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New Annihilarch's Chosen motif
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Ingenon✭✭✭✭✭
✭Based on posts by others, sometime on Monday 5/30 the motif drop rate on PS4/EU was nerfed to oblivion. I saw the nerf to oblivion motif drop change on Tuesday 5/31 on PS4/NA. It went from like one motif drop per day and you would get the drop in one to at most five tries, to not getting a motif drop after many tries. I tried a total of fourteen times yesterday with no motif drop, at different times during the day, and using different alts.
I expect there is now a reset time so that you can only get one motif per day, and a random number generator for each time you loot the final treasure chest as to whether or not there is a motif. Before it was like a roulette wheel where you are betting even/odd, and now it is like a roulette wheel where you are betting on your lucky number to come up. Some people will get really lucky and get a motif the first time they play that day, and others will play for hours and not get a motif.0 -
joerginger✭✭✭✭✭Two days ago I wasted four hours (or two sugar skulls) trying to get a motif to drop. Eventually I gave up. Before that, it had taken a handful of tries at most.0 -
Eliahnus✭✭✭✭Always the same kind of nagging, come on guys, one drop a day is not bad at all.
And yes, sometimes you will have to open the chest more than you want, but in the mean time you also have a chance to get a deadlands furnishing plan you can sell (or learn) and a chance to loot a nice companion item from the boss kill.1 -
ZigoSid✭✭✭✭As I said, I'm ok with only one drop per day, it's the same for most of the motifs and understandable to make the content try to last in time.
What annoy me is that it looks like the drop rates have changed. That or the reset's timer is now longer and tied to the motif, and not based on the general daily reset.
End of last week was like :
- Connecting more or less at 8:30AM, 2 tries, motif.
- Connecting more or less at 8:30AM, 1 try, motif.
- Connecting more or less at 8:30AM, 2 tries, motif.
(Reset is at 8AM here in France.)
And now since 2 days it's more like :
- Connecting at 8:30AM : around 10 tries, 1 motif.
- Today connecting at 9:30AM, so later than most of the other days : around 20 *** tries. At 10:30AM I posted my rage message here and then a few tries later, only got my motif around 11:10AM.
I can't believe I simply go from "best luck ever" to "worst luck ever" , especially since some people here seems to have seen a change too. And by the way, I'm on PC.
Edited by ZigoSid on June 1, 2022 3:16PM1 -
EF321✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Strangely I had similar experience, first 2 days both first tries, then two, then 6-~15, but today again 2.
But I guess just rng things so far.0 -
ceiron✭✭✭✭Are people learning the pages?
Since i learnt the full motif the drop rate is much worse. Coincidence maybe.0 -
NettleCarrier✭✭✭✭✭I was fine spending an hour per night killing the boss over and over trying to get the drop when they were several hundred thousand gold, but now that prices have dropped (as expected) it's no longer fun or worth the time to farm these. I did over 10 kills last night with no drops and just left the instance after that empty-handed. Major props to those that can tolerate it, I'll happily buy the motifs from you in a month when they are down to 5k lol.GM of Gold Coast Corsairs - PCNA0 -
ob1ken0bi✭✭✭Anyone notice that they started giving less of the Style Material Blaze-Veined Prism in the Final boss coffer and started to give Treasured items in its place???2 -
joerginger✭✭✭✭✭I can't even remember getting the style material. But I certainly get lots of the trashure items, so after an unsuccessful session I end up with up to five "Daedroth-Tooth Scrimshaw" and similar junk. They sure love to make up fancy names and descriptions for their trashures, but all these really do is fill our inventories even faster.
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pklemming✭✭✭✭✭
✭2nd drop today, 6th drop yesterday., 14th drop the day before, 1st drop for all previous chests0 -
pklemming✭✭✭✭✭
✭joerginger wrote: »I can't even remember getting the style material. But I certainly get lots of the trashure items, so after an unsuccessful session I end up with up to five "Daedroth-Tooth Scrimshaw" and similar junk. They sure love to make up fancy names and descriptions for their trashures, but all these really do is fill our inventories even faster.
You sure you were not in the Blackwood instance, I never get treasure items in the Dreadlands instance.It sounds like you ported to someone in the wrong Atol.
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joerginger✭✭✭✭✭joerginger wrote: »I can't even remember getting the style material. But I certainly get lots of the trashure items, so after an unsuccessful session I end up with up to five "Daedroth-Tooth Scrimshaw" and similar junk. They sure love to make up fancy names and descriptions for their trashures, but all these really do is fill our inventories even faster.
You sure you were not in the Blackwood instance, I never get treasure items in the Dreadlands instance.It sounds like you ported to someone in the wrong Atol.
You're right, I can't know where I ported. But given the big number of people, it was more likely the correct area. It's impossible to know for sure, though.0 -
Czeri✭✭✭✭✭What the hell happened to the drop rate?! I've been parked at this boss for over 3 hours now with no new chapter. Is it the cooldown that got extended, or is the rate now the new buoyant armiger?0 -
Mr_Stach✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I guess Zos just Ran out of ChaptersAltoholic, Frost Warden Sympathizer and Main
Glacial Guardian - Main - Frost Warden Zealot
The Frost Man Cometh - PC Frost Backup0 -
Czeri✭✭✭✭✭There's no mention of any changes in the patch notes. At the very least we should have been told we're wasting our time trying to complete this motif...0
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Sonnir✭✭✭joerginger wrote: »You're right, I can't know where I ported. But given the big number of people, it was more likely the correct area. It's impossible to know for sure, though.
Actually you can tell what portal you are at based on the drops. A set item drops in every chest.
If you are getting set items from Blackwood, you are in a Blackwood portal.
If you are getting Deadlands set items, you are in a Deadlands (in this case, the "correct" portal) portal.
Happy hunting!0 -
joerginger✭✭✭✭✭Addendum: It's worthwhile paying attention to the gear that is dropped. As a poster previously suggested, I had indeed been in a Blackwood portal. Something between ten and twenty jewelry pieces from the three Blackwood sets in my inventory were a dead giveaway, I guess.
So make sure to check which gear set drops the first time you loot the chest. If it's a Bog Raider, Deadlands Assassin or Frostbite set, well, get out as fast as you can! If it's Eye of the Grasp, Hexos' Ward or Kynmarcher's Cruelty, you're in the right place.
The style material Blaze-Veined Prism also drops and I haven't seen one of the rubbish inventory fillers yet.
Giving the two locations identical names is a bit of a cruel joke.2 -
Melivar✭✭✭I have found its closer to a 24 hour timer I haven't kept careful enough track of the time yet however my first drop was around 11PM EST and it seems that no matter what time I jump into the zone I will get the drop within 1 or 2 kills after 11PM.
Over the weekend I was in there for nearly 2 hours though not involved in every kill in that time period and the drop still came right around the 11PM time frame.
Might just be my RNG but been pretty consistent for over a week0 -
Dojohoda✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Oh, this explains the uptick that I have been seeing of guildies in the atoll.Fan of playing magblade since 2015. (PC NA)
Might be joking in comments.
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Ingenon✭✭✭✭✭
✭I'm glad the motif is still dropping for some of you.
I got a motif drop every day for six days, and have traded with others so my crafter knows 6 different motif 107. I got my last motif drop on May 30. Every day since then I have closed the portal multiple times, 14 times on May 31, 6 times on June 1, and 7 times on June 2 (today) - and no motif drop.
I'm getting Deadlands armor/weapons every time I open the final chest, and sometimes getting companion gear, praxis, or blueprints. But no motif drop for three days in a row.0 -
sup✭✭✭Drop rate has to have been nerfed into the ground. I have been seeing the same thing; went from only needing a handful of spawns at most to standing there for potentially hours.0
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Daimonion82✭✭✭✭Well, third day without a drop. Not worth the time anymore. Last week I've got a drop after 3rd Duke max.0 -
jaws343✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Drop rate has to have been nerfed into the ground. I have been seeing the same thing; went from only needing a handful of spawns at most to standing there for potentially hours.
I've gotten a drop every day now, except 1 where I think I had the timing wrong and didn't really have time that day to play more than a brief period.
At most, I think I have had to kill the boss 4 times to get a drop, most of the time it is first or second kill.
Only need 3 pages left, because I bought a few that were listed cheap with the money I made selling off some of the duplicate pages that dropped for me.0 -
Snamyap✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭joerginger wrote: »joerginger wrote: »I can't even remember getting the style material. But I certainly get lots of the trashure items, so after an unsuccessful session I end up with up to five "Daedroth-Tooth Scrimshaw" and similar junk. They sure love to make up fancy names and descriptions for their trashures, but all these really do is fill our inventories even faster.
You sure you were not in the Blackwood instance, I never get treasure items in the Dreadlands instance.It sounds like you ported to someone in the wrong Atol.
You're right, I can't know where I ported. But given the big number of people, it was more likely the correct area. It's impossible to know for sure, though.
Fun fact: if you enter through a portal in Dead Lands and then open the map while in Atoll and then zoom the map out (right mouse click on pc) you get the map of Blackwood.1 -
smackinhippies✭✭✭So far I have gone into a Deadlands portal 3 times in 3 days, gotten a motif page first attempt. All three of them axes.. smh0 -
reddog1948✭✭I thought it was just me. Up through 1st week in Dec 2022, could get a motif drop from 1 to 5 boss kills. Now over 7 boss kills every day since and no motif drop. Something sure changed, I even tried alt-toons.
I do have somewhat of an observation - total player online population does seem to affect the drop rate - more players --> better drop rate. I also think that the old only the top 12 DPSs get the good stuff, the rest just get pure junk.
I found this out in Wrothgar when doing bosses and paying attention to the total number of players killing bosses.0
