Can we have a buff/food that increases the drop rate of Monster Trophies?

elven.were_wolf

I have done Master Angler before there was the Luxury of the Pickled Fish Arteaum Dish or the New Champion Point Star that increases fish drop rate, and fishing has became a much faster and less painful endeavor than it has been a couple of years ago. However, fishing has never and will never be the pain that is Monster Trophy Farming. So would ZOS consider giving a hand with Monster Trophies just like they did with fishing? Pretty please with sprinkles on top?

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Played this game for years. Done Cadwell's Silver and Gold, pretty much all dlcs/chapters and some farming. Still have only completed the Dwemer one
In some I'm just missing 1 or 2 trophies but in others half or more.

Just increase the damn drop chance on these minor achievments that is supposed to reward "common" dyes.

elven.were_wolf

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Played this game for years. Done Cadwell's Silver and Gold, pretty much all dlcs/chapters and some farming. Still have only completed the Dwemer one
In some I'm just missing 1 or 2 trophies but in others half or more.

Just increase the damn drop chance on these minor achievments that is supposed to reward "common" dyes.

I have been playing this game since it launched on Console, and I have been actively going after them on and off for years, but they drop rates on them just got so exhausting that I stopped (yes, I’m talking to you Crypt Jar and Wraith Shackle).
I remember asking a couple of years ago if they could just increase the drop rate as they’d work as a higher quality trash drop and a nice bonus bit of gold, but that was four years from now I think, and well that never happened

Fennwitty

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Played this game for years. Done Cadwell's Silver and Gold, pretty much all dlcs/chapters and some farming. Still have only completed the Dwemer one
In some I'm just missing 1 or 2 trophies but in others half or more.

Just increase the damn drop chance on these minor achievments that is supposed to reward "common" dyes.

Very true. I've unlocked loads of zone dyes, skill line dyes, dungeon dyes and pvp dyes -- I don't think I've unlocked a single one of these "common" trophy dyes.

If and when I ever do -- there's no way those colors are worth it.

Indigogo

It's the one thing that sways me into wanting account wide achievements.
Getting an elusive monster trophy on an alt, just, arghhhh. Such a waste.

I love the creative idea of a food that helps with drops!

emilyhyoyeon

I have all the trophies already, but I was helping my friend get the mammoth tooth one yesterday. I got 5 mammoth teeth trophies in the two hours we farmed and he got nothing haha

I think a food item for the droprate would be pretty cool for this. I also think the trophies should sell for 10k each instead of 250g. They're rare enough to be worth 10k.

what_the

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I think a food item for the droprate would be pretty cool for this. I also think the trophies should sell for 10k each instead of 250g. They're rare enough to be worth 10k.

apparently not...

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I got 5 mammoth teeth trophies in the two hours we farmed and he got nothing haha

elven.were_wolf

Indigogo wrote: »

It's the one thing that sways me into wanting account wide achievements.
Getting an elusive monster trophy on an alt, just, arghhhh. Such a waste.

I love the creative idea of a food that helps with drops!

I think it would suite as a Witches Festival food! Since it’s related to monsters. The description could be “Under the effect of this food, unique variants of monsters seem to be attracted to you” or “under the effect of this food, monsters seem to drop interesting loot…”

Sheridan

I have been playing ESO for 7 years since the very start, and Trophies is the only section that I still have zero achievements. Something is definitely wrong here...

Snaggel

Would love to get something that increases my chances of finally getting that Mammoth Bone so I can have all of my monster hunter achievements complete.

By the way, there are certain places where chances of monster trophies dropping are significantly higher if not guaranteed, but that doesn't apply to every trophy. And some trophies are just much easier to come by because they can drop from dungeon mobs or a very common foe type (skeletons for example) whereas some enemies are so rare you have to go and specifically hunt them, usually in overland zones with low mob densities and long respawn timers (Mammoths, Wamasu, Wraiths, Nereids, etc.) which makes farming them a pain with such stupidly low drop rate that I think were balanced around the more common foe types.

I was so glad when I got monster trophies for these rare mobs because I knew I got incredibly lucky... except for mammoth of course, which I am still farming for in some spots in The Rift.

Shawn_PT

Come on... I have all the trophies on at least one character, and most my alts are probably over halfway into getting them all as well (currently chasing after the Spider Crown for my.... 6th dude). It's not that bad. Just takes a lot of patience

And some knowledge of where the right enemies can be found in large numbers.

I think I even got this before I got Master Angler too.

elven.were_wolf

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Come on... I have all the trophies on at least one character, and most my alts are probably over halfway into getting them all as well (currently chasing after the Spider Crown for my.... 6th dude). It's not that bad. Just takes a lot of patience

And some knowledge of where the right enemies can be found in large numbers.

I think I even got this before I got Master Angler too.

No, you just enjoy pain or have the patience of a saint XD

MajThorax

Good idea. It took me 1 year actively killing werewolves for their monster trophy. I don't have the courage to pursue the rest

emilyhyoyeon

what_the wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I think a food item for the droprate would be pretty cool for this. I also think the trophies should sell for 10k each instead of 250g. They're rare enough to be worth 10k.

apparently not...

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I got 5 mammoth teeth trophies in the two hours we farmed and he got nothing haha

I think you're making a joke, but I'll say anyway, when I farmed all the trophies, I probably averaged about one trophy every two hours. Some took me 5-15 hours of farming, some took me only ten minutes.
My friend has been looking for the mammoth trophy for 8 hours. The five that I got in two hours was obviously ridiculously unlikely.

Arunei

NotaDaedraWorshipper wrote: »

Played this game for years. Done Cadwell's Silver and Gold, pretty much all dlcs/chapters and some farming. Still have only completed the Dwemer one
In some I'm just missing 1 or 2 trophies but in others half or more.

Just increase the damn drop chance on these minor achievments that is supposed to reward "common" dyes.

I've been playing since closed beta, and despite that the only one I have complete is the Dwemer one as well. And I've been playing pretty much straight, save for about six months when I couldn't afford the sub fee and didn't start playing again until the game went B2P. I've taken like two breaks that were roughly 2-3 months long. Aside from that I play all the time. It's absolutely ridiculous that items are so rare that there are people like us who've been playing steadily have this problem. A lot of these trophies seem even more rare than things like Aetherial Ciphers, since iirc those can at least come from any harvestable node, whereas these trophies only drop from specific mobs.

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Come on... I have all the trophies on at least one character, and most my alts are probably over halfway into getting them all as well (currently chasing after the Spider Crown for my.... 6th dude). It's not that bad. Just takes a lot of patience

And some knowledge of where the right enemies can be found in large numbers.

I think I even got this before I got Master Angler too.

You are the exception, not the rule, and your anecdotal evidence doesn't trump that numerous people have been playing for years without getting any of the Trophy achieves aside from the Dwemer one (and maybe not even that one). My main character I use for general questing, farming, crafting, Antiquities, the character I have most every Skyshard on, who I've got hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of play time on (since again I've been here since closed beta, which also means I've been here from launch, and this character has existed since launch) ONLY has the Dwemer one unlocked. For the other categories I have only a few left to collect, in other categories I've only managed to get a few. And I play ESO a LOT, so it's not like I'm only playing a handful of hours every week or something.

You cannot tell us "it's not that bad" or "it takes a bit of patience". The drop rates on these things are horrendous if in YEARS of actively playing several hours a day, you have one of the achieves in that group.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Come on... I have all the trophies on at least one character, and most my alts are probably over halfway into getting them all as well (currently chasing after the Spider Crown for my.... 6th dude). It's not that bad. Just takes a lot of patience

And some knowledge of where the right enemies can be found in large numbers.

I think I even got this before I got Master Angler too.

This has "That happened" feelings. So tell us, @Shawn_PT , where are these supposed right enemies?

Shawn_PT

Oh look, ask and you shall receive!

Depends. Let me know what you're looking for and I'll try and point you the right way.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Depends. Let me know what you're looking for and I'll try and point you the right way.

Clearly going by people in this discussion. All.

Shawn_PT

Check

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/129559/collectible-achievement-guide-spoiler-alert/p1

for a start.

lillybit

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Check

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/129559/collectible-achievement-guide-spoiler-alert/p1

for a start.

Fantastic post, used that when I got the rest of mine earlier this year.

Yes it took much, much longer than fishing even with over half of them done already. A food to help would be a brilliant idea.

Also think there should be a cool title for getting them all done!

AlnilamE

Indigogo wrote: »

It's the one thing that sways me into wanting account wide achievements.
Getting an elusive monster trophy on an alt, just, arghhhh. Such a waste.

I love the creative idea of a food that helps with drops!

They used to be a consumable that you could bank and use on a different character, but they changed it. I think it was causing issues on console.

I got the Flawless Tailfeather on 2 alts before I got it on my main collector. It became a running joke in my guild.

I"m still looking for a few of them, but I only farm them on and off.

ApoAlaia

Funny this would appear, been trying to wrap this up with a bow for the last few weeks... It was shameful that after all this time I still did not have the dyes unlocked.

One achievement left now, but if i don't have to ever kill a harpy or a wasp again it will be too soon.

A food that increases the odds would be nice, even if is as expensive to cook as the artaeum fishing one.

Some of the drops are absurdly grindy.

redlink1979

Playing since 2015, still the majority of Monster Trophies is incomplete by one or two pieces at the very least. Since the drop rate has always been kinda horrendus, I stopped caring about those achievements long ago.

kargen27

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

what_the wrote: »

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I think a food item for the droprate would be pretty cool for this. I also think the trophies should sell for 10k each instead of 250g. They're rare enough to be worth 10k.

apparently not...

emilyhyoyeon wrote: »

I got 5 mammoth teeth trophies in the two hours we farmed and he got nothing haha

I think you're making a joke, but I'll say anyway, when I farmed all the trophies, I probably averaged about one trophy every two hours. Some took me 5-15 hours of farming, some took me only ten minutes.
My friend has been looking for the mammoth trophy for 8 hours. The five that I got in two hours was obviously ridiculously unlikely.

The ogres Toe Ring took me many many months to finally get. I wasn't concentrating on getting the toe ring every night but any time I was waiting on groups to form or didn't feel like doing PvP or trials I was killing Ogres. I killed thousands of them. I'm kind of surprised they didn't end up on an endangered species list. It is RNG. Other trophies I got not even realizing I got them.
That said I don't think we need to make them easier to find. Eventually I will get them all. Might be nice if your first trophy sold for more gold.
Would also be kind of cool if we could display a trophy or two in our homes.

OutLaw_Nynx

I think a title is well deserved for this achievement.

CaffeinatedMayhem

I've been here since 2014, my main, who has every quest completed, every skyshard, every dungeon quest and a whole TON of achievements, lacks most of these.

Might have something to do with the drop rate of 0 for the first three years of the game, when I was doing the most questing on that character. And now that she's a tank "grinding" even overland enemies is a pain. A very slow painful grind.

That lovely spiders crown? Yep, killed that very mob for at least 10 hours, never got even 1. I don't have the time now to spend chasing dyes that are so... awful. Some people should learn what RNG means, and that just because monster trophies drop like candy for YOU doesn't mean they do for EVERYONE. I've tried grinding for the few trophies I'm missing over the years - they NEVER drop, no matter how many hours, what mobs, with a group, solo, etc. I've gotten them on other characters, just not the one "main" I stupidly collected all the other achievements on.

Dojohoda

I still need two for my main achievement hunter, the one from Wamasu and from Gargoyle.

NotaDaedraWorshipper

Shawn_PT wrote: »

Check

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/129559/collectible-achievement-guide-spoiler-alert/p1

for a start.

Yeah, I've farmed the things listed on that old list many many times. No luck. I only get the trophies I already have.

SickleCider

The RNG can be comical. I farmed off and on for daaays to get the luminous bloodsac. I finally got one after a lot of toil. Then, a few days later I went on a fishing trip with a couple friends and pulled like a dozen of them in an hour and a half.

They really. . .really need to fix their RNG. It shouldn't be this lopsided.

Now I contemplate how it is with all the ghosts we have to kill in this game that I've never seen ectoplasmic discharge.

Hippie4927

I've been playing since just after Beta so about 8 years and I still need 7 of the monster trophies. Since my main has completed everything else, she actively farms these alot with no luck. I farmed the ice vertebra in the public dungeon in Eastmarch. I killed all the ice wraiths over and over and over again, and not only did I not get the trophy but I did not get any loot at all. Not one ice wraith had loot. I don't even want to think about how many mammoths I've killed for no tooth. I love the idea of a food or drink that would increase the drop rate.

Its_MySniff

Haha, yes, the extra help would be nice. I need two or three in a few of those categories. I never try to farm them and often wonder what I missed by not checking loot. When I finally clear them I'll feel happy just long enough to look at the 31k points I have and realize I'll never hit 40k achievement points.But I feel compelled to push onward, with or without food. Happy hunting.