Everyone is upset about ink and....

Nharimlur_Finor

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Aurielle

OsUfi wrote: »

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Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

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MidniteOwl1913

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

I think we know. Personally I would rather pluck out an eye than go thru the wings again. Yes, to me it's that bad.

TaSheen

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

I think we know. Personally I would rather pluck out an eye than go thru the wings again. Yes, to me it's that bad.

*shrug* As per normal, I love it and will complete it on all my alts (that's a LOT of them) over time.

MidniteOwl1913

TaSheen wrote: »

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

I think we know. Personally I would rather pluck out an eye than go thru the wings again. Yes, to me it's that bad.

*shrug* As per normal, I love it and will complete it on all my alts (that's a LOT of them) over time.

Yeah, I think it's good that some people like it. :-)

The devs spent a lot of time on it. It must hard for them to make something and not have a least some of the players enjoy it.

I thought the fox was really adorable and I was sorry that his bit was bugged.

TaSheen

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

TaSheen wrote: »

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

I think we know. Personally I would rather pluck out an eye than go thru the wings again. Yes, to me it's that bad.

*shrug* As per normal, I love it and will complete it on all my alts (that's a LOT of them) over time.

Yeah, I think it's good that some people like it. :-)

The devs spent a lot of time on it. It must hard for them to make something and not have a least some of the players enjoy it.

I thought the fox was really adorable and I was sorry that his bit was bugged.

I didn't have any problem with the fox (are you talking about following on the "invisible path"?) And I did it before the "fix" went in on my first character. I did fall several times, but eventually completed it fine.

What I couldn't do was get my level 49 sorc (on my second account EU) through that end boss.... lag is a problem for me all the time, but on a not-CP 160 squishy.... yeah. Sucked. So I went back with my stamden main on that account and while it wasn't a pushover, it wasn't impossible either.

Nharimlur_Finor

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sarahthes

LaintalAy wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Go figure: when I decide to stop trying to get ink, I finally get a true lucky streak.

Wasn't 20 or anything, but I'll take it. Only took 6 weeks for it to happen ... I wasn't even hitting tons of nodes in a starter area or anything like that. Just a standard nirncrux run in Craglorn, with lots of nodes already picked over by other players. Towards the end of the two hour nirncrux run, I got eight ink over a period of about fifteen minutes (a couple of those were double drops). Ironically enough, no Potent Nirncrux (which I always tend to get during a two hour run). Maybe they're finally tweaking the ink drop rate? I know they don't always need to take the servers down to implement small fixes. Or maybe it's a one off, and I'll go back to one or two ink per hour? Time will tell.

Aurielle wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

q

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

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Nothing changed in your farming strategy?
So moving from a starter zone to Craglorn isn't a change in your farming strategy?

It doesn't even matter. I've had good steaks in starter zones, craglorn, base game zones, and dlc zones. I've also had bad streaks in all of them.

With rng, if you farm long enough you'll have some good runs. But if the drop chance is low you may need to do a lot of runs before you get some good ones.

I doubt they changed anything.

Aurielle

LaintalAy wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Go figure: when I decide to stop trying to get ink, I finally get a true lucky streak.

Wasn't 20 or anything, but I'll take it. Only took 6 weeks for it to happen ... I wasn't even hitting tons of nodes in a starter area or anything like that. Just a standard nirncrux run in Craglorn, with lots of nodes already picked over by other players. Towards the end of the two hour nirncrux run, I got eight ink over a period of about fifteen minutes (a couple of those were double drops). Ironically enough, no Potent Nirncrux (which I always tend to get during a two hour run). Maybe they're finally tweaking the ink drop rate? I know they don't always need to take the servers down to implement small fixes. Or maybe it's a one off, and I'll go back to one or two ink per hour? Time will tell.

Aurielle wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

q

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

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Nothing changed in your farming strategy?
So moving from a starter zone to Craglorn isn't a change in your farming strategy?

No. I was always alternating between Craglorn and starter zones from the get go, because I farm Craglorn for Potent Nirncrux on a regular basis. The only thing that changed was all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I went from getting 0-2 ink per hour every single day since Gold Road's release to regularly seeing the kind of drops other players have been seeing consistently from the outset.

EDIT: And I should add, that long-awaited lucky streak in Craglorn wasn't my only lucky streak. Since then, I've been consistently getting at least five per hour whether it's Craglorn, Betnikh, Bleakrock, etc. It's nice to finally be getting the same kind of drops the arrogant "you're obviously doing something wrong" folks have been getting since day one of release without making any adjustments whatsoever to my farming strategy.

TaSheen

Aurielle wrote: »

No. I was always alternating between Craglorn and starter zones from the get go, because I farm Craglorn for Potent Nirncrux on a regular basis. The only thing that changed was all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I went from getting 0-2 ink per hour every single day since Gold Road's release to regularly seeing the kind of drops other players have been seeing consistently from the outset.

I'm really happy to hear that! Hopefully things will be better for you in the future!

Aurielle

TaSheen wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

No. I was always alternating between Craglorn and starter zones from the get go, because I farm Craglorn for Potent Nirncrux on a regular basis. The only thing that changed was all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I went from getting 0-2 ink per hour every single day since Gold Road's release to regularly seeing the kind of drops other players have been seeing consistently from the outset.

I'm really happy to hear that! Hopefully things will be better for you in the future!

Thanks! It'll be nice to finally be able to experiment more with scribing. I just hope everyone who is struggling with drops will have a solution soon. I truly think the best solution that would make everyone happy would be to guarantee at least one ink from any repeatable daily. This would make it possible for PVP mains to have more access to scribing, along with PVE mains who can't stand farming.

Pelanora

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

This is just stupid. The game should work per toon. Should not need multiple alts to get enough of anything for one toon.

ragnarok6644b14_ESO

0 is "enough ink for one toon", and 12 is therefore "more than enough ink for one toon"...

oldbobdude

CP5 wrote: »

You should be able to re-use any affixes that you don't change without a cost. But if you want to go from shock back to fire, that'll be another ink.

I don’t see an option for that anywhere. Have you actually done this?

N00BxV1

N00BxV1 wrote: »

This morning I spent 2 hours farming resource nodes and got 11 Ink drops (17 Ink total). I know a spot where it's mostly metal nodes with only 5-10 seconds between each node, and by the time I make a loop the nodes have already respawned since metal nodes have shorter cooldowns. So I was constantly picking a node every 5-10 seconds the entire time.

Then I spent 2 hours running Random Veteran Dungeons (tank with instant queues), clearing the dungeons and looting everything, but there was 0 Ink drops.

So yeah, if you want Ink then you will have to spend hours farming resource nodes. It's boring as hell, but I guess that's what they want us to do...

Tonight I spent an hour running the same route, hitting a node every 5-10 seconds, but only got 2 Ink drops (3 Ink total). For reference I picked 1332 Rubedite Ore and 729 Platinum Dust (also a few flowers, runestones and wood). Somewhere in the range of ~500 nodes picked...

FeelsBadMan.

Orbital78

I spent 15 to 30 mins before vLC with guild doing a loop of fast spawning animals I got a nice stash of leather scraps and 5 inks, one at a time from animals.

I think perhaps animals have a better drop rate, but no plentiful harvest proc. That spot I often get a few inks in 30 mins to a hour when it's not crowded.

Nharimlur_Finor

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CP5

oldbobdude wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

You should be able to re-use any affixes that you don't change without a cost. But if you want to go from shock back to fire, that'll be another ink.

I don’t see an option for that anywhere. Have you actually done this?

When looking at a skill you already have made, the affixes you currently have active should have an icon to the left of their name. Selecting affixes with that icon don't cost ink, but that only applies to the currently selected affixes, if you used fire, switch to frost, going back to fire will cost ink since what you currently have equip had changed.

Aurielle

LaintalAy wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

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100% XP Boost Mini-Event (7/18-7/23)

Leveling up a new character? Enjoy a substantial boost to XP gains from July 18 until July 23—no questions asked!

No questions asked.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that the XP boost is responsible for me getting the same kind of drops everyone else is getting, or…? Because if so, my ink drops started increasing July 17th, a day before the XP event. Again, there was no change whatsoever to my farming strategy.

AvalonRanger

TheNuminous1 wrote: »

Honestly, you are all reallyyyyy not understanding the whole concept of a slow gameplay mechanic.

Spellcra...Scribing
Was added as something to do to prolong gameplay over the course of months and years. Not weeks and days.

Your not ment to try every spell right away. Or even soon.

It's designed to keep you invested long term. Like research on crafting. And horse mounts.

It's not a one and done.
Ink is RARE. That's FINEEEE.

The new chapter has not even been out a whole month yet on console.

Me personally I am very excited to have something to do that isn't finished in a week.

Something that extends the life of my game.

People have said it already you can buy ink if your impatient.


But I can think of nothing more lore friendly to the learning of Magic and spell then a little bit of patience.

...And people who are saying like this also don't understand real problem about this.

I don't hate just big time consuming, but I hate big "tedious time consuming".
Actually say, even I'm not interested in "Ink" or Scribing skill line.

I just want to play enjoyable game contents. Because the ESO is not just another job for me.

TheNuminous1

Sigh

AvalonRanger

The major reason of ZOS to make painfully grinding contents (Scribing skill line) is...

1. To earn "time" for developing next DLC contents.
2. To earn "time" for consuming real money at the crown shop
3. to scatter experienced players all over the world for helping new players.

But, wrong.

Consider reason "3", experienced player are not interested in "deep" exploring,
but more like speed running at the group dungeon for "scribing script".

Consider reason "1" and "2", there must be far better "idea" than just only for grinding purpose.

So, this thread is wrong from OP.

AvalonRanger

And also, those type of merely grinding contents will generate more fake tank and fake healer
in the random dungeon run. I know we can do some dungeon by 4DD style, if you're experienced player.
But it's not good education or tutorial for the newbies.

See? it just generated another "chaos".

oldbobdude

CP5 wrote: »

oldbobdude wrote: »

CP5 wrote: »

You should be able to re-use any affixes that you don't change without a cost. But if you want to go from shock back to fire, that'll be another ink.

I don’t see an option for that anywhere. Have you actually done this?

When looking at a skill you already have made, the affixes you currently have active should have an icon to the left of their name. Selecting affixes with that icon don't cost ink, but that only applies to the currently selected affixes, if you used fire, switch to frost, going back to fire will cost ink since what you currently have equip had changed.

@CP5

Thanks. I do remember the little check marks. I will give this a try.

TheNuminous1

AvalonRanger wrote: »

So, this thread is wrong from OP.

How can I be wrong when it's my own opinion. I have no verified proof but based on my personal observation I believe this is a system ment to take time and that I believe personally that was ZOS intention for the system.

I can't be wrong cause it's just how I feel about the system and zos will never confirm or deny they made a system intentionally slow.

Nharimlur_Finor

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CrashTest

Aurielle wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

q

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

Edit: autocorrect typo

You don't know me but FWIW, I'm glad you're finally getting ink especially after being dumped on hard in this thread. I hope others in here with bad RNG see some ink soon too.

Necrotech_Master

Aurielle wrote: »

LaintalAy wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Go figure: when I decide to stop trying to get ink, I finally get a true lucky streak.

Wasn't 20 or anything, but I'll take it. Only took 6 weeks for it to happen ... I wasn't even hitting tons of nodes in a starter area or anything like that. Just a standard nirncrux run in Craglorn, with lots of nodes already picked over by other players. Towards the end of the two hour nirncrux run, I got eight ink over a period of about fifteen minutes (a couple of those were double drops). Ironically enough, no Potent Nirncrux (which I always tend to get during a two hour run). Maybe they're finally tweaking the ink drop rate? I know they don't always need to take the servers down to implement small fixes. Or maybe it's a one off, and I'll go back to one or two ink per hour? Time will tell.

Aurielle wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

q

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

Edit: autocorrect typo

Nothing changed in your farming strategy?
So moving from a starter zone to Craglorn isn't a change in your farming strategy?

No. I was always alternating between Craglorn and starter zones from the get go, because I farm Craglorn for Potent Nirncrux on a regular basis. The only thing that changed was all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I went from getting 0-2 ink per hour every single day since Gold Road's release to regularly seeing the kind of drops other players have been seeing consistently from the outset.

EDIT: And I should add, that long-awaited lucky streak in Craglorn wasn't my only lucky streak. Since then, I've been consistently getting at least five per hour whether it's Craglorn, Betnikh, Bleakrock, etc. It's nice to finally be getting the same kind of drops the arrogant "you're obviously doing something wrong" folks have been getting since day one of release without making any adjustments whatsoever to my farming strategy.

i personally still dont really enjoy farming nodes, but i had 2 drops over the weekend from casual random harvesting while i was doing other things

i cant say for myself if the rate seems different as i havent really gone on a large spree, though as most of my activities are usually PVE monster killing (archive, dungeons, trials, dailies) and pvp, the ink still is pretty rare for me

i think my achievement is at 38 or 39 ink now, with maybe a dozen ink stored up

the drop rate from enemies is still insanely low, and theres still no source of them from pvp

Lylith

Kisakee wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

EF321 wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

EF321 wrote: »

Ishtarknows wrote: »

A little off topic, but I'd like a title for accumulating the 500 ink. It's be interesting how long it takes to see someone with it

Less than a month
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8139855/#Comment_8139855

90 minutes of farming nodes this morning, with a plug in to help. No ink drops. Lord above, something is so broken with this RNG. Until the increase the drop rates, or fix those of us whom have broken RNG, I doubt I could finish that achievement in my lifetime.

90 minutes doesn't really say anything. How many nodes was that? We had people here who barely do 100 nodes in an hour and consider that farming.

It was non stop farming, node to node, using the plugin that makes giant neon signs above every plant. It was waaaay over 100 nodes. This is also after 80+ hours of play since Gold Road was released and finding 2 inks in Imp City in all that time.

For some of us, clearly not all of us, either for character or account, the RNG is broken for ink drops.

Way over 100 means how many? 200? 300? Unless we're talking 300 per hour (aka one every 12 seconds) you can barely consider this "farming".

Get a toon that has the green CP to harvest fast with a chance for double drop, can go around fast on food and is able to bypass most enemies and you'll see results:

yeah, but some of those enemies drop ink while the nodes aren't yielding a damned thing.

ymmv, ofc.

Aurielle

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

LaintalAy wrote: »

Aurielle wrote: »

Go figure: when I decide to stop trying to get ink, I finally get a true lucky streak.

Wasn't 20 or anything, but I'll take it. Only took 6 weeks for it to happen ... I wasn't even hitting tons of nodes in a starter area or anything like that. Just a standard nirncrux run in Craglorn, with lots of nodes already picked over by other players. Towards the end of the two hour nirncrux run, I got eight ink over a period of about fifteen minutes (a couple of those were double drops). Ironically enough, no Potent Nirncrux (which I always tend to get during a two hour run). Maybe they're finally tweaking the ink drop rate? I know they don't always need to take the servers down to implement small fixes. Or maybe it's a one off, and I'll go back to one or two ink per hour? Time will tell.

Aurielle wrote: »

OsUfi wrote: »

q

Rowjoh wrote: »

there is no problem with obtaining ink.

As I've already posted here, it seems most of you are unaware that by simply completing the scribing quest again on a different character gives you another x12 inks.

If you have 2 alts then that's x24 inks, and so on and so forth, but most players will only ever need a maximum of a couple of additional quest runs.

We're aware of what you said. It's just a terrible solution to an issue that should not exist.

Agreed. Terrible solution.

Anecdotally, I will say that the poor drop rate appears to be fixed on my end. I went from consistently getting 0-2 ink per hour to getting 5-7+ per hour overnight. Nothing changed with my farming strategy. I’m not sure if someone processed my bug report or if they’ve tweaked the way ink drops are calculated in general. If you’re still seeing 0-2 per hour in resource rich areas like starter zones, I recommend submitting a bug report like I did.

Even though things have improved for me, I still think one ink per day should be a guaranteed drop from the first daily completion on an account. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, so it would make sense. More sense then putting ink in random Ancestor Silks anyway…

Edit: autocorrect typo

Nothing changed in your farming strategy?
So moving from a starter zone to Craglorn isn't a change in your farming strategy?

No. I was always alternating between Craglorn and starter zones from the get go, because I farm Craglorn for Potent Nirncrux on a regular basis. The only thing that changed was all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I went from getting 0-2 ink per hour every single day since Gold Road's release to regularly seeing the kind of drops other players have been seeing consistently from the outset.

EDIT: And I should add, that long-awaited lucky streak in Craglorn wasn't my only lucky streak. Since then, I've been consistently getting at least five per hour whether it's Craglorn, Betnikh, Bleakrock, etc. It's nice to finally be getting the same kind of drops the arrogant "you're obviously doing something wrong" folks have been getting since day one of release without making any adjustments whatsoever to my farming strategy.

i personally still dont really enjoy farming nodes, but i had 2 drops over the weekend from casual random harvesting while i was doing other things

i cant say for myself if the rate seems different as i havent really gone on a large spree, though as most of my activities are usually PVE monster killing (archive, dungeons, trials, dailies) and pvp, the ink still is pretty rare for me

i think my achievement is at 38 or 39 ink now, with maybe a dozen ink stored up

the drop rate from enemies is still insanely low, and theres still no source of them from pvp

I know it sucks, but consider farming Bleakrock Isle while waiting for the dungeon queue to pop (assuming you’re a DD) or while waiting in the Gray Host queue, just to see if your luck has improved at all. That’s what I do. Got 8 ink in less than an hour yesterday while waiting for my queues to pop. Bleakrock Isle is the easiest farming location, IMO, because it’s a decent size with lots of alternate routes to choose from if there are other players farming in the area. If you use addons, there is even a harvesting addon you can install that will map out a route for you that yields the most nodes most efficiently. I personally don’t use the addon if the area is crowded (because I know other people also use it, meaning everyone’s running the same routes — more productive to head off the path and find nodes that way), but it’s good if you’re playing at a quieter time.

I’m now at 113 ink on the achievement. I earned more ink over the last week than I did during the initial six weeks of Gold Road’s release with no change at all in my farming strategy. My account definitely feels a lot less cursed now… I know people say “that’s just RNG” but it’s veeerrry curious.

I agree that there should definitely be a PVP source for ink and the drop rate from enemies should be better. As I’ve already said here and elsewhere, I think the most reasonable solution (other than increasing the drop rate) would be to award one guaranteed ink from the first repeatable daily completion on an account, with a smaller chance to award additional ink from every other daily completed thereafter. There has already been a precedent set for associating scribing with dailies, and it would give people an opportunity to get ink while doing game activities that actually matter to them.