[BUG]Furnishing Items from Pickpocketing Drop Rate Lowered?

Mix · January 2017

In 2.7.3 the notes said that the chance to receive furniture related items (patterns or actual furnishings) was increased and I had great fun seeing what type of NPC had what in their pockets.

I got 5 furnishing related items in 200 pockets picked. (and after that I had stopped counting, but continued to pickpocket furnishing related things all week)

Tonight I have picked 400 pockets so far and NO furnishing related items were looted!

I am wondering if the drop rate has been decreased? if so, was that on purpose? 400 pockets and no furnishing related things is pretty poor:(

ixie · January 2017

That sounds fishy, the patch notes say they increased the chance

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote:

Increased the chance to receive furnishing-related rewards from criminal activities like pickpocketing and murder.

Increased the chance to receive Provisioning Recipes from criminal activities like pickpocketing and murder.

Edit to add: not sure if they mean Provisioning Recipes or Furnishing

willlienellson · January 2017

When you say "furnishing related items" do you mean BLUEPRINTS?

Because I stole over 200 items (chests, crates, pickpocket, etc) and never got anything but blueprints.

However the drop rate was about the same. I think I got 3 (blueprints) in 200 or so. But I'm notoriously unlucky with drop rates.

Basically, I've yet to find an actual furnishing in stealing probably 500 items in the last two patches. Even items called "furnishings" weren't actually usable furnishings.

Mix · January 2017

Update:

I have now picked 1000 pockets and obtained 2 furniture patterns and 1 furnishing item. This is in stark contrast to 2.7.3 where (when I was counting) I stole 5 furnishing related items (pattern or furnishing) in 200 pockets picked. I don't know if it is relevant but both patterns were pickpocketed in Vulkhel Guard, Auridon and the item (Rough Bread, Morsel) in Sentinel, A'likr Desert.

@tribbsb16_ESO Those are from the 2.7.3 patch notes aren't they? I am speaking about the current patch 2.7.4 and it almost seems as that increase has been reversed...

@willlienellson When identifying a "Furnishing" item you need to look in the top left corner of the tooltip. If it says "Treasure" that is just vendor fodder. If it says "Furnishing" then it can be placed in a house. The flavour text on stolen treasures has NOTHING to do with whether it can be used in a house or not.

So, I did steal for quite some time as I needed to pick a total of 1000 pockets for my test just in case I was having terrible luck. In this time I did manage to get from Dresser/Wardrobe/Desk/Nightstand/Cabinet/Urn 10 furnishing patterns and 1 furnishing item (Common Inkwell, Practical). I was also very lucky and got 2 patterns from murdered npcs - these were npcs who caught me pickpocketing and became Hostile. I have not murdered enough npcs to give a drop rate.

ixie · February 2017

Mix wrote: »

@tribbsb16_ESO Those are from the 2.7.3 patch notes aren't they? I am speaking about the current patch 2.7.4 and it almost seems as that increase has been reversed...

The quote I gave about increasing the chance of furnishing related rewards from pickpocketing and murder was from 2.7.4 notes, from your testing and my own limited experience it seems to have decreased dramatically from 2.7.3