Kuta drop rate is almost non existent?

Chapilliams

Has anybody noticed that the drop rate on Kuta is horrible low for some reason? I don't think I've gotten a single kuta in 2 months and yes I'm a harvester/farmer/horder, picks up everything I see and go on routes.
I don't know if it's just me but just can't seem to get those kuta's anymore

fizl101

I haven't seen any drop problems for kuta, but have seen a nirncrux drop decrease over the last month or so

markulrich1966

I created a second account maybe 2 months ago, and my <level 50 character get kutas from runestones.
I guess for the highlevel players like on my main account the main method to get them is the hireling, but not 100% certain as I currently rarely play that account.

But also on my main I had the impression that new characters I level up find more Kutas than my cp1xxx ones.

RNGeeze

I’ve been getting Kuta fairly often so nothing drop rate wise jumps out at me personally.

Troodon80

I'm actually somewhat similar in that regard. I have absolutely terrible luck getting kuta from runestones. But a friend of mine gets kuta from every other runestone.

That said, I have my fair share of luck from heavy sacks. So I can't complain.

Sylvermynx

It's variable for me: sometimes I have a run of really great drops; other times I rarely find them.

Grandchamp1989

I also have terrible kuta luck myself it seems.. Mundane is fine though for me.

AlnilamE

I've not noticed any difference. I've definitely gotten Kutas from rune nodes recently.

VaranisArano

It is? I've been running Craglorn and have been getting them on a fairly regular basis for the last week.

Nirncrux seems about same drop rate for me as it ever has been for the last couple years.

kojou

I hadn't noticed any changes, but I am not an avid farmer.

I get most of mine from hirelings and daily writs.

Chapilliams

I must just have extremely bad luck then! Guess it will turn at some point.

SammyKhajit

It’s quite random. This one would get none for a few days and suddenly three within an hour!

phaneub17_ESO

I get most of mine from maxed rank crafting writ boxes with 18 characters. The same goes for all gold mats including Chromium Grains (chance to get a full plating) not from farming or refining. The numbers are so much better, if you invest the time and resources on as many characters, you get more out of it than from farming nodes and refining raw mats. Mail hirelings too!

Veinblood1965

Got two at once last week. Although the OP is correct before that it's like one a month or so.

SeaGtGruff

I seem to find Kuta pretty regularly, sometimes doubled, although I don't keep count. And that's probably why I seem to find it so often. When you start looking for something in this game, it disappears into the cracks. And when you stop looking for it, it comes out of the woodwork. So the trick is to pray to RNGsus that you absolutely, positively do NOT want to find ANY Kuta-- and (here's the trick) ACTUALLY MEAN it-- and then you won't be able to STOP finding it.

The good news is, there's an event coming up in a couple of weeks, and there will probably be increased drops from nodes in the three zones for that event.

Sylvermynx

Case in point: today I had a level 10 out doing antiquities. In Bangkorai, she harvested the runestone that's on the little hunk of rock off the N Evermore beach (the one where the sweeper drops part of the time, and there's usually a chest too); that runestone had 2 kuta plus 2 mundane and a couple of other white runes. Then she swam past the two lamia below The Apprentice stone, stopped at the runestone between the rocks nearby, and got 2 more kuta plus a couple white runes. This is on my main PC NA account with about 850 cp so she has the green tree pretty well filled out even at such a low level.

Then I was on a different character, mid-20s to do today's Endeavors (for the XP more than anything) - also in Bangkorai; 4 of the 8 resources she gathered were runestones, no kuta and only mundane, white runes, and a Denata plus a couple of Jejota.

*shrug* The RNG in this game is sometimes just strange, even character to character on the same account, same day, same zone.

Hapexamendios

I've gotten most of my kutas from daily crafting writs.

Jusey1

RNG is just weird. I got most of my Kutas from just randomly harvesting that one random runestone that was on my path, but when I am actually hunting for runes... Nothing. I started accepting that and will avoid runestones when I'm purposely harvesting stuff (or at least not prioritize them over the resource I want at that moment).

Sylvermynx

Jusey1 wrote: »

RNG is just weird. I got most of my Kutas from just randomly harvesting that one random runestone that was on my path, but when I am actually hunting for runes... Nothing. I started accepting that and will avoid runestones when I'm purposely harvesting stuff (or at least not prioritize them over the resource I want at that moment).

Yep. Outside of surveys (which I'm keeping stacks of now due to Endeavors), I just grab runestones as I stumble (sometimes literally) over them....

dem0n1k

I got 5 Kutas from trove scamps the other night... I didn't even know they dropped Kutas !@#

shadyjane62

Did 9 survey maps got 3 Kuta. Kinda makes the maps not worth doing. The drop rate of all the better runes was way down.

DreamyLu

To me, the drop rate of kutas is regular and fairly good, but, it is true that it seems to be cycling.

I always have two phases alternating all the time:
1) quality and amount of stones increasing.
2) Suddenly, bad dropping: just one Ta and another low level one. This lasts this way for a while, with Ta + just one else, and then suddenly I get more, and am back to 1).

I farm runestones on a daily basis and always see that cycling happening twice per day at least.

Coatmagic

Cherry pickers = same thing that happens to the furnishing materials.
There's addons that let you set what you want to pick up or leave behind;
many thieves use this as well, btw.

EmperorIl

Agreed. I can do like 10 surveys and be lucky to get one.

I bought my wife an account with the sale, like level 3 and the very first node she ever looted gave her a Kuta lol. I was like you got to be kidding me lol.

ajkb78

I've hardly ever found a kuta in the wild, I get one or two from writs or hirelings every so often but mostly I just buy them.

Sylvermynx

DreamyLu wrote: »

To me, the drop rate of kutas is regular and fairly good, but, it is true that it seems to be cycling.

I always have two phases alternating all the time:
1) quality and amount of stones increasing.
2) Suddenly, bad dropping: just one Ta and another low level one. This lasts this way for a while, with Ta + just one else, and then suddenly I get more, and am back to 1).

I farm runestones on a daily basis and always see that cycling happening twice per day at least.

Regarding your second situation: that's likely to be someone farming the route just ahead of you and stripping ONLY the colored runes, leaving the whites. That goes on a lot....

BXR_Lonestar

The last time I did surveys a couple weeks ago, I got like 4-5 Kuta from my enchanting surveys. Since then, all my Kuta have come from my daily writ rewards. I have noticed that the Kuta drop rate seems to have gone down for some reason or other.

Oreyn_Bearclaw

Kuta has always been a pretty bad drop rate in the wild or with surveys. They were the first batch of surveys that I just stopped doing, not worth the time. I have well over a thousand of them, but they are pretty much all from doing writs. That rate has not change in years as far as I can tell.

Necrotech_Master

dem0n1k wrote: »

I got 5 Kutas from trove scamps the other night... I didn't even know they dropped Kutas !@#

trove scamps drop all kinds of wonderous things lol (even hakeijo, its like a free 50k gold right there in the current market lol)

jreid01

The RNG in this game do be like that sometimes.

Anecdotally: When Morrowind dropped I stopped getting Kuta from runestones, and I didn't get any for the better part of a year. At that time I farmed regularly, a few times a week at least, and I farmed all resources. Not a single Kuta dropped for me, and when I figured it out I started going out of my way to farm runestones just to see if I could get some. But no, if I wanted Kuta I had to buy them. After about a year I started getting drops again and the rate gradually crept back up to more or less where it used to be.

Brrrofski

I got 9 in about an hour in Hew's bane earlier.

4 double nodes, 1 single node.

Sometimes your luck just isn't in.