Where to farm for: Pattern: Nord Tapestry, Ship

jrfk2

Hi Folks,
Was wondering if there was a particular place to farm for this pattern .. online sites don't really mention a specific place, if there is one ..

Paulytnz

My best guess would be to find a good place in any of the base game maps with a lot of containers (wardrobes/backpacks/coffers/desks/etc) where you can take items freely. NOT stealing, from my testing stealing from containers gives a lower % chance for these kinds of things.

I can't think of any good places off the top of my head for base maps. So you may you may need to run around and re-explore the cities and such again to find the good spot.

Once you find it you have 2 options how you want to go about farming it, these are how I do it:

1 - Use 2 chars. Loot on one and then log out and loot the same containers again on another char, log out and repeat - going back to your first char. This forces the containers to respawn.

2 - A better option that I have now and do instead (since I now have PS5 and much quicker load times) is to use just 1 char, loot from the containers. Enter the Imperial City Campaign (don't worry you don't have to do any fighting and are at no risk), exit the door to be taken back to the main world. Reloot the containers again as they will now be respawned. Repeat.

One last thing, that Pattern you want is a purple one, so it may take a while to obtain it. Along the way tho you will of course find others to use and sell. So you may want to check out Guild Traders every now and then too, to see if other players are simply selling it.

Good luck!

jrfk2

Thanks for the info/advice .. keeping an eye on the prices in TTC

EvilAutoTech

Instead of a campaign, you could preview a house you don't own and leave immediately.

Ahkanji

I just found one in Councilor Jirich’ s Manor

Hymzir

Buy it from a guild store. That's the best bet if it you are looking for a particular purple plan. The price will be a total crapshoot though, you might get lucky and find one for a sensible price, or you might spend couple of hours hopping from one booth to another, and only find one that is offered for something like 250k. In that case it might be best to wait a week or so and see if you have any better luck running through the booths. At the moment my servers has four listed according to TTC ranging in price from 29k to 80k.

The plan you are looking for is a base game original Homestead purple plan and they are fairly rare drops. As in you need to loot several hundred containers to get one. Back when I was still farming for plans, I averaged a purple once every 500 drops or so. It was soul crushingly tedious.

Of course, back then any purple was a welcome addition and I wasn't looking for any in particular, just building my library of plans. If you are looking for a specific one, then keep in mind, that any place that can drop the plan you are looking for, can also drop any of the other base game purples. So even if you do get a purple to drop, it's gonna be a random one from a pool of several hundred purple plans. In fact, it is more likely that you will find 100 other purple plans before you find the one you are looking for. And that's after like looting 50000 coffers, urns , drawers, cabinets or others such containers. (Sacks and barrels never contain plans, at least in my experience, but Backbags occasionally do.)

These days I no longer bother with farming for plans. If I find one while doing other stuff then cool, chances are that I already know it and it will get listed in a guild stores. If not, then I learn it - one less to worry about after all. For any specific plan I want for myself, I just go straight to perusing guildstores. Making gold is way easier than farming for plans.

Besides, most of the plans that are up for sale are not plans looted from containers, they originate from the purple furnishing plan envelopes that you can buy for vouchers you get from completing master writs. It's still a random plan, but at least you know it's gonna be purple. and as an added bonus, all the Chapter plans have their own envelopes, so you can select if you wanna buy a base game plan or one from a chapter, thus limiting the pool from which it is selected.

But seriously though, farming for plans is pointless. Buy them from guildstores and use your time farming gold. Lot less of a hassle in the long run.

freespirit

I actually got that plan from a document pouch dropped from a dragon fight during the Elsweyr Event.

It was one I didn't have so probably relatively low drop rate now, keeping an eye on TTC might be your best bet. 🤔

Paulytnz

Ahkanji wrote: »

I just found one in Councilor Jirich’ s Manor

Wow that was lucky considering there are also all the Leyawiin Patterns in the pool as well.

jrfk2

Hymzir wrote: »

It was soul crushingly tedious.

Yeah its tough enough when a purple one drops in a specific way ... probably goona get via TTC so of course now there are less listed so the price is going up .. but I can wait ..