RGN is one thing, but this...can't be correct.

Valethar

Found two today, and at least one yesterday.

They're not nearly as common as they were before the patch, but they do appear. One would think they were meant to be rare to begin with, so I'm not particularly upset about it.

Keffertjes

Well the thing is people where Login on/off,on/off,on/off Relog for the win.

so they decided to nerf the drop rate of those books.

Again the little player that doenst have 10 hours a day to play is again affected by exploiters.

ESObtst_Grig

V1 and i found 8 motifs i have all normals (traded duplicates) but lack nord , didn't found any special ones .. so .. RNG

wrlifeboil

The prices for the motifs were plummeting so ZOS probably felt that everyone who needed the motifs had the ones they wanted. During the first week, the common motifs were going for around 1k gold. By week 3, the prices had dropped to around 300 gold. Even the gold sellers don't bother to list the price of motifs in their spams.

martinb16_ESO80

i found one among 3 toons that I am leveling, and I open everything I come accross. I seem to find blue cooking recipes but so far, only one motif. During beta i found loads. I think some people simply have sunshine accounts.

Rosveen

I found 8 in the first week, most of them in Cold Harbor when I went to save Lyris (that quest felt like Christmas ) Since then, only one in a random barrel.

Saint_JiubB14_ESO

currently there was an adjustment made to stop the reloging exploit.

What I can tell you is that they do seem to be harder to acquire (I have 1-10, and have sold about 12 and currently am sitting on about 8 because I just don't feel like trying to sell them since I got my inventory properly managed). also every time you find a blue recipe or a treasure map that was a possible spawn for a motif. So bad luck sometimes, and now its harder. I was a little surprised they actually did something about it, when I reported the reloging exploit I mentioned that it didn't seem to really have the potential to impact the game a ton, and any attempt to deal with it (reducing drop rates) would really just hurt regular players. I think probably the exploit was being used by gold sellers to get Daedric and ZOS thought it was out of hand. hopefully they will make other changes too, since it seems to affect the loot tables including high quality recipes and treasure maps.

also I'm EP.

Razzak

I have 8 chars. Two are in mid 30 lvl, two in mid 20, two lvl 11 and two lvl 3. So far I have found around 25 motifs. They are rare, but not if you open most of the containers you find during leveling.

Seroczynski

VR7 and 13, found a lot (about 5) of the regular motifs and another 3 of the first rare motifs (Primal and Barbaric) before the nerf. After the nerf, I had nothing :-)

To be honest, I think this is better. They will become cheaper in the long run, at which point you might just got lucky yourself. I feel as they should be a little more rare than they were at release.

PVT_Parts

Saint_JiubB14_ESO wrote: »

currently there was an adjustment made to stop the reloging exploit.

What I can tell you is that they do seem to be harder to acquire (I have 1-10, and have sold about 12 and currently am sitting on about 8 because I just don't feel like trying to sell them since I got my inventory properly managed). also every time you find a blue recipe or a treasure map that was a possible spawn for a motif. So bad luck sometimes, and now its harder. I was a little surprised they actually did something about it, when I reported the reloging exploit I mentioned that it didn't seem to really have the potential to impact the game a ton, and any attempt to deal with it (reducing drop rates) would really just hurt regular players. I think probably the exploit was being used by gold sellers to get Daedric and ZOS thought it was out of hand. hopefully they will make other changes too, since it seems to affect the loot tables including high quality recipes and treasure maps.

also I'm EP.

Damn, I get blue recipes fairly often and treasure maps occasionally. I wish they had been motif drops instead as I am a blacksmith, not a provisioner.