Anyone else remember when...

Btoop

...obtaining collectable fragments from public dungeons wasn't an act of torture and rewarded you with more than just a single pet?

You know? That sweet spot in Elsweyr where you only had to collect 10 fragments per collectable, of which there were two? It was just before the developers went "Ay yo, sod respecting the users time, we should multiply the fragments you need by 5 and then cut the reward in half. Egregiously stretching out content is just as good as actual content."

Grind towards a reward is fine by me by the way, I'd just rather not spend 30 mind numbing hours in a single location just to earn half a pet.

Grizzbeorn

Yeah, grinding for the squirrel was painful (drop-rate for both frag types sucks out loud), which is why I bought the last twenty or so frags, roughly an even split between the two types, that I needed.

Soarora

No, I don’t. I grinded out Sixth House robes in Forgotten Wastes and that was bad enough. I don’t think I’ve put my heart and soul into grinding any other public dungeons since then. The 2-pc 50 fragment shenanigans is pretty bad though. I just sell the fragments. Not sure how so many people have the squirrel already.

PrimeSeptim

Took me ages to get the Peryite costume - it's as if there's a cooldown on drops for the parts? I always seem to get one within a reasonable amount of time. One more to go for the Sixth House costume. I have pieces of other collectibles but I don't bother pursuing them really. I'm now anti-grinding for any more than 45 minutes anyway!

Syldras

PrimeSeptim wrote: »

Took me ages to get the Peryite costume - it's as if there's a cooldown on drops for the parts? I always seem to get one within a reasonable amount of time.

I think there is, but I'm not sure about the duration. I normally ended grinding for the rest of the day after I found a piece. At most one hour a day for 10 days still seemed acceptable for one collectible.

ESO_player123

Syldras wrote: »

PrimeSeptim wrote: »

Took me ages to get the Peryite costume - it's as if there's a cooldown on drops for the parts? I always seem to get one within a reasonable amount of time.

I think there is, but I'm not sure about the duration. I normally ended grinding for the rest of the day after I found a piece. At most one hour a day for 10 days still seemed acceptable for one collectible.

Agree. They made a change so that the first fragment of the day drops really fast. After that, it's grindy. I never bothered with fragments before this change, but after it was introduced I just parked my alts in public dungeons where I still needed fragments and logged in for just long enough on them to pick up a fragment (or 2 because they come in pairs for 50 per dungeon places).

And since that change took place it NEVER took an hour for me to get the first piece of the day. Most dropped within the first 10 minutes (and often from the 1st boss I killed).

PrimeSeptim

Syldras wrote: »

PrimeSeptim wrote: »

Took me ages to get the Peryite costume - it's as if there's a cooldown on drops for the parts? I always seem to get one within a reasonable amount of time.

I think there is, but I'm not sure about the duration. I normally ended grinding for the rest of the day after I found a piece. At most one hour a day for 10 days still seemed acceptable for one collectible.

Yeah, that's what I started doing to avoid going crazy lol!