Did they change the loot drops at dolmens???

powerfantasticb14_ESO

Ever since the update last week, dolmens aren't dropping much loot at all. Is it just my imagination or did they reduce the drop rates? I still get exp, but only 1 or 2 mobs, if that, have anything on them. It might be my imagination, but I could swear I used to pick up more than that...

PrimusTiberius

I've notice world enemies are not dropping as much either or they don't drop at all.

B0SSzombie

powerfantasticb14_ESO wrote: »

Ever since the update last week, dolmens aren't dropping much loot at all. Is it just my imagination or did they reduce the drop rates? I still get exp, but only 1 or 2 mobs, if that, have anything on them. It might be my imagination, but I could swear I used to pick up more than that...

Only the cultists at the start and the mobs in the last "wave" that spawn with the boss have ever dropped anything. At most you'd get drops from 6 cultists, 6 mobs and the boss if you did damage to them.

majulook

it seems like drops from everything have been nerfed.

Ken_Koerperich

Agreed.

Been at this 7 days, yes I'm new, but I only just today, got myself to 14k gold, that's selling every POS I don't need currently. Every "craft" item that doesn't "ENHANCE" gear, as I'm trying to just use drops, but I've been using the same bow drop for 12 levels, same helm for 16 levels.

Something is off on drops, as I kill everything, hit every lock box I see, which is "FEW", and it's come to my attention that I will need to find a kind soul and beg for a "training" set to be crafted.

You can see this request in Player Helping Players.....

I'm tired of running obsolete stuff, and since it won't drop, I'll have to use up the little gold I've hoarded to get something useful.

So please ZOS, look into this!

honglatongla

Seems fine, nothing changed. But I also last did dolmens years ago.

kargen27

Ken_Koerperich wrote: »

Agreed.

Been at this 7 days, yes I'm new, but I only just today, got myself to 14k gold, that's selling every POS I don't need currently. Every "craft" item that doesn't "ENHANCE" gear, as I'm trying to just use drops, but I've been using the same bow drop for 12 levels, same helm for 16 levels.

Something is off on drops, as I kill everything, hit every lock box I see, which is "FEW", and it's come to my attention that I will need to find a kind soul and beg for a "training" set to be crafted.

You can see this request in Player Helping Players.....

I'm tired of running obsolete stuff, and since it won't drop, I'll have to use up the little gold I've hoarded to get something useful.

So please ZOS, look into this!

You only need a training set if you are in a hurry to level up your character. Otherwise you can continue to just use what is dropped or what you can craft. If you do want to use training gear there are a lot of guilds willing to help new players and they often have players that will craft green gear for free.

Ken_Koerperich

kargen27 wrote: »

Ken_Koerperich wrote: »

Agreed.

Been at this 7 days, yes I'm new, but I only just today, got myself to 14k gold, that's selling every POS I don't need currently. Every "craft" item that doesn't "ENHANCE" gear, as I'm trying to just use drops, but I've been using the same bow drop for 12 levels, same helm for 16 levels.

Something is off on drops, as I kill everything, hit every lock box I see, which is "FEW", and it's come to my attention that I will need to find a kind soul and beg for a "training" set to be crafted.

You can see this request in Player Helping Players.....

I'm tired of running obsolete stuff, and since it won't drop, I'll have to use up the little gold I've hoarded to get something useful.

So please ZOS, look into this!

You only need a training set if you are in a hurry to level up your character. Otherwise you can continue to just use what is dropped or what you can craft. If you do want to use training gear there are a lot of guilds willing to help new players and they often have players that will craft green gear for free.

LOL, guilds, yeah, don't think so. I've been turned down, "to low a level"/ "you play to early" / "you're to casual" / "go away noob" / "I'll craft for you, give me 50k+ blah blah" / 'we don't want to be streamed" / some plain outright *** behavior and here on forums, most haven't even checked their threads...

Not saying everyone is "toxic", but you really should get on in the early AM and just listen to all the trash. Could be different outside of Auridon, but I'm "trying" to stay on task, zone by zone, following the "story guide" that is in another section here. So I end up putting everything on "MUTE" and just grinding solo. Hell, it took me 45 minutes this AM just to do the very FIRST dungeon DF, that the Undaunted wanted me to do, that I picked up 7 days ago....

So I'll keep plodding along as I have been. I mean, come on, I'm already Lv29.5 & I'm still in Auridon.

Thank for your input though.

Again, IMO, ZOS needs to look into this situation. Regular mobs/Dolmens drop squat IMO, I have to hunt WB's and "ZONE" help call for anything decent drop wise.

PigofSteel

I get lot of set drops from normal mobs lol. Something aint right...

spartaxoxo

Ken_Koerperich wrote: »

kargen27 wrote: »

Ken_Koerperich wrote: »

Agreed.

Been at this 7 days, yes I'm new, but I only just today, got myself to 14k gold, that's selling every POS I don't need currently. Every "craft" item that doesn't "ENHANCE" gear, as I'm trying to just use drops, but I've been using the same bow drop for 12 levels, same helm for 16 levels.

Something is off on drops, as I kill everything, hit every lock box I see, which is "FEW", and it's come to my attention that I will need to find a kind soul and beg for a "training" set to be crafted.

You can see this request in Player Helping Players.....

I'm tired of running obsolete stuff, and since it won't drop, I'll have to use up the little gold I've hoarded to get something useful.

So please ZOS, look into this!

You only need a training set if you are in a hurry to level up your character. Otherwise you can continue to just use what is dropped or what you can craft. If you do want to use training gear there are a lot of guilds willing to help new players and they often have players that will craft green gear for free.

LOL, guilds, yeah, don't think so. I've been turned down, "to low a level"/ "you play to early" / "you're to casual" / "go away noob" / "I'll craft for you, give me 50k+ blah blah" / 'we don't want to be streamed" / some plain outright *** behavior and here on forums, most haven't even checked their threads...

Not saying everyone is "toxic", but you really should get on in the early AM and just listen to all the trash. Could be different outside of Auridon, but I'm "trying" to stay on task, zone by zone, following the "story guide" that is in another section here. So I end up putting everything on "MUTE" and just grinding solo. Hell, it took me 45 minutes this AM just to do the very FIRST dungeon DF, that the Undaunted wanted me to do, that I picked up 7 days ago....

So I'll keep plodding along as I have been. I mean, come on, I'm already Lv29.5 & I'm still in Auridon.

Thank for your input though.

Again, IMO, ZOS needs to look into this situation. Regular mobs/Dolmens drop squat IMO, I have to hunt WB's and "ZONE" help call for anything decent drop wise.

Honestly don't bother farming gear. You level to fast to bother. Anyway gear drops from bosses primarily, and jewelry from dolmens. Public dungeon bosses and overland bosses.

rpa

Dont worry about gear before lv 50, cp 160. You will hit 50/160 long before you are done the easy stuff. The main quest, guilds (except perhaps Undaunted), your alliance, Cadwell's SIlver & Gold, chapters and dlc overland, Cryodiil intro + little scouting (for Continuous Attack passive) while unlocking all wayshrines and collecting most skysharsds can be done in whites. For soloing most base world bosses and doing normal dungeons cheap overland and crafted is plenty enough.

ADarklore

Training gear only drops in Kenarthi's Roost in the AD side, sadly. I've been running dolmens leveling a new character and still get a TON of gear in an hour of runs... so much so that I have to return to town and deconstruct everything before returning to the dolmens.

Unfortunately, most gear sets that drop in early zones aren't worth anything on the market, I make more money deconstructing the items and selling the materials gained from them. The most money I make is from farming material nodes and selling the raw materials... I can EASILY make 100K gold per hour from farming; I've been playing for years and have a route in a certain zone that I run over and over.

However, since Companions were added, I have also been making money from selling Companion gear that drop, and I get about 4 to 6 pieces per hour running dolmens.

Further about training gear... I actually have both Stamina and Magicka training gear sets that I keep on ALT characters or in inventory chests so when I create a new character I can bring those out and reuse them. It's how I got started years ago in learning how to craft, and now I have a crafting alt who can do all my crafting... so you might want to start working on having your character start with deconstructing (which levels your crafting skills) and also start researching traits early on; this way you can craft your OWN gear using the deconstructed materials. Besides, it takes a LONG time to research traits... but early zone crafting stations usually only require a couple of traits learned.