Yet another full Vet Imperial City Prison run with zero set piece drops...

s7732425ub17_ESO · February 2016

For a dungeon that takes 45 minute to an hour to complete with a decent group (and many groups fail miserably at this dungeon), getting ZERO drops is extremely frustrating. There are some nice gear pieces in there, but why would I spend 100 hours to grind a full set with random traits when I can just spend 0.25 hours crafting a set with perfect traits that pretty much has the same power (Julianos and Hundings).

ZOS, you did Maelstrom Arena drops correctly. A full complete of the arena usually gives me 4+ set pieces. Of course, I still need to run it multiple times just to get the correct armor pieces and traits, but at least I'm getting something each run. I've completed Vet Maelstrom at least 20 times now, and I have tons of set piece drops, but I'm still chasing after some certain traits. But the work to reward ratio is perfect- it's worth my time to keep playing the content because eventually I'll get what I need. But with IC dungeons, it's not worth the time to run those repeatedly.

The IC dungeons are special. They are challenging and very well made. They offer unique gear sets that add flavor over the ever common crafted sets. But no one ever uses those sets because they are impossible to obtain. Thanks ZOS for spending so much time developing these sets that no one uses. Thank you.

How to fix the IC dungeon drop rate:
Step 1: Increase the set piece drop rate per boss to be 50%.
Step 2: PROBLEM SOLVED. THERE IS NO STEP 2. EVERYONE IS NOW HAPPY.

DieterP · February 2016

My group has ran white gold vet 16 over 100 times now, I currently went 17 runs without a single drop. I do have every single piece the dungeon has to offer though. But I'm the only acception. The tank has near everything but only 3/5 imperium and the healer has 5 spell power cure. With a few other random pieces. The drop rate is horrendous. We now feel that by the release of the next DLC our tank won't have 5/5 imperium

Nikkor · February 2016

Ive noticed that for the past month or two the drop rates in wgt and prison have been worse than pre "2.5x drop rate"

I've run it probably 100 times since then so I have enough data. I can tell you that on average for the past 50/75 runs. it takes 3 times for one set piece that I already have with a trait I don't want. At one point after the upped drop I was seeing most every boss drop a piece every other run.

Arkraptor · February 2016

My drop rate has been bad too for both of these dungeons. Tho there is always one of those lucky runs every now and then where 2-3 set items will drop. And why does the chest always give me at least 1 well-fitted piece???

s7732425ub17_ESO · February 2016

Did another full Vet ICP run last night. No set pieces.

MikeB · February 2016

Join the club. Over 100 runs of both vWGT and vICP with no more than 3 set pieces for our tank or me. While our 2 dps have completed every set multiple times. Just add loot sharing with people you do the content with already. It will stop a lot of complaint threads.

M_TeK_9 · February 2016

I've been furious about this for weeks. I complete prison at least 4 times a day and I get jack *** for drops. Even the chests you open with shackles are brutal.

Check this catastrophe ; I was double trolled when I opened my 17th chest and received 2 pieces that were the EXACT SAME ITEM with a different name.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igxrafm5Kxs

Lenikus · February 2016

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igxrafm5Kxs

Hey it's not the same.
One is clearly a dress.

M_TeK_9 · February 2016

Lenikus wrote: »

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igxrafm5Kxs

Hey it's not the same.
One is clearly a dress.

:'(

Waffennacht · February 2016

On another thread.

It was posted the Drops for Prison AND white gold tower is Broken! They said next update will fix this problem. They say consoles will be fixed the update after the PC update.

As is you guys are right, you get nothing for the most part, same drops as NPCs in IC.

Thank you for letting me know Arena does have correct drop rates. Time to grind me some elemental succession peices. Im tired of soloing the adjudicator for absolutely no reward.

s7732425ub17_ESO · February 2016

Waffennacht wrote: »

On another thread.

It was posted the Drops for Prison AND white gold tower is Broken! They said next update will fix this problem. They say consoles will be fixed the update after the PC update.

As is you guys are right, you get nothing for the most part, same drops as NPCs in IC.

Thank you for letting me know Arena does have correct drop rates. Time to grind me some elemental succession peices. Im tired of soloing the adjudicator for absolutely no reward.

Even if they are "fixed" in a later update, the drop rate is still too low. 50% chance per boss, everyone would be happy. It would still take 20+ runs to get your desired set with perfect traits, but it would actually be fun and not feel like a Korean grindfest.

DRXHarbinger · February 2016

Hint for the prison. Get someone to scale it to level 10 for you and a friend and just smash it in under 10 mins and loot the last chest. You'll get more shackles in less time that way. Take 3 people or more though. Only works for prison not sure if Kena drops embers on a low level. I'm annoyed for a similar matter. Been trying for time to get a decent trait overwhelming sash other that well fitted. Helped someone out today on V1 just so they could get 2 gold keys and low and behold it drops in infused on the adjudicator. WGT and ICP drops are seriously on the wind up as of late. It's better to smash them on normal V16 and just farm the last parts at V15 and settle with them. Hardly any difference when made legendary too.

sirrmattus · February 2016

happened to me too many times..