Ink needs a fixed daily based drop location

Hasenpfote · July 10

You can play for days, even for a week without a single Ink drops. There are many sources, that dont can drop inks, Battlegrounds, crafting dailes, dailies in general.
The actually situation feels like, you are playing as a bot and do the same task over and over again to get a single ink.

davelbier · July 10

I pvp mostly, and do daily writs - i do farm events when they run at a basic level, but i dont really farm resources outside of my writs/surveys.

There should be a decent change in writs rewards to get some ink - nothing crazy, but a daily reward needs to happen. I can get writs done, reward for the worthy, a couple of PVE quests in Cyro, and IC quests and just save my rewards to open one a day. Surely something in there should qualify for a moderate chance for ink to drop if i can open 20 or 30 of these in a slow week. I got scripts all day but i hesitate to use the ink much.

As for other mats i do not buy them frequently because i have done so many writs/surveys to stay fairly well stocked up. Im not opposed to having to buy ink from time to time if i want to change stuff on a few toons all at once, but id like it to be building in my inventory the way i play already.

Chests and sacks are a nice touch, but again being a PVP person...i barely bother with them, and theres not *that* many in dungeons when I want to do a RND for whatever reason.

Necrotech_Master · July 10

absolutely, there needs to be multiple things:

more sources of inks
increased drop rate of inks, or some way to guarantee getting some ink per day such as through a daily

Zyaneth_Bal · July 10

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

absolutely, there needs to be multiple things:
more sources of inks

increased drop rate of inks, or some way to guarantee getting some ink per day such as through a daily

Indeed but it’s not happening because they are adding ink to crown store

Necrotech_Master · July 10

Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

absolutely, there needs to be multiple things:
more sources of inks

increased drop rate of inks, or some way to guarantee getting some ink per day such as through a daily

Indeed but it’s not happening because they are adding ink to crown store

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8148598/#Comment_8148598

from that post:

ZOS_Lunar wrote: »

Just to clear up any confusion, Jess commented on this yesterday.

Hey all, we'd like to remind you that we do not condone or advise datamining. As a general rule, we don't comment on datamining because ESO is huge game, we are constantly working on things and moving things around behind the scenes, and just because something shows up in the data is no indication of when or how we will use it. That said, we will occasionally make exceptions and this is one of them.

As we've noted before, we agree that the availability of Luminous Ink is lower than we'd like, and we are actively looking into ways we can improve that. Ensuring Luminous Ink drops off of boss monsters was one such step - this is live on PC and going out for console servers in tomorrow's incremental patch. What you see in this thread is another step. We are preparing to add Luminous Ink as a Daily Login Reward (not to the Crown Store) at some point in the future; keep an eye out for our usual Daily Login Rewards info each month.

not according to that post, its not going to be in the crown store

Zyaneth_Bal · July 10

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Zyaneth_Bal wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

absolutely, there needs to be multiple things:
more sources of inks

increased drop rate of inks, or some way to guarantee getting some ink per day such as through a daily

Indeed but it’s not happening because they are adding ink to crown store

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8148598/#Comment_8148598

from that post:

ZOS_Lunar wrote: »

Just to clear up any confusion, Jess commented on this yesterday.

Hey all, we'd like to remind you that we do not condone or advise datamining. As a general rule, we don't comment on datamining because ESO is huge game, we are constantly working on things and moving things around behind the scenes, and just because something shows up in the data is no indication of when or how we will use it. That said, we will occasionally make exceptions and this is one of them.

As we've noted before, we agree that the availability of Luminous Ink is lower than we'd like, and we are actively looking into ways we can improve that. Ensuring Luminous Ink drops off of boss monsters was one such step - this is live on PC and going out for console servers in tomorrow's incremental patch. What you see in this thread is another step. We are preparing to add Luminous Ink as a Daily Login Reward (not to the Crown Store) at some point in the future; keep an eye out for our usual Daily Login Rewards info each month.

not according to that post, its not going to be in the crown store

Good to know

gariondavey · July 11

Please add more reasonable sources that ensure daily drops

Kappachi · July 11

Literally do any other content, sell the items from that, and BUY ink. Having ink be a rarer material fuels the economy and gives you a reason to do things like full clear dungeons... now any time you go into a dungeon you can ask for a full clear and people will oblige instead of trying to speedrun; if we go back to having nothing to farm for people will do nothing but speedrun for dailies again.

Necrotech_Master · July 12

Kappachi wrote: »

Literally do any other content, sell the items from that, and BUY ink. Having ink be a rarer material fuels the economy and gives you a reason to do things like full clear dungeons... now any time you go into a dungeon you can ask for a full clear and people will oblige instead of trying to speedrun; if we go back to having nothing to farm for people will do nothing but speedrun for dailies again.

no, im not wasting at least 60k+ to experiment making a skill i dont know if it will feel right in my build

not to mention buying ink does not progress achievement for collecting ink, which is also important to me

the drop rate from enemies and nodes is so bad i dont even try to farm it anymore, its a massive waste of my time, last week i went 6 days before getting an ink drop, this week im already at 4 solid days without another ink drop, if i dont get one today, that will make 5 days

if im literally only getting 1-2 ink drop a week doing the activities i enjoy in game, the scribing system is basically dead to me

Kappachi · July 12

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Kappachi wrote: »

Literally do any other content, sell the items from that, and BUY ink. Having ink be a rarer material fuels the economy and gives you a reason to do things like full clear dungeons... now any time you go into a dungeon you can ask for a full clear and people will oblige instead of trying to speedrun; if we go back to having nothing to farm for people will do nothing but speedrun for dailies again.

no, im not wasting at least 60k+ to experiment making a skill i dont know if it will feel right in my build

not to mention buying ink does not progress achievement for collecting ink, which is also important to me

the drop rate from enemies and nodes is so bad i dont even try to farm it anymore, its a massive waste of my time, last week i went 6 days before getting an ink drop, this week im already at 4 solid days without another ink drop, if i dont get one today, that will make 5 days

if im literally only getting 1-2 ink drop a week doing the activities i enjoy in game, the scribing system is basically dead to me

Literally the fundamentals of an economy, someone provides something you yourself are unable to obtain, either due to luck or not participating in the correct kind of content, and you provide them currency (gold). Do the things you enjoy and sell the rewards from that. It's no different than farming. Sure the achievement won't prog but all it is is a random achievement in the game of which there's tens of thousands of other AP to get.

Necrotech_Master · July 12

Kappachi wrote: »

Necrotech_Master wrote: »

Kappachi wrote: »

Literally do any other content, sell the items from that, and BUY ink. Having ink be a rarer material fuels the economy and gives you a reason to do things like full clear dungeons... now any time you go into a dungeon you can ask for a full clear and people will oblige instead of trying to speedrun; if we go back to having nothing to farm for people will do nothing but speedrun for dailies again.

no, im not wasting at least 60k+ to experiment making a skill i dont know if it will feel right in my build

not to mention buying ink does not progress achievement for collecting ink, which is also important to me

the drop rate from enemies and nodes is so bad i dont even try to farm it anymore, its a massive waste of my time, last week i went 6 days before getting an ink drop, this week im already at 4 solid days without another ink drop, if i dont get one today, that will make 5 days

if im literally only getting 1-2 ink drop a week doing the activities i enjoy in game, the scribing system is basically dead to me

Literally the fundamentals of an economy, someone provides something you yourself are unable to obtain, either due to luck or not participating in the correct kind of content, and you provide them currency (gold). Do the things you enjoy and sell the rewards from that. It's no different than farming. Sure the achievement won't prog but all it is is a random achievement in the game of which there's tens of thousands of other AP to get.

im not going to be the mercy of other people pricing things however they want because they get more drops than me, its an absolute waste of my gold to buy consumable stuff like that

i would rather farm for it myself, but the problem is it does not want to drop for me because the drop rates are sheer garbage

half of the entire reason i want the ink is to progress the achievement, i would care far less about my ink drop rate if there wasnt an achievement for collecting 500 of it, and buying it does not progress that

i pretty much never buy any materials, i go farm them, but even with stuff like nirn or hakeijos, i can get those through alternate sources other than drops (buying hakeijo with tel var which is easy to get, and nirn i burn transmutes to get because i have too many of those, i dont farm nodes for nirn because thats about as bad as ink)

SeaUnicorn · July 12

Hideout chest in southern elsweyr could have ink added to it.

TDVM · July 12

No

akdave0 · July 12

Let us be able to capture baby netches and farm them for their ink.

Stafford197 · July 12

It needs to not exist at all.
Let us customize skills and add our affixes into the Armory.