World bosses give ink? Really?

Mathius_Mordred · June 18

Maybe I didn't do enough but, 20 world bosses in Bangkorai, 40 in a public dungeon and 5 in a random normal dungeon, total inks = 0

Is that not enough because it took in total 2 hours.
In 2 hours of node farming, about 800 nodes, I got 17 inks. So I know what I'll be doing for inks from now on. So the question is, did that actually fix it, did anyone yet get an ink from a world boss?

Erickson9610 · June 18

I don't know about world bosses, but I've seen people find Luminous Ink from side bosses in the Unhallowed Grave dungeon. Surely it must also drop from other boss-type enemies.

Lykeion · June 18

The patch just enables the boss to have a chance of dropping ink. It should be consistent with other normal monsters, so the boost to ink drop rate is almost negligible

Necrotech_Master · June 18

they fixed the drops from 0 to slightly above 0 lol

Elvenheart · June 18

It would’ve been nice if bosses had a slightly higher chance to drop ink than the typical mob.

Necrotech_Master · June 18

Elvenheart wrote: »

It would’ve been nice if bosses had a slightly higher chance to drop ink than the typical mob.

i mean it could be "double", but if the basemob drop chance is 0.1%, then double that is 0.2% lol

we dont know exact numbers for the chance, but the drop rate from mobs is so low, that even if the boss drop was doubled, i doubt we would be able to even tell a difference

it kind of works the same way for the monster helm style pages, the base drop chance of those is 2.5% which is doubled if you have the HM achievement bringing it up to a whole 5% (more noticeable difference than ink for sure, but on a whole still not that noticeable)

Alpheu5 · June 18

Bosses went from a 0% chance to drop ink to a ~0% chance to drop ink.

kyle.wilson · June 18

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

they fixed the drops from 0 to slightly above 0 lol

it was a -0% chance, now its a +0% chance. Infinitely higher drop percentage to a totally irrational value.

Dagoth_Rac · June 18

It feels like getting nirncrux from welwa in Craglorn. Yeah, it happens, but is super rare compared to nirncrux from resource nodes. ZOS seems to give preference for crafting materials to resource nodes over monster kills.

Nathrai · June 19

Nothing from bosses, so far - but strangely enough, I finally got some from trash mobs. Not sure whether it was pure luck or they finally upped the rate for ALL mobs?

Hapexamendios · June 19

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

It feels like getting nirncrux from welwa in Craglorn. Yeah, it happens, but is super rare compared to nirncrux from resource nodes. ZOS seems to give preference for crafting materials to resource nodes over monster kills.

First time that happened I thought it was a glitch.

Nestor · June 19

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

It feels like getting nirncrux from welwa in Craglorn. Yeah, it happens, but is super rare compared to nirncrux from resource nodes. ZOS seems to give preference for crafting materials to resource nodes over monster kills.

I was so glad I was grouped with friends when mine dropped. I still don't believe it happened....

Mathius_Mordred · June 19

I'm guessing they don't want us to use the scribing system too much as it won't take many inks to discover that at present there are very few worthwhile Grimoires to make. When they've proved the system they can add better combinations and then they will increase the availability of inks. Right now the best thing you can do with them is sell them.

ZOS_Volpe · June 19

Hey there,

With there already being a thread opened on this subject, we're going to go ahead and close this one down so that you may continue the discussion here.

Thank you for your understanding.