Mortifs and Luck

Ranmyaku · July 2015

Is there some untold legend that foretold there'd be a player seemingly unable to find motifs?

I'm told the best and most common place to find any are in urns, backpacks, barrels, and crates all over Tamriel, be it dungeons, banks or the open world itself. However, from level 1 - VR1 and having done dungeons, delves, quests, and such...I must have searched literally thousands and never found any. Yet many friends and other players playing far more casually seem to find rare and common motifs like running water.

Are there areas you're more likely to find them? Or is it really just me versus RNG and losing badly?

Leandor · July 2015

Barrels and crates actually have a very low chance if any at all to drop motifs. The highest chance for them is desks, nightstands, dressers, wardrobes, cabinets, cupboards and trunks. In dungeons, basically only urns and backpacks have ever yielded a motif for me, except for the dwemer pages, which come from any dwemer container (jugs, pots, etc.).

But yeah, RNG is a hellish mistress. While I have managed to acquire all motifs from drops, I am completely nirncrux-less. I so far found exactly 3 fortified ones and no potent. Since introduction of the trait and material, September 2014.

mklundub17_ESO · July 2015

I've never seen a motif anywhere other than backpacks, desks, and nightstands. Trunks and urns I've seen recipes but never a motif.

Ranmyaku · July 2015

I've found some recipes here and there, maybe one purple/blue here and there, but 90% have been green recipes and even then some repeats.

As many urns and crates I've opened, I've opened ten times as many dressers, wardrobes and drawers...I guess the RNG just multiplies my chances by zero or something!

Here's hoping one day. Else, I'll have to spend my precious precious crowns.

SirAndy · July 2015

Leandor wrote: »

The highest chance for them is desks, nightstands, dressers, wardrobes, cabinets, cupboards and trunks.

chevalierknight · July 2015

i have everymotif

Fruitmass · July 2015

"And lo though he may seeketh hither and tither upon the highest peaks and below in deepest depths. Within each narrow nook and lonely cranny. Verily, though he may leavest not a single stone unturned, forever shall he search in vain..."

So it was written by the gods of rng and so shall it be

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DerNase · July 2015

Pray some more to RNGesus

I find the 9 "standard" motifs on a regular base. Mostly in cupboards and backpacks

Violynne · July 2015

Worse is when you start getting copies of what you already have. I suppose I'll head to VG in AD and start asking anyone to trade. I've got Khajiit and Wood Elf. Again.

I'm not too concerned about getting the "uppers" (Imperial, etc, though I did find Barbarian), I need Breton to cover the regular base. It's been a pain to find.

Oh, and I found out something really disappointing: those chests (et al) - yeah, they reset, making their contents random as well.
>:[

OzJohnD · July 2015

I have found two motifs from looting containers in the bugged Prisoner quest fort.

Most of my motifs I obtained for personal use and farmed for sale was pre-justice system by entering the bank in Daggerfall and looting all the desks etc. relog to reset the containers and repeat

now with the justice system its a little more tricky with having to loot in stealth