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Soul-Shriven skin drop-rate bugged?

arkansas_ESO
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In the year since Imperial City launched, I've met about 20-25 people that have the Soul-Shriven skin. I've asked them all how many runs of center it took them to get the skin, and nobody has said anything over ten runs. Most people that I've asked received the skin within the first three runs.

This has me wondering: is the drop-rate bugged? Does the skin drop at all past your first 10 runs? Anybody here that got the skin after running more than ten times?


Grand Overlord 25/8/17
  • Thevampirenight
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    I only had to do it once. But thing is when we did the boss, it was killed I was dead on the floor, though but then ad wiped out the group I was in, I guess the group leader kicked several of us out because we did not use team speak, so I made my way back to the middle alone, died where the boss fell, but the body was not there and this was ten minutes later but hte body spawned instantly after I died when a mob killed me, because I was running from it. Another dc player was near by rezed me I opened up the corpse of Molag bal and there it was the soul shriven skin.

    So I was very lucky, and the irony is the group leader that kicked me possibly never got it. So I was very lucky, to get it.I am guessing the body will remain until you get the drop if you return even ten minutes later so basically I got very lucky. But I know others have ran it a hundred times and not gotten it. Its possible the drop rate is bugged or only one player in the group gets to receive it I don't know how it works but yeah they are increasing the drop rate so you might be able to get it with the imperial city anniversary
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    Please add Fangs to Vampires.
  • fastolfv_ESO
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    everyone i asked who ever even heard of someone getting it got it in the first few days of IC and nobody ever since. Wouldnt be shocked if it hasnt been able to drop in ages
  • Thevampirenight
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    everyone i asked who ever even heard of someone getting it got it in the first few days of IC and nobody ever since. Wouldnt be shocked if it hasnt been able to drop in ages

    Well it depends on how often the sewer middle event is ran and how many go and do it. The skin is also a very rare drop one might have a chance to get which I was very very lucky in getting so basically not many in the player base would have the skin. I guess they don't want everyone to have it but basically as an rper it allows me to rp a soul shriven. But basically I hope to add mind shriven skin as well to the collection. Soul Shriven is the only skin I have unlocked.
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    Please add Fangs to Vampires.
  • Pandorii
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    I swear I've run Molag Bal like 40-50 times, and I have not gotten the soul shriven skin. I also believe that it only dropped during the IC DLC phase, and it's been bugged ever since. Can anyone prove they got the skin during/post Wrothgar DLC?
  • Thevampirenight
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    Pandorii wrote: »
    I swear I've run Molag Bal like 40-50 times, and I have not gotten the soul shriven skin. I also believe that it only dropped during the IC DLC phase, and it's been bugged ever since. Can anyone prove they got the skin during/post Wrothgar DLC?

    I know its been bugged on consoles but on pc possibly not. But still its a very rare rng drop and I guess it depends on the character your running with. You might get better luck if your running a certain character. Maybe a bosmer, I don't know but yeah the rng can be tricky possibly a luck value of getting something rare. Some characters it might be very low while others very high. So basically try it with other characters and it might drop.
    I play on the pc version so basically I think more players have it on pc have it then on consoles but maybe I am wrong.
    Edited by Thevampirenight on August 27, 2016 8:52AM
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    Please add Fangs to Vampires.
  • Bad_Company
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    I've run it 57 times and counting. Yes, I counted them all. No, never once I got the skin nor the scamp. No, nobody in my parties ever got the skin -but many got the scamp.

    I do believe it's bugged.
    My characters (EU PC):
    Leopardo Di-Caprio (Khajiit Templar) || Matthew Makehoney (Altmer Sorcerer) || Luck-Luster Burt (Redguard Dragonknight)
    Clint Histwood (Argonian Templar) || Martin Uber Ping (Redguard Sorcerer) || Louis Farmstrong (Imperial Nightblade)
    Anthony Hotskins (Altmer Nightblade)

  • thawks
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    I farmed with a group a few weeks back, and one first-timer got the skin on our third Bal kill.
  • Rayya_Blackheart
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    Pandorii wrote: »
    I swear I've run Molag Bal like 40-50 times, and I have not gotten the soul shriven skin. I also believe that it only dropped during the IC DLC phase, and it's been bugged ever since. Can anyone prove they got the skin during/post Wrothgar DLC?

    I got mine post Wrothgar, right before they added in the new IC stuff. We've run a few times since and I haven't seen anyone get one after a few hours of farming it. Dunno if this helps, but it's info ^.^
    PC NA Rayya Blackheart pitiful DPS NB CP160
    PC NA Phaedra Phoenix beast mode Templar Healer CP160
    PC NA lvl6 Mudcrab
  • Pandorii
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    Irony, they're doubling the drop rate of the skin for the Imperial City event on August 29th. Anybody know what 0 x 2 is?

    *Sigh*
  • arkansas_ESO
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    Thanks all for your responses! So far from all of your responses, it seems like, if you don't get it within your first few runs, you never will. Can anybody confirm they've gotten it after many runs, and how recently?

    Also, @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_KaiSchober @ZOS_JessicaFolsom , can you guys look into this? It'd be a shame for next week's Imperial City event to be spoiled by a bug, I know a lot of people want the skin.
    Edited by arkansas_ESO on August 27, 2016 9:42AM


    Grand Overlord 25/8/17
  • Darth_Trumpious
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    In the year since Imperial City launched, I've met about 20-25 people that have the Soul-Shriven skin. I've asked them all how many runs of center it took them to get the skin, and nobody has said anything over ten runs. Most people that I've asked received the skin within the first three runs.

    This has me wondering: is the drop-rate bugged? Does the skin drop at all past your first 10 runs? Anybody here that got the skin after running more than ten times?

    It might be their "first 10 runs" on that day. Do not take other's word easily

    People who got it might tell you they got it easily due to

    1) to "encourage / give hope" to you so you can keep grinding
    2) to brag and show their "perfect luck" "favored by the RNGesus"

    I got my soul-shriven skin on the 5th or 6th run one day but in total I might have farmed for more than 100 times. Guess what? I am still considered being "lucky" as my dedicated "Molag Bal Sewer Farming Group Members" usually spends 200-300 runs to get a skin dropped. After I got the skin I always tell others "it is easy, I got it in my 5th run and you just need to keep going" to get their hope up.

    The reason you have not seen others get any might be the fact that people who got the skin immediately left so the farming group is always full of desperate players who are not happy with the drop rate. In the end people are not happy and might believe the drop rate is bugged. Keep going and try your luck next week and you will eventually get it!
  • Destyran
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    My friend got it the orher night we probs killed him 600+ times i have got J&#k s$&# from it tho maybe like 20 hakeijos
  • NovaShadow
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    I got mine right back when IC dropped, no idea how many runs I did as it was so long ago now.
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  • Vaoh
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    I can confirm what the OP is saying!

    I have completed this event an extraordinary amount of times (~100x loot opportunities). Never got the skin.

    EVERY player I've talked to thus far who has acquired this skin did so in their first 10ish loot opportunities.
    Edited by Vaoh on August 27, 2016 10:52AM
  • HarpaxPT
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    Probably 75 runs or so and no skin.

    Last week I got the scamp for the first time and he dropped 3x in a row for me! Wtf!?
  • Omgwtfbbq321
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    I got the Scamp on one of my first runs, I've done what feels like 50 runs and with no luck. No one I have ever met has had it drop and I've been a console ESO player since launch.
    My ping is higher than your resource recovery...
  • HarpaxPT
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    In 1 run a group member got the skin. Only time I have seen it drop
  • Bad_Company
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    One more thing I'd like to add. It seems like people dropping the scamp once, or those who already have it from previous runs, the pet seems to drop quite often or 2-3 times in a row.
    My characters (EU PC):
    Leopardo Di-Caprio (Khajiit Templar) || Matthew Makehoney (Altmer Sorcerer) || Luck-Luster Burt (Redguard Dragonknight)
    Clint Histwood (Argonian Templar) || Martin Uber Ping (Redguard Sorcerer) || Louis Farmstrong (Imperial Nightblade)
    Anthony Hotskins (Altmer Nightblade)

  • Pandorii
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    bump. I would really like to hear a response from the developers before the IC anniversary event.

    I think it's especially a problem that needs to be looked into on console.

    I can understand if it's bugged, and it cannot be fixed until the next incremental patch. I don't think it's fair, however, to market the IC anniversary event as having a doubled drop rate of an item that is impossible to get.
  • MaddPowered
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    I have ran it 290 or so times since IC launch. No skin.

    I have counted all my drops

    x7 hakeijo

    x2 Scamps.

    World's First Planesbreaker
    World's First Bugged Planesbreaker
    World's First Dawnbringer
    World's Third Godslayer
    World's Second Immortal Redeemer
    World's Third Gryphon Heart

    Top scores :
    vAA - 4D (PC NA) - 154,068 - 8:31 Greymoor
    vSO - 4D (PC NA) - 180,238 - 11:28 Greymoor
    vHRC - 4D (PC NA) - 163,258 - 8:28 Greymoor
    vMOL - Calamity (PC NA) - 174,680 - 9:42 Stonethorn
    vHOF - 4D (PC NA) - 232,362 - 14:11 Greymoor
    vAS - 4D (PC NA) - 117,014 - 2:41 Stonethorn
    vCR - Calamity (PC NA) - 136,091 - 3:45 Stonethorn
    vSS - 4D (PC NA) - 255,552 - 21:34 Greymoor
    vKA - 4D (PC NA) - 247,292 - 16:19 Greymoor
    vRG - Calamity (PC NA) - 301,438 - 24:21 Blackwood
  • obscure7
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    About 30-40 times. Got the scamp on my first try. A couple of Hakeijos here and there. No skin.

    Edit: nobody in my group in any of those runs got the skin either, as far as I know. (Nobody announced it at least)
    Edited by obscure7 on August 28, 2016 2:48AM
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  • Ankael07
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    I've killed Molag about 3-4 times daily between the time span of the DLC's release and the opening of no CP campaign. Neither of my teammates nor me got the skin once. Although we had at least 1 person getting the pet every other week I dont even remember the last time I've seen that skin on someone.
    If you want me to reply to your comment type @Ankael07 in it.
  • Pandorii
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    @ZOS_GinaBruno and @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Can we have this looked into before the IC Anniversary Event? I know it's short notice, but we received notice of the event only yesterday.
  • Darth_Trumpious
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    Ankael07 wrote: »
    I've killed Molag about 3-4 times daily between the time span of the DLC's release and the opening of no CP campaign. Neither of my teammates nor me got the skin once. Although we had at least 1 person getting the pet every other week I dont even remember the last time I've seen that skin on someone.

    The chance to get a skin is significantly lower than the pet though
  • raidentenshu_ESO
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    So if we purchase the Imperial City Collector's Bundle we get the Mind Shriven Horse and the Mind Shriven Skin including the Daedrat pet?

    http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/2016/08/26/celebrate-imperial-citys-one-year-anniversary
  • Pandorii
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    @raidentenshu_ESO The mind shriven skin is not the same as the soul shriven skin that drops from molag bal. I want both. =D But I already have the DLC, so buying the bundle for the skin would be a joke.
  • film
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    I've ran it hundreds of times and tonight one of the guys I always run it with got it (on our 5th run).

    Follow the stream if you like the stream. Marry the stream if you love the stream.
  • raidentenshu_ESO
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    Pandorii wrote: »
    @raidentenshu_ESO The mind shriven skin is not the same as the soul shriven skin that drops from molag bal. I want both. =D But I already have the DLC, so buying the bundle for the skin would be a joke.

    Although I do have ESO Plus and currently renting the DLC... I would love to actually permanently buy the DLC that also has the extra bundle package with it such as the skins (Both shriven/Soul Shriven) and the Horse. I don't need the pet since I already have it.

    I would love to start RPing this game without having to do so much endless and tiring grinding.
  • Pandorii
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    @raidentenshu_ESO Do you have none of the DLCs? There's a bundle that will be releasing around October for 5500 crowns that will include the first four DLCs (wrothgar, IC, thieves guild, and dark brotherhood).

    I find it a bit of a scam on ZOSs part to try to get people to buy the IC bundle in the upcoming event and then try to get more money out of them for that bundle. I can imagine a scenario where someone might have ONLY the IC bundle b/c they got it at this event, and then they have to decide whether to buy the 5500 crown bundle later that includes IC b/c they want the other three DLCs.
  • Torbschka
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    everyone i asked who ever even heard of someone getting it got it in the first few days of IC and nobody ever since. Wouldnt be shocked if it hasnt been able to drop in ages

    got it ago 3 motnhs
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