The drop rate for loot has changed or is bugged since the release of Graymore

flowyarg

Since the release of Graymore I have noticed that the loot process has changed from what it was prior to the release. At times it seems normal, and then it just stops working. I do a lot of fishing for perfect roe, so I do my fishing where I can get loot to help pay for my time fishing. What I have found is that the loot process works for a period of time and then getting anything other that gray or green items simply stops no matter how many hours you keep working it. I filleted over 1000 fish and only got 2 perfect roe. Normally the rate is 1 per 100 fillets as a rule of thumb, but now it's 1 per 500+ fillets. This has happened to me several times, so this isn't just an abortion of the loot process.

The loot I was getting prior to Graymore compared to the loot I'm getting after Graymore has changed such that I have to put in 5+ times the effort to get the loot rewards prior to Graymore. I don't know the loot rate for a lot of other items in the game. If this is only affecting fishing it's a pain, but if this is affecting drops elsewhere in the game the prices with guild merchants are going to be changing.

idk

@tmbrinks Is this an area you collect information on?

I tagged that person because they collect information on a lot of their activities in the game. People have insisted that they have seen decreases in drop rates from various things and tmbrinks has been able to demonstrate that nothing changed.

tmbrinks

@idk unfortunately that isn't one area I've kept track of (nor would have enough data to make a claim on)

Writ Rewards and Refining rates seem to be the same with Greymoor as they were before, but that's all I can speak to.

flowyarg

When I'm not working, I'm up nights - go figure. I do a lot of fishing at night. I put on the headphones, crank up some music or an audio book, and do some electronic fishing. It's a quite way to pass some time and do something that will make my nosier game time more productive. I've been doing this for a while. I know about loot generators, and the mathematical probability of an item dropping. I know for every hour I'm fishing about what my loot will be. Some hours I get more and the next hour I get less, but it all averages out over time.

Blue loot items and above were consistent across time. You could go fishing any time of day and the drops were consistent across time, you could fillet fish at any time of day and the perfect roe drops were consistent across time. Remember that sometimes you get more and other times you get less, but it all averages out over time. Since Graymoor was released, there are periods of time that you will NOT get anything above a green drop, and blue and above drops come in clumps for short periods of time.

I'm not asking if there has been a change, there has been. I’ve seen the change; it is affecting my profits so it is very noticeable. Is this an intentional change? Is this an unexpected change? What, other than fishing loot and fillet loot, is being affected by this change? I only know a small part of the vast world of Tamriel, but there are some very smart people here that know other parts of Tamriel. Is anyone seeing changes to drops like I’ve seen with fishing and fillet drops?

SekaiXD

I spent four hours fishing just for the Thrassian eel in Auridon. I got over 400 fish plus lots of sacks, other rare fish, and furnishings like kelp pile. I swore the Thrassian eel was like the yeti. I got all the other rare fish in auridon within 20-60 fish, but that one just wouldn't drop.

After filleting over 600 fish I got 2 perfect roe. I'm currently at 0.84% drop rate for around 5000 fish. Before Greymore I was actually at 2%, which was nice.

Nebthet78

I've noticed overland mobs are giving a lot less items and gold. Even in overland dungeons too. I haven't really taken the time to check trials or group dungeons. But there is definitely a marked changed so I stopped killing stuff, because there's no point now.

Ozby

agreed, I have also noticed overland mobs not having any loot at all most of the time which I had never noticed before so seems new.

SekaiXD

On the topic of trials, I think I'm cursed. Yesterday I ran vSS with my guild and they were getting purple drops from the chests, and I was getting green drops of non-set junk. Every. Single. Chest.

Mettaricana

Greymoor my everything gold temper related has tanked.... avg pre greymoor 1000 runedite ore may get 3-7 tempers same for wax wood etc.

Now since greymoor 4000+ ore 0 tempers
6k hide no dreughs 3k silk 1 dreugh
Wood hahahahaha lost count no rosin

Starhorse

I have been fishing for 3 days, wasting tons of lake bait for a fish that never drops. Cambray Perch - lake is bugged. Please fix.

AshfieldLad

I did notice before the patch, I dropped 6 stone husk fragments in 1 run through labyrinthian and since then I’ve only dropped 1 more in 10+ runs now. Don’t know if that’s been bought up before