Jubilee Reward Boxes should go back to how they were two years ago.

The702Guy · April 6

The last 2 years of jubilee have been very lackluster in my opinion. There are more ways to get boxes but the rewards you get from them are significantly nerfed. I used to be excited for it but honestly the last two years I just do my writs and then log off for the day.

The model it was up until two years ago was great. Sure you could only get the boxes from dailies, but the rewards were great. Materials came in bigger stacks and motifs seemed to drop more from boxes.

I feel like the change was made to get people to do more then just writs during jubilee but for me personally it actually has a had the opposite effect. I used to go around and do a bunch of world boss, delve, and cyrodill story dailies each day on top of my writs but now I just do my writs and log off for the day. The rewards just aren’t worth more effort than that.

Not sure if I’m alone in this, but going forward I’d like to see it reverted back to the older model of obtaining boxes and rewards from those boxes. It was much more exciting then.

demonology89 · April 6

I completely agree. When I see players complaining about the lack of motifs, I remind them we used to only receive boxes from completing dailies. No one could farm them by killing WBs in Craglorn. Now that the 10 year anniversary style pages can be bought, I'd say it's time ZOS make this event daily completion only again.

And for the love of Sotha Sil, please get rid of the furnishings and purple provisioning recipes and bring back the mats of 20!!

DoofusMax · April 6

Surely you jest. The reward boxes in 2024 basically crashed the trader economy for six or more months. I would need to go in-game and look, but I'm pretty sure I still have unsold motif pages (and definitely unsold outfit pages) from 2024. It took until sometime last year for Aetherial Dust's price to recover from the 2024 event. It still hadn't fully recovered by Anniversary in 2025, which held prices down for another few months. Much the same with Mourning Dew, Rubyblossom Extract, Perfect Roe, Nirncrux, and other high-end ingredients.

The702Guy · April 6

DoofusMax wrote: »

Surely you jest. The reward boxes in 2024 basically crashed the trader economy for six or more months. I would need to go in-game and look, but I'm pretty sure I still have unsold motif pages (and definitely unsold outfit pages) from 2024. It took until sometime last year for Aetherial Dust's price to recover from the 2024 event. It still hadn't fully recovered by Anniversary in 2025, which held prices down for another few months. Much the same with Mourning Dew, Rubyblossom Extract, Perfect Roe, Nirncrux, and other high-end ingredients.

I think there were multiple factors to that, 2024 and before there were multiple Jubilee events that lasted 3+ weeks or even almost a month which is definitely far too long.

The crash with the gold provisioning mats was due to last years zenithar and the first few days of jubilee where they were dropping far more than intended. And style pages always crash no matter the event.

If the event lasted 10-14 days with boxes how they were before that’s where the sweet spot is. Keep it to dailies how it was before with the rewards how they were before. I do believe in balance but these last 2 years of jubilee were just terrible in terms of rewards. 1 heartwood in a box? What’s even the point?

DoofusMax · April 6

The702Guy wrote: »

I think there were multiple factors to that, 2024 and before there were multiple Jubilee events that lasted 3+ weeks or even almost a month which is definitely far too long.

Yeah, that was 2024 and 2025. Both Anniversary events ran super long and 2024's was extended on PC for some extra days because of the PTS kerfuffle when U42 went up for testing.

But I'll agree that the reward coffer contents this year are just a bit underwhelming in comparison to 2023 and earlier. The drop rate tightening this year was bit too much and it's not quite back to the pre-10th rates.

WolfStar07 · April 6

I haven't gotten very many motifs and blueprints from the boxes this year, and there are so many in game now, that what I am getting, I already know. They really need to look at the loot table. Remove or adjust the drop rate of the oldest items and increase the drop rate of more recent (especially motifs).

AllenaNightWood · April 6

WolfStar07 wrote: »

I haven't gotten very many motifs and blueprints from the boxes this year, and there are so many in game now, that what I am getting, I already know. They really need to look at the loot table. Remove or adjust the drop rate of the oldest items and increase the drop rate of more recent (especially motifs).

there should be a lower chance to get stuff you already have compared to what you dont

Al_Ex_Andre · April 6

Unpopular opinion, but I think that yearly events should be reduced to 5 days long max, say 7 days, but I think 7 is over the top already.

But you can have how it worked like 2 years ago though.

Reasoning is that veteran players would like real content not a rehash of every previous year. It's the best thing to do to make people quit the game.

But these events should stay though. For the achievements and the remembrance, it's okay.

Like, the Night Market should be running now, but noooh, there is the anniversary event to run....

But yeah, get all the drop you wish in the 5 days long event.

Onomos · April 6

I was hoping to see more motifs. The motif selling market needs a recession.

Onestly · April 6

As a never player, it's amazing to me how many motifs I've gotten in a week already. And here people are talking they used to get more?

Honestly I'm fine with the current rate. Jokingly and lovingly, I feel like veteran players have been spoiled a bit by previous years.

DenverRalphy · April 6

All I know, is that after finally having a large chunk of my bank space available again since stackable surveys, writs, and T-maps became available, I'm already looking to mule some alts due to all the motifs and furnishing plans that filled it right back up.

And there are plenty of players who gather more loot boxes than I do.

spartaxoxo · April 6

I honestly would be fine with them upping the rate of nice items if they were also decreasing the availability. Just make it how it worked before it got too generous and flooded the market. There was sweet spot between that and now that it could go back to.

MoonPile · April 6

I had a lot of fun in 2024, even made a nostalgia-post about how awesome dragon-hunting was:
https://moonpile.tumblr.com/post/810043202308653056/dragons-in-my-own-homeland-2024

And Craglorn rifts, too.

I miss that and didn't farm much at all last week, apart from a few daily writs and Tome challenges.

But even so, have to admit that the lack of cooldown on boxes was one of the factors (among others detailed at the end of that post) that crashed the economy. So, I simultaneously agree with Doofus here.

The702Guy · April 6

Onestly wrote: »

As a never player, it's amazing to me how many motifs I've gotten in a week already. And here people are talking they used to get more?

Honestly I'm fine with the current rate. Jokingly and lovingly, I feel like veteran players have been spoiled a bit by previous years.

The motifs I’m not 100% sure on how they are dropping vs previous years, however the materials are the bigger issue. Most things came in stacks of 10-20 that now only come as 1. The event rewards went from being the only worthwhile event for most vet players to being similar to the rest in terms of effort vs reward.

ShadowPaladin · April 6

Compared to last year (2025) motif drops from boxes are down by at least 50%. Last year I received from 84 boxes (12 chars doing crafting dailies with 7 quests = 12 x 7 = 84 boxes) around 1 motif out of 7 boxes. So, 1 motif per char.

This year I have - so far - received in average 1 motfi out of 14 boxes, which means 1 motif every 2 chars.

Drops for furniture plans are - at least as far as I can tell - nearly the same as last year.

Same goes for the recipe drops. Although the amount of different recipes is still limited, which means I do get a lot of the same I already have.

Like I already wrote in a different thread. For next years (2027) anni-event the devs must overhaul the drops and loottable for the anni-boxes.

I concur with, that the drop for motifs should go back as it was in 2024, at least. In addition to that the Jubilee-Furnitures should be completely removed from the loottables and be only available for gold purchase from an event vendor, prices ranging from 100g to 5.000g, depending on the item. Also, all since 2024 added additional caps like cooldowns etc. should be removed. The daily limit for boxes per char, per account is enough. To accommondate that the sources for anni-event boxes should be - as it was already mentioned here - changed back as well to how it was in 2024.

BetweenMidgets · April 7

Big agree. And the furnishings just seem to clutter the loot pool so we get even less of the recipes/patterns/motifs.

CD on boxes sucks, too.

shadyjane62 · April 7

I had made three extra char and leveled them high enough to get decent rewards form the purple boxes.

I deleted them all today as it wasn't even worth doing the dailies on them.

And while last year was the worst year after they rolled back the rewards because of an "error" in computing what people should get, the rewards were no better this year.

Today I did not even get a current style motif, just two old motifs from a previous year that I had to work to give away. Why I should receive two Bonemold motifs instead of the current Dapper Devil is a mystery to me.

BretonMage · April 7

I actually don't miss receiving a million Worm Cult motif pages, but then I see that they've been replaced by a million Jubilee furnishings that we can't even sell for 100g, so I guess it's worse this year, yeah.

LadyLethalla · April 7

Pretty sick of the Jubilee furnishings...

Blood_again · April 7

I agree.
I'm ok with today's boxes. But it was way, way better in the past.

randconfig · April 7

DoofusMax wrote: »

Surely you jest. The reward boxes in 2024 basically crashed the trader economy for six or more months. I would need to go in-game and look, but I'm pretty sure I still have unsold motif pages (and definitely unsold outfit pages) from 2024. It took until sometime last year for Aetherial Dust's price to recover from the 2024 event. It still hadn't fully recovered by Anniversary in 2025, which held prices down for another few months. Much the same with Mourning Dew, Rubyblossom Extract, Perfect Roe, Nirncrux, and other high-end ingredients.

Yeah I don't like mats becoming common drops from event boxes. It destroys the economy. Motifs dropping more often is fine though.

randconfig · April 7

I'd much rather the boxes have a small chance of like 10% to drop a few gold bars, like 10-25.

daim · April 7

Onomos wrote: »

I was hoping to see more motifs. The motif selling market needs a recession.

I feel completely opposite. Motifs are basically just trash loot after they added them to the loot table with such high drop rates.

Contraptions · April 7

Yeah I enjoyed 2024's one, skipped 2025's and this year's one just feels limp imo. The loot is much much worse, the loot cooldown is longer than 5 mins from bosses; so if you kill a worldboss, wait for it to respawn then kill it again, you get nothing. It's freaking stupid.

Zodiarkslayer · April 7

I don't get why so many people here have a problem with lowering prices of motifs. As if motif page and ingredient prices are the only thing that make up the economy. It's a wee bit too self centred for my taste, to be honest. Well, can't be helped. 🤷

Everyone seems to be ignoring that a couple of weeks of lower prices are a real boon to new players and also help filling up the ones own collection.
One can go as far as stating that flushing that part of the economy once a year is very healthy for the longevity of the game as a whole.

daim · April 7

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

I don't get why so many people here have a problem with lowering prices of motifs. As if motif page and ingredient prices are the only thing that make up the economy. It's a wee bit too self centred for my taste, to be honest. Well, can't be helped. 🤷

Everyone seems to be ignoring that a couple of weeks of lower prices are a real boon to new players and also help filling up the ones own collection.
One can go as far as stating that flushing that part of the economy once a year is very healthy for the longevity of the game as a whole.

Why can't raid gear drop from the boxes?

DenverRalphy · April 7

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

Everyone seems to be ignoring that a couple of weeks of lower prices are a real boon to new players and also help filling up the ones own collection.
One can go as far as stating that flushing that part of the economy once a year is very healthy for the longevity of the game as a whole.

The current drop rate of boxes already accomplishes exactly this. And more. The call for returning back to 2024 drops would result in over half a year in obscenely lower prices.

Players bandying for 2024 drop rates can't see (or ignore) the big picture. It's a "Can't see the forest for the trees" scenario.

Ilumia · April 7

I am really pleased with the event.
Good length of the event. The 5 min cooldown ensures there's still good drops of boxes, but not so much they become meaningless.

I like the furniture, except for a couple of things I destroy when I get them.

Mostly I like that the rewards don't drop like crazy, cluttering everything while becoming so worthless they're not worth selling, and the ones that I speculate might be later, are saved on mules (which is such a bother), and they don't really become worth selling because they have overdropped so much. It's just an inventory management nightmare that remains worthless - but this year is much nicer for me.

The702Guy · April 7

Ilumia wrote: »

I am really pleased with the event.
Good length of the event. The 5 min cooldown ensures there's still good drops of boxes, but not so much they become meaningless.

I like the furniture, except for a couple of things I destroy when I get them.

Mostly I like that the rewards don't drop like crazy, cluttering everything while becoming so worthless they're not worth selling, and the ones that I speculate might be later, are saved on mules (which is such a bother), and they don't really become worth selling because they have overdropped so much. It's just an inventory management nightmare that remains worthless - but this year is much nicer for me.

When they were only earned by doing dailies and gave better rewards the boxes were still limited but actually felt good to get. These last 2 years of boxes don’t feel good at all with filler loot like furnishings and all of the worthwhile stuff dropping in stacks of 1.

I’ve been playing for a long time and, while there was a price drop on materials and what not for a little while after the pre 10 year anniversary jubilee, they do go back up again. But you have 1 pve event annually that is actually fun for vet players.

Reginald_leBlem · April 7

Unpopular opinion I guess: I don't care if the economy crashes.

I don't care if patterns or motifs are dirt cheap for a few months, or if someone newer to the game can afford to purchase some gold mats for once. In fact, I think it would be good for the prices to lower. Seems like everything is so expensive these days.

Arunei · April 7

DenverRalphy wrote: »

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

Everyone seems to be ignoring that a couple of weeks of lower prices are a real boon to new players and also help filling up the ones own collection.
One can go as far as stating that flushing that part of the economy once a year is very healthy for the longevity of the game as a whole.

The current drop rate of boxes already accomplishes exactly this. And more. The call for returning back to 2024 drops would result in over half a year in obscenely lower prices.

Players bandying for 2024 drop rates can't see (or ignore) the big picture. It's a "Can't see the forest for the trees" scenario.

People aren't bandying gor 2024 drop rates. Most everyone is saying to go back to drop rates BEFORE 2024, which was how it always was and never destroyed the economy. It always was that during and usually for a few months after the Jubilee, prices went way down on stuff because there was a bug influx of people wanting to sell immediately for instant Gold. Then the people like me would start listing our stuff once stock had sold and prices were going back up.

If it went back to how it was before stuff was broken and super generous I'm pretty sure it would be fine, just like it had been for years.