Homestead.

Turelus

You could always buy it off others as well.

I have just been casually farming nodes while levelling an alt and have quote a bit of building materials already.

Duiwel

Lol you guys complain about drop rates for mats & here I am with only 1 epic recipe so far and like a ton of greens lmao

SickDuck

It is low but it's fine. Probably seems frustrating because master crafters got used to having tons of materials in the crafting bag. I for one cannot remember when was the last time I had to worry about any material. In a few weeks time people will accumulate enough to be comfortable and by the time Morrowind hits most crafters will have more than enough.

The only thing I would change is to add these mats to surveys and occasionally to hireling deliveries.

Artemiisia

guys, u do know rome didn't get build in one day, you aint suppose to be able to build the entire interior in one day, its a process, that why its a dlc and not just a new feature.

im happy just having made my new bed, so I can get some beauty sleep

ZunaRoath

I agree. And whiles I understand the "not building a house in one day", and I also share it, I think the drop rate is waaay too low.

I farmed a lot these past two days, after the update came, I jumped in and started farming stuff. So far, from myself, I've only found two heartwood, and ten of the ones from blacksmithing (I can't remember the name), and those ten only because I found them in a heavy sack lol. I found a loooot of wax, clean pelts are easy too, and I didn't find any bast. I was able to buy a few mats for a kinda cheap price for it being the first days, but heartwood, considering the ammount of furniture that needs it for crafting, doesn't drop as often as it should. I really hope ZOS fixes this, currently my house is full of crates and boxes as in... "Just moved in, need to get stuff out of the crates" xD (In RP its that way anyways, my char just moved in that house and I want to build the house ICly in time).