i had none drop today, gave up and bought the last 2 for 45k each. then one dropped from a blue coffee. so now i'm in the gold-making phase lol. ew, i'm sick of phases, sorry i brought it up

With such low drop rates, how are we going to get the necessary 25 fragments before the event finishes?

GeneralGrundmann wrote: »

BretonMage wrote: »

With such low drop rates, how are we going to get the necessary 25 fragments before the event finishes?

Everything stays active after the event, only the title is once in a lifetime.

I read in the announcement article that the Seige Camp dailies will continue, and I suppose the Stirk dailies will not, which essentially cuts off access for non-season pass owners.

BretonMage wrote: »

GeneralGrundmann wrote: »

BretonMage wrote: »

With such low drop rates, how are we going to get the necessary 25 fragments before the event finishes?

Everything stays active after the event, only the title is once in a lifetime.

I read in the announcement article that the Seige Camp dailies will continue, and I suppose the Stirk dailies will not, which essentially cuts off access for non-season pass owners.

Reasonable thought, that wasn't explained in detail officially.

FluffyDoom wrote: »

Wish they could summon a new vendor to the Rampart Camp who would exchange the extra haj mota scales for the bone shards.

An exchange vendor would work for lots of other events so that players could exchange for items they want/need and be happy - or you could go to the guild traders but wowza there are some huge price hikes out there (looking at you skeletal marionette parts for almost 500k for ONE, while grab bags during the once a year event are a poor choice for using scarce tickets).

For a while now I've been thinking that a lot of event rewards might work better if they could be purchased with some sort of special event currency.

I do not mean event tickets, which could still be used for buying fragments for assembling and morphing event collectibles. Event tickets are deliberately constrained by the no-more-than-12-at-once design, which is a way to encourage players to spend those tickets before trying to earn more, and I don't think that design needs to be upended so players could earn and stockpile a huge number of event tickets, especially since during some events some players already seem to feel there are no items of interest for them to spend their event tickets on.

Rather, I'm thinking more along the lines of the Archival Fortunes that are earned in the Infinite Archive. Personally, I don't spend much time in the Infinite Archive, as my two main characters can't get very far in it and I'm not interested in grinding for the gear I'd need to develop or copy a build that's OP enough for them to survive in there. But I'm under the impression that a lot of players do spend a lot of time in there, and I assume it's largely because they want to earn a lot of Archival Fortunes that they can then spend at the Infinite Archive merchants.

To be honest, I think the game already has too many different types of currency, and I'm not eager to see additional currencies get added. But I think there's something to be said in favor of grinding for a currency that can be used to buy rewards as an alternative to grinding for items which have very low chances of dropping.

As far as this specific topic of the bone shards, I think it would be nice if there were an option to choose whether to receive the bone shards or something else. And being able to go to a vendor and select what to buy would be one possible way to do that. I'm not sure whether a direct 1-for-1 exchange would be ideal, or whether it would be better if it were more like extracting Crown Gems from unwanted Crown Crate rewards, where the amount of currency thingies extracted from an unwanted item is less than what it would cost to buy that same item with currency thingies. But in any case, something like that would be one way to help remove stacks of old event fragments from our personal inventories, bank accounts, storage containers, and guild bank accounts, rather than DESTROYing them if they become too much of a nuisance.

CoronHR wrote: »

Finedaible wrote: »

They stopped dropping altogether for me since the last patch.

that's what i've been afraid of, that the last patch or maintenance from Wed borked them

They're definitely still dropping, and it seems like the drop rates may even have been increased by the last patch-- unless my RNG luck has just improved a good bit.

Yeah, the Haj Moto was definitely more common. Tried for a while and got no bone shards either. It took too long so I simply bought all my goodies. Have been working on personal stuff for the rest of the time which was a better use of my time.

Drops are borked... but still getting multiple daily drops of of the fragments for the Wormwrithe Haj Mota pet

AzuraFan wrote: »

majulook wrote: »

Drops are borked... but still getting multiple daily drops of of the fragments for the Wormwrithe Haj Mota pet

Same. I've got tons in my inventory and guild banks are stuffed with them.

Barely able to sell them for 500 gold. At least the bones are 40k still.

majulook wrote: »

Drops are borked... but still getting multiple daily drops of of the fragments for the Wormwrithe Haj Mota pet

I have heard - although have not tried to confirm - that you can improve your odds for writhing bone by turning down phase 1 daily crafting/fetch quests until you get a phase 2 one (alchemy/enchanting/provisioning). I offer no warranty that this advice is actually correct, as I've only been doing the phase 1 crafting + souls quests on alt characters.

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

majulook wrote: »

Drops are borked... but still getting multiple daily drops of of the fragments for the Wormwrithe Haj Mota pet

I have heard - although have not tried to confirm - that you can improve your odds for writhing bone by turning down phase 1 daily crafting/fetch quests until you get a phase 2 one (alchemy/enchanting/provisioning). I offer no warranty that this advice is actually correct, as I've only been doing the phase 1 crafting + souls quests on alt characters.

I have had shards come from the crafting quests introduced in phase 1 (a woodworking one, most recently), so they definitely updated the table on those earlier quests to include the new drops, but I haven’t done enough of the crafting quests to see whether the drop chance is different between the types of crafting that came in phase 1 and the type of crafting that came in phase 2.