Harder grind than Master Angler

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Collectible Trophies in the Character achievement section.
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I recently finished farming these last few trophies to finally finish these categories and earn the “common” dyes.
The grind for these took me almost 3 years. Some came very easily (Chattering Skull) and others drove me to insanity (Polished Shell shard and Ectoplasmic Discharge.)

Did anyone else have a problem with these achievements? Any other console players struggling?
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  • heaven13
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    I'm not a console player but I still have so few of these things. I cannot tell you how many mudcrabs I have killed and yet to see a single monster trophy (god forbid I want to do this one more than one character).
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  • imnotanother
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    heaven13 wrote: »
    I'm not a console player but I still have so few of these things. I cannot tell you how many mudcrabs I have killed and yet to see a single monster trophy (god forbid I want to do this one more than one character).

    I am pretty sure I have the majority of mudcrab kills as well. I seriously had to be in the hundreds of thousands before it finally dropped a few weeks ago.

    I even wrote a thread begging for it.
    Here is the link https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/329926/open-letter-to
    Edited by imnotanother on May 10, 2018 9:00PM
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  • Diabolus1989
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    I'm currently sitting with the nix-hound, werewolf and zombie trophies. And also about 4 rare fish. The grind will be long with this one.
  • Shawn_PT
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    I'm doing these on all my characters. Tedious but it feels great seeing another of those names lighting up on the list. Also fishing on them all. TBH if I focused on using a single character I'd have all of these long ago.

    When you don't have groups to run hard content, you have to keep yourself busy with other things :tongue:
  • Danksta
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    If these give you the 'Monster Hunter' title then I got them long ago and only had to farm the last couple iirc. But I did only play one character for about the first year I played ESO so I had that working in my favor.
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  • imnotanother
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    Danksta wrote: »
    If these give you the 'Monster Hunter' title then I got them long ago and only had to farm the last couple iirc. But I did only play one character for about the first year I played ESO so I had that working in my favor.

    That is a different set of achievements. These just give a common dye as a reward.
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  • N0TPLAYER2
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    This truly is the hardest one. I have SEVEN master anglers but haven’t finished these in any one character. I am down to just one! The crypt jar. I have farmed every location I know, Hours and hours on end. I started this over a year ago and recently came back to it. I must have spent. 30-50 hours killing these damn things.

    Can anyone share where the crypt jar fell for them, specifically? I’ve farmed the delves in Bangkok and shadowfen, in craglorn, and also around the throne in the desert. Any other sightings???
  • Left4Daud
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    These achievements are what should have rewarded the Monster Hunter title. Or at least some more iridescent / rare dyes.

    The reward didn’t fit the time so I never focused on these.
  • AlnilamE
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    My quest for the Flawless Tailfeather (on the right character) became a running joke in my guild.

    It was all fun though.

    Still working on a couple that are being stubborn.
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  • Apache_Kid
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    I still can't get the one from lurchers. It's caused me to give up when i only have 8 monster trophies left. I've killed thousands and nothing. So disheartening
  • Sotha_Sil
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    I have never farmed these because I always thought that you would complete it by playing the game, and the truth is, you don't and I still have not completed them all yet. Imo, it is bad design.
    Edited by Sotha_Sil on July 3, 2018 4:09PM
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  • Violynne
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    Did anyone else have a problem with these achievements?
    There will be no issue on my end because I don't care about the in game "achievements", most of which are designed to force the player base to grind for them.





  • Cynnalia
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    I've been playing since the beginning and am nowhere near getting any of these completed. Of course, I play across 9 characters and that doesn't help, but yeah - you'd have to purposely grind this. I have Master Angler, but I'm not grinding this! lol
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  • imnotanother
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    The struggle is real, keep your spirits up!
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  • Vraedlich
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    Collectible Trophies in the Character achievement section.
    TkwOgol.jpg
    I recently finished farming these last few trophies to finally finish these categories and earn the “common” dyes.
    The grind for these took me almost 3 years. Some came very easily (Chattering Skull) and others drove me to insanity (Polished Shell shard and Ectoplasmic Discharge.)

    Did anyone else have a problem with these achievements? Any other console players struggling?

    Do you know what dropped the ectoplasmic discharge? I've been grinding some recommended sites but this one is taking forever and the "confirmed drop" location at one site doesn't specify if it's the spirits outside or the ghosts that are actually called "ghosts" and look like spooky spirits rather than humanoids.

    Also public dungeon ghosts in forgotten crypts barely drop anything at all I can kill ten and not get loot at all..
  • AlnilamE
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    Vraedlich wrote: »

    Do you know what dropped the ectoplasmic discharge? I've been grinding some recommended sites but this one is taking forever and the "confirmed drop" location at one site doesn't specify if it's the spirits outside or the ghosts that are actually called "ghosts" and look like spooky spirits rather than humanoids.

    Also public dungeon ghosts in forgotten crypts barely drop anything at all I can kill ten and not get loot at all..

    It's been a couple of years, but I got mine in the ruins in Stormhaven east of Wayrest, I think. From one of the white ghosts, IIRC.
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  • tmbrinks
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    Vraedlich wrote: »

    Do you know what dropped the ectoplasmic discharge? I've been grinding some recommended sites but this one is taking forever and the "confirmed drop" location at one site doesn't specify if it's the spirits outside or the ghosts that are actually called "ghosts" and look like spooky spirits rather than humanoids.

    Also public dungeon ghosts in forgotten crypts barely drop anything at all I can kill ten and not get loot at all..

    The spirits outside of Davon's Watch will drop them, at Starved Plain ... along with the spirits in Auridon, at Tanzelwil
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  • tmbrinks
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    Felt good to accomplish this one though!
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  • Inklings
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    Did anyone else have a problem with these achievements? Any other console players struggling?

    No not really.

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  • kargen27
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    I'm still trying for the toe ring. There have been many many killing sprees and it just will not drop for me.

    I'm beginning to think I am attacking the wrong critters.
    and then the parrot said, "must be the water mines green too."
  • Sylvermynx
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    Eh.... this is the sort of grind I just won't ever do. Achievements? Spare me. SO not my thing.
  • tmbrinks
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    kargen27 wrote: »
    I'm still trying for the toe ring. There have been many many killing sprees and it just will not drop for me.

    I'm beginning to think I am attacking the wrong critters.

    The trophies have a higher chance of dropping from the appropriate mobs that are in dungeons and trials versus overland. Some have hypothesized it's nearly 10x more likely to get from those instanced mobs than from overland "respawn" mobs.
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  • max_only
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    Sylvermynx wrote: »
    Eh.... this is the sort of grind I just won't ever do. Achievements? Spare me. SO not my thing.

    You are speared.
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  • Tigerseye
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    This isn't something I would ever bother to do, intentionally.

    If I get something by accident, then fair enough.
  • Katahdin
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    Ive managed to finish the trophy collections but still have a Long way to go for master angler
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  • Rezdayn
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    Yep...

    I have almost finished everything in this game. I only have some alliance ranks and these stupid trophy achievements to go...

    Its insane that I can almost finish this whole damn game and only have found 27/51 of them...

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    The whole "find them as you play" thing is bs and you will need to farm them... however they dont like to drop... so... rip.
  • heaven13
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    Just reporting back that I still don't have that mudcrab shell, lol
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    Mountain God | Leave No Bone Unbroken | Apex Predator | Pure Lunacy | Depths Defier | No Rest for the Wicked | In Defiance of Death
    Defanged the Devourer | Nature's Wrath | Relentless Raider | True Genius | Bane of Thorns | Subterranean Smasher | Ardent Bibliophile

    vAA HM | vHRC HM | vSO HM | vDSA | vMoL HM | vHoF HM | vAS+2 | vCR+2 | vBRP | vSS HM | vKA | vRG
    Meet my characters :
    Spoiler
    IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL THE SAME NOW, THANKS ZOS
  • IndianaJames7
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    Yup, some of these trophies took a stupid long time to get... took probably 5-10 times as long as master angler to get them all (though most of the zones for master angler I did with the pickled fish bowl)
  • daemonios
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    Rezdayn wrote: »
    Yep...

    I have almost finished everything in this game. I only have some alliance ranks and these stupid trophy achievements to go...

    Its insane that I can almost finish this whole damn game and only have found 27/51 of them...

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    The whole "find them as you play" thing is bs and you will need to farm them... however they dont like to drop... so... rip.

    Kids these days... In my day, you had to take into account that mobs more than 10 levels below you wouldn't drop loot. As in NEVER drop ANY loot. You had to pick your farming spots considering your level, so if you were capped at VR16 you could only pick spots in your Cadwell's Gold zones or other VR6+ zones. This could be a bit of a snag because certain mob types were limited to a single zone and faction, and were easily outleveled, namely jackals that only appeared in Alik'r. It was years before ZOS added them to Craglorn, then One Tamriel did away with the level requirements so that any old mob can drop the trophy.
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