Grand Hattu Onyx lead

Lapin_Logic · August 14

Hi, I have been doing all my durable daily crafting writs every single day since High isle released on June 2022 (it is now Aug 2025), sometimes I have done Jewelry crafting writs on multiple characters a day and have still never received the lead for the Grand Hattu Onyx for the Lefthanders aegis mythic.

I'm starting to pull my hair out at the lotto gamble RNG of trying to complete gear and builds.

Please can we have a more guaranteed chance of dropping rare leads, PLEASE have mercy on my, I just want it to end.

Tobyja · August 14

Noo, don't pull your hair out... pull some players out in Imperial City, or some NPCs, or some monsters in the Archive.

And then be patient and check out Ool and the Tel'Var merchants every week.
Last time this lead was available for 25.000 Tel'Var in Feb this year. I bet, it will be at Ool for 5.000 Archival Fortunes some time again this year. No guarantee of course, just a feeling.
Wish you all the luck.

Lapin_Logic · August 14

Tobyja wrote: »

Noo, don't pull your hair out... pull some players out in Imperial City, or some NPCs, or some monsters in the Archive.
And then be patient and check out Ool and the Tel'Var merchants every week.
Last time this lead was available for 25.000 Tel'Var in Feb this year. I bet, it will be at Ool for 5.000 Archival Fortunes some time again this year. No guarantee of course, just a feeling.
Wish you all the luck.

Thanks, I just feel like leads should drop the first or second time you interact with the trigger, not fail consecutively for three years daily, I've always had atrocious RNG, but this dry spell takes the entire cake.

As for the Tel var and Archival Fortune system, that is almost as ridiculous as with the golden vendor, "Play your way... sometime in the next couple of years if you are lucky".

I could but it in EU with tel var... when it comes back around, but I don't run the archive in EU or NA, and don't even pvp in NA unless its Whitestrikes.

Its kind of funny when I can be drowning in moth priests clensing bowls but never get the leads I want, took months of talking to "Remains silent" for my Waxeru feather for the Gaze of Sithis too lol, Ive got some curse or bad juju.