I've bought some of the xp drinks during MYM so at least we know that it does drop. But I guess it's purposefully low so that the crown scrolls become a more attractive option.

been searching guild store daily and made 5mill ap trying to farm it no luck. not sure the server has seen one in a long time

trackdemon5512 wrote: »

One person in my guild was trying to sell it for an obscene price.

There is absolutely no reason, no reason at all that an item as such that doesn’t affect AP should be so stupid rare.

The reason being incentive to buy the crown store scrolls instead.

watching for 4 months now saw it 1x for 50mill, hundreds of bg's no go or heard of anyone else in my pvp guilds landing one. odds have to sooo low I see maybe 5 potion makers on the server

Still hunting made around 40mill ap in bg's no luck so far

Yes indeed - the rarity of the two war torte recipe books (for tier 1 and tier 3 tortes), and the Tel Var cost of the middle book (for tier 2 tortes) - plus the equally absurd cost of the ingredients for the tier 2 and tier 3 tortes - makes them pretty much useless.

Worse still, you need THREE of the tier-1 recipe books, and TWO of the tier-2 ones (thus costing a full million in Tel Var), because you need a tier-1 book to make a tier-2, and you need a tier-2 book to make a tier-3 book.

Honestly, the tier 1 book really ought to be reasonably common - as in Psijic Ambrosia Recipe levels of common (i.e. common enough to cost a few thousand in the mall, not a few million). The tier 2 book AND the ingredient (Rubyblossom Extract) could productively have a zero knocked off their Tel Var price and would still be absurdly expensive. And the tier 3 book needs to, well, exist at all.

jle30303 wrote: »

Yes indeed - the rarity of the two war torte recipe books (for tier 1 and tier 3 tortes), and the Tel Var cost of the middle book (for tier 2 tortes) - plus the equally absurd cost of the ingredients for the tier 2 and tier 3 tortes - makes them pretty much useless.

Worse still, you need THREE of the tier-1 recipe books, and TWO of the tier-2 ones (thus costing a full million in Tel Var), because you need a tier-1 book to make a tier-2, and you need a tier-2 book to make a tier-3 book.

Honestly, the tier 1 book really ought to be reasonably common - as in Psijic Ambrosia Recipe levels of common (i.e. common enough to cost a few thousand in the mall, not a few million). The tier 2 book AND the ingredient (Rubyblossom Extract) could productively have a zero knocked off their Tel Var price and would still be absurdly expensive. And the tier 3 book needs to, well, exist at all.

I don't understand why there is such difference in terms of scarcity between the +XP recipes and the +AP recipes.

Maybe certain parameters were misadjusted? the Aetheric Cypher for instance is exceedingly rare too however the sources from which it can be obtained are... well, legion and it can also drop from jubilee reward boxes.

If they adjusted the chance to drop of Chef Arquitius's Lost Thesis based on the same 'table' so to speak this could lead to the current frankly brutal scarcity.

On the upside - I guess - Mourning Dew seems to be easier to come by than Aetherial Dust.

I generally take the chance when there are double drops from nodes in Cyro to do a little bit of farming and is rare for me not to end up with 15-20 of them in the same amount of nodes that would yield 0 Aetherial Dust under the same circumstances (double drops from nodes in base game PvE zones).

In fact I can't remember when was the last time I had dust 'drop' from a node, all the ones I can remember came from jubilee boxes, where this recent Mayhem I walked away with 18 dews and two Colovian recipes.

However IMO the largest mismatch is Aetherial Ambrosia vs Molten War Torte. I don't know how (or even if) the devs calculate in-game value but in real terms, using PC/EU as reference, is around 250k/recipe and 50k/ingredient for the former vs 9M/recipe and 1.3M/ingredient for the latter.

Even factoring in that Perfect Roe is much, much harder to come by that Cyrodiil Citrus (you need the 'base' consumable in both cases after all) the math doesn't check out (for me).

Make of it what you will...

i personally give up on that item...especially after rumors of a 100M sale on PC-EU........basically that thing is in the realm of RMT (like another elusive item, the 6th house banner)

I haven't found one of these nor a Mourning Dew ever, and I have farmed the crap out of Cyrodiil to get three books so far.

Getting one of these two items is probably the same odds as winning the lottery.