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Nchthunkarst loot changed?

CaffeinatedMayhem
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Admittedly, it's been a few weeks since I was in here... but after 6 runs, I have gotten ZERO decorative wax from the urns. I've also had several other grinders saying they aren't getting any cartographers drops.

Is this just a really bad RNG day, or have the loot drops changed? Of note: I am getting 1 purple pattern per run...not a Solitude, but at least worth selling.
  • doomette
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    Admittedly, it's been a few weeks since I was in here... but after 6 runs, I have gotten ZERO decorative wax from the urns. I've also had several other grinders saying they aren't getting any cartographers drops.

    Is this just a really bad RNG day, or have the loot drops changed? Of note: I am getting 1 purple pattern per run...not a Solitude, but at least worth selling.
    I do wonder if they dialed back the cartographer drop rate. Those were by far the fastest public dungeon fragments I ever collected fully, I think it took like 2 runs for all but one piece, and I bought the last one for way cheaper than what other new PD fragments usually go for (and that wasn’t just a lucky find, 5000g was a pretty common price wherever I looked). Compared to how many times I had to run the PD in Elsweyr, ugh.
    I went with a friend the other day for a lead and neither of us got a single fragment drop. Loads of chests still, though.

    Edit: as far as decorative wax/furnishing patterns, I didn’t see a change in that.
    Edited by doomette on October 5, 2020 7:24PM
  • Enemy-of-Coldharbour
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    I noticed this as well a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if it had something to do with this discussion?

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  • CaffeinatedMayhem
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    @Enemy-of-Coldharbour Possibly. I was going through bags on my grinders and they certainly didn't have any cartographers items.

    The decorative wax is what hurts me the most; it's one of the most rare furnishing materials, and urns have always been the best way to farm it. Now that we're in the middle of a housing boom, I'm short on dec wax, but I'd rather sit on a half decorated home than pay 1k each. OT: It seems heartwood was nerfed as well. I can get a bast or regulus drop about every 3rd node, but heartwood is every 10th node. :/
    Edited by CaffeinatedMayhem on October 5, 2020 7:45PM
  • Kaliki
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    I didn't open too many urns, but am pretty sure I saw 1 or two decorative wax.

    But that's no reason not to implement beekeeping to let us farm wax in our own gardens. ;)
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  • GrimTheReaper45
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    Ya I was wondering if the cartographer drops were broke. Was farming this for about an hr a day. The first 3 days I got 1 piece everyday. Didnt farm for awhile because of the antiquity event. Started farming again and went 3 or so days without a single drop. Yesterday I did get one so I guess its not broken.
  • Inaya
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    I farmed this place daily for 2 weeks and got 1 cartogropher drop and 1 purple solitude plan. I hate it!
  • CaffeinatedMayhem
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    Inaya wrote: »
    I farmed this place daily for 2 weeks and got 1 cartogropher drop and 1 purple solitude plan. I hate it!

    Used to get 1 cartographer drop per run, now it's 1 per 10 runs or so. It's definitely been nerfed.

    The urns no longer drop decorative wax. This is RIDICULOUS. It seems ZOS decided that 300-400 gold per wax wasn't expensive enough so the main source of wax (urns) we nerfed. WHY????

    I ran Direnni tomb a few times, I usually get 5-8 wax per run. (Hey devs, that's 20 mintues for enough wax for 1 piece of furniture, this is not an easy grind!) I got 1. Some runs I got NONE.

    Hello @ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_SarahHecker Can you please let the team know that nerfing decorative wax from urns is making furniture difficult to craft? I'm glad some people have stock piles, but I'm almost out, and no, I won't be paying 8k for just 1 component of 1 piece of furniture in a 600 slot home!
    Edited by CaffeinatedMayhem on October 8, 2020 6:37PM
  • PrimusNephilim
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    interesting, I was just doing some light questing and was farming mats in delves in Western Skyrim last night and all I was getting were those useless armor pieces from the urns. This went on all evening.

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  • Inaya
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    I have 1234657897074653 lockpicks tho :o
  • CaffeinatedMayhem
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    Inaya wrote: »
    I have 1234657897074653 lockpicks tho :o

    Yeah, after I had 200 on each character, plus 1200 in bank, I just trash any over 200.
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