Am I just unlucky with the theodolite pet part drops?

InnocentOfCrime · June 2017

I play on PS4, and I have now been farming these parts for 7 hours collectively. I have literally killed well over 1000 enemies so far (I got dwarven construct Slayer about three hours ago on a character who had not even fought constructs before this dungeon plus I was fighting the kagouti and bronzefists at the same time so probably closer to 2k.)

I have gotten 6 pieces, 3 were duplicates only two of which I've been able to trade. My character has gone from lvl 9 when I first entered the dungeon to now 23 without any XP boosts.

Is this about right? Because I can't imagine it was meant to take this long.

Insomnia rex · June 2017

~3-4 hours for me. It's difficult to say if 6 in 7 hours is ok, as I don't know how efficient you pull. (Like how many bosses do you have in your loop, do you manage to reach them exactly at respawn, etc.. , if you say have a 10 min loop, whats your kill count for that?) It always feels like a lot

Keldheir · June 2017

I feel ye. I've been grinding that place for hours and only have two pieces, multiple times. It's annoying and draining. On the plus side... I too got dwarven construct slayer and a lot of gold. Maybe I have more luck today. /-:

Magdalina · June 2017

I haven't specifically farmed for the pet but I did farm for the robe(Forgotten Wastes, the other public dungeon). I think I must've spent a total of ~12 hours in there, had friends along for some of it too. After all that I think I've gotten a total of...hm...I got 5 pieces that didn't repeat themselves, traded 1 or 2 duplicates more with a friend...and then had 3 repeats left I think. Ended up buying 7th one. So 9-10 pieces total over the course of ~12 hours.

Keep in mind I was farming on cp 630 char with decent(tho not bis) gear - I was pulling 4 pulls at once and basically cleaning them at their respawn rate(which is really fast, loving it). Idk, I was probably killing a thousand mobs per hour or more lol. A level 9-20 character would probably be clearing mobs at a LOT slower pace.

So overall your droprate sounds pretty good to me(assuming dungeons' droprates are roughly the same). It's actually a pretty nice farm, get a higher level friend with destro ultio with you, turn some epic battle music on, turn your mind off and just rek all the things for a few hours, it's almost fun

SydneyGrey · June 2017

I ended up buying the last two pieces I needed for the pet from guild traders, because grinding the same dungeon for literally days is not fun. Not sure why they thought that would be fun.

I got the last piece for the pet just this morning. So yay! Now I've started doing the Sixth House one, and it's just as annoyingly slow and awful. I have two pieces of the costume so far. They really needed to improve the drop rate a bit so we can start having fun with the game again. I mean, the first hour or so is fun, but after that I just want to go do something else, ya know?

Bobby_V_Rockit · June 2017

I just bought last 2 pieces, I sold 3 doubles so technicaly stil profit lol. I grinded for about 7 hours straight and ended up with 3 necks and 2 heads so gave up then

starkerealm · June 2017

SydneyGrey wrote: »

I ended up buying the last two pieces I needed for the pet from guild traders, because grinding the same dungeon for literally days is not fun. Not sure why they thought that would be fun.

That's... actually the goal. Not the whole, "not fun," thing, but getting you to interact with other players. The entire idea behind a bunch of these, incredibly rare drop collections, isn't that one player will grind out the whole set, it's that you'll buy, sell, or trade them around.

Rohamad_Ali · June 2017

What does it look like ?

Bobby_V_Rockit · June 2017

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

What does it look like ?

A tiny electrifed dwemer sentry

starkerealm · June 2017

Bobby_V_Rockit wrote: »

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

What does it look like ?

A tiny electrifed dwemer sentry

The little spheres with a glowing eye-stalk.

helediron · June 2017

I suspect drops have a cooldown. I tried to farm them an hour but got one. Then i visited daily with three characters and i got one piece usually very quickly. After three days i got nine pieces, five different ones. I sold duplicates and bought missing ones.

drakhan2002_ESO · June 2017

I've done a lot of farming of those parts and my experience has been mixed. I've gotten pieces back-to-back. I've been in a group with another person and we both got a piece from the same trash mob group. I even farmed several, like 5 pieces of the same part and didn't have the last part drop (which I had to trade for to get).

I have put in maybe 14-16 hours total farming trash in that public dungeon I can't say the name to that begins with an "N"! And all I can say is...just keep grinding - trade/sell duplicates.