My opinion to date. I think ZOS did a good job calculating the drop rate. Knowing that some people will farm hundreds of rewards per day, this has not turned into the early Mercenary days, or Hollowjack. Many people still not have completed the sets, even with extra days for the event.
I've got 3 pages of Worm Cult left to finish. Today has been my worst day so far (49 boxes, 4 motifs total, no WC). Am feeling a little anxious...I've been holding off buying in case I do get more, but probably should buy before end of event when prices will likely skyrocket.
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At the minute WC started for me, around ~1:20 anni boxes, then moved to 1:30 and now i get 1:50 maybe so the drop rate i think has been altered twice since event started. Same with purple motifs, starting day was 1/3, then 1/5 now sometimes i can run 0/15 for a purple motif.
I do writs on 15 chars + play dailies. Averaging around 250 boxes a day since event started is my loot draw experience. I still have only 12/14 WC but i have dropped 4 doubles so 16 WC motifs from my loot draw is bad. I will complete my main and maybe 1 alt but the rest wont be completed this event for sure.
I do at least 90 writs a day and have gotten a full set of WC and a bunch of extra to sell or trade--not to mention all the other set motifs I have gotten. Doing other daily events have produced no motif drops from the reward boxes--all my motifs have come from boxes received doing writs. I do writs on everyone--crafting skill or not. My max crafting character and "0" Crafting SKILL character seem to get the best drops.
I have completed the Worm Cult motif on Sunday afternoon, with the final 2 pages dropped from crafting writs and I have gotten about 10-12 other doubles since the event started, so around 25 overall. I have decided so slow down and not to run any other dailies but writs since I already have almost filled the bank with the dropped motif pages & furnishing plans and there's simply no way I could sell those fast, with the market flooded. They will probably go in long term storage awaiting sale over the next few months, when the prices will bounce back somewhat.
I've also used the double XP bonus to fully level and train 2 characters that have gone to being crafters as well, so now I have 12, and I plan on leveling at least 2 more by the end of the event, bringing the total to 14. Consumable craft skills are fully trained - enchanting was leveled long time ago, alchemy and provisioning can be done in 1/2h - but I will need to feed them trash CP160 items to decon to level gear crafting as well over the following weeks and also grab some additional skill points to fully spec those; they are doing lower tier gear writs for the time being. The 15th, which I created at the start of the event is currently training riding and deconstructing glyphs for leveling enchanting; she's already around 40 there.
So overall I'm pretty content about how the event is going thus far.
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I've opened 65+ boxes per day since the beginning of the event. The only pages I have not received are shoulders, swords, and axes.
I have received many duplicates of Work Cult, and other motifs, and generated roughly half a million gold doing writs. So between the gold acquired, and selling those duplicates I should be able to purchase any pages I don't revive after the event ends.
Did 25 quests yesterday to hand them in today and another 25 today I got 1 page......... it looks like it a crown store job
Just so we’re clear, I don’t think WC motifs will be available after the event, every indication to say they will be available is simply speculation / wishful thinking
I’ve opened over 400 boxes and only had WC legs drop so far. Started to get really frustrated with RNJesus with many people saying the drop rate around 4%, which means I SHOULD have roughly 20 motifs dropped
Started selling my other motifs yesterday though, had 3 BA drop and that’s pretty much paid for the whole WC outfit for me, except for the weapons which I’m not too bothered about
Also got the whole hollow jack set including the spectre mask for a couple thousand gold during this event (wasn’t playing during the events these were released). Tbh I think this set looks better than WC anyway.
So far I’ve also levelled 2 new chars to 50, with a 3rd one in the works.
It took more than a thousand boxes but I finally finished the motif. I traded a dupe for belts and bought swords from a guildie. I also still have five pages in my bank.