Boyant Armiger Drop Rate and locations

Hamfast · December 2017

I know the drop rate is someplace between zero and nil, I have opened hundreds of chests all over Vvardenfell both on the surface and in the delves since the word came out that the Boyant Armiger chapters would drop from them. From Simple to Master level chests, and I have found almost zilch (2 or 3 chapters that time). I have heard of people finding 3 in a few hours...

Is there any way to increase my chances to find the motif chapters? a better location? run around on a level 1 character?

CaffeinatedMayhem · December 2017

Nope. For me, a single motif is between 200-1000 chests. Yes you read that correctly.
Just keep farming, I do a little each day. Somtimes you will get extremely lucky! One toon found 2 BA motifs in 1 week without Morrowind Adventurer. Then sometimes you will never be lucky - I went between HOTR and CWC without finding a single motif, literally found 1 the day HOTR dropped and the next the day CWC dropped.

So either get rich (pages are about 100k each now) or get ready for a long grind.

Runs · December 2017

Treasure hunter passive, treasure maps, and be a friend of vivec(I think that's just finishing the main zone quest)... I'm not digging up the links. Treasure hunter passive and increased odds with treasure maps was done with CWC, I believe. Friend of the island or friend of vivec was in the release of Morrowind patch notes.

I got my set before CWC... Pretty sure I used at least 10k lockpicks, but some of those forces were not successful. I also bought 2-4 of the chapters needed but sold something like 6 duplicates. You have to be pretty determined to farm this. At this point if the increased rates supposedly added with CWC are still bad, I would suggest finding another way to farm gold and then just buying the pieces.

Hamfast · December 2017

I can say since the CWC that the drop rate appears to have increased by 250%... but 250% of 0 is still 0...

I understand the idea to farm cash and buy the chapters, but I am talking about farming them, and in my own way, hoping to point out to the powers that be that there is still an issue with the drop rate.

I almost put it in as a bug, that the drop rate may not be the same for everyone (some folks a better chance then others) but as both of you have said, the drop rate for you is as bad as mine... granted, anyone with the RNG God's favor would not care to point it out, not when they can sell each extra chapter for 100k to 300k or more.

I will continue to farm, thank you for your replies

jakeedmundson · December 2017

I farmed this for the past two days now...
not.
one.
single.
motif.

Though, i did find 3 war maiden swords and sold them for about 200k together.
I see them in guild stores for like... 200k each. But thats ridiculous. Pretty sure noone is paying over 100k for it just like other set weapons.

Back to the motifs... why don't they drop?? Do they REALLY think people will continue to go around opening hundreds of chests to NOT even get one? I literally opened 200-300 chests yesterday.

ihazzit · December 2017

I can only speak anecdotally, but I have the TH passive and friend of Vivec all since early November on one character and I've been doing farming runs where I farm either morning or afternoon then always at night. I didn't do any last week though, but since November I've gotten one motif chapter. I do however have a couple alts' inventory full of Defiler and War Maiden and Warrior-Poet equipment to sell.

CaffeinatedMayhem · December 2017

ihazzit wrote: »

I can only speak anecdotally, but I have the TH passive and friend of Vivec all since early November on one character and I've been doing farming runs where I farm either morning or afternoon then always at night. I didn't do any last week though, but since November I've gotten one motif chapter. I do however have a couple alts' inventory full of Defiler and War Maiden and Warrior-Poet equipment to sell.

Decon those sets, no one pays for them anymore.

I'm still missing 1 page of BA - chests. Last time I saw it for sale, was over a month ago for 350k, and I refuse to pay that much on principle. Still selling duplicate pages now, as I haven't found a chests page in that month, nor can I find one for sale on PC NA whenever I remember to search traders.

I will agree that the drop rate has gone up since CWC - but the only change was *supposed* to be an increaed chance of pages from Master Chests and Tresure Maps with Treasure Hunter. The 5 pages I have found since CWC were in intermediate and simple chests, with 1 from a Treasure Map. I don't think the "increased chance" was as advertised in the patch notes.

Taleof2Cities · December 2017

thatlaurachick wrote: »

I'm still missing 1 page of BA - chests. Last time I saw it for sale, was over a month ago for 350k, and I refuse to pay that much on principle. Still selling duplicate pages now, as I haven't found a chests page in that month, nor can I find one for sale on PC NA whenever I remember to search traders.

You're selling duplicate BA pages for 120k-180k each approximately ... but won't buy the chest motif which has a higher market price (for which two of the sold pages would buy)?

Trying to decipher the logic in that ... but OK.

jakeedmundson · December 2017

thatlaurachick wrote: »

ihazzit wrote: »

I can only speak anecdotally, but I have the TH passive and friend of Vivec all since early November on one character and I've been doing farming runs where I farm either morning or afternoon then always at night. I didn't do any last week though, but since November I've gotten one motif chapter. I do however have a couple alts' inventory full of Defiler and War Maiden and Warrior-Poet equipment to sell.

Decon those sets, no one pays for them anymore.

I've been selling warmaiden stuff still... especially the swords.
Divine gear isn't super expensive, maybe 10-15k/piece

On ps4 NA

WhiteCoatSyndrome · December 2017

Hope and pray that the ESO anniversary event drops Motif pages again and the RNG smiles on you as to type.

Feric51 · December 2017

WhiteCoatSyndrome wrote: »

Hope and pray that the ESO anniversary event drops Motif pages again and the RNG smiles on you as to type.

Wish I could give 100 “agrees”. Definitely hoping for this

CaffeinatedMayhem · December 2017

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

thatlaurachick wrote: »

I'm still missing 1 page of BA - chests. Last time I saw it for sale, was over a month ago for 350k, and I refuse to pay that much on principle. Still selling duplicate pages now, as I haven't found a chests page in that month, nor can I find one for sale on PC NA whenever I remember to search traders.

You're selling duplicate BA pages for 120k-180k each approximately ... but won't buy the chest motif which has a higher market price (for which two of the sold pages would buy)?

Trying to decipher the logic in that ... but OK.

100k each actually, and that's a lot different that 350k... and you skipped the part where I said I can't find it for sale.

Should have paid attention in reading comprehension lessons.