TheCyberDruid wrote: »They drop from doing the daily quests in Summerset. Quest givers are in Alinor between the bank and the crafting area.
There's a side quest that you need to do to unlock the geyser daily. You have to do the first 3 story quests to unlock it. It becomes available right after Buried Memories. Even those quests only give one piece at most. I did all 3 daily quests for exactly 30 days after Summerset dropped and only ended up with something like 55 Culanda Laquers. They may have buffed the drop to make it guaranteed but even like that it's quite slow. At least the Sapiarch motif drops quite regularly. Got most pages during those 30 days and lots of duplicates.
IMO Culanda should drops should be changed to bring it in line to how other zone specific materials drop, namely as fragments in harvest nodes throughout the zone, instead of quests.
There's a side quest that you need to do to unlock the geyser daily. You have to do the first 3 story quests to unlock it. It becomes available right after Buried Memories. Even those quests only give one piece at most. I did all 3 daily quests for exactly 30 days after Summerset dropped and only ended up with something like 55 Culanda Laquers. They may have buffed the drop to make it guaranteed but even like that it's quite slow. At least the Sapiarch motif drops quite regularly. Got most pages during those 30 days and lots of duplicates.
IMO Culanda should drops should be changed to bring it in line to how other zone specific materials drop, namely as fragments in harvest nodes throughout the zone, instead of quests.
The most effective thing is to group with 3-4 people and have one person pick up the dailies and share with the group. Everyone turns them in and the next person in line picks up his/her dailies and shares. There is bound to be some overlap where each person won't always get three new dailies, but at least you can run 10-12 dailies in a relatively short time doing it this way.
The benefits are two-fold. 1 - You already have a pre-made group of people to speedily clear the delve(s) and world bosses, and 2 - some people might not be into furniture crafting and will give you their Culanda lacquer for free or at a discount price.
You will now always obtain a Culanda Lacquer from completing daily quests for the Sapiarchs in Alinor.
Reduced the cost in Culanda Lacquer to make Summerset High Elven furnishings for Fine and Superior items from 2 to 1. Artifact and Legendary items still require 2 Culanda Lacquer.
I don't have time to do dailes over multiple characters, or do them multiple times on the same character. It becomes tedious and really boring doing them on just one character each day for a few weeks. I don't know why they made it that grindy.
I don't have time to do dailes over multiple characters, or do them multiple times on the same character. It becomes tedious and really boring doing them on just one character each day for a few weeks. I don't know why they made it that grindy.
I don't have time to do dailes over multiple characters, or do them multiple times on the same character. It becomes tedious and really boring doing them on just one character each day for a few weeks. I don't know why they made it that grindy.
So much this. Especially now that the "new" has worn off Summerset and not as many people are doing the WB dailies (at least not at the time I play) It's sometimes 20-30 minutes waiting between those and the geysers. At least it's a guaranteed drop now...small favors.
I don't have time to do dailes over multiple characters, or do them multiple times on the same character. It becomes tedious and really boring doing them on just one character each day for a few weeks. I don't know why they made it that grindy.
So much this. Especially now that the "new" has worn off Summerset and not as many people are doing the WB dailies (at least not at the time I play) It's sometimes 20-30 minutes waiting between those and the geysers. At least it's a guaranteed drop now...small favors.
I mean I can solo most world bosses out there need be, maybe except the Gryphons which I can't do on all characters, but it's so damn tedious since they have high HP, jump around, shield; Keel Splitter is also often bugged and it can't be killed, just sits there and takes no damage. Also sometimes you have to wait for respawn, travel from place to place because the geyser is not active etc. On average it takes ~30-40 minutes to do all 3 dailies on a character; I did them for a month and ended up with maybe 50 culanda. For me that's simply too much. In 30 minutes I can do writs on 8/14 characters and earn 40K. I simply don't get it why they make you repeat initially interesting activities 100x until they become unbearably boring.
I don't have time to do dailes over multiple characters, or do them multiple times on the same character. It becomes tedious and really boring doing them on just one character each day for a few weeks. I don't know why they made it that grindy.
I think they made it grindy because they decided this time around to make the furniture plans more available. So, it's been easier to find the plans, but harder to make the furnishings. In MW, it was the other way around, where plans were virtually non-existent (at least most of the purples), but they were easy to make.
Of course, now, the best farming spot for the plans was nerfed, so the plans aren't as readily available, and Culanda Lacquer is easier to obtain and the green/blue plans only cost 1 Lacquer to make.