ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@Tommy_The_Gun That's fair. I've seen some other game's Halloween events also use "spoopy" over the last few years also. So we're not the only one with typos!

@Akasha_Mei It's okay if some don't get the "spoopy" joke. It doesn't detract from understanding the core context of the article. And who am I to ruin our writers having a little fun when writing about one of their favorite events? They don't always get to insert community jokes/ memes. So when they have the opportunity, they take it.

They don't have to get "spoopy", but they have to understand "pooky" as the superior scary season adjective

Love that Witchmother style, can't wait to get that armor!

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

Spoopy Spary Speletons!

That's Spooptacular!

Noticed in the article that it mentioned that Dremora Plunder Skulls can drop from various bosses, and listed them. However, it only mentions 6 of the 7 boss types, leaving out Trial bosses.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@SammyKhajit thanks for the feedback. We checked with the team and the Witchmother’s Servent pages drop rates are working as intended. However, we will pass your overall feedback on drop rates along.

Thanks for confirming. I'm done with the event then. Enough with your crown store nudges. So much for Halloween fun.

It seems style pages only comes in two types these days. Either they drop like leaves during autumn or the drop rate is so infinitesimal it's extreme grind to have a chance of getting one. Like why can't we have a middle ground here?

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@SammyKhajit thanks for the feedback. We checked with the team and the Witchmother’s Servent pages drop rates are working as intended. However, we will pass your overall feedback on drop rates along.

Thanks for checking! Since the abysmal drop rates are as intended, I am not grinding for the small chance of collecting them all. And I am not spending event tickets and/or cash to purchase them.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

@SammyKhajit thanks for the feedback. We checked with the team and the Witchmother’s Servent pages drop rates are working as intended. However, we will pass your overall feedback on drop rates along.

If the project team intended for the skulls to drop dozens of prior year pages while almost never dropping the current year pages, then the project team made a very poor decision that is not acceptable to a large portion of the player base.

Dagoth_Rac wrote: »

It is disappointing how the event style pages, which used to be fun to collect and wear during the event itself, have now become a tedious chore designed to drive players to the cash shop to buy tickets. It is like ZOS have completely given up on the concept of satisfied customers. They would rather have 100 unhappy customers if 1 of them grumbles and gives in and buys tickets, than 100 happy customers with 0 who buy tickets. I understand there are psychological marketing and sales effects at play here and that this can increase revenue. And that, to shareholders, revenue is more important that people. But the fact that making your customers unhappy can be a good business decision just makes me sad.

The cash shop is still the worst way to do it, unless you can't spare an hour. Granted my knowledge is based on PC-NA so bear in mind my numbers can be different from another platform. I've just been playing as normal to get the skulls, this being my 4th Witches Festival there's not a whole lot of excitement for doing all 7 activities per day so I just don't. Upon seeing how rare the style pages were, I just decided to buy them at the end of the event from players - like I do for any style pages that are too annoying for me to obtain (staring at Imperial City boss pages here). I looked last night while placing my weekly bids and found at least 30-40 of these pages around the 100k mark on traders. To me, this is a perfectly reasonable price for them. It keeps the pages from being throwaway pages like Grave Dancer which in turn keeps them slightly more exciting to loot from a plunder skull - well done here ZOS.

If you don't want to do the event then that's fine, go do your normal currency farming method of choice. The easiest way is harvesting. Running around any half-decent farming zone and picking up whatever you see is an EASY 300k-400k per hour. This is my rate if I'm just in voice chat running around in healer gear while waiting for a queue without even trying. Picking a better zone, wild hunt ring, and steed mundus and these numbers quickly become 800k-1m per hour. What this proves to me is that with even the most unoptimized setup, you can farm enough to buy a full set of these pages (7 pieces) in under 2 hours harvesting and if you try, less than one hour. There's no need to go into buying tickets with crowns, psychological marketing, customer relations, or shareholder earning... it's just absurd. I understand companies do this and it's a problem, but "this event ain't it".

MrLasagna wrote: »

Today drops, 8 golden skull
- 4 Grave Dancer
- 4 Glenmoril
- 0 Servant
just another typical day.

Drop rates are so dumb that I don't know why I'm still putting up with this nonsense.

I believe the gold skull boxes suffer the same, unspoken fate as all "recent" reward coffers (I believe it started in Elsweyr).

Which means you have to stockpile them and only open enough to get a single motif. Then do the same the following day. Some days you may get it on the first box you open! Horray! The key is to stop opening boxes once you get the motif / style page until the cooldown resets.

Some say the cooldown is 20-21 hour between receiving them from the boxes. My own ANECDOTAL experience says it is somewhere in that range, too. I understand there is also anecdotal evidence that supports getting multiples. I actually do believe it is possible to get multiples of the style pages / motifs that are gated behind a secret, internal CD, I just believe the odds are definitely not in your favor.

"But I don't have enough bag space to hold all these gold plunder skulls, my normal gear, specialty gear, and consumables!"

You're right. You're going to have to stockpile on multiple toons if you want to have a modicum of breathing room AND maximize the returns from your coffers.

Believe me, I do not like it any more than you do.