Murkmire event reward system is bad

Vandellia

Yesterday i spent well over 6 hours in murkmire killing/gathering/killing bosses and got absolutely zero/sip[/zilch treasure chests so therefore I received zero tickets. And this is honestly not acceptable. Lets be semi-realistic here based on my time in effect wasted' the RNG (percentage of a chance to get a drop) for this event is set at a level if not intentionally intended to anger or frustrate players is simply too low. there are people that the RNG seems to love , I sadly am not one of them . I kept stats on rare drops because i was well angered as an example went out fishing in game caught and fileted 1k fish and got 1 perfect roe. that may not be the dev set percentage chance per fish but that is what I got 2nd time and 2nd round of fish i got 2 perfect roe out of 1k of fish so the first instance i had a .1 percent chance of getting a perfect roe the 2nd a .2 percent chance that in my opinion is not acceptable. so 6 hours of grind and not a ticket/treasure box drop is simply not acceptable. At the very least the actual drops per player should be looked at and adjusted for a more rational/reasonable drop rate.

xWarbrain

You can farm all night and not get a Burning Spellweave Inferno staff.

you don't have to do the event either. But it does last for another 11 days so maybe your RNG will get better.

daemonios

xWarbrain wrote: »

You can farm all night and not get a Burning Spellweave Inferno staff.

you don't have to do the event either. But it does last for another 11 days so maybe your RNG will get better.

You can farm CoA year-round. DLC events happen once a year for a few days.

You can trade BSW inferno staff with your group. For the last few events, in contrast to previous behaviour, you can no longer trade pet/memento fragments.

Nobody has to do the event. Or play the game, for that matter. Does that mean the game is as good as it could possibly be and that all criticism is invalid?

Vandellia

Apples are not oranges, there is a big difference between armor/weapon grind which is set for "end game" specific armor sets and the "general purpose" loot drops in an event one is intentionally difficult or time consuming , where as the other is intended to encourage players to log on and go and do the event. All I said is that the set RNG number for the event might need to be looked at and adjusted. its a frustration vs enjoyment thing. to high its okay im done with this too low and okay im bored... and Events are not end game armor set grind. Events are not malestrom arena . PVP is not PVE so dont use dissimilar things to obscure the issue/problem

freespirit

I agree that this "random" drop thing is stupid, however both today and yesterday I got my tickets and strongbox within 10 mins of loading into zone.

Be careful you are not missing lootable kills, don't join a group, just run around killing random mobs taking care to note what you are killing. Join a group after you've got your tickets and strongbox by all means but until you have, group kills are way easier to miss the loot from.

Finally the Tickets are NOT in the strongbox they appear as a separate item on your loot list from kills.

Vandellia

Yea they are seperate and i dont group normally during the week so its all solo i loot everything in my path especially as the event specifies the "chest: can drop from any thing pretty much. it still stands i ground the zone solo for 6 hours + yesterday never saw a ticket nor a drop . I did manage to get tickets and a chest today after about 45 minutes so its all about RNG and thats what my post is about it needs to be checked to see if its at the correct level...

FierceSam

Yes, the Murkmire reward system is bad.

Everyone, including ZOS, knows this.

The last two events have been very messy rewardswise and feel less like fun things to do and more like “let’s find new ways to extort the players”.

On the plus side, we have new dungeons and Days of Download(tm) to look forward to.

Contaminate

This entire event was constructed to shove people into spending real money on event tickets if they want rewards

More monetized frustration

Brandathorbel

Contaminate wrote: »

This entire event was constructed to shove people into spending real money on event tickets if they want rewards

More monetized frustration

they make 10s of millions of dollars a year in profit from this game and they still think that pissing off their customers for pocket change is a good idea.

I really wish Head office would step in and realize this game has the potential in making twice as much as it is by actually showing they respect their customers.

@ZOS_SarahHecker Just so you know that we are not stupid. We love this game but if you keep playing these "games" you are going to lose a lot of players again like you did with Elswyer and Morrowind

Pyr0xyrecuprotite

@Vandellia it's probably time for you to call in to ZoS support about your missing event tickets.

That said, remember that the tickets (along with first strongbox) can drop from ANY mob killed in Murkmire - so make sure to loot everything. If you are in a group, and a group member kills a mob somewhere that you don't see it, it may still count for your event tickets...! It's easy to miss out in that sort of situation.