Motif drop rate nerfed?

LadyDestiny

Just recently came back to eso after playing since pc launch. Took time off since murkmire, but back playing full time again. Been doing dailies everyday but haven't seen one motif page drop. Have they changed where they drop from now or is it just a ridiculous low chance now?

Dagoth_Rac

LadyDestiny wrote: »

Just recently came back to eso after playing since pc launch. Took time off since murkmire, but back playing full time again. Been doing dailies everyday but haven't seen one motif page drop. Have they changed where they drop from now or is it just a ridiculous low chance now?

Which dailies are you doing? The delve/world boss dailes in the latest expansion (Dragonhold) do not drop motifs yet. There are other dailies in Dragonhold (a fetch quest and a dragon quest) that open up shortly into the zone storyline and those do drop motif pages.

LadyDestiny

Just the regular dailies in murkmire and elsweyr. They used to drop from the little crates regularly, but now it's just been nothing but armor and weapon pieces.

Dagoth_Rac

I don't recall Murkmire or Elsweyr motifs drops being any different than, say, Summerset or Clockwork City. They are all kind of a pain in the neck! I did struggle with the Pellitine motif. It only seemed to drop from the kill 3 dragons quest in Elsweyr and that is tough, both due to the dragons often landing really far away from wayshrines and dragons taking forever to die if there are not a ton of people there.

LadyDestiny

Strangely enough after I posted this, one finally dropped on a rimmen daily. I think it's the annequina or something. Still it's been days trying to get just one.

Alinhbo_Tyaka

I don't think the Murkmire drop rates have changed. I never saw a lot from the start and it always seemed to me I would get a one or two and then have a long dry spell. Just your basic RNG.

MinuitPro

The Bursar of Tribute daily drop rate has fallen immensely. I have opened about 15 coffers in the last two weeks and not one motif chapter. It was typically a 25% or 33% drop rate prior, and consistently so for a year or more.

Dalsinthus

I am pretty convinced that the Dragonguard motif drop rates are lower than drop rates from previous dailies. It took me over 200 quests across various characters and turning to guild traders to get this done. I was working with a team of guilds and everyone struggled with the bad drop rates.

LadyDestiny

Good to know. Thanks for the input.

MinuitPro

Anyone having better luck with the drop rates on anything yet? I just opened up another 8 coffers and nothing.

katanagirl1

I grind them until I get to the last 3 or 4 and then just buy what I need, using the gold from selling the duplicates. I just don’t have the patience anymore.

Dragon dailies seem to drop way fewer furnishing plans than before too, and general container farming for me is almost a complete waste of time now, those drop rates are so low and rarely anything other than white or green furnishing plans.

I cannot keep my guild trader full with 30/30 items anymore, I think I only have 19 or so now.

LadyDestiny

MinuitPro wrote: »

Anyone having better luck with the drop rates on anything yet? I just opened up another 8 coffers and nothing.

I've been running dailies in varios zones. I have got a few from rewards and some boss drops. None from psyjic portals or chests. I'm going to go on a thieving spree in morrowind to get those associated. The dragonguard has so far only dropped one for me as of yesterday and same for pellitine. I broke down and bought it from the crownstore. Some of them are just too rare. I have some older motif sets that are not quite finished yet, so trying to get them completed as well. I think I have ten left to go to finish grandmaster crafter as all my research was finished long ago. I have been playing since beta and should have finished these last year.

redlink1979

@LadyDestiny I run daily quests with different chars. That's how I try to increase my odds.

MinuitPro

LadyDestiny wrote: »

... I broke down and bought it from the crownstore.

Sounds to me like their sales department won again. No statement from ZOS can only mean they put the hammer on RNG toward that very goal. It sucks that things that aren't currently (or ever) in the crown store are still nerfed along with it.

Anotherone773

Drop rates are typically low for motifs from dailies. Id say around 5-10% drop rate.

katanagirl1

Ah yes I ran the Northern Elsweyr dailies with multiple characters, but in order to do the Dragonguard dailies in Southern Elsweyr you have to have done a certain number of the main story quests. I don’t take time to do those type quests on my alts. That might make it seem to take longer.

Septimus_Magna

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Ah yes I ran the Northern Elsweyr dailies with multiple characters, but in order to do the Dragonguard dailies in Southern Elsweyr you have to have done a certain number of the main story quests. I don’t take time to do those type quests on my alts. That might make it seem to take longer.

The Southern Elsweyr daily from the Dragonguard HQ are really quick tho, might be worth to get it on a couple chars if you want to farm Dragonguard motif pages.

katanagirl1

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

katanagirl1 wrote: »

Ah yes I ran the Northern Elsweyr dailies with multiple characters, but in order to do the Dragonguard dailies in Southern Elsweyr you have to have done a certain number of the main story quests. I don’t take time to do those type quests on my alts. That might make it seem to take longer.

The Southern Elsweyr daily from the Dragonguard HQ are really quick tho, might be worth to get it on a couple chars if you want to farm Dragonguard motif pages.

Thanks but I did the 30 days plus some, then bought the rest already.

The one daily that is actually out of the zone is quick but fairly boring. The dragon one - well I found it frustrating to find enough skilled players during the week and it ended up being a 20 minute long battle for each dragon with people trying to spam light bow or heavy lightning staff and no skills and my poor stamblade getting pummeled in melee range. So painful. A good but small group can only take 2-3 minutes.

Zulera301

I've gotten like a dozen motifs from Murkmire dailies over the last few days. I don't think they've nerfed the drop rates. not since that announcement that they did so, way back when.