Giant clams a waste of time!

Somber97866 · October 2019

The RNG involved is terrible and makes it not worth doing. They nerf food so that gold food becomes absolute meta and make the resources for the newest ones 10times worse a farm than the regular alchemy matts. It's about as annoying as farming for platings tbh.

Taleof2Cities · October 2019

Avoid the RNG and buy what you need at the guild stores, @Somber97866.

Or, change your build so you can get by with purple food.

I’m pretty sure if you post your build, you’ll get feedback on ways to improve it ... to compensate the downgrade to purple food.

Katahdin · October 2019

Yea buy that Powdered Mother of Pearl at 2500 to 3000 gold per.
12,500 gold to 15,000 for 4 servings or 4,600 gold for one serving from a guild store.

Make other lucky players rich while you go poor

Or just do what other people do, dont use that food except VERY rarely in the hardest content and use something else that is cheaper for almost everything

Hapexamendios · October 2019

I use blue food for the majority of content. Save the gold for when you really need it.

MartiniDaniels · October 2019

In PVE orc with lava foot soup. In PVP.. well, you are killing other players, pretty sure extra health recovery is notable and worth the cost.
Though of course I agree that drop rate both for mother of pearl and clam gall should be drastically increased. OR easiest solution - ZOS should reduce amount of resources consumed for food preparation. For example to 3 pearls / 2 clam gall.

VaranisArano · October 2019

I have better luck with doing Abyssal geysers for the alchemy reagents than I do with the giant clams.

D0PAMINE · October 2019

I used telvar for the waxed things.

Jeremy · October 2019

VaranisArano wrote: »

I have better luck with doing Abyssal geysers for the alchemy reagents than I do with the giant clams.

Same here.

I tried the giant clam routine myself and came to a similar conclusion the OP did. My advice: stick to the geysers.

ruengdet2515 · October 2019

RNG chance to successs = 0.000001%

EvilAutoTech · October 2019

I love giant clam.

Canned_Apples · October 2019

Fishing for Perfect Roe is worse.

MasterSpatula · October 2019

Jeremy wrote: »

VaranisArano wrote: »

I have better luck with doing Abyssal geysers for the alchemy reagents than I do with the giant clams.

Same here.

I tried the giant clam routine myself and came to a similar conclusion the OP did. My advice: stick to the geysers.

Was going to say exactly this. This is definitely the way to go, OP.

kringled_1 · October 2019

The largest contribution to my stash of these reagents, by far, was the reward boxes from the jubilee event. Next is the writ rewards. Geysers is third, and clams is last. I do a fair amount of alchemy writs though, and I'm not in Summerset that much anymore.

kargen27 · October 2019

I always figured the giant clams were just an extra surprise as you run along the coast between whatever else you are doing. That way if all they give me is a worm I can say oh cool a free worm.

Grianasteri · October 2019

Somber97866 wrote: »

Giant clams a waste of time!

Oh I dont know... Ive had some very enjoyable large clams in my time...

redlink1979 · October 2019

You need gold food for what content? There are other viable and cheaper options as stated previously.

Deathlord92 · October 2019

I feel your pain farming powdered mother of pearl is horrible and I hope zos ups the drop chances.

Tatanko · October 2019

Deathlord92 wrote: »

I feel your pain farming powdered mother of pearl is horrible and I hope zos ups the drop chances.

No thanks. It's supposed to be rare because it's the key to a top-tier food item. I bet you think jewelry crafting requires too many materials too, don't you?

omegatay_ESO · October 2019

Canned_Apples wrote: »

Fishing for Perfect Roe is worse.

Good, the less there is, the more I make.

Deathlord92 · October 2019

Tatanko wrote: »

Deathlord92 wrote: »

I feel your pain farming powdered mother of pearl is horrible and I hope zos ups the drop chances.

No thanks. It's supposed to be rare because it's the key to a top-tier food item. I bet you think jewelry crafting requires too many materials too, don't you?

This isn’t about jewellery crafting lol and no I have never had a problem with it. Buff food is used often it’s needed so why would anyone want the ingredients to be such a grind lol 😂

Somber97866 · October 2019

Jewelry crafting is an unrealistic grind that was built off of glass motif page fragment grind that they changed bc everyone hated it and wasn't worth the time

kamimark · October 2019

Gold food should be better than purple, purple should be better than blue (it's currently not, with limited exceptions), blue better than green, green better than white trash scavenged from a dumpster.

And spending a lot of time on a coast looking for clams with treasure in them isn't a great way to get rich; beachcombers are bums IRL, and kinda in ESO. But when I'm fishing, I do it in places where I can also find clams, free bonus.

barney2525 · October 2019

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Avoid the RNG and buy what you need at the guild stores, @Somber97866.

Or, change your build so you can get by with purple food.

I’m pretty sure if you post your build, you’ll get feedback on ways to improve it ... to compensate the downgrade to purple food.

..and also, plenty of people will be glad to openly laugh at your build, even if it is a solid build.

This is, after all, ESO Community

xenowarrior92eb17_ESO · October 2019

farm geysers and u get 1-5 per kill.

Veinblood1965 · October 2019

Tatanko wrote: »

Deathlord92 wrote: »

I feel your pain farming powdered mother of pearl is horrible and I hope zos ups the drop chances.

No thanks. It's supposed to be rare because it's the key to a top-tier food item. I bet you think jewelry crafting requires too many materials too, don't you?

You used you too many times, just saying.

Canned_Apples · October 2019

I spent about 20-30minutes farming clams and got enough for a batch and a half, or maybe more.
I've had zero luck getting perfect roe. zero. it's far too boring farming fish.

Emma_Overload · October 2019

Just grind gold and buy it.

buttaface · October 2019

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

Avoid the RNG and buy what you need at the guild stores, @Somber97866.

Or, change your build so you can get by with purple food.

I’m pretty sure if you post your build, you’ll get feedback on ways to improve it ... to compensate the downgrade to purple food.

Thread is feedback on the droprate from clams, not OP's build or the option to buy things in guild stores, of which OP is already undoubtedly aware.

Agree with OP, the clam spawn and drop rate should be tweaked up a bit, not too much, but some.

FlopsyPrince · October 2019

I have found many things are almost impossible to find on guild vendors on EU PS4, even if I was willing to pay really outrageous prices.

Elsonso · October 2019

Canned_Apples wrote: »

Fishing for Perfect Roe is worse.

Does this stuff still drop?

kargen27 · October 2019

I might have to get some Powdered Mother of Pearl into the guild store. I've never actually farmed for them but have over 300. Had to be mostly from doing geysers while waiting for trial groups to fill.