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Clothing material / Ancestor Silk
VvwvenomwvV
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Problem: It's hard to get.
Solution: Allow it to drop from plant based enemies.
Since you can get leather from a wolf, bear, or a mudcrab ( lol ), it would stand to reason you should get plant based material from plant based enemies.
Can we please make this happen?
Solution: Allow it to drop from plant based enemies.
Since you can get leather from a wolf, bear, or a mudcrab ( lol ), it would stand to reason you should get plant based material from plant based enemies.
Can we please make this happen?
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vibeborn✭✭✭✭✭That's an interesting idea. Personally I have no problems finding it, since that's all (my crafter) collects. If anything I have more trouble finding other clothing mats
But I like the idea nontheless2 -
SickleCider✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Do you have keen eye on? I trip over ancestor silk all the time! It likes to hide inside bushes and stuff. Not trying to be contrary, trying to help.✨🐦✨ Blackfeather Court Commission ✨🐦✨10 -
danno8✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭VvwvenomwvV wrote: »Problem: It's hard to get.
It's not hard at all to get. It's incredibly easy. Just run around and pick it up anywhere and everywhere.
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Inaya✭✭✭✭✭
✭It's everywhere...I have thousand and thousands of them and I don't "farm" it either.6 -
virtus753✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Getting it will be easier will the new CP. We’ll be able to boost the Plentiful Harvest proc from 10% to 50% chance.3 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Have 6 alts doing master writs, its one mat I run out off together with jewelry crafting.
Don't farm outside of surveys and they are on hold because increased drop chances the 8th.
jewelry might get more master crafters because blue tempers sell for more than any other gold one.
Silk also drop hide because 6 year old reasons, any animal style mob drop leather including mud crabs but not in FG1.
I guess it was removed as people pulled them on last boss and then died and repeated?
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.2 -
redlink1979✭✭✭✭✭
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Maybe it just depends on where and at which time you try to farm it. I never had any issues finding nodes.VvwvenomwvV wrote: »Problem: It's hard to get. (...)"Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear"- Sons of the Night Mother | VforVendetta | Grownups Gaming EU | English Elders [PS][EU] 2500 CP
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erio✭✭✭✭✭Its not hard to obtain imo. If you are struggling to find it, just buy some from guild vendors. Its dirt cheap.1
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VaranisArano✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Clothing nodes are a little less common than wood or ore nodes because the Clothing writs require cloth and leather. I find that Keen Eye and turning off grass/plants in settings helps a lot when it comes to farming Ancestor Silk and alchemy reagents. I know it makes the game less pretty, but it's so much easier to spot the resources against bare ground.Edited by VaranisArano on February 22, 2021 10:02PM0 -
Sergykid✭✭✭✭✭
✭it's too much i would say.
there's actually too much of any material. I sell to vendor rubedite iron and ruby ash, because they're too cheap to bother selling them in guild stores. Silk is decent because pve is full magicka, and platinum sells the same as slik.
but the game would surely use a lower spawn rate, or fewer nodes over an area.
also starter zones have way much more farming nodes than other zones, probably to stress new players into the craft bag-PC EU- / battlegrounds on my youtube1 -
bmnoble✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Its not hard to obtain imo. If you are struggling to find it, just buy some from guild vendors. Its dirt cheap.
Cheap? its the second most expensive refined mat after platinum ounce at the moment.
The ancestor silk nodes are easy to spot just takes time to farm them, either from the nodes in zones or from surveys, if you need a large quantity your best bet is still guild traders.
I don't think there are enough plant based enemies for it to make much difference, even then I think it would be more likely for them to drop alchemy mats.1 -
VaranisArano✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭it's too much i would say.
there's actually too much of any material. I sell to vendor rubedite iron and ruby ash, because they're too cheap to bother selling them in guild stores. Silk is decent because pve is full magicka, and platinum sells the same as slik.
but the game would surely use a lower spawn rate, or fewer nodes over an area.
also starter zones have way much more farming nodes than other zones, probably to stress new players into the craft bag
Starter zones have more nodes (well, they have a full zone's worth of nodes in a smaller area) because before One Tamriel players leveled out of their starter zones pretty quickly. Think of it as giving those new players a leg up on all the iron, maple, and jute they needed to start crafting.
Also, this predates the Crafting Bag, so for all that ZOS does treat inventory as the classic "create a problem, sell the solution," in this case, we can't blame the Crafting Bag for starter zone nodes.1 -
VvwvenomwvV✭✭✭✭Ancestor silk can quickly run dry when doing crafting. Rubedo doesn't have the same problem because there are many animals / enemies that drop it. There are many plant based enemies in the game. It would stand to reason that plant based enemies should drop plant based materials.3
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Mythreindeer✭✭✭✭✭Its not hard to obtain imo. If you are struggling to find it, just buy some from guild vendors. Its dirt cheap.
Cheap? its the second most expensive refined mat after platinum ounce at the moment.
The ancestor silk nodes are easy to spot just takes time to farm them, either from the nodes in zones or from surveys, if you need a large quantity your best bet is still guild traders.
I don't think there are enough plant based enemies for it to make much difference, even then I think it would be more likely for them to drop alchemy mats.
Just think of the spriggan slaughter. Oh the horror.1 -
Brrrofski✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭VvwvenomwvV wrote: »Ancestor silk can quickly run dry when doing crafting. Rubedo doesn't have the same problem because there are many animals / enemies that drop it. There are many plant based enemies in the game. It would stand to reason that plant based enemies should drop plant based materials.
It mainly runs dry because in a 3 day rotation, light armor is twice and leather once.4 -
poodlemasterb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭"Cheap? its the second most expensive refined mat after platinum ounce at the moment."
Hmm. I see AS at 60 at the lowest and P at 50 right now. Not at all high prices in my book. Its more efficient for me to buy mats, as crafters make money crafting, not running around. My Alchemist in Coldharbour does farm but that is a prime place.
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✭✭✭✭✭I wind up needing to buy AS on my EU accounts some, as I play at EU peak time, and that means it's pretty hard to gather enough to keep up.
I got 200 for 36 gold each earlier, which I consider a steal....0 -
zaria✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭One part of the problem is that the surveys as 2/6 of nodes is Rubedo leather who drop from most animal style mobs.
have 12 K something of it but has to buy silk. Same with jewelry crafting.
One solution is to run writs on alts who are level one in crafting skills, they still have an chance of surveys.
Now people hold on to their surveys as it will get buffed with new cp.
Grinding just make you go in circles.
Asking ZoS for nerfs is as stupid as asking for close air support from the death star.0 -
tmbrinks✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Have 6 alts doing master writs, its one mat I run out off together with jewelry crafting.
Don't farm outside of surveys and they are on hold because increased drop chances the 8th.
jewelry might get more master crafters because blue tempers sell for more than any other gold one.
Silk also drop hide because 6 year old reasons, any animal style mob drop leather including mud crabs but not in FG1.
I guess it was removed as people pulled them on last boss and then died and repeated?
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trackdemon5512✭✭✭✭✭
✭It's as difficult to get as any other node. Just realize you can't farm leather from nodes and it becomes clear how common it is. The reason you notice you run out while doing writs is that 2 out of the 3 days in a rotation are light armor gear.
As for surveys they provide a fair amount of materials of both clothing mats. You just need to farm more.0 -
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✭✭Picking up the nodes I pass by works for me. But I admit I have only 3-4 chars doing max level writs and spend most of my game time doing other things so I see plenty of nodes.1 -
VvwvenomwvV✭✭✭✭Okay, so apparently the main topic of the discussion is getting away here. I'm saying that there are many enemies/ animals that drop leather. It would stand to reason that plant based enemies should drop plant based material as well.0
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volkeswagon✭✭✭✭✭
✭Ancestor silk is all over the place. It's easy to find with keen eye. I have so much of it I sell it. Tip. Do your crafting writs for surveys. Make alts just for the writs.1 -
Zenzuki✭✭✭✭✭Hard to get???
It's literally... EVERYWHERE!
Have almost 12K of them.
Just look down when you're going anywhere!?! Boom!
It doesn't need to drop from anything else.
Seriously!Can Open...
Worms EVERYWHERE!2 -
phaneub17_ESO✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Just do army of alts doing daily crafting writs, rack up in Surveys. Hint: Alts don't need to scale higher than 1/10 materials, while you're doing Jute/Rawhide crafting writ dailies, the Survey can be used on your Main with 10/10 material and you'll get exactly that.2 -
Eedat✭✭✭✭✭VvwvenomwvV wrote: »Problem: It's hard to get.
Hard disagree. It's actually super easy to get though. Like legitimately one of the easiest things in the game to get. You literally pick it up off the ground and it's all over the place in every zone. You can easily find over a stack of raw silk an hour plus all sorts of other mats you can sell for more
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VaranisArano✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭VvwvenomwvV wrote: »Okay, so apparently the main topic of the discussion is getting away here. I'm saying that there are many enemies/ animals that drop leather. It would stand to reason that plant based enemies should drop plant based material as well.
Spriggans would drop wood, not plant fibers, since they're animate trees. Lurchers are pretty similar - they clearly are made of wood, not jute.
It'd be a little weird to kill a strangler and have it cough up cotton, as opposed to the digested remains of whatever that last adventurer it ate was carrying.
Beyond those weird trap plants in Murkmire and Blackreach, what other plant enemies are there?0 -
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✭Well you can't compare scraps to silk because scraps don't drop in plants. Leather comes from animals, and everything else from nodes. If you want more silk you have to farm it by picking them. You can't expect to find it in creatures cause where would you get scraps then?0
