best way to get Dreugh wax?

propain

Hello, what is the best way to get dreugh wax is now? I am at the point where all my gear is epic and looking to change it into legendary. All the videos I have looked up for farming spots are several years old so i am curious if they are still good or not, like the bears Bangkorai. Also I have been told a good way is daily crafting writs from the town board but I have 3 characters all at max clothing skill and points in the champion trait that gives extra chance at getting higher quality materials yet I only have gotten 1 dreugh wax from doing the daily clothing writs across all my characters for 3 days now. How is that good? doesn't seem like it is to me. any advice would help and i don't mind going out and farming scraps to refine, I just would like to know an up to date farming location that's best.

irswat

Crafting dailies and surveys..Its not enough to be level 50 crafting. You need 10 points into that craft to craft cp 160 gear in order to have max chance of gold tempers as a reward

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

basically if you make as many characters lvl 50 in clothing as possible, do the daily writs on them. Then you can also farm in some zones (those videos you mentioned are likely still valid as not much has changed).

freespirit

Keep doing your crafting dailies collect a few surveys and go do them, it's a painless way of getting good numbers of raw mats, make sure you have Plentiful Harvest green cp slotted too.

I often see people farming mudcrabs on the beach to the northeast of Haven Wayshrine in Grahtwood bonus is with mudcrabs you can get chitin and decorative wax to sell too. as well as leather.

spartaxoxo

If you don't want to do crafting writs, the best locations to farm the gear yourself are probably still the ones you found.

You can also buy it from other players. Crafting writs are the best source of coin through gameplay. But you can also get coin pretty well from antiquities and stealing. In all cases, you'll want to level the respective skill lines up.

VoxAdActa

Max out the main clothing skill so that every node you find will be ancestor silk, and max out the refining passive in the clothing line. Then go out farm for a while. I like to farm in Craglorn because of the chance for a shiny nirncrux every so often as a bonus, but other zones have good farming loops too (like Auridon and Rivenspire).

Then turn the dialog volume down to 0 and the master volume down to about 50%, put on your own music (or a podcast, or an audiobook), and spend a nice relaxing couple of hours harvesting.

I estimate that I'll get about 1 wax for every 100 raw silk/leather I collect, and I'll end up with around 300 after 1–2 hours. But I'm also not a "focused" harvester, in that I'm collecting everything I see, not just silk, and also grabbing treasure chests and sometimes stopping to fish. And I don't have anything boosting my movement speed except champ points. It can be done much faster and more efficiently than I do it.

Desiato

The best way is to buy from guild traders.

I know that sounds sarcastic, but it's not. I have a lot of builds, as most trial and pvp players do, so it would be pretty much impossible for me to farm all of my own upgrade mats and do the things I enjoy.

IMO, it's best to learn how to earn gold and then use gold to buy what one needs instead of trying to farm everything individually -- unless they enjoy harvesting.

Gandalf_72

Ishtarknows

Don't forget the hirelings. Put 3 points into clothing hireling on all your characters and you'll soon get a few wax. It's minimal effort and the raw mats you get can be refined for (hopefully) wax once you get enough

katanagirl1

When you refine raw clothing materials, you get tempers like Dreugh Wax. Make sure you have all the extraction passives maxed out.

DreamyLu

If you max out the CP on Meticulous Disassembly, you get a fair amount of dreugh wax (up to 6) for each package of 50 ancestor silks you refine.

I tell 50 because it's an amount that you can gather fast and trouble free in very little time in certain zones. But of course, 100 or more gives even better results. It just take more time to farm.

That remains for me the easiest and fastest way to get Dreugh Wax.

SeaGtGruff

Don't forget Tales of Tribute. The reward coffers can drop Legendary tempering mats, as well as furnishing mats that can be sold for gold that can be used to buy Legendary tempering mats.

virtus753

DreamyLu wrote: »

If you max out the CP on Meticulous Disassembly, you get a fair amount of dreugh wax (up to 6) for each package of 50 ancestor silks you refine.

I tell 50 because it's an amount that you can gather fast and trouble free in very little time in certain zones. But of course, 100 or more gives even better results. It just take more time to farm.

That remains for me the easiest and fastest way to get Dreugh Wax.

You can’t get 6 Dreugh Wax from 50 raw mats, as that’s only 5 refinements. The max possible is 1 wax per refinement.

Meticulous Disassembly works exactly like one extra level of extraction, so if you have the three from skill points being invested, MD acts like a fourth. Tmbrinks confirmed this is true numbers-wise. I can confirm it also works in terms of the color mats you can get. You can only get gold mats with at least 3 levels of extraction, whether that’s 3 skill points or 2 skill points + MD. Having all 4 improves your chances of getting gold mats, even though it can’t allow you to get a new type of mat compared to 3 levels.

There is no difference between refining small amounts (like 50 raw mats) and refining larger amounts in terms of drop chance for mats.

freespirit

virtus753 wrote: »

DreamyLu wrote: »

If you max out the CP on Meticulous Disassembly, you get a fair amount of dreugh wax (up to 6) for each package of 50 ancestor silks you refine.

I tell 50 because it's an amount that you can gather fast and trouble free in very little time in certain zones. But of course, 100 or more gives even better results. It just take more time to farm.

That remains for me the easiest and fastest way to get Dreugh Wax.

You can’t get 6 Dreugh Wax from 50 raw mats, as that’s only 5 refinements. The max possible is 1 wax per refinement.

Meticulous Disassembly works exactly like one extra level of extraction, so if you have the three from skill points being invested, MD acts like a fourth. Tmbrinks confirmed this is true numbers-wise. I can confirm it also works in terms of the color mats you can get. You can only get gold mats with at least 3 levels of extraction, whether that’s 3 skill points or 2 skill points + MD. Having all 4 improves your chances of getting gold mats, even though it can’t allow you to get a new type of mat compared to 3 levels.

There is no difference between refining small amounts (like 50 raw mats) and refining larger amounts in terms of drop chance for mats.

I believe in the stated case they mean setting the amount to refine at 50...... which means that is actually refining 500 raw mats.

Although even with 500 mats, 6 wax is a very good return.

DenverRalphy

VoxAdActa wrote: »

Max out the main clothing skill so that every node you find will be ancestor silk, and max out the refining passive in the clothing line.

Doesn't need to be Ancestor Silk. It can be raw jute and the results would still be the same. All that matters is having Unraveling 3 and Meticulous Disassembly.

VoxAdActa

DenverRalphy wrote: »

VoxAdActa wrote: »

Max out the main clothing skill so that every node you find will be ancestor silk, and max out the refining passive in the clothing line.

Doesn't need to be Ancestor Silk. It can be raw jute and the results would still be the same. All that matters is having Unraveling 3 and Meticulous Disassembly.

I haven't sat down to draw up a spreadsheet for it, but I do a lot of harvesting. My alts go out and gather stuff, and my main does all the refinement since she has all the passives/CP. Over time, I have noticed a pretty significant difference in wax drops between a whole bag of 500 ancestor silk compared to 500 jute/kesh/silverweed/whatever.

Very, very often, I'll refine a bunch of silk and get 1-3 waxes from it, then refine a comparable amount of jute+etc. and only get a single elegant lining. This pattern has persisted no matter what order I refine them in (jute/etc first or silk first), and it has persisted no matter what rank in clothing the harvesting alt has (I keep all their crafting skills at different levels so I can sell some of the more valuable low-CP-level mats).

I could just be getting weird luck, sure, but this has been going on for over 2 years now, to the point where I'm surprised when a load of jute gives me a wax at all. So I assumed the higher-level mats are (much, much) more likely to give wax.

DenverRalphy

VoxAdActa wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

VoxAdActa wrote: »

Max out the main clothing skill so that every node you find will be ancestor silk, and max out the refining passive in the clothing line.

Doesn't need to be Ancestor Silk. It can be raw jute and the results would still be the same. All that matters is having Unraveling 3 and Meticulous Disassembly.

I haven't sat down to draw up a spreadsheet for it, but I do a lot of harvesting. My alts go out and gather stuff, and my main does all the refinement since she has all the passives/CP. Over time, I have noticed a pretty significant difference in wax drops between a whole bag of 500 ancestor silk compared to 500 jute/kesh/silverweed/whatever.

Very, very often, I'll refine a bunch of silk and get 1-3 waxes from it, then refine a comparable amount of jute+etc. and only get a single elegant lining. This pattern has persisted no matter what order I refine them in (jute/etc first or silk first), and it has persisted no matter what rank in clothing the harvesting alt has (I keep all their crafting skills at different levels so I can sell some of the more valuable low-CP-level mats).

I could just be getting weird luck, sure, but this has been going on for over 2 years now, to the point where I'm surprised when a load of jute gives me a wax at all. So I assumed the higher-level mats are (much, much) more likely to give wax.

I generate an obscene amount of surveys, and as a result I refine a lot of mats. When I do my surveys I always select the toon/character that has the best RNG that day to maximize Plentiful Harvest, and as a result it's often with a character that has zero skillpoints in the craft rank passives so I get tons of rank 1 mats. My rate of return is the same with rank 1 mats as it is with rank 10 mats.

And all studies I've found online on the subject all seem to say the same.