Is drop chance very very low or zero during the first arc or why none ever dropped for me? (I make it maybe to the endboss of arc 2 but only once managed to get beyond - soloing)

AnduinTryggva wrote: »

Is drop chance very very low or zero during the first arc or why none ever dropped for me? (I make it maybe to the endboss of arc 2 but only once managed to get beyond - soloing)

Drop chance is low generally, I have had 2 in 1 run (usually go to arc 6 or 7) but it definitely isn't common

I've just wanted to write that apparantly I am cursed because none has dropped for me ever but how I got my first drop at endboss at end of arc 1.

I've reconstructed how many Tho'ats in total (irrespective of level) I have completed up to now. I've collected about 60 thausand IA currency. According to my experience I can collect about 4x220 + 1x440 minimum for one Tho'at kill = 1320 on arc 1 and 4x330 + 1x550(?) = 1870 on arc 2 not counting marauders and skamp and once a day the daily. As I usually succeed in killing Tho'at on arc 1 but mostly fail before her on arc 2 my average gain is somewhere between 2000 and 2500 (estimated) on the more optimistic side. So I would say I have killed Tho'at minimum 24 times for one single drop.

That drop rate is extremely low and I would think that it is impossible to complete the stickerboard with drops alone. So you likely will obtain most of your motifs from buying. Considering that you need 12000 IA money I need to complete about 5 to 6 arcs for one motif.

I have calculated that we have 109 available motif pages for all classes and armor and weapon parts (for some strange reason there is no weapon style for the sorc class if I see correctly - at least it does not show on the sticker board like the other class styles).

So provided you have really bad luck (like I tend to have apparantly) I'd need to play between 545 and 654 IA runs to complete the sticker board (reduced maybe by a few runs with those low rate drops) - provided that the styles are curated (which they likely are not). That is some hardcore grind here. At least for normal people like me who has the trifecta run for vetVateshran but probably just so with quite some effort on my side. Others are surely better and reach higher arcs and get higher gains and may reduce the grind by some percentage. It still looks pretty hardcore - and there is so much to buy with the currency that I wonder if ZOS really needs to put the threshold so high to motivate people to return to the IA.

I've most frequently gotten them from the scamp, but have occasionally (very rarely) gotten one from boss chests - both times it was from the chest after Tho’at Replicanum at the end of an arc. I've not gotten the pages from other Muniment Chests.

EDIT: @EdjeSwift , thanks for confirming that it's only the Tho'at chests, not the ones from other bosses, that drop them. I wasn't sure, since I haven't been looking to farm them.

I lucked out and got the only one I wanted (night blade helm) from defeating Tho'at in Arc 1. I'm happy