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Event Recipe Drops
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Lumenn✭✭✭✭✭
✭MurderMostFoul wrote: »Any tips for farming purple skulls?
I've opened a little over 50 with no gold recipes, I might spend a bit of time this week straight farming some. Any particularly good methods/locations I should consider?
Root sunder ruins is always decent. About 7 drops, no zoning/resetting. Other mobs to work skills with while you wait the few minutes. Only bad when someone comes ripping through all the mobs in seconds. But they respawn quickly.0 -
Katahdin✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭About 320 purple skulls and 30 yellow skulls
Got one of each recipe so far, got the last one I needed today.Beta tester November 20133 -
NBrookus✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭Is it just me or is the drop rate low for a limited time event?
It's not just you. I cannot complete some of the writs because I need the recipes. After 6 hours of collecting Plunder Skulls, I've gotten exactly one. I am already irritated by this event and it's only day one. Buying them from guilds is not an option either, since I need my gold to buy the Exorcised Coven House. Also, it's really annoying that I can't do more than one writ at a time, or I would skip the ones I can't do yet and open others. Great event, Zos.
People are selling small quantities in guild stores of old and new witches fest foods. You can buy the foods to turn in with the writs. Offer the mats in zone and ask someone to craft ones you can't find.
You can also preview all the writs (they say what food or item before you open them), collect all the items, and stand at the turn in spot opening/completing the writs.
@SydneyGrey You can buy writs 1 event ticket per writ at the Impresario. That might help your progress. Or the title may return next year. I'd check guild stores, too, for incompete writs.
Drop rates do seem low. If you end up needing to buy the recipes, I suggest doing so soon after the event when supplies are highest/prices lowest. Some crafty traders will hold on to extras for a few months and sell them at premium later.0 -
Parrot1986✭✭✭✭✭
✭I’ve not farmed plunders but probably opened 150 in the event and got 1.
Tend to find as event draws to a close more become available. Remember this with a Dubious Camora, I didn’t get any all event them got 3 on the last day. Possibly just RNG but they will be able to control overall drop rate their end.
You can buy them for around 100k each and that’s dropping daily too.0 -
UrbanMonk✭✭✭✭✭
✭I think I've collected over 200 Normal skulls + 30 Golden ones so far with my limited game time and that too even more limited because of the server issue. I've got every Recipe and 2 extra Sugar skull+New Bloody Mara. Got all motif pieces for Hollowjack + Dremora and Glenmoril Style.
* I must mention not all motifs dropped for me, but some doubles which I traded for the ones I didn't get. Ans 2 style pages I bought from Impresario, cause nothing else interests me there.Urban.Monk
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✭Got all three recipes on PC by the second day. On PS4 I have yet to see one. I'm just getting the same style pages over and over again.1 -
StormChaser3000✭✭✭✭✭
✭Been grinding x7 golden skulls + getting about 25-30 purple ones per each day of the event.
I got all new recipes + 1 extra.
Also, I'm sitting on about 10 writs atm.1 -
redlink1979✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Can drop from golden and purple plunder.
The drop rate is very low for me regarding writs, memento parts and golden recipes. I'm considering to spend tickets on writs to be able to reach the 28: yesterday I looted between 30-50 plunders without getting any of those......
I leave just this question in the air: should the drop rate be so low for a short limited time event?!Edited by redlink1979 on October 29, 2019 11:43AM"Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear"- Sons of the Night Mother [PS5][EU] 2165 CP
- Daggerfall's Mightiest [PS5][NA] 1910 CP
- SweetTrolls [PC][EU] 1950 CP
- Bacon Rats [PC][NA] 1850 CP
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Kel✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Since asking this question last night, I've gotten all 3 recipes.
Repeatedly ran Darkshade caverns. (on normal, then switched to vet since vet is pretty easy to solo...over and over) Then ran normal Malestrom a few times.
Got all 3 after about 70 skulls.
RNG was on my side for once!!
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MattT1988✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Over approx 150 skulls including most of the gold ones every day and not a single recipe. Anyone who wants more RNG in this game or likes how much is already in it is an idiot.Edited by MattT1988 on October 29, 2019 1:35PM3 -
Kalik_Gold✭✭✭✭✭
✭Bought all 3 PS4/NA
Recipe: Bewitched Sugar Skulls - 12k gold
Recipe: Disastrously Bloody Mara - 16k gold
Recipe: Pack Leader's Bone Broth - 30k gold
Prices will probably drop lower, but I am fine spending 1 day of writ money on recipes.
Main: (PvP & PvE)PS5/NA - Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar - Daggerfall Covenant • 1550+ Champion
Ras Kalik a Redguard Templar, the Vestige
PvP:
Aurik Siet'ka a Redguard Necromancer
Cacique the Sage of Ius a Redguard Warden
Jux Blackheart a Redguard Nightblade
Goliath of Hammerfell a Redguard Dragonknight
Kaotik Von Dae'mon a Redguard* Sorcerer
PvP: (Specialty)
Tyrus Septim an Imperial Lycan Sorcerer
Tsar af-Bomba a Redguard Vampiric Nightblade
Movárth Piquine a Nord Vampiric Necromancer
Uri Ice-Heart the Twin a Nord Vampiric Warden
PvE:
Cinan Tharn an Imperial Dragonknight
Bates Vesuius of Dawnstar an Imperial Dragonknight
Herzog Zwei the Genesis an Akavari* Templar
Tav'i at-Shinji a Redguard** Warden
Lucky Hunch the Gambler - a Redguard Nightblade
Leveling...
Zenovia at-Tura a Redguard** Sorcerer
Yesi af-Kalik a Redguard Templar
Voa a Priest of Sep a Redguard* Necromancer
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Passives of another race used. (RP)
*Breton
**Imperial
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Ras Kalik the Vestige, a renown Redguard warrior; He has been blessed to save Tamriel from Molag Bal’s destructive Planemeld while reuniting the Five Companions. His further accomplishments after defeating Molag Bal, has been to stop the destruction of Morrowind, the Clockwork City, return order to the isle of Summerset and create a new king in Wrothgar and a queen in Elsywer. These events have made him a living legend and continue to lead him into new adventures throughout Tamriel, as well as into the hearts of many ladies including the Elf Queen, Aryenn. Over many years of adventurous travels, Ras Kalik had become a loner, until he re-visited his homeland of Alik'r.
Alik'r and it's cities were overrun by the undead Ra-Netu and therefore he made an allegiance with Alik'r's own Ash'abah tribe. These Ash'abah with his help, cleansed the city of Sentinel in Alik'r desert and it's surrounding areas of the undead brought to life by the Withered Hand. After rescuing Sentinel from the undead zombies, King Fahara’jad’s personal bodyguard the Goliath of Hammerfell, who was given this name by Imperials in the region; was asked to assist the tribe after learning of the defeat of the Withered Hand to the Ash'abah. Kalik promised Goliath he would task him with fighting living enemies on the battlefield if he so desired. Goliath being a Yokudan warrior wields a massive sword in respect to the Ansei, a gift given by the Imperial, Cinan Tharn. Not many soldiers are able to wield double two handed weapons, but Goliath loves to get up and personal in a fight, so he also carries a giant maul, both weapons laced with magical flames.
Jux Blackheart is a master thief that masquerades as a Bard at the Sisters of the Sands inn, with his younger sidekick Lucky Hunch for pilfering and gambling during this time. Jux was known to infiltrate any towns bank vault he came across and even delved into Ayelid ruins without detection. Kalik can vividly recall the night he met the famed thief. Jux found himself rummaging thru a slightly inebriated Kalik’s pocket for too long, on a full-mooned night and because of his greed and the glimmer of his golden armor in the moonlight. He lost his left pinky fingertip as a lesson! But in return, he gained a new friend, as it was his first time since a child being caught red-handed...
Upon arrival back in the Alik'r after many moons of adventuring, Ras Kalik ventures to Bergama. Visiting The Winking Jackal, he runs into Jux Blackheart, who introduces him to the coin game Crowns vs Forebearers (Heads vs Tails) and Golden Dwemer (RBG).... Jux constantly takes gold from the unfortunate thru theft or gambling, his biggest gambling victim is actually his partner in crime known as Lucky Hunch the Gambler. Lucky doesn't mind losing any gold coins to Jux... as Jux saved him from Altmer slavers in Summerset, by stealing a key and sending him on a boat to the mainland years prior. Lucky spent years in slavery with Khajiits in Summerset and picked up the art of subterfuge, using illusion magic disguises and stealing there.
Kaotik Von’Daemon an outcast, and a half-caste between a Breton mother and a Redguard father. Kaotik become a pariah due to his conjuration of Daedra pets. He was taught healing magic during his childhood years by his Breton mother. His father due to Redguard customs exiled him from the desert, sending him by wagon caravan to be a soldier in the war in Cyrodiil. He happened to meet Kalik while traveling from Alik'r, during this long caravan ride the caravan he was in was ambushed in Bangkorai by a group of bandits. Kalik by chance was also traveling thru this area on his Auridon Warhorse (which was bestowed to him by his friend, Darien Gautier). During this ambush, Kalik was able to rescue five hostages from the bandits. Kaotik was the first rescued, and Ras Kalik also recruited him to be in the Ash'abah tribe. These core Ash'abah tribesmen may never be seen together in travel as they partake in their own adventures but they always know what each other is doing; as they frequent a hideout in northern Bankorai. Their hideout an old Orc castle ruin, is kept watch by Nuzhimeh and she passes messages written between them, and frequently they also enjoy her company and her bed.
The other men rescued were a Dunmer banker, an Imperial mercenary and two other soldiers, an Imperial and a Breton Knight, stating proudly he was an Akavir descendent. One of the Imperials, Cinan, claimed to be related to Abnur Tharn the Battlemage of the Imperial Elder Council (One of Ras Kalik's mentors in the Five Companions). Cinan Tharn was really Abnur's drunkard treasure hunting illegitimate son. He was caught smuggling artifacts out of the Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil and the elder of the two Imperials was Tyrus Septim a retired Imperial navy battle-mage (now a Lycan mercenary living in the city of Rimmen) and guard to the Tharn family. As much as Abnur Tharn hated his half-sister Euraxia, he dislikes his bas†ard son Cinan more. Tyrus now a ruffian and privateer had been paid by Abnur Tharn to watch over Cinan as much as possible. Cinan Tharn a drunkard, loves to drink at least a quarter barrel of Nord mead before he raids various delves and dungeons for relics to sell on the black market. Cinan also plans to one day, run an illegal gambling ring... which he thinks will net him more gold for his wares.
The Dunmer captive shackled to the Imperials looked familiar to Kalik from his time in Morrowind.... and he recognized him as Tythis Andromo a House Telvanni slave-owner and banker from Vvardenfell. During a rough interrogation to Tythis, Ras Kalik learnt why the bandits accosted him. The racist Dunmer was providing slaves as soldiers for the Three Banner War. The bandits were trying to negotiate a lucrative ransom for Andromo and the Imperials.... Kalik did not need any of this gold and he could never set Tythis free as he did with the two Imperial soldiers. His past involvement with slavery and war crimes, made Kalik's blood boil. He chose not to execute Tythis, as he figured the worse punishment for this former rich and opulent slave owner, is to now be an imprisoned servant for Ras Kalik and the tribe.
Herzog Zwei the Genesis a reknown Imperial/Akavirri battle-mage. His roots going back to Akavir through his mother’s bloodline. (His mother is descended from the Akaviri, through Versidue-Shae, and his Imperial father met her in Hakoshae, while traveling) Herzog earned the nickname "the Genesis" from his father as a child, as he was his mother's first born child, and last, as she tragically died in child-birth.
Herzog was seeking to purchase an artifact from Cinan Tharn, before their capture and was meeting Tyrus while in Rimmen, who introduced him to Cinan. This artifact being the Ayelid artifact; the sword Sinweaver. After their rescue and the exchange of gold to Cinan for the sword he decided to slip away before Ras Kalik could question who he was, and why the Akavir descendant really wanted that sword. Herzog was headed to Nagastani — An Ayleid ruin in eastern Cyrodiil. He had read in scrolls that the Sword would give him magical powers to meet his mothers spirit, if he performed an Ayleid ritual at an old shrine hidden there. Equipped with the artifact sword, he was off to start his own adventure but Ras Kalik, did indeed notice the sword however and instead sent a letter to Jux Blackheart (whom also was interested in Ayleid treasures), to attempt to find Herzog and acquire the sword. (*Azani Blackheart in Elder Scroll's Oblivion is Jux's descendant some 747 years later)
And so the Redguard, Imperial and Akaviri men parted ways ... While Ras Kalik went off to Elsweyr to encounter the latest threat to Tamriel, with Abnur Tharn and Sai Sahan - - DRAGONS!! Little did Ras Kalik know a few people were awaiting him in Senchal besides Sai. A necromancer survived his attack on the Withered Hand, while in Alik'r. The necromancer known as Auriek Siet'ka is also following him to the land of the Khajiits and Cacique the Sage of Ius a Shaman mystic who has become attuned spiritually with Tu'whacca (a Redguard God) and Ius (the Animal God), after being burned severely by the escaped dragons in Elsywer, is awaiting his arrival also. Aurik is a soldier of the Daggerfall Covenant that was introduced to necromancy while in the military, even though this magicka art is not spoken of openly by most of the Military leaders. He came to Alik'r and worked with the Withered Hand before Ras Kalik intervened on their plans. After the defeat of the Withered Hand, he aligned with the Worm Cult, and is constantly adapting and perfecting his necromantic arts.
After his journey to Rimmen, Kalik heads south to Senchal, in the southern regions of Elyswer. This new adventure will also put him on a path to meet a strange Redguard man. The stranger which was infected with an untreated Peyrite disease and also was the exiled from the Order of the New Moon cult, due to his sickness. He originally joined the cult to worship Laatvulon, the green dragon, mistakenly thinking it was the Daedric prince Peyrite. This confused and suffering cultist is known as Tsar al-Bomba and he is on a path to spread the disease. He was originally infected in Orccrest while recruiting members there. Can Ras Kalik and the shaman Cacique cure this poor soul, only time will tell. Little does Tsar al-Bomba know, that his infection is tied to Vampirism, and eventually the desire for blood will take over his mind. Senchal also offers Kalik his latest love interest... Aeliah. Whom he fondly led thru battles with the Dragonguard.
After the trek thru the heat, tropical and desert climate of Northern and Southern Elyswer, Ras Kalik heads north to the cold mountain range of Skyrim. His companion friend Lyris beckons for him with a letter sent by crow...
Movárth Piquine - a former vampire hunter (now infected), within the Fighter's Guild (and a secretive necromancer) was in Skyrim working with the Morthaal Guard. On a patrol mission he was caught in Frewien's ice curse outside of Morthaal with the frozen undead. Movárth's vampiric infection kept him from becoming an undead minion to the curse. He was able to use necromantic ice-magic to encase himself safely until he was freed with Freiwen, when the Vestige Ras Kalik broke the curse.
Uri Ice-Heart - brother of Urfon Ice-Heart. The twin sons of Atli and Oljourn Ice-Heart. The Ice-Heart family are originally from Markarth but now reside on the Jerall Mountain range near Cyrodiil, with their younger sister Araki. The twins had joined the Winterborn Reachmen while living in Markarth. Urfon pushed west to Orsinium with the Winterborn Clan, leaving his family behind. Uri stayed behind with his parents and sister to live in the family cabin for safety, avoiding the Vampire plague infiltrating the Reach. After news reaches him and he hears of Urfon's death... Uri leaves and heads home and is seeking vengeance. Meanwhile, his sister has also moved on to Windhelm to join the Fighter's guild. He will visit his sister, once before going to seek vengeance and she will craft him armor mixed with ice, called Stalhrim armor. Uri fearing death, after his brother's passing, falls victim to the convincing talk of Movárth at a Nordic tavern, and will also becomes a vampire.
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Kiralyn2000✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭People are selling small quantities in guild stores of old and new witches fest foods. You can buy the foods to turn in with the writs. Offer the mats in zone and ask someone to craft ones you can't find.
Odd, I bought a small pile of Sugar Skulls from a guild trader, and it wouldn't register for my writ. (wonder if the writ was different - I've got 3 sugar skull writs saved up so far, and the one I clicked on had a green book icon, different than the other ones.)0 -
Karminathevamp✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »Odd, I bought a small pile of Sugar Skulls from a guild trader, and it wouldn't register for my writ. (wonder if the writ was different - I've got 3 sugar skull writs saved up so far, and the one I clicked on had a green book icon, different than the other ones.)
You must learn the recipe to be able to do the new writs.
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Azramel✭✭✭I think the drop rates could be a little higher for a limited event. I must've farmed over a thousand purple plunders, and got only 1 new gold recipe and 1 writ. Event ends in a few days and it looks I'll just have to hope I can get enough gold to buy everything I want. I might as well just not play the event and buy the stuff at the end.1 -
Vlad9425✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I still don’t have a single one of these event recipes and I’ve already opened probably over 100 plunder skulls. Guess I’ll have to pay the absurd money people are charging to get my hands on those recipes.0 -
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✭Kalik_Gold wrote: »Bought all 3 PS4/NA
Recipe: Bewitched Sugar Skulls - 12k gold
Recipe: Disastrously Bloody Mara - 16k gold
Recipe: Pack Leader's Bone Broth - 30k gold
Prices will probably drop lower, but I am fine spending 1 day of writ money on recipes.
On PC those are 10x more expensive for some reason.2 -
VaranisArano✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭I think the drop rates could be a little higher for a limited event. I must've farmed over a thousand purple plunders, and got only 1 new gold recipe and 1 writ. Event ends in a few days and it looks I'll just have to hope I can get enough gold to buy everything I want. I might as well just not play the event and buy the stuff at the end.
If you didn't see, the event now ends Nov 11th, so you have an extra week to farm if you so desire.0 -
January1171✭✭✭✭✭Sounds like bad RNG. I've gotten about 4 gold skulls/day, 200 purples during the event, and have gotten three sugar skull recipes and two disastrously bloody mara recipes, 12 writs, and 7 marionette parts
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aquiella✭✭✭I stopped playing after four days of not getting anything except five skeletons pieces, five writs and none of the three new recipes. My friends got extras of the gold recipes and gave me one of each and the remaining skeletons. I just bought the remainder of writs from Impressio...
This was not a fun Witch's Festival for me like previous ones. I didn't even get any pumpkins like I normally do... and yes I did it on several toons particularly the ones that always had better luck than my main toon. May not bother with future events.0 -
Lumenn✭✭✭✭✭
✭Was lucky enough to get everything since I'm currently on vacation. First two days though was nothing but old recipes and motifs. Since the new recipes were selling for 200k-400k at the traders I simply sell my extra in zone chat for 50k each and hope its someone that needs it and not someone who'll flip it.0 -
Imza✭✭✭✭I have seen so many camp at the mammoth and giant world boss in East March..... they kill the mammoth and not the giant and the mammoth respawns as soon as agro is stopped on the giant...
Rinse Repeat...
I went through there the other day - must have been about 50 mammoths dead at their feet0 -
rpa✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I've been levelling by boating to a zone, then doing every wayshrine, skyshard, dolmen, delve, world boss and public dungeon and boating to next. Not counted my skulls but enough for all golden recipes and other junk to make me think about quitting the game because inventory management is hell and will never get fixed aaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggg0