Is Alchemical Resin Too Plentiful?

Imryll · February 2017

I just found my first node where someone had taken the corn flower, but left the resin. In discussing how frequently furniture mats should drop it had never occurred to me to ponder how annoying it would be if apparent nodes regularly lacked ore or timber, but only contained the furniture-making ingredient. Just another piece of the puzzle of what constitutes an ideal drop rate ...

I've also been coming across a lot of chests lately where someone has grabbed the unlock xp and the gold (and perhaps a single item), but left the rest. I'm thinking that maybe it's time that ZOS set respawn timers to start when any item is removed from a chest or resource node.

Arthmoor · February 2017

Since the patch went up I've only found 20 or so resins, out of I don't even know how many plants harvested. They're definitely not too plentiful. If anything, they're not dropping often enough for the amounts you need to craft with.

AdamBourke · February 2017

Whoever left it maybe didnt realise what it was. Would have been worth selling at least...

Ourorboros · February 2017

Maybe the player who left the resin was ID10T certified. New mats are way too valuable to leave behind no matter how many you have. Resins is certainly dropping the most for me, but maybe it's because there are relatively more plants to harvest? In any case, I don't want to see a reduction of any new mat. Instead, the other new mats should drop as much as resins.

Imryll · February 2017

I don't really think resins are too plentiful (I currently have 113), but the experience did make me think about the impact over time of having multi-mat nodes. It's annoying enough finding just a crawler in a plant node or a single style element in a chest, but seeing pick-and-choose behavior extended to other types of nodes would greatly reduce the serenity of my characters' strolls along the beach or through the woods.

MissBizz · February 2017

Got a node with nothing but bast today. Made me happy! Haha

runagate · February 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

Got a node with nothing but bast today. Made me happy! Haha

I found a couple heavy sacks with pretty decent amounts of furniture mats. All of my characters have the harvester passive.

TerraDewBerry · February 2017

I think hard as it is to believe, there might be players who have no idea what the resins are.. or what they're for. It boggles the mind... ya know?

Tabbycat · February 2017

Maybe the farming bots haven't been programmed to collect the new materials.

Or maybe some nodes just randomly spawn furniture crafting materials only.

Someone was complaining about butterflies without wings and there was an entire discussion about people taking the wings and leaving the insect parts. But they just spawn like that. If you loot enough of them you notice when they start respawning without wings.

OMA · February 2017

I haven't found any, but more decorative wax. Also remember there is a passive in the champion system for Master Gatherer. It certainly boosts my findings on every material node. I'm not sure how much it affects finding furnishing mats though? Anyway have taken 4 days to find bast, and zero alchemical resins.

DrkHunter86 · February 2017

Tabbycat wrote: »

Maybe the farming bots haven't been programmed to collect the new materials.

Or maybe some nodes just randomly spawn furniture crafting materials only.

Someone was complaining about butterflies without wings and there was an entire discussion about people taking the wings and leaving the insect parts. But they just spawn like that. If you loot enough of them you notice when they start respawning without wings.

Are butterfly wings that valuable?

KimberlyannKitsuragi · February 2017

That's why I have autoloot on. That way I grab everything

plus I have the dustman addon to destroy or sell what I don't want

disintegr8 · February 2017

Better than finding a flower that only contains crawlers.......

S1ipperyJim · February 2017

Imryll wrote: »

I've also been coming across a lot of chests lately where someone has grabbed the unlock xp and the gold (and perhaps a single item), but left the rest. I'm thinking that maybe it's time that ZOS set respawn timers to start when any item is removed from a chest or resource node.

The problem is lack of inventory space, not respawn timers. I used to be annoyed when people didn't loot everything and wondered why they didn't just autoloot everything but now I find myself doing the same thing due to having all my characters with full inventory.

Ourorboros · February 2017

OMA wrote: »

I haven't found any, but more decorative wax. Also remember there is a passive in the champion system for Master Gatherer. It certainly boosts my findings on every material node. I'm not sure how much it affects finding furnishing mats though? Anyway have taken 4 days to find bast, and zero alchemical resins.

Give it time. I didn't see any wax for first two days, now it's right behind resin in my craft bag. I got 5 wax from a heavy sack, and often get 2 in a drop. RNG is fickle, man!

Imryll · February 2017

S1ipperyJim wrote: »

Imryll wrote: »

I've also been coming across a lot of chests lately where someone has grabbed the unlock xp and the gold (and perhaps a single item), but left the rest. I'm thinking that maybe it's time that ZOS set respawn timers to start when any item is removed from a chest or resource node.

The problem is lack of inventory space, not respawn timers. I used to be annoyed when people didn't loot everything and wondered why they didn't just autoloot everything but now I find myself doing the same thing due to having all my characters with full inventory.

I didn't say anything about why people might leave items in a chest. I would just rather the chest respawned, locked and with full content, after a normal respawn interval, instead of sitting there indefinitely waiting to disappoint someone. Same with incomplete nodes.