Undocumented nerf to Greymoor schematics?

bluebird

Hello fellow farmers of the Forums! I'm interested to hear your experiences since this Monday's patch.
Do you think ZOS have pulled a li'l sneaky on us and reduced Purple schematic drop rates from Greymoor's public dungeons?

Because since the patch, I've been getting almost none at all. Not just no Greymoor purples, but also no base game purples and significantly less Dwemer purples too. It might just be bad luck, but since I tried 8 different characters with the same result, I'd like to hear your experiences too, just to check whether it's just me or if they did indeed reduce drop rates.

Since there are barely any buildings of note in the whole of Western Skyrim, and Harrowstorms have worse drop rates than Dragons too, and the writ voucher merchants sell no Greymoor schematics like they do with Summerset and Elsweyr ones, this change seems to hit pretty hard.

BlueRaven

In my opinion they should have implemented a similar loot table to that of dragons for the storms. Why they insist on making the plans super rare is beyond me.

OmniDo

BlueRaven wrote: »

Why they insist on making the plans super rare is beyond me.

Two words: Time Sink.
The longer people are forced to play, the more potential revenue [snip edited for perception management] expects to make.
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bluebird

OmniDo wrote: »

BlueRaven wrote: »

Why they insist on making the plans super rare is beyond me.

Two words: Time Sink.
The longer people are forced to play, the more potential revenue [snip] expects to make.
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Personally, I'll just play less. Make Harrowstorms terrible? Great, I won't play a single day of them. Nerf schematic drops so you have an near-zero chance of getting one? Welp, no reason to log in then, I'm done with Greymoor, call me when they release the Cyrodiil Chapter, lol. So making stuff super rare and nigh-unobtainable can backfire for them too.

Blacknight841

I was able to pull 6 purples today, 3 of which were new plans. I don't see any difference.

Lintashi

bluebird wrote: »

Personally, I'll just play less. Make Harrowstorms terrible? Great, I won't play a single day of them. Nerf schematic drops so you have an near-zero chance of getting one? Welp, no reason to log in then, I'm done with Greymoor, call me when they release the Cyrodiil Chapter, lol. So making stuff super rare and nigh-unobtainable can backfire for them too.

Agree. I remember, when Clockwork city launched, I did all achievements for this zone, including daily achievements, and never got even one, even green, furnishing plan. So I took a long break. Why play the content, if theres no loot? When I saw in Greymoor patch notes, that there could be new paintings in chests, I laughed. Been there (Vvardenfell) not going to fall for that ridiculous drop rate again. Same with Bastion Sanguinaris. Why should I buy it, if I cannot furnish it within reasonable time (either too long to farm recipes, or too long to farm insane amounts of gold, because recipes are too rare).

redlink1979

Until now I only got a couple of blue n green furnishings from the public dungeons, my rng has been really bad. Besides that, despite the large number of containers around there's a cap to how many you can loot successfully - I was looting everything that is useful and at some point ALL the containers started to appear empty.

If the latest patch makes the ratio drop to be even lower, I will just stop bothering trying to get furnishings.

bluebird

Blacknight841 wrote: »

I was able to pull 6 purples today, 3 of which were new plans. I don't see any difference.

Just to be clear, are we talking about the Dwemer Public Dungeon in Greymoor? Because several of my characters hit the Urn looting limit (loot everything up the Haj Mota, after which all Urns become 'Empty') without seeing a single purple schematic.

I've been running it on at least 3 charcters per day, and the drop rates seem definitely worse. Before the patch, I was getting purples without going even halfway through the dungeons, many Dwemer motifs, and several schematics both base game and Greymoor specific. Now, after looting a blue, I start getting'White' schematics and never see a purple again (and if I do, it's a Dwemer motif, not a schematic).

Of course, I may have been incredibly lucky before the patch, and just assumed that those frequent purple drops were the norm. Still, Greymoor schematic drop rates seem to be abysmal right now.