So if you have all the pages (chapters) of a particular style, you can creat a motif (book)?

danielclarkb16_ESO wrote: »

Baranthus wrote: »

So if you have all the pages (chapters) of a particular style, you can creat a motif (book)?

I'm not quite sure it works like that. Chapters work slightly different to a book, the books let you craft all armour pieces of the style, where as a chapter only lets you create the legs or the body etc. So if you wanted to create the full set, you'd need to have all the chapters, you don't create a book with them, you just learn the style for all the individual pieces instead.

Right, the chapters don't combine into a full book - you have to read all the of chapters individually. However, some people have been extremely lucky to have the full motif book drop, which, when read, lets you learn the entire motif, rather than having to find the individual chapters.

Imperial only drops as a full motif book, and is very rare. It's a basic race style, so it's just like the blue ones for the races or the purple ones (Ancient Elf, Daedric, etc.). But, I believe that every new motif that releases in chapters, has a very small chance of dropping the complete book. Most people probably sell those since they can make a fair bit of gold at once or they may have already learned a few chapters before finding the complete motif.

Bottom line is that these things are very rare drops.

Baranthus wrote: »

Jayne_Doe wrote: »

danielclarkb16_ESO wrote: »

Baranthus wrote: »

So if you have all the pages (chapters) of a particular style, you can creat a motif (book)?

I'm not quite sure it works like that. Chapters work slightly different to a book, the books let you craft all armour pieces of the style, where as a chapter only lets you create the legs or the body etc. So if you wanted to create the full set, you'd need to have all the chapters, you don't create a book with them, you just learn the style for all the individual pieces instead.

Right, the chapters don't combine into a full book - you have to read all the of chapters individually. However, some people have been extremely lucky to have the full motif book drop, which, when read, lets you learn the entire motif, rather than having to find the individual chapters.

Imperial only drops as a full motif book, and is very rare. It's a basic race style, so it's just like the blue ones for the races or the purple ones (Ancient Elf, Daedric, etc.). But, I believe that every new motif that releases in chapters, has a very small chance of dropping the complete book. Most people probably sell those since they can make a fair bit of gold at once or they may have already learned a few chapters before finding the complete motif.

Bottom line is that these things are very rare drops.

awesome. thank you for the repplies Where do they actually drop? I'm guessing veteran hard mode PvE?

Well, they would drop the same way that the individual chapters do - which is varied. Dwemer, for example, drops from any dwemer container (urns, pots, etc.). Morag Tong, on the other hand, drops from the Hall of Justice daily reward boxes. Ra Gada drops from treasure chests in Craglorn, while Ancient Orc drops from the two public dungeons in Wrothgar.

Here's a good thread which lists all the motifs and where the get them, as well as the style material:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/260228/all-motifs-updated-list/p1

i found an imperial in a delve and found the xvikyn book in ic sewers.

In my three years playing the game I've found the Imperial motif 3 times and a golden Celestial book once, so the drop chances are pretty slim.

Thawmahs wrote: »

I got the thiefs guild drop from just doing one heist i was pretty happy

What platform? If PS4 NA would you be willing to sell?

I got the imperial in the rift, killing some overland mobs around a delve. I was shocked. as for other motifs I usually do dailies in summerset/wrothgar/vvardenfell. I also got a motif from delve bosses and geysers in summerset.

About 6 months ago, I found an Imperial in a Backpack close to a Dolmen.
That is probably my share of luck on such things for some years to come!

Malborn
PC-EU

Meesha1170 wrote: »

Been playing since 2014 and have obtained the Imp Book twice. One time it was in Cyrodiil in some random town, so I have no idea if Cyrodiil ups the chances and/or if your chances also increase after you have found your first one since I found the second one not long after finding the first.

I played beta, then picked up the game January 2015 and have been playing ever since. I have never picked up any gold books, just bought it. That being said, I would think that it would make sense that you have a better chance of picking up the imperial book in Cyrodiil, but have no idea if it actually does or not....