There is a cooldown on public dungeon boss loot that affects plunder skulls.

Dusk_Coven

Na-Totambu has a good option for Public Dungeons. The cooldown is still there for the Plunder Skulls, but you can just activate the Group Challenge over and over. At most you are waiting 30 seconds?
You may have to hit ALL THREE bosses that spawn though. Not 100% sure on that part.

Zephard

oops

richo262

I also think the whole world should wait on me, and they should, because afterward, I'll call them awesome.

I mean, I have a 3 minute timer and my time is important, and they should wait, because their time isn't.

Minyassa

Nestor wrote: »

The simple thing to do, is to wait if you see others standing around waiting. Then get a hit in when others attack.

This is exactly what I'm saying, but apparently it is incredibly offensive to people who can't STAND the idea of waiting for someone to even suggest that it might be NICE to do that. Jesus christ. If I was doing something thoughtless--not amoral, not vicious, not malicious in anyway, but just something I didn't know about that inconvenienced people, and someone told me about it, I would be glad that I had the opportunity to do better. I was kind of hoping there might be other people out there that, you know, give a ***, but apparently there aren't. Faith in humanity successfully destroyed for the day, gg all.

Glurin

Minyassa wrote: »

Nestor wrote: »

The simple thing to do, is to wait if you see others standing around waiting. Then get a hit in when others attack.

This is exactly what I'm saying, but apparently it is incredibly offensive to people who can't STAND the idea of waiting for someone to even suggest that it might be NICE to do that.

Well you are asking a bit much. I see someone standing around next to a boss not doing anything, I assume they are either AFK or waiting for someone to help them kill it. I'll pause for a moment to see what they do, but I'm not going to cater to their three minute timer for an event item that drops from every boss out there.

Besides which, if they are killing bosses around this timer, then they already have a gazillion of this item and it's not going to hurt them at all if they don't get this next one at exactly three minutes and five seconds after they got the last one. I got *** to do. I'm not going to stand around for three minutes at every single boss I come across just so plunder skull farmers can meet their self imposed quotas.

DahliaNightshade

I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong, because I am no longer getting any Plunder Skulls (purple ones), I only get the Dremora ones for the 7 different activities.

I got those Plunder Skulls up to a couple days ago, and then not a single one anymore.

Any ideas?

Gnome_Saiyan

This is information I did not have. Thank you Minyassa.

anitajoneb17_ESO

Minyassa wrote: »

It seems to be three minutes. If you see people waiting around a spawned boss not attacking it, it's because they're waiting on their cooldown. Since it takes just seconds to kill a boss, and the maximum amount of time you'd have to wait would be three minutes (assuming they had gotten to that boss a millisecond before you), an easy way to be an awesome person is to not rush in ahead of them and attack. A quick Say asking if they are waiting on cooldown would be a super cool thing to do.

Apart from the very good explanation brought by @Welanduz , you also have to consider that the flow of people coming in to kill that boss is neverending.
So You have 3 people ready (3+ minutes), you come in at 2min and everyone should wait for your extra minute. So far so good, but then another person comes in at 2min, so everyone waits another minute, including you. And then another person comes at 2 min, etc. etc. Could be endless.
It is indeed frustrating when other players start the fight and you're on 2.30minutes, but that's how it is, and while your suggestion is made with the best of intentions, it simply is not efficient globally.

O_LYKOS

I'm there for my loot and to move on. I'm not going to stand around because someone else has a timer when I've got things to do. I'm sure the other people will be awesome enough to understand that.

Minyassa

DahliaNightshade wrote: »

I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong, because I am no longer getting any Plunder Skulls (purple ones), I only get the Dremora ones for the 7 different activities.

I got those Plunder Skulls up to a couple days ago, and then not a single one anymore.

Any ideas?

@DahliaNightshade If it's not a timer thing, like if this is happening with world bosses, dolmens, etc. then the other possibility is that there are too many people farming the same boss and it's only awarding skulls to the top few damage-dealers. But if you tapped the thing and got in a few good hits, really you should be getting loot. The only time I didn't was because I was lagging and had an unstable connection; I was seeing other signs of this like not seeing a hit point bar for my group member. So if you can rule out timers and huge crowds, I would put in a ticket.

Bryath

redlink1979 wrote: »

All the content has a cool down timer.

Example: Delves bosses have a +- 5 minute cool down timer. If you loot him/her again before that, you will just get a few gold coins.

Not all are aware that it just takes a hit or 2 to be able to loot the creature - you don't have to annihilate it before anyone gets close....

Yeah that's the most annoying/amusing behavior I've seen at these events. 5-10 people waiting for a 100kHP delve boss ... spawns ... OH **** TIME TO SHOW OFF MY LEET DPS!