Gather Vitrified Souls - Is this working as intended?

DenverRalphy · October 13

Every map location that shows that daedra are supposed to drop the Vitrified Souls are camped out all over nirn. And even when you do kill the daedra, the drop rate is incredibly low. This has everyone scrambling for scraps, and at a very very low success rate.

Surely this cannot be intentional.

Drinks_from_Ponds · October 13

I completed it pretty fast going into Cold Harbor, pretty much anything I killed was dropping 1-2 souls.

valenwood_vegan · October 13

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Every map location that shows that daedra are supposed to drop the Vitrified Souls are camped out all over nirn. And even when you do kill the daedra, the drop rate is incredibly low. This has everyone scrambling for scraps, and at a very very low success rate.

Surely this cannot be intentional.

This is also my experience, I'd estimate that like 1/20 of the daedra I killed are dropping them.

Poss · October 13

Hate this event already

dcrush · October 13

This quest and the faction ones (like troll fat in Eastmarch and undead essence in Glenumbra) are terrible. Drop rates are super low. Is this a way to artificially increase the time players spend in game?

valenwood_vegan · October 13

If some players are actually getting 1-2 souls from pretty much every daedra, then what we're seeing here is likely an issue raised in past events (like the necrom one where you had to collect those "pages" for one of the dailies). There is imo some flaw in the rng system that is drastically reducing these drops for some of us. I just ran through coldharbor and 4/39 daedra dropped one for me. Completed CoA I, and got 1 soul from there.

This cannot be the intended experience, can it? 1 hour in and I've lost any interest in the event.

DenverRalphy · October 13

Drinks_from_Ponds wrote: »

I completed it pretty fast going into Cold Harbor, pretty much anything I killed was dropping 1-2 souls.

I eventually went to Coldharbour too to just lay waste to anything that moved. But the drop rate was so so low. I spent an hour on that dailly alone. I only just now finished it.

Tavore1138 · October 13

On PC EU i've tried both fat and souls - so far not dropped a single one of either.... except the souls i picked up in a camp defense... i hate to ask but did someone forget to change the loot tables or whatever entry it is on the EU server?

ESO_player123 · October 13

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Drinks_from_Ponds wrote: »

I completed it pretty fast going into Cold Harbor, pretty much anything I killed was dropping 1-2 souls.

I eventually went to Coldharbour too to just lay waste to anything that moved. But the drop rate was so so low. I spent an hour on that dailly alone. I only just now finished it.

An hour on a daily? Well, if that is what's in store for us, the wall can very well stay where it is.

Titler01 · October 13

The drop rate was appalling for me too, I got 3 in about 30 minutes. Until I swapped to killing Ogrim in Coldharbour, then every second Ogrim dropped one.

EDIT: I just did the Siege Camp quest and got more than 15 just from the mobs inside there. Combing the two quests makes more sense then chaps, dont follow the map guides to a dungeon location just for Souls

shadyjane62 · October 13

Most boring event I've ever done. You can really only kill with light attack but everyone killing so fast it nullifies result.

I already have stopped doing the event. The rewards do not live up to the effort.

DragonRacer · October 13

I was getting a lot of them dropping from the enemies at the “defend siege camps” locations. Two birds with one stone on those dailies.

Shawn_PT · October 13

It's worse for the ones that ask you for drops from specific types of enemies. I know the game well enough I can find specific mobs outside the marked areas, and where there's literally no one farming, but if I say I had to kill around 50 spriggans to get the 4 or so drops needed for the quest is ridiculous.

Also. I was pleasantly surprised when the quest asked for furs. I read quests were aimed at crafters so maybe the stuff in my craft bag will be useful in this. Nope. Can't take any of the hundreds of thousands of different furs, leathers, and assorted pelts I already have. It must be those freshly farmed from these spots where the whole server is already camping every single mob. The one time I was going to give praise, immediately proved correct on my stance that ZOS can do none of these events right.

Edit: also. Why can we Wayshrine into Stirk but the wayshrine doesn't work to port out?

Skorro · October 13

Yeah... the bone caltrops skill style isn't worth this pain xD

duagloth · October 13

Slot an AOE like impulse and just fly through village of the lost in cold harbour. Took literally 3mins too complete

valenwood_vegan · October 13

duagloth wrote: »

Slot an AOE like impulse and just fly through village of the lost in cold harbour. Took literally 3mins too complete

This is not what some of us are experiencing.

Interestingly enough though, my alt account did have the "3 minutes in coldharbor" experience, while on my main account I gave up on the quest after an hour and still only 9/15 souls.

twisttop138 · October 13

But but but we're making gaming history. Where were you when the wall came down... Isn't that what you guys like?

MATH_COW · October 13

I had the quest about undead, don't find any easy, after a hour decide to get into the public dungeon in alik'r, place totally empty of undead obviously, saw one next to some shalks, killed it got nothing, killed the shalks too after and got the 8 items needed for some reason on those shalk, Zos'd

BretonMage · October 13

I went to one of the less popular delves (the one in Auridon was packed so I left and went to Stormhaven), and there was only one or two other players there with me. It took me about 5 minutes to get the required 15 vitrified souls.

SkaiFaith · October 13

PSA: Vitrified souls get dropped in quantity from enemies that spawn at the Camp Sites (Solstice Word Events) - I completed my gathering there really fast after seeing how impossible it was in delves and dungeons.

joergino · October 13

dcrush wrote: »

This quest and the faction ones (like troll fat in Eastmarch and undead essence in Glenumbra) are terrible. Drop rates are super low. Is this a way to artificially increase the time players spend in game?

Of course. The usual method in events these days.

Hapexamendios · October 13

dcrush wrote: »

This quest and the faction ones (like troll fat in Eastmarch and undead essence in Glenumbra) are terrible. Drop rates are super low. Is this a way to artificially increase the time players spend in game?

Not working. I logged off.

Barovia87 · October 13

Utterly horrendous drop rates, paired with literally everyone desperately competing for the exact same mobs in every single area for both the Vitrified Souls and the Supplies daily quests.

I tried for over an hour to complete either of those dailies ONCE. I couldn't complete the drops for either quest. It was the least fun I've had in a game in years. I logged off. I won't be trying again unless they announce a hotfix to the drop rates. What a joke.

I'm a longtime player, and I was hyped for this event. I don't have words for how disappointing the Event finally opening has been today. What an unpleasant clusterfetch. No thanks.

Orbital78 · October 13

I got them passively defending the camps.

UrQuan · October 13

Drinks_from_Ponds wrote: »

I completed it pretty fast going into Cold Harbor, pretty much anything I killed was dropping 1-2 souls.

If that's the case, your drop rate is about 20 times higher than the drop rate I'm experiencing.

Katheriah · October 13

Barovia87 wrote: »

I tried for over an hour to complete either of those dailies ONCE. I couldn't complete the drops for either quest. It was the least fun I've had in a game in years. I logged off. I won't be trying again unless they announce a hotfix to the drop rates. What a joke.

The drop rates were really bad for me as well, until I started to group with people. It doubles the chance of dropping and the drops will count for all players in group as well. I just rounded up some people in zonechat, got 6-8 people per zone/quest and we got it done in a couple of minutes.

The grouping also took 0 effort because everyone was frustrated and looking for a faster way to farm.

deltauren · October 13

Seemed a fairly boring event, from my point of view. A bunch of fetch quests which don't really add anything new?

It took me about an hour to gather furs and Vitrified Souls. Part of the problem was that everything was dead everywhere I teleported. The other issue is the drop rate seems woefully low.

Danikat · October 13

I was sent to one public dungeon where I got them pretty easily - there were a couple of groups of daedra who were easy to kill (not sure of the classes but they looked like the normal humanoid ones) and several in each group dropped souls. I killed 2 groups twice each and got to 15 souls.

Then I turned in the daily before speaking to Skordo, who then told me to complete a daily so I had to go and do it again. This time different locations where listed.

The first one I went to only a tiny part of the dungeon was covered by the quest circle and there were several people camping it. A boss spawned, I managed to get a few hits in and got a daedra husk. Nothing else had appeared and (as usual) some people were attacking anything that moved like they were trying to speed-run a trial so I decided it wasn't worth my time to wait and compete with them and went to a different dungeon.

That one was the same as the first, except the groups of enemies were smaller so it took more groups to get enough souls, but ones I killed as soon as they respawned seemed just as likely to drop souls as ones that were up when I got there.

I think the game still has some sort of restriction on loot based on the proportion of the damage you do. It used to be only 12 people could get loot at all, but I think they adjusted it when they started pushing these big events because it kept screwing people out of event tickets. I'm not sure exactly how it works now but since I normally do events on a tank character I've noticed lots of times where if there's too many people around and/or if people are blasting normal enemies with every skill they have I'll only get junk loot, and it looks like that applies to the souls as well.

I could be wrong but based on my experience I think the best approach is to try to find less populated locations to get them from. Which is pretty counter-intuitive for an MMO community event, but I suspect most people's priority will be getting it done.

SerafinaWaterstar · October 13

Orbital78 wrote: »

I got them passively defending the camps.

How? I’ve not seen any dead attackers you could actually pick anything up from? Only the chest at the end.

Katheriah · October 13

SerafinaWaterstar wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

I got them passively defending the camps.

How? I’ve not seen any dead attackers you could actually pick anything up from? Only the chest at the end.

If you get enough damage on the mobs, they can leave a lootable body that gives you souls.

Orbital78 · October 13

SerafinaWaterstar wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

I got them passively defending the camps.

How? I’ve not seen any dead attackers you could actually pick anything up from? Only the chest at the end.

TBH I didn't pay attention to where they were dropping, but the 3 side bosses & trash were giving ~5-8 per defense it seemed. I do wish the drops were juiced up a bit more. Isn't there supposed to be a new style mat at least dropping? I have found a few of the non-combat pet fragments but kind of lackluster so far.