ToT achievements - Card Conjurer and Memories of the Spearhead - drop rates

CoronHR · October 22

is this working OK? i just opened about 20 gold ToT coffers and almost as many blue ones, and I didn't get a single one. i have all the card clues already, so there were several more gold coffers before that

Melkorrian · October 22

Yep, this is ok, just very rare drop) I collect it many mounths, and now 9/10 for Spearhead and 6/10 for Conjurer. I understand that it takes a long time, but nevertheless, I will have something to remember when I collect these achievements) This is much more pleasant for me than if the drop was more frequent and I collected it quickly.

CoronHR · October 22

Melkorrian wrote: »

Yep, this is ok, just very rare drop) I collect it many mounths, and now 9/10 for Spearhead and 6/10 for Conjurer. I understand that it takes a long time, but nevertheless, I will have something to remember when I collect these achievements) This is much more pleasant for me than if the drop was more frequent and I collected it quickly.

yes, well i was hoping for at least one! i'm not too keen on playing ToT, but i guess i have some work to do. i have 2-3 other achievements to complete. i probably need a break after that, so who knows when this will happen

tomofhyrule · October 22

These drop rates are ridiculous. I’ve have a single emote fragment since they started dropping.

They were never exclusive to gold boxes - iirc they didn’t even have gold boxes on release. Besides, it really doesn’t seem to have much of a difference in what drops you get from what quality.

Either way though, the drop rate is entirely too low for these things.

DinoZavr · October 22

here are my 4 months of playing daily statistics (detailed drops under spoiler)
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/comment/8278232/#Comment_8278232

on average if you do all dailies each and every day you get heavily played card (HPC) once a month
and you get zero Spearhead's Colors per month so WW3 is more likely to get you before you unlock Captain Kaleen houseguest or you ll have to live forever

GeneralGrundmann · October 22

I quote myself from another thread:

"I recently completed (almost) everything of Tales of Tribute.

[...]

Spearhead Scraps and Heavily Played Tribute cards dropped before Update 46 from red and gold rewards for me, doing also pvp-dailies for the gold reward with three characters.

Since update 46, I already had seven Spearhead Scraps und six Heavily Played tribute cards, these two cards started to drop from gold rewards only!

I started to play with all my 13 characters the npc-dailies and the pvp-dailies for approximately two months and got one single drop for each played week from gold rewards only.
-That's 91 gold rewards a week for ONE single drop!-

I got the three missing spearhead cards first and later the four missing Heavily Played tribute cards in that order, seemed to be curated but might be by chance, don't know.

Everything else, Psijic clothes, other clothes, tapestries small and large, dropped from every kind of reward level, even green rewards.

But, the Spearhead Scraps and the Heavily Played tribute cards, since update 46, at least for me, they dropped from golden rewards only."

tomofhyrule · October 22

GeneralGrundmann wrote: »

That's 91 gold rewards a week for ONE single drop!

This is obscene.

@ZOS_Kevin , sorry to bother, but could this be passed along to see if the drop rates for Spearhead Scraps and Heavily Played cards are as intended? It seems that something happened that severely reduced their drop rates and is preventing them from dropping at all in lower tier coffers, and these items are bound so cannot be obtained from guild traders.

Personofsecrets · October 23

We have brought the issue up to Kevin already quite a long time ago.

GeneralGrundmann · October 23

@tomofhyrule
Perhaps I had terrible bad luck with my slightly above 1% drop rate. Another player reported a 3% drop rate of card fragments from gold coffers after update 46.

Jaimeh · October 23

The drop rate should definitely be looked at, these shouldn't be so rare. Anyway, just wanted to confirm that they can drop from the purple coffer from the PvE daily, I got one a few days ago.

GeneralGrundmann · October 23

@Jaimeh
That's good to hear. After update 46 I literally got hundreds of purple coffers and not one single drop.

CoronHR · October 23

are these sold by the IA vendor? i read that somewhere, but can't remember where...

Edit: found it, but i misread it. the person says 'with this drop rate, they have to be added to ia vendor'.

so, i got excited over nothing

KalevaLaine · October 23

I gave up to farm these. I played about 800 dailies and got 4 pieces or so.

tomfant · October 23

Worst grind in the game. ToT is horrible in itself and these close to zero drop rates are just the cherries on this rotten cake.

Ezhh · October 23

This remains the only thing in the game I have 100% given up on ever doing. I don't completely dislike ToT, but I don't want to play it this much. It's simply not interesting enough to justify it.

Tra_Lalan · October 23

This topic keeps coming back every couple of months...
just put those fragments in IA/IC merchants cycle already..

spartaxoxo · October 23

I gave up on these and the low drop rate made me significantly less interested in ToT. I barely play it now and I used to love it. But between this and the way they kept nerfing the coffers, it just doesn't seem like a good use of my time anymore.

katanagirl1 · October 23

Tra_Lalan wrote: »

This topic keeps coming back every couple of months...
just put those fragments in IA/IC merchants cycle already..

Yes, replace the Psijic Glowglobe pieces and the Blackwood Tapestry scrap leads with useful things like this.

RebornV3x · October 23

I too have given up getting this just not worth it

CoronHR · October 28

oddly, i got 2 heavily played cards in just 3 gold coffers. maybe there is some hope, hopefully not false