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Infinite Archive RNG, Style Pages, and Useless Fragments
syberfut
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I apologize. This is a QQ post, just hoping for squeaky wheel resolution.
To put it bluntly, IA is painful thanks to RNG. Every run is highly dependent on getting the right Visions. One run you could get all the right Visions and do really well, but more often than not, you end up struggling. That in itself is .. whatever.. it's IA, it's meant to be torturous/punishing. What is really frustrating is the reward for spending 6 hours in IA... no style pages and 3 fragments. I already have all of the fragment collectables, and any extra fragments, thus far, are a waste. BTW, have we heard anything about what ZOS is intending to allow us to do with these extra bound fragments?
I know that we can buy the style pages with Archival Fortunes. To purchase all style pages for a class is 17 x 12000 = 204000 Archival Fortunes. A typical "painful" 6 hour run would yield around 45000. Given you had a wonderful bout of devilish RNG and got those fragments instead of the style pages, that would take: 204000 / 45000 = 4.5333 runs * 6 hours = 27.2 hours of "fun". There are 7 classes.. even if you had to farm half of the pages and the buy other half, that comes out to spending: 27.2 * 3.5 = 95.2 hours in IA. Perhaps I'm a little jaded from farming all of the IA gear before the style pages were released, and you can imagine how much effort that took... but... this is just QQ-ingly painful.
Perhaps, if we will never be allowed to sell the fragments, could we at least be able to exchange the extra fragments for style pages.. they generally feel like they have the same drop rate.
Anywho, thank you for QQ-ing with me >^.^<
Edit: Went to check how many extra fragments I have:
4x Disgusting Spoils
5x Erroneous Archive Map
3x Maligraphic Ichor
2x Unreliable Archive Map
ZOS! Haalp!! ^.^
Edited by syberfut on April 1, 2024 6:05AM To put it bluntly, IA is painful thanks to RNG. Every run is highly dependent on getting the right Visions. One run you could get all the right Visions and do really well, but more often than not, you end up struggling. That in itself is .. whatever.. it's IA, it's meant to be torturous/punishing. What is really frustrating is the reward for spending 6 hours in IA... no style pages and 3 fragments. I already have all of the fragment collectables, and any extra fragments, thus far, are a waste. BTW, have we heard anything about what ZOS is intending to allow us to do with these extra bound fragments?
I know that we can buy the style pages with Archival Fortunes. To purchase all style pages for a class is 17 x 12000 = 204000 Archival Fortunes. A typical "painful" 6 hour run would yield around 45000. Given you had a wonderful bout of devilish RNG and got those fragments instead of the style pages, that would take: 204000 / 45000 = 4.5333 runs * 6 hours = 27.2 hours of "fun". There are 7 classes.. even if you had to farm half of the pages and the buy other half, that comes out to spending: 27.2 * 3.5 = 95.2 hours in IA. Perhaps I'm a little jaded from farming all of the IA gear before the style pages were released, and you can imagine how much effort that took... but... this is just QQ-ingly painful.
Perhaps, if we will never be allowed to sell the fragments, could we at least be able to exchange the extra fragments for style pages.. they generally feel like they have the same drop rate.
Anywho, thank you for QQ-ing with me >^.^<
Edit: Went to check how many extra fragments I have:
4x Disgusting Spoils
5x Erroneous Archive Map
3x Maligraphic Ichor
2x Unreliable Archive Map
ZOS! Haalp!! ^.^
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XSTRONG✭✭✭✭✭
✭So to buy all style pages for a class you have to pay 204000 Archival Fortunes?
If I want to spend Archival Fortunes on Alchemy container to get columbine and bugloss I will have to spend around 450.000 Archival Fortunes only to get 200 bugloss and 200 columbine among with other flowers.
How many hours are 450.000 Archival Fortunes for just 1 stack of each? Lol0 -
MidniteOwl1913✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I only have a couple of hours at most to play at one time, and for the first 3 arcs the drop rate is so bad in the entire time the archive has been live I've only gotten 6 of the spoils fragments and about the same for all the fragments except the one that drops from the daily. Buying the fragments would take a lot of hours in the archive since the lower arcs equal lower rewards.
The result is I don't bother with IA anymore. It's a boring slog with little reward and my patience has run out.
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Necrotech_Master✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭the randomness of the visions/verses is part of the game mode, its why i enjoy running it, sometimes the selection is not great, sometimes its excellent
ive reported the issue about the collectible fragments continuing to drop since about 2 weeks after the archive came out, i have some toons with like nearly 10-15 of each collectible except the ichor (mainly cause ichor as a random drop is extremely rare for me lol)
im still on the fence if i should just delete them or wait to see if they let us do something with themplays PC/NA
handle @Necrotech_Master
active player since april 2014
i have my main house (grand topal hideaway) listed in the housing tours, it has multiple target dummies, scribing altar, and grandmaster stations (in progress being filled out), as well as almost every antiquity furnishing on display to preview them
feel free to stop by and use the facilities0 -
XSTRONG✭✭✭✭✭
✭Maybe the fragments where meant to be tradeable at first but they changed their mind0