Xbox NA - Does the Crimson Diamond lead from Falkreath Hold still drop from chests?

HappyTheCamper

I cannot take this terrible dungeon any more. I have run this dungeon 3 times a day minimum for over a month now and I cannot get this lead. This is by far the worst lead grind for me in the game to date. I’d rather farm the Thrassian Stranger or the Kilt fishing leads 5 times over again than have to rely on the RNG of this lead. I thought the crappy Ruins of Mazzatun lead was the worst for me but making them drop from chests is a new low.

I need to first get into the dungeon, hope the group I’m in does speed run (or organize runs with guildies which I simply can’t do every time), then chests have to actually spawn in the dungeon (you’d be surprised how little they spawn here even with the antiquity perk highlighting them), then they have to maybe have the lead. I’ve gotten 3 master chests and none have dropped the lead, which feels pretty degrading for me to even keep trying. My most recent run I got a master chest which dropped only 3 items. Then I got a simple chest and it only had 1 item and it wasn’t even a set piece. I understand the RNG makes these leads hard to get, but I’m beyond wondering if this lead even drops and now just feel insulted for even bothering.

Not to mention I used to loooove Falkreath Hold as a dungeon. Aesthetically it it very cool, and it’s fairly quick. But I cannot keep running it because of how much I’m starting to hate it. So I hope you’re happy, ZOS, because this lead is actually making me hate content I once loved.

redspecter23

The lead does still drop. I saw a party member pull it less than a week ago and have seen a number of them drop for people since it was fixed a while back.

All I can suggest is to try to maximize your chances. Avoid the queue if at all possible. They may not be interested in chests at all, making it harder for you to get your lead chance. I don't believe the quality of the chest (simple - master) has any effect on the lead chance, but it's hard to say for sure.

You may be able to find even just one other person and run it as a duo. This keeps you from the queue or requiring a full group, speeding things up even more, especially if they are also hunting the lead. Knowing the chest locations can help. There are addons like map pins to assist or perhaps a dungeon map from google if you aren't using addons or are on console.

drsalvation

I agree, I've also been grinding for this danged lead like a dumbo. I thought the lead for the pale order ring in that cave was tedious, but this is way worse.
Queuing up with randos is always bad since most of the times they'll speedrun it and blame me (the tank) for not tanking, and ignore me when I announce that I have found a chest.
I can solo it, but it takes too long, and the fact that there's only like 2 chests in the whole dungeon (3 if you're lucky, but I have done runs where not a single chest appears, and I do have that excavation perk).
The lead from the dungeon in anvil was already tedious enough, I didn't think this one would be way worse. It's been 2 weeks already.

Ippokrates

Yeah, got that few days ago on normal solo from simple chest. However, it was PC EU, not XboX. But it took many runs, including vet to get me to the point: KWAMA IT, FALKREATH WILL GET ARX CORINIUM TREATMENT: I WILL SPAM THIS MINOTAUR HOLE WITH TRIPS OF MY NB KHAJIIT VAMP!

and it worked at the first run ^^

HappyTheCamper

These replies are somewhat reassuring, but I’m still curious if it’s broken on Xbox specifically. I mean I’ve been getting master chests quite periodically and still nothing. I’m about a month into running this dungeon 3 times minimum per day, most days more than that. I have the excavation perk, I’ve mapped out all chests, I’ve run with organized farm groups. Its been so long that I even maxed out my Falkreath sticker book collections (which is nice because now I can just give away gear to anyone that needs it.). And mind you my Falkreath sticker book was at 0% when the Deadlands update launched and I started this nonsense grind!

I hate this. I truly hate this.

proprio.meb16_ESO

It will drop eventually dont worry.. it took me dozens of run as well, but got it in the end... now i won't set foot there ever again

AuraStorm43

proprio.meb16_ESO wrote: »

It will drop eventually dont worry.. it took me dozens of run as well, but got it in the end... now i won't set foot there ever again

Means you’ve ran it enough to get almost every piece sticker booked, feel like 24 or more runs should be plenty, thats almost 50 chests

HappyTheCamper

AuraStorm43 wrote: »

proprio.meb16_ESO wrote: »

It will drop eventually dont worry.. it took me dozens of run as well, but got it in the end... now i won't set foot there ever again

Means you’ve ran it enough to get almost every piece sticker booked, feel like 24 or more runs should be plenty, thats almost 50 chests

I HAVE gotten everything in my sticker book, and prior to the update in November I only had the undaunted masks and shoulders. Plus Falkreath was one of my favorite dungeons to run.

Now I run it 3 times a day and hate it.

AuraStorm43

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

AuraStorm43 wrote: »

proprio.meb16_ESO wrote: »

It will drop eventually dont worry.. it took me dozens of run as well, but got it in the end... now i won't set foot there ever again

Means you’ve ran it enough to get almost every piece sticker booked, feel like 24 or more runs should be plenty, thats almost 50 chests

I HAVE gotten everything in my sticker book, and prior to the update in November I only had the undaunted masks and shoulders. Plus Falkreath was one of my favorite dungeons to run.

Now I run it 3 times a day and hate it.

Yeah i like it its not super difficult but its reasonably challenging, i’ve done the hard mode a few times its pretty fun

This is another reason why leads need weighted rng, its absurd to open 50 chests or more and still not get a lead

RBAP28

Are you forcing the chests open? I ran it solo 40+ times before reading somewhere here on the forums to manually open them. Next run got the lead. Side note, manually opening the safeboxes for the new leads worked for me too.

Elvenheart

HappyTheCamper wrote: »

AuraStorm43 wrote: »

proprio.meb16_ESO wrote: »

It will drop eventually dont worry.. it took me dozens of run as well, but got it in the end... now i won't set foot there ever again

Means you’ve ran it enough to get almost every piece sticker booked, feel like 24 or more runs should be plenty, thats almost 50 chests

I HAVE gotten everything in my sticker book, and prior to the update in November I only had the undaunted masks and shoulders. Plus Falkreath was one of my favorite dungeons to run.

Now I run it 3 times a day and hate it.

That reminds me of running City of Ash over and over for the Burning Spellweave Inferno Staff long before item curation came to be. It would take a lot for me to go back into that place again.

To make it even worse, I was running the dungeon over and over with the knowledge that it HAD dropped for me once before when my first character was still a very low level and a stamina toon, and I still had no real concept of the importance of sets, so I sold it to an npc vendor.

Brrrofski

By the way, quality of chest does not matter

So don't get too hung up on master chests.

There will be two chests per normal run. Some of them are super hidden away, so make sure you check everywhere until you get two.

The ideal way is farm it with someone who needs it. Once you hit two chests, you can just reset it.

But yeh, it sucks. I got it after 3rd chest, so was lucky. But I helped someone in my guild get it and took about 20 runs.

They should have made it drop from adds or bosses. Chests suck

HappyTheCamper

By Zenithar’s gift, I got it this afternoon! It’s a Christmas miracle!!!! Xbox NA Advanced chest.

jaws343

Took me 30 runs of the dungeon on Xbox to finally drop it. 60 chests farmed

tomfant

Drop chance is awefull. 35+ runs, all chests farmed during these run, no lead. Just frustrating.