New Life Recipe/Motif Drop Rate and Harvesting Bots

Lixiviant

This year, the New Life Event drop rate is WAY down. 3 days of running the quests and all I really get are Writs. No recipes and haven't seen the Skinchanger motif. Bummed.

Also, harvesting bots are everywhere. Others have told me that if you report them, you have a chance to be banned by Zos for doing so. Is this true?

fizl101

I've reported many bots and live to tell the tale on PS EU

With regards to the drop rate, they seem lower than last year, I've only managed to get 3 of the Nord pieces

Elsonso

Lixiviant wrote: »

Also, harvesting bots are everywhere. Others have told me that if you report them, you have a chance to be banned by Zos for doing so. Is this true?

Report them once (per bot) in the game or from the support website. Don't post the character or account names here. You will not get banned, suspended, or warned.

Lixiviant

Elsonso wrote: »

Lixiviant wrote: »

Also, harvesting bots are everywhere. Others have told me that if you report them, you have a chance to be banned by Zos for doing so. Is this true?

Report them once (per bot) in the game or from the support website. Don't post the character or account names here. You will not get banned, suspended, or warned.

No, I always report them In-game. I've just noticed that these re different bots from the dup bots we used to see in Alik'r, that these stand at the node until it spawns and then move onto the next one. Each bot does the same routine map.

perfiction

Lixiviant wrote: »

Also, harvesting bots are everywhere. Others have told me that if you report them, you have a chance to be banned by Zos for doing so. Is this true?

Good news is that you won't get banned for that. Bad news is that (most likely) they won't get banned either.

jaws343

I think the only thing people really worry about getting reported on is when they blast out names in chat or here and then the bot accounts mass report those players in retaliation.

Just report the bots and move on. No need to announce it, no need to interact with them in any way beyond reporting.

MEBengalsFan2001

Only doing the event on one character and I have all the Nord pieces, done the quest daily since the event started. I've gotten enough write to complete the frozen skin for myself and my friend. Now going to focus on completing other styles I have yet to get. Once I've completed all of this, I'm only doing one quest daily for the event tickets to get the griffin mount.

whitecrow

I haven't gotten any either. But since I have to use up tickets I've just been buying them from time impresario.

oldbobdude

My first time with this event. I’m doing 3 characters. I need 2 more recipes and have several of the skin changer motifs and the nord style sheets. Los and lots of writs. I have done my 12 and just giving the imperial ones away to guildies. Haven’t offered he extra blue ones because need heartwood for many/most.

Blacknight841

After 7 years,… reporting bots does absolutely nothing. If this was an important enough issue in the game, the problem would have been addressed by now. Reporting bots is a waste of your play time, and will have no effect in the long run. They might be banned sooner rather than later, but on console, it is free to make a new account… so they will be back the next day.

FrancisCrawford

My saved up Skinchanger motif pages are selling fast, so people must be frustrated by the drop rates.

Darrett

FrancisCrawford wrote: »

My saved up Skinchanger motif pages are selling fast, so people must be frustrated by the drop rates.

Yep, the writs take way too many materials to be worth doing, and daily boxes have an extremely low drop rate for carved style.

I did two writs to start with, but I’m not going to burn through that much heartwood for a small chance.

katanagirl1

The Witches Writs seemed to be the only way I got the Hollowjack motifs this year, so I am guessing that the Skinchanger motifs might only drop from the Deep Winter and Imperial Writs during New Life Festival. I haven’t done any this year because I finished them on all of my toons last year, so I can’t say for sure.

Dojohoda

Drop rate is low for me too. I've recieved 4 or 5 skinchanger pages over 2 accounts on pcna and 2 accounts on pceu. (Kind of like 4 accounts but not really)

Ilsabet

katanagirl1 wrote: »

The Witches Writs seemed to be the only way I got the Hollowjack motifs this year, so I am guessing that the Skinchanger motifs might only drop from the Deep Winter and Imperial Writs during New Life Festival. I haven’t done any this year because I finished them on all of my toons last year, so I can’t say for sure.

I've gotten one Skinchanger page from an event box, so they do drop from boxes. I haven't done any writs this year so I don't know what might drop from those rewards.

Haven't gotten a single Nord Carved page, so I guess that's where my extra tickets will go now that I've gotten all of the fragment-based swag.