Farm gold and buy the styles instead.

I don't know.. I think the drop rate for anything tradeable is pretty good and when it isn't, players in dungeons/trials are usually very open to trading what they find. I've played many MMO's where things costed a ridiculous amount, I'm talking about grinding gold for a week just to afford something rare and they was literally 1, maybe 2 items a week per server.. There are expensive items in the game, like 400k+, but generally the items I'm interested in aren't that much and even if they were, that's a manageable amount.

In this game, you may pay 50-100k for something good, it really isn't that bad when you can make gold pretty quickly. That rough average can gold an item out and even then, you don't need to gold every piece of armor since it barely does anything.

I remember a previous MMO I played where you maybe made 50k an hour grinding mobs, leveling took FOREVER and was the entire extent of the games content. Items literally costed 100-400 milion and since leveling was the entire game, you had to buy really rare and expensive gear along the leveling process or grinding was just impossibe. The best way to make money in that game was to just get lucky, which is how a lot of asian MMOs work. ESO is different in that there are guaranteed ways to make gold.

I'm talking about gathering 15+ mobs over 60seconds, to kill them over 15+ seconds after grouping and using aoe damage, just to get 0.01% exp per mob, even less at higher levels. 0.1% per grouping was considered good and there was 120+ levels and rising with updates.

Not only that, in this game you can use transmutation stones to get the proper trait of any item and they aren't hard to farm. The game I'm talking about had items you could level to + 15 and they got more Glowy effects, they also had a less than 5% to succeed past a certain point and they required items to proctect them in case you failed, only obtainable using real world money. Of course these items could be bought in game after people purchased them, but they cost like 10 mil per.

So yeah. You don't know how good this game is until you've been addicted to those crappy asian made MMO's that instill endless grinds to enjoy the game. I've been max level for years in ESO, I could of used the same sets this entire time, getting gold equipment is a guarantee with 8 materials and sets don't need to replaced unless you want to chase the meta. Vicious Ophidian YEARS after it was released is still an amazing set, one of, if not my favourite for stamina (please ZOS give it the perfected treatment like false gods). That's insane when you really think about it..

Drop rates seem to fluctuate between summer and winter months. Summertime, I noticed a better drop rate on MS inferno staffs. Chest farming would allot two to three a week. Winter I haven't picked one up in months.

Taleof2Cities wrote: »

When you play any MMO genre game, you should already know what you're getting yourself into in terms of drop rates, @concentricarc.

Yep, totally get this. No problem grinding - but some of this can be just absurd at times. I don't expect to get whole sets immediately, but when I get one style page after 50 clears, somethings got to give.