Gather Vitrified Souls - Is this working as intended?

c363b

Drop rates for collecting vitrified souls and fat are ridiculously low. Killing dozens of enemies before getting a single drop should not be necessary.

DoofusMax

I don't know that "working as intended" is quite right because what's happening is largely player behavior rather than mechanics. I saw the same thing with some of the Wrothgar World Boss dailies during "Guilds and Glory" that had additional objectives, so I had to wait on those to respawn before I could turn it in. The objectives were working as intended, but the event piled a lot of players on top of that.

Anyway, the drop rate isn't stellar and you'll have to kill a bunch of daedra to get your 15, but note that one of the weekly endeavors is killing 50 humanoid daedra, so it's a two-fer. I've completed it on two characters without needing to farm siege camps or dolmen. The first one dropped into Silumm in Glenumbra (it was showing as invaded, so why not) and filled the order by camping a hallway with respawning deadra trash plus the invading delve boss. The other one dove into Village of the Lost in Coldharbour and farmed the five-daedra trash packs until they had 15 (plus 3 for Skordo). Where you get whatever it is doesn't matter as much as that you get it, so leave the quest markers to those who need the hand-holding.

AvalonRanger

I did shadowfen public dungeon. But drop rate was enough high.

sleepy_worm

I've done the vitrified soul daily at least 6 times now and every time it has taken about 3 minutes including travel time to Village of the Lost. Even with other people in the instance.

blktauna

Drinks_from_Ponds wrote: »

I completed it pretty fast going into Cold Harbor, pretty much anything I killed was dropping 1-2 souls.

I didn't get any souls in Coldharbour. Roaming around or in delves. And I was on my own so no masses cutting off my chances

SilverBride

I got them very fast around the Library of Dusk in Coldharbour from Dremora Kyngald.

Pinja

I think with the other overland content outside of solstice invasions of mobs with vitrified souls are limited timed events that move between different delves and dungeons meaning they might not be up when you go there. The world event in solstice is marked with an active marker out of five locations that stay blue even when the enemies aren't there.

I'll log on again to check and might even make a video.

SeaGtGruff

I didn't have any problem collecting vitrified souls in the modified delves and public dungeons, although it might be because I didn't get into the game on PCEU until late afternoon/early evening Eastern USA time, so maybe most PCEU players already logged out for the day.

But I did see many other players at the overland areas, which made it difficult to collect creature fat from trolls in The Rift. At first I was just tapping the trolls a few times so other players could get hits in, too, but it seemed like I wasn't getting drops, so after about maybe 15 minutes I just started killing isolated trolls by myself and got the drops super fast, which made me wonder if it was just RNG or whether it might be connected to what amount of damage you'd inflicted. I know there were a lot of players burning down the trolls with green Arcanist beams, so they were undoubtedly dealing most of the damage.

In contrast, I got really good drop rates for the other jobs, and in those cases it so happened that I was able to kill the target mobs-- lurchers, senches, etc.-- by myself, so maybe it is indeed tied to amount (i.e., percentage) of damage done?

Elvenheart

twisttop138 wrote: »

But but but we're making gaming history. Where were you when the wall came down... Isn't that what you guys like?

I already made gaming history during the 10th anniversary event, the _______ event ever in the history of gaming (insert your choice word here). Nothing else can ever top the ______ and _______ that event made me feel, even this one.

Kiwi

amusing seeing people complain about doing it once when you have to do it 15 times

allochthons

The problem with the siege camps is the "top 12 DPS get the drops" rule applies on the adds for souls, I think. I can get the souls easily in a camp or two on my high DPS toon, but it took ages on a low crafter.

The Only Top DPS get drops rule is awful, and needs to change.

DenverRalphy

Just noticed the confirmation that it is intentional was posted in another thread.
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/683994/writhing-wall-event-known-issues#latest

Are Vitrified Souls drop rate working as intended?

• Based on original reports, we opened up an investigation looking into the drop rate. Upon review, we currently do not see any indication that values are off from the original intended rate. However, we will continue to monitor this.

@ZOS_Icy As the question in my OP has been answered in another thread, please feel free to close this one. I think the general opinion on this matter has been made obvious.

Hamish999

I'm not doing any more of the fetch quests. They take too long and the drop rate is abysmal.
I'll just do the crafting quest and the siege camps going forward. ZOS have admitted they are manipulating the event progress bars, so why should we care anymore.

twisttop138

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I already made gaming history during the 10th anniversary event, the _______ event ever in the history of gaming (insert your choice word here). Nothing else can ever top the ______ and _______ that event made me feel, even this one.[/quote]

We just had some fun with this in our guilds discord.

shaieofebonheart

Village of the Lost in Coldharbour > Mobs drop several at once, and they respawn pretty quickly. Team with others in there to share kills if you like, and have one stay to anchor the team while the others go back to turn the quest in, get the new one and port back to the anchor player so they can go turn theirs in. It's worked so far and is the fastest way I've found.

ZOS_Icy

Greetings,

We are going to go ahead and close this thread as per the request of the OP.

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