Elsweyr was really a sweet spot for housing for me. The drop rate was good, I farmed a lot and got some good plans, and had enough duplicates to sell and buy the ones I didn’t have. I bought Potentate’s Retreat and decorated it decently within a reasonable amount of time.

Western Skyrim and Markarth - well, the insistence by some in the housing community here that we get new plans later in the year means that Vampiric and Markarth plans are expensive due to low drop rate and no random furnishing envelopes available. I still can’t fully decorate Stone Eagle Aerie. I spent 2 mil gold on the last plan I bought and the prices are even higher now.

Blackwood looks even worse. I’m not planning to buy any houses, because there are few places to farm furnishing plans and I only have a few blues and no purples so far. I can’t make any gold selling the few green furnishing plans I find, which means I can’t buy any, either. Plus, I’m still trying to buy 2 mil gold + plans for Markarth. In addition, despite doing the Blackwood daily quests every day on my main toon, and also on one alt the last few days, I only have 3 Ivory Brigade motif pages so far in what, 23 days? I think I’ve only got a few of the style mats as well.

Please don’t strangle the life out of the housing community this way. We need reasonable drop rates for both mats and furnishing plans to be able to enjoy the houses we spent so many crowns on to purchase. Don’t make the countless hours we on spend farming be for naught.