I've had it proc in instanced content; dungeons/trials, specifically.

Only once I got a double drop in Markarth. And I always check every container everywhere I go.
It's feeling more like a 1% chance to get a double drop...

The rate is off completely. I farmed the new Markarth plans on 10 characters for a week straight and they all had the passive slotted. I didn’t get any double drops. I’ve only gotten 1 since the update and that was on a low level toon on Dreloth. I got 2 green food recipes.

redspecter23 wrote: »

@katanagirl1 You noted that you found blue as a pair. Have all your doubles been paired as the same quality? I've had double blue once and double purple twice. I've never seen a mismatched double at all. I'm wondering if they always drop as a pair of the same quality or if it's just random chance.

Yes, I have always gotten two greens or two blues. I did get lucky enough once to get one pair of purples too.

They are also always two base game plans or two zone plans, aka Dwarven or Solitude, since I am farming in the Reach.

I was keeping a tally of how many singles and doubles I was getting, but I got discouraged at how much time I was spending farming furnishing plans and how few I was actually finding (and almost all being ones I already had) that I stopped.

For 50 CP, I think instead that we should get a boost on the percent chance for furnishing plan drops instead of the double drop. I have all day to play and farm furnishing plans and it’s depressing how much time I put in and how little I get. Most of the plans are complete garbage base game furnishing plans and also a lot of provisioning recipes in those same comtainers, too.

redspecter23 wrote: »

@katanagirl1 You noted that you found blue as a pair. Have all your doubles been paired as the same quality? I've had double blue once and double purple twice. I've never seen a mismatched double at all. I'm wondering if they always drop as a pair of the same quality or if it's just random chance.

From what I've seen so far not only you get the same quality, you get the same type (so if one is, lets say, a Redguard plan, so will the other).

If memory serves, I've only gotten greens so far, but there is a chance of double drops from every place that has a chance of dropping plans - even when stealing.

I would bet money that there is a REDUCED chance to get epic furnishing patterns while this is slotted. I used to get epic furnishing patterns pretty regularly. Usually because when I play this game, I binge it and put in more hours per week than a full time job. Real loser s**t if I'm being honest. Most of my time is spent doing exclusively solo content: questing and thieving. I kill every mob in my way, explore every corner of every map, pickpocket every NPC, loot every container...you get the idea.

Last time I played this game, I think I would get an epic furnishing pattern once every few days, or maybe once a week. Certainly less common than motifs, but still relatively common. Since I slotted Homemaker, I went an entire month without ever seeing an epic furnishing--about 400 hrs of play time. Today, I briefly swapped out Homemaker in favor of Infamous while I dumped my inventory of stolen goods.

Unfortunately, I forgot to put Homemaker back in when I was done. Lo and behold, on my very first outing after removing Homemaker, I get an epic furnishing pattern out an urn (and a valuable one too!). It happened so quickly that it does not seem coincidental. I'd bet that they don't want people "getting too lucky" and double looting epic furnishing patterns, so they make them impossible to get with Homemaker.

I realize this is anecdotal and conspiratorial, but my experience honestly has me second guessing the value of this slottable as someone who farms a lot of furnishing patterns.