Abysmal drop rate of new High Isle event style pages

tom6143346 · November 24

fastolfv_ESO wrote: »

had 0 drop for me aswell, this event comes off as a ploy to sell event tickets to those that want to complete the style pages

Why you even would consider to buy event tickets to then buy the stylepages from the impresaria? Just go to any guildtrader and buy them there for a low amount of gold and save you the real money. Droprate is for me very low as well, but I just buy it from the guild trader. But I agree eso has one of the worst rng systems I even run into in a game .

DinoZavr · November 24

After 4 days of the Event the Guild Trader prices (at least on the PC platform) are already affordable
i specially have checked TTC for Style Page: Legacy of the Draoife Cuirass
on PC EU it averages 35,000 while lower price offers start from 17K
on PC NA (it is about 2x more inflated than PC EU) average is about 60K and low offers start from 35K

Players are selling theirs duplicates to purchase the missing pages.
I may guess next weekend the prices would drop below 20K a page
(at the last day of Event flippers will start buying pages to resell much higher later, so don't delay till the last minute)

Considering Crowns:Gold ratio on PC (which is 1500..3000g per Crown) there are no reasons to spend precious Crowns for tickets to buy pages, it is way way cheaper to farm some gold and buy them pages for gold.

TL/DR; next weekend would be a good time to purchase missing pages for gold from the Guild Traders.

the1andonlyskwex · November 25

DinoZavr wrote: »

@the1andonlyskwex the number of boxes is not much relevant
with one character doing 3 High Isle dailies and sometimes ToT vs NPC daily i get boxes
and if we count in a simpler manner -> 8 accounts a day x 4 days - i got 13 boxes so far
is this math OK ?

You specifically said some of the pages only seemed to drop from purple boxes, so ignoring all of the purple boxes seems disingenuous. My takeaway from your raw numbers is that you need to grind purple boxes if you want any chance of getting all of the style pages (without buying them from guild traders or the impressario).

DinoZavr · November 25

Skwex, most of players would have to sell/buy pages.
For example i have got 3x Cuirass, 6x Gauntlets, 2x Girdle, 2x Pauldrons (and zero Greaves, Helm, Sabatons) so far,
so i will have to sell my duplicates and buy missing pages.
Considering the pages prices are not high, i'd say there is no reason to do dailies on multiple characters for more purple boxes, as just farming gold is more beneficial. Though, everyone decides for themselves.

Monte_Cristo · November 25

I think all the new style pages I've gotten so far have come from purple boxes, not the gold ones.
I usually open event boxes til I get a style page, then leave the rest til after the reset.

Rkindaleft · November 25

Grec1a wrote: »

I've opened 6 golden boxes and gotten 3 style pages, so the drop rate is 50% for me.

And I’ve opened like 5 gold boxes and 10+ purple and haven’t gotten any.

I don’t care much for these specific pages but I’m kind of over these RNG reward based mechanics. It’s been happening all year especially in the anniversary event and nobody likes it.

Should’ve just kept it the way it was before where the first gold box would be close to a guarantee of a drop then the only thing you had to worry about were duplicates (and people traded the duplicates to each other for ones they didn’t have.)

katanagirl1 · November 25

EF321 wrote: »

BetweenMidgets wrote: »

I have opened one gold box a day and still not gotten a page. My "good" item from the gold box was a purple penetration ring... so exciting..

That’s funny, I have gotten 0 from gold boxes and 2 from the purple ones. I haven’t got a ton of purple ones, either.

Elvenheart · November 25

Monte_Cristo wrote: »

I think all the new style pages I've gotten so far have come from purple boxes, not the gold ones.
I usually open event boxes til I get a style page, then leave the rest til after the reset.

I have gotten zero style pages from doing two gold boxes per day, and I have gotten one style page from my purple boxes. I have found all the pages I need pretty cheap on the guild traders.

BetweenMidgets · November 25

I love being told I'm lazy because I don't have endless time to waste on an in-game event.

Previously in events, you'd get a coveted item in your gold box. Apparently that doesn't give the kind of player engagement that ZoS wants to show their shareholders, so instead we get the short end of the stick.

Melivar · November 25

I've gotten 1 page each day so far and thankfully no duplicates. Other than day 1 I have gotten 2 golden boxes (missed the gold box note for dungeons when I initially reviewed the info.

I generally open all of my purple boxes first just in case but have yet to get a style page from them. If I get a style page on the first golden box I hold the other for extra chances in the days to come when RNG may not be as good.

So RNG has been good for me this event but I do know the struggle from previous events. When drops are low I watch the traders and start grabbing missing pieces when they are sub 50K preferably sub 25K.

Good luck

SeaGtGruff · November 25

I’ve gotten a few pages on both servers, and I’m expecting to spend tickets before the end of the event to get the pages I don’t get from the coffers.

The drop rate for me has been similar to the rate for other events— on average, about 1 page every other day.

I’ve gotten pages from both types of coffers— golden and purple. If you don’t get a page in your golden coffer, or from the purple coffers you get by doing daily quests, I suggest you try harvesting material nodes and killing trash mobs to get more purple coffers; hopefully one of them will contain a page.

If you have enough inventory space to hang onto your purple coffers, you could open the golden coffer to see if you get a page, and if not then open purple coffers until you do get one, then save any remaining purple coffers to open on another day. I don’t have enough inventory space for that, so I just open coffers as I get them, and farm nodes and mobs for more if I need to.

BahometZ · November 25

Used to be that events would see-saw wildly between famine and feast. But tbh I will gladly take low drop rate over flooding us with useless junk. Every event now is another forgettable style page, never completed of course because of the drop rate. I'd advise just stop caring so much about completing them and ignore fomo.

It would be nice if they could move on from them, and consider better event rewards, but I can see that there are several more in the chamber.

katanagirl1 · November 26

SeaGtGruff wrote: »

I’ve gotten a few pages on both servers, and I’m expecting to spend tickets before the end of the event to get the pages I don’t get from the coffers.

The drop rate for me has been similar to the rate for other events— on average, about 1 page every other day.

I’ve gotten pages from both types of coffers— golden and purple. If you don’t get a page in your golden coffer, or from the purple coffers you get by doing daily quests, I suggest you try harvesting material nodes and killing trash mobs to get more purple coffers; hopefully one of them will contain a page.

If you have enough inventory space to hang onto your purple coffers, you could open the golden coffer to see if you get a page, and if not then open purple coffers until you do get one, then save any remaining purple coffers to open on another day. I don’t have enough inventory space for that, so I just open coffers as I get them, and farm nodes and mobs for more if I need to.

This is what I do, but in an hour of farming I can get as few as 2 purple coffers. I don’t know what is going on, this is with constant farming, though the zone does not have as many nodes as others zones I think.

marcbf · November 26

By the end of the event I did manage to collect all new event style pages.

Two dropped for me.

The others I bought with either tickets or from guild stores.

And one needs special mention, because a very kind soul gave one to me.

Not that anyone cares at this point...