At least stop giving me Voidsteel, Shadowhide, etc. drops after I've reached the top level. That stuff is totally useless. And I'm not asking to replace it with Rubedite, Rubedo Leather, etc. either. Just remove it from the game at that point. It only takes up inventory space.

What do "random drops" and "immersive" have to do with each other?

Izariel wrote: »

Please- make these sellable at least. Give them more variety. If I make it deep into a dungeon crypt and find a sword hanging on a wall give it a small chance to be a legendary weapon. This would actually be exciting and make dungeon delving far more exciting.

Scenery-loot (the stuff sitting in racks and on tables) used to be worth something, I believe, but they got rid of it's value (and crafting/dismantling value) because it's too easy to farm. (interior spaces, like buildings & boats below deck, respawn just by logging out & in. It's an easy way to farm containers for recipes, for instance. All the stuff in racks & on tables comes back, too.)

This is too funny. This crap wasn't in the game at the beginning and was only added because the Skyrim players complained so much that they couldn't run around and pick up worthless junk like in Skyrim.

Many of us fought against this change, but got over ruled. Nothing better than to fill up your inventory with worthless junk with 0 value that is worthless to even deconstruct.

AlnilamE wrote: »

Scenery Loot was never worth anything. At launch, you couldn't pick it up at all.

Ah, good to know. Wonder where I picked up my wrong info. /ponder

I guess I was not sure what to call it. "Scenery loot" is important to this game. I hardly think it would be game breaking to allow someone to pick up some items and get maybe 40-50 gold a piece. If they want to sit there all day and farm it over and over be my guest but we both know that are better ways of making far more money.

Why is this even an issue? Are people so threatened by someone just wanting to pick up some loot and getting a SMALL amount of gold from it? That is just sad.

Please reverse this change and allow scenery loot to have value.

Vuron wrote: »

This is too funny. This crap wasn't in the game at the beginning and was only added because the Skyrim players complained so much that they couldn't run around and pick up worthless junk like in Skyrim.

Many of us fought against this change, but got over ruled. Nothing better than to fill up your inventory with worthless junk with 0 value that is worthless to even deconstruct.

Not just Skyrim - Oblivion and Morrowind were the same. (I never played Arena and only briefly played Daggerfall so I don't remember if they had random lootable items everywhere.)

I'm not sure if it was a bug but merchants in Morrowind would instantly forget how much they liked you as soon as you exited the conversation so I always made sure I picked up a stash of low value items to sell without haggling to make them like me before selling the valuable stuff.

The difference is that in previous TES games all those items were worth something, or almost all of them anyway. It might not be much - it might not even be enough to justify carrying it back to town because you could drop it and pick up lots of lighter, more valuable items instead - but at least it wasn't literally worthless. Of course the other difference was that they didn't respawn, so you couldn't keep farming the same house or cave or whatever over and over. Once you'd looted it you had to move on.

But I doubt it would break the economy in ESO if they gave those items a low value (say 1-10g each) and/or the chance to salvage into 1 ingot/plank/cloth. Maybe with a low chance that when you pick an item up it would turn out to be one of the ones that can drop from enemies and so worth more.

That would be much more immersive than all these items which are often displayed as if they're valuable and important, or at least useful, being utterly useless.

The reason that it is worth nothing is because there were several times in the past (for instance old orsinium) where you could pick up 100 swords that were worth 2-10gold each, sell them to the merchant, walk 50 meters away and they would respawn.

You could pull 200-300k per hour unlimited times, it was game breaking.

So in typical use a grenade to kill a fly fashion, they just murked the value of all these items.

The reason that you have random drops being useless or worthless is because you need to have garbage to make the decent drops feel better. If all you have is legitimate drops that can be sold or deconned or whatever, when you do pick up that blue furnishing plan or a purple page, it gives you a much bigger dose of happy juice than comparing "decent" things to "Great" things.

theyancey wrote: »

Every item in the game that can be picked up should at least be worth 1 gold and 1 basic mat.

I believe all the 0 gold items can be deconned, which will give at least one crafting mat.. which is worth at least 10g.