New Moon Priest no longer in chest?

huntgod_ESO

Two days in a row I've opened the Dragonguard Chest in Tidefall and no NMP motif was inside? Is this no longer a guaranteed drop? It can't be a timer issue as it's happened two days in a row.

heaven13

It was apparently never supposed to be guaranteed and was adjusted in yesterday's patch with documentation in the patch notes.

Fixed an issue that resulted in the Dragonguard supply chest inadvertently giving a guaranteed motif chapter with every interaction. Note the updated rate is still significantly higher than most other motif sources.

AcadianPaladin

I got one from the chest this morning. Not sure if it is/was supposed to be a daily guarantee.

Veinblood1965

I've been doing the chest thing about a month now and it's not a daily drop, it seems to be about one every two or three days or so.

markulrich1966

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I've been doing the chest thing about a month now and it's not a daily drop, it seems to be about one every two or three days or so.

it is daily, but has a 20 hour cooldown.

Jayne_Doe

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I've been doing the chest thing about a month now and it's not a daily drop, it seems to be about one every two or three days or so.

it is daily, but has a 20 hour cooldown.

It WAS daily with a 20-hour cooldown, which was not intended. Two patch notes addressed this:

Fixed an issue that, in some cases, could prevent you from having a chance to earn New Moon Priest Motif chapters when opening the Dragonguard supply chest. - this appears to have addressed the 20-hour cooldown, which doesn't seem to have been intended.

Fixed an issue that resulted in the Dragonguard supply chest inadvertently giving a guaranteed motif chapter with every interaction. Note the updated rate is still significantly higher than most other motif sources. - this addresses the fact that a guaranteed drop was never intended.

So, now you always have a chance to receive a NMP page when you access the chest each day (regardless if it's been 20 hours or not), but, you are no longer guaranteed to get one.

ganzaeso

They changed it to a high chance once per day. No more 20 hour timer. It should be 100% chance once per day.

We just need to file as many in game bug reports as possible until it is correctly changed.

kargen27

ganzaeso wrote: »

They changed it to a high chance once per day. No more 20 hour timer. It should be 100% chance once per day.

We just need to file as many in game bug reports as possible until it is correctly changed.

Why? It probably still won't take long to get all the motifs to learn for yourself and the price has already plummeted because supply outweighs demand. With the change maybe they will not become almost worthless like other motifs.

Gundug

ganzaeso wrote: »

They changed it to a high chance once per day. No more 20 hour timer. It should be 100% chance once per day.

We just need to file as many in game bug reports as possible until it is correctly changed.

As ZOS stated in the patch notes, they did not intend for the motif to have a 100% drop rate. Offhand, I cannot think of any other drop location for the various motifs in the game, outside of certain vendors, where you have a 100% chance to get a page. Definitely not from completing challenging veteran trials, and much less, the challenge of walking over to and opening a box daily.

markulrich1966

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

markulrich1966 wrote: »

Veinblood1965 wrote: »

I've been doing the chest thing about a month now and it's not a daily drop, it seems to be about one every two or three days or so.

it is daily, but has a 20 hour cooldown.

It WAS daily with a 20-hour cooldown, which was not intended. Two patch notes addressed this:

Fixed an issue that, in some cases, could prevent you from having a chance to earn New Moon Priest Motif chapters when opening the Dragonguard supply chest. - this appears to have addressed the 20-hour cooldown, which doesn't seem to have been intended.

Fixed an issue that resulted in the Dragonguard supply chest inadvertently giving a guaranteed motif chapter with every interaction. Note the updated rate is still significantly higher than most other motif sources. - this addresses the fact that a guaranteed drop was never intended.

So, now you always have a chance to receive a NMP page when you access the chest each day (regardless if it's been 20 hours or not), but, you are no longer guaranteed to get one.

yes on PC it was adressed already.
XBOX still has 10 days to farm them.

heaven13

Gundug wrote: »

ganzaeso wrote: »

They changed it to a high chance once per day. No more 20 hour timer. It should be 100% chance once per day.

We just need to file as many in game bug reports as possible until it is correctly changed.

As ZOS stated in the patch notes, they did not intend for the motif to have a 100% drop rate. Offhand, I cannot think of any other drop location for the various motifs in the game, outside of certain vendors, where you have a 100% chance to get a page. Definitely not from completing challenging veteran trials, and much less, the challenge of walking over to and opening a box daily.

I believe you're guaranteed a thieve's guild motif if you do a perfect heist. You're also guaranteed a motif page if you do vetHM dungeon.

SeaGtGruff

kargen27 wrote: »

ganzaeso wrote: »

They changed it to a high chance once per day. No more 20 hour timer. It should be 100% chance once per day.

We just need to file as many in game bug reports as possible until it is correctly changed.

Why? It probably still won't take long to get all the motifs to learn for yourself and the price has already plummeted because supply outweighs demand. With the change maybe they will not become almost worthless like other motifs.

The price has already plummeted? It was still high the last time I was looking for a page to complete a master writ, so I'm not sure what you think is a "fair" price, but I'm guessing that the prices started getting jacked back up as soon as people read the patch notes.

Finedaible

They nerfed the drop rate on the motif because they wouldn't be able to sell it in the cash shop later.

huntgod_ESO

Surely it was intended, when I mentioned this irregularity in another thread back at the beginning of the month, I was told by several players *cough*raventhehistborn*cough* that it was intentional and I was basically a moron for even asking...hmmm.

I'm actually glad to see it going back to a random drop non-timed reward. I finished collecting it ages ago.

Nyqwont

It's been dropping worse and worse items for me for the last week. Now it's only blues.

Hurbster

Bringing it to parity with harrowstorm drops and rewards ?

Scottfree2

Ya, i get a motif about every 3 days now, definitly noticing it as i haven't completed the new moon book on even one char yet,

I did notice that it didnt always drop previously, i had occasional days w no motif, but its a tedious slow process to complete the book now.

Luke_Flamesword

It's good that motif is rarer - I don't have to destroy motif page every day, instead I can sell every page for some price. It's still very easy to get, you just need teleport every day to Dragonguard Sanctum and loot chest. Zero effort. Even now I don't think that motif will be selling on crown store, because now for many players looting chest is like daily writs - they do it every day. With new drop rate it will be still so common in guild stores for couple k per page.