Keeping up with all the motifs

BlackStar300 · December 2016

I'll try to keep this short. I took about a few month break (due to Skyrim and Fall gaming) and come back and like another 7 motifs dropped and as I don't trial much sets like Celestial and Dro-M'thara are only through my purchase power (my fault, yea and I have a bit of money off topic though). I'm not gonna make the thread about crafted sets vs dropped and about getting style change into the game.

My thoughts are how many of you STILL keep up with them? Even with drop rate being low(Abah's Watch and Dragur) or high (i.e. Skinchanger and Hollow Jack ).

[Topic ends here-Below are just my missing set pieces for topic sake/comparison if anyone cares to discuss]

Missing All of
-Yokudan
-Celestial
-Dro-M'thara
-Dragur

Missing about half of
-Abah's Watch
-Order of the Hour
-Minotaur

Dark Brotherhood
-Swords (also if anyone has this that they may need to trade with another DB [I'd have to check which I have] I'm on the PS4 NA server.)

newtinmpls · December 2016

Actually you came up with quite a good list.

BlackStar300 wrote: »

-Yokudan - none - not sure where it even drops
-Celestial (have chests only as an accidental happy result of getting scooped up into a run)
-Dro-M'thara - (have one container as a result of asking what someone meant by "baby Maw" in chat - got swept up in a dungeon/run and am not CP max with this account so I haven't opened it yet)
-Dragur - none
-Abah's Watch - um, don't think so
-Order of the Hour - um, don't think so
-Minotaur - have helms (and my "goblin" who loves weird hats wants one of these when she maxes out)
-Dark Brotherhood - not evil, not doing that set of quests.

And a few more:

Sithis - don't have many, but noted the heavy legs are kind of skirt like, which means I want them for options for looks
Glass - @Nestor kindly sent me some glass fragments, but so far I actually only have legs (and yes, I'm stalling on turning them in - and also broke and not in a hurry).

AzuraKin · December 2016

buy, find, somehow someway. but i not too agressive about them, cause few people actually seem to be selling a lot of the motiffs. i know i never see new ones in zones like draugr yokudan, and i never see them in trade stores.

BlackStar300 · December 2016

@newtinmpls yea and after coming from a short break and hearing just how low the drops are again for Yokudan and Dragur is disheartening. You'd think they would have addressed that with Abah's watch (which is also repeatable hundred times a day), but even so the rates are crap.

The trial motifs that you have to compete and do are cheaper than these because they are guaranteed when you do them. Makes sense and kind of not at the same time. Yea, the dailies are probably not as taxing as putting on a trial (except crag), but I think it's funny how those are cheaper.

I also know that there are like 10+ more sets to come and back in the days of having the main 5 (Ancient Elf, Primal, Daedric, Barbaric, and Dwemer) I feel like it was more sought out. Now I don't really get requests much or even see anyone ask for pieces crafted (as a master craftsman myself).

I'm quite curious if this gets enough comments if anyone really runs in a straight PURE style set.

newtinmpls · December 2016

Well, I have never yet gotten a drop for the Ancient Orc that is supposed to drop in 'Wrothgar public dungeons'. Way back in the Jubilee event I was grinding a particular character up, and I have been back there a few times, but nary a one.

I do love the Daedric for swords and "leggings" (the light skirt), but to your question of do I ever use a PURE style (as in all the pieces are the same style? Rarely. I think for a while I was running Mol gro Durga (Orsimer Stamina Sorc/Battlemage) in all Breton Medium, that was a nice look on him. Then I got a few bits from ... heck I can't recall which of the newer Argonian dungeons, and they are so useful I keep them, but so horrible he wears costumes only.

I think right now the only style I'm using in that way is Hallowquest light. Second best boots in the game (after Ancient Elven).

Stopnaggin · December 2016

Only missing a few pieces. Dro mathra dropped really low you can buy it for almost nothing. Draught and youkodan are by far the hardest to aquire right now. Celestial is actually pretty cheap as well.

And list in case you were wondering:

Crafting Motifs 1: The High Elves
Crafting Motifs 2: The Dark Elves
Crafting Motifs 3: The Wood Elves
Crafting Motifs 4: The Nords
Crafting Motifs 5: The Bretons
Crafting Motifs 6: The Redguards
Crafting Motifs 7: The Khajiit
Crafting Motifs 8: The Orcs
Crafting Motifs 9: The Argonians
Crafting Motifs 10: Imperial Cyrods
Crafting Motifs 11: Ancient Elves
Crafting Motifs 12: Barbaric
Crafting Motifs 13: Primal
Crafting Motifs 14: Daedric
Crafting Motifs 15: Dwemer
Crafting Motifs 16: Glass
Crafting Motifs 17: The Xivkyn
Crafting Motifs 18: Akaviri
Crafting Motifs 19: Mercenary
Crafting Motifs 20: Yokudan
Crafting Motifs 21: Ancient Orc
Crafting Motifs 22: Trinimac
Crafting Motifs 23: Malacath
Crafting Motifs 24: Outlaw
Crafting Motifs 25: Aldmeri Dominion
Crafting Motifs 26: Daggerfall Covenant
Crafting Motif 27: Ebonheart Pact
Crafting Motif 29: Soul-Shriven Style
Crafting Motif 31: Skinchanger
Crafting Motif 32: Abah’s Watch
Crafting Motif 33: Thieves Guild
Crafting Motif 34: Assassins League
Crafting Motif 35: Dro-m’Athra
Crafting Motif 36: Dark Brotherhood
Crafting Motif 37: Draugr
Crafting Motif 39: Minotaur
Crafting Motif 40: Order Hour
Crafting Motif 41: Celestial
Crafting Motif 42: Hollowjack
Crafting Motif 43: Harlequin
Crafting Motif 46: FrostCaster

BlackStar300 · December 2016

Those are currently released and I have a good majority (not gonna actually find the %), but I"m guessing 85%+ of them, but there are still like another 10 motifs in the works lol.

Thundertalon · December 2016

Where can you find Dro'mathra real cheap? I've only seem them on guild traders for at least 10k+

And I don't try to keep up with all the motifs, I just shoot for the cheap ones and the few that look interesting

BlackStar300 · December 2016

Dro-M'thara for 10k is cheap honestly @Thundertalon . I remember when they came out (of course with every motif) it was high demand-low supply = high prices
>>Demand=Supply so the prices start to be constant
and Lastly it rubberbands because no one farms them the late bloomers (if you wait too long) have to pay high prices because of its "rarity".

Its the same thing I'm dealing with getting my Dark Brotherhood Swords. No one farms them anymore and since my couple months break its almost non-existent, but I'd buy Dro-M'thara now at 10k before it spikes, although I feel trials won't die out compared to the other ways of farming soo you should see them go lower as time passes. Same with Celestial.

If people obtain them naturally prices will go to ALL TIME LOWS (i.e. Xivkyn, Mercenary which I can't even GIVE AWAY)

Brrrofski · December 2016

I gave up a long time ago. I like xivkyn and DC, so not bothered about doing repetitive dailies to farm other motifs.

Stopnaggin · December 2016

Thundertalon wrote: »

Where can you find Dro'mathra real cheap? I've only seem them on guild traders for at least 10k+

And I don't try to keep up with all the motifs, I just shoot for the cheap ones and the few that look interesting

10k is pitifully cheap compared to when they were at 100K plus. Even still those can be farmed fairly easy. What I did with another guy was 2 of us would run dps and carry a group, at the end all I asked for was a whisker, they would then make a new toon and repeat the process. Now this has been a while since I've done it so I'm not sure if it still works.

newtinmpls · December 2016

BlackStar300 wrote: »

If people obtain them naturally prices will go to ALL TIME LOWS (i.e. Xivkyn, Mercenary which I can't even GIVE AWAY)

Heck.... there are always people who will be interested in any motif, just because they don't have it, or don't have it on all characters.

I stink at organization, and hate "chore" type stuff, so I rarely do crafting writs, (and am disorganized, and mostly broke) so I lack (but long for) the glass motifs.... or fragments.

The folks I used to prowl around in IC with don't play much any more so I'm sorta stalled out on collecting Xivkin.

Same for undaunted ... I don't tend to do much random, and the individual dailies haven't netted me any motifs.

So trust me, you can give them away..

Robbmrp · December 2016

For now, I have all of the Motifs known on my crafter. I dread every update that seems to add 1-5 more....UGH....

Ourorboros · December 2016

I have all but Celestial and Yokudan***....working on both now. I typically quest for them when new motifs drop, but almost always fill in gaps through guild stores. I just keep my eyes open for bargains and wait for initial prices to drop before buying.

Since almost everyone is now wearing dropped sets, and there is no way use motifs except craft new sets, it seems superfluous to bring in even more new motifs. Honestly, I think zos does this to create more pressure to sub for craft bags by introducing more style mats and sub-mats ( you know, 10 of these to make 1 of those). All those style mats take a LOT of bag space.

At this point, collecting motifs is like it's own mini-game for completionists. I have many motifs I have not used, and likely will not use, ever, to craft anything.

***I don't have crown store exclusive motifs. zos can shove it.

WhiteCoatSyndrome · December 2016

I'm still going after all the in-game Motifs I don't have yet (same as @Ourorboros, I'm not touching the Crown Store-only Motifs with a ten foot pole...) but I've given up on farming all of them myself. Some of the activities I've done so many times already they've LONG since become a chore and RNG is too random to give me what I need once I'm down to the last 3-4 chapters. Some of the content (Thieves' Guild, Dark Brotherhood) I really don't enjoy and don't see myself ever being willing to do as much as I'd need to even dent the Motif pages list. The Alliance chapters I'd be willing to work for but I don't want to PvP for the enemy factions. Etc.

So I've taken to scanning my guilds for missing pages when I put things up for sale. Maybe by the time Housing hits I'll have filled in most of them and they'll be useful for themed furniture, who knows?

Banana · December 2016

Just some akiviri and yokudan ones to go for me. But they ain't cheap so it's going to take a while.

RazielDERF · January 2017

You can also simply get the add-on "research grid" so you can keep track of what you have and what you don't. This will keep all available motifs in check!

BlackStar300 · January 2017

I play on console so can't for me, but I write my missing motifs on a list and NOW we have 4 BRAND NEW MOTIFS to get. Sometimes I wonder if my OCD is healthy for me. I tried to quit motif farming many times now and I take a break and come back and I'm back at it again casually (not as bad as I was), but for some reason I keep coming back and I myself wear a costume and don't really have an active guild or people I make armor for SOOOOO.... I just collect to collect, but yet aren't going for all the achievements. Maybe its my creative side speaking out and wanting the POSSIBILITY of making ALL DA STYLES as I'm always hyped on housing. I like the cosmetics...

Yes, I'm a cosmetic *** =/