Psijic Motif drop rate bugged

Mystrius_Archaion

Sadly, I don't have the most data possible on this, but I believe it is enough to come to a conclusion.

I've already completed every quest that came with Summerset. I have farmed up the psijic glowglobe emote.

The Psijic Motifs are not dropping as advertised in the patch notes where Abyssal Geysers have the best chance and being rank 10 in the Psijic guild line increases the chance x10.
I usually go 10 geysers before even getting a psijic motif if not longer. I've seen more psijic motifs from treasure chests than geysers and I don't hunt for treasure chests.
I haven't even had an addon to show treasure chest locations until I needed an addon to replace skyshards and lorebooks when those were no longer supported.

So...a motif every 100+ geysers without psijic ranks or every 10+ with psijic ranks while chests seem to almost guarantee a psijic motif every 10 chests even without psijic ranks. That's just a waste of time to do geysers that take 10 minutes to respawn or are FAR too far from wayshrines to do a circuit like dolmen farms. This is ridiculous.
The drop rates need to be checked and re-checked and corrected to make this how it was advertised and less insane.

Patch note quote:

New Motifs
There are four new Motifs coming for crafters with Update 18: Psijic, Sapiarch, Fang Lair and Scalecaller.
The Psijic Motif chapters (or very rarely, the full book) will come from adventuring around Summerset.
Activities that may reward a Psijic Motif chapter are, in order of most to least likely:

1. Completing Abyssal Geysers
2. Killing World Bosses
3. Completing Abyssal Pools
4. Treasure Chests (with higher-difficulty locks being more likely, and easier locks being less likely)
5. Killing Delve bosses
6. Killing monsters

The chance to obtain a Psijic Motif chapter or book from these sources increases with your rank in the Psijic Order skill line, with Rank 10 giving you a ten times increase over those not versed in the ways of the Psijic Order.
The Style Item for the Psijic Motif, Vitrified Malondo, drops from the same sources as above, more commonly than do the Chapters.

Also, what the hell is the difference between an Abyssal Geyser and Abyssal Pool? Where are these "Abyssal Pools" that get a mention in patch notes and seem to not exist in game?

WhiteCoatSyndrome

I think the Abyssal Pools are just those minature spawn areas for the Yahgra. Like the rifts in Craglorn or the glowing spots that spawn small groups of Daedra on the mainland.

Mystrius_Archaion

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

I think the Abyssal Pools are just those minature spawn areas for the Yahgra. Like the rifts in Craglorn or the glowing spots that spawn small groups of Daedra on the mainland.

Where do these spawn?
I've never seen one.(Edit FYI: The daedra portals spawn in response to me getting near an area where they can spawn and the craglorn portals I have also seen many many times as well. Both are far more common than any hint of an Abyssal Pool)

I see random yaghra all along the coast and watery areas, but no "portal" or "pool" or anything that makes them special. They've never dropped a psijic motif for me either.

I'm thinking motifs from random enemies in Summerset are non-existant even more than Aetherial Dust and Aetherial Cyphers are from crafting nodes in the rest of the world, and I've found ONE Aetherial Dust ever.

Mystrius_Archaion

In case it was missed...
Abyssal Geyser respawn is at least 10 minutes or possibly tied to other geysers like Dolmen code seems to be. So you either do a lot of running around or a lot of waiting and both take a lot of time. You maybe get 6 geysers an hour, so one motif every 2 hours, which you may already have, seems about right.

That's masochism because the developers seem to be sadists.

Mystrius_Archaion

Oh joy! 2 hours, no motif and an Alik'r Treasure Map!
>:(

Mystrius_Archaion

Another hour+ and still no motif from the boss or the enemies or the shell trove.

Mystrius_Archaion

Total over 5 hours farming the same geyser every 10-15 minutes for 5 per hour and....

NO MOTIFS!

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Edit: I now know what an Abyssal Pool is. I found one obvious one on my way away from the geyser for the last time along the coast. It was a mini geyser that spawned a Yaghra Monstrosity, which I have seen in the wild these before rarely and thought it odd.
I guess that explains that, but NO MOTIF AGAIN!

Lorem123

Either the drop rate is simply awful or there's something bugged with the drop rate from geysers. I haven't gotten a single page from the past 40 or so geysers. In fact, I haven't gotten a single one from them after getting the achievement for destroying 50.

I've also never got any page from world bosses, and I have killed a few dozens after reaching rank 10 of the Psijic skill line. But I guess that's just awfully low drop rate and luck?