Has crafting stuff stopped dropping in chests?

[LuckyCuss]

Been loot running all morning and have not had a single drop of crafting materials. Does it not drop now?

[Noopleh]

I am positive it still does. Found a +1 Flaming Burst, Silver, Large Guild Augment Greatsword in a chest.

[Goldeneye]

Ran a shroud, epic bigtop, and epic into the deep this morning - I didn't get any crafting ingredients... though could just be probability.

[somenewnoob]

I think previosuly the essence was replacing a regular loot slot in chests, not being "added". They changed it this update so it wasn't replacing regular loot anymore and now just has a chance to drop in addition to loot like guild renown stuff does. It wouldn't surprise me if it was bugged and not dropping at all now. Haven't been IG yet since so can't say for sure.

[LuckyCuss]

Ran a shroud, epic bigtop, and epic into the deep this morning - I didn't get any crafting ingredients... though could just be probability.

I have opened near 50 epic chests this morning without a single crafting drop.

If it's just probability I'm guessing the probability of a crafting drop is something south of a snowball's chance in taming the flames.

[Zarquine]

I did Framework a few times and in 5-7 chests per run, nothing... Did a few other quests... Nothing...

Now I see this:

"The Cannith Crafting system is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience."

I wonder if there is any connection...

[Sleepsalot]

I would NOT call this Crafting Items... Essences are Crafting Items....

Sleeps

I am positive it still does. Found a +1 Flaming Burst, Silver, Large Guild Augment Greatsword in a chest.

[game5551]

No essences for me either with chests from about 15 quests today. Do you think:
1) the festival coins are now replacing the essences and we will get the essences back after it is over
2) part of the crafting changes means no more essences drop in quests
3) its a bug and will be fixed

[Calebro]

It probably has something to do with the fact that crafting is temporarily closed.
Flip the switch to turn crafting off and the mats stop dropping because they've also been turned off via that same switch.
That's my guess.

[Gkar]

Not a single crafting drop in chest or end rewards tonight.

It probably has something to do with the fact that crafting is temporarily closed.
Flip the switch to turn crafting off and the mats stop dropping because they've also been turned off via that same switch.
That's my guess.

That's certainly possible.

[redspecter23]

It probably has something to do with the fact that crafting is temporarily closed.
Flip the switch to turn crafting off and the mats stop dropping because they've also been turned off via that same switch.
That's my guess.

That was my guess as well. Remember back when the crafting hall was added to the game, but the door was closed as it is now. It was ready to go, just not turned on yet and materials were not dropping in chests at the time. It's probably a switch for the whole thing on/off.

The best way to confirm is just to run one of the quests that always had essences in the end reward. Vale or Orchard. If they don't drop on that list, I'd be very confident that they are simply turned off right now.

[Morgueman]

Well I can say on Khyber today I ran a few elite's in the harbor (butcher's path durk's etc etc) and got a grand total of 5-6 greater's. But this was also before crafting got shut down as well. And yes these were from chest loot boxes in the quests themselves.

[Sarisa]

Also confirmed. Opened about 50 Amrath+Epic chests this evening, and 0 essences. Most likely due to crafting being turned off, but could be an issue with the patch too.

[Iwinbyrollup]

Been running Orchard this evening, no essences, not even in the end rewards. I lament my lack of essences and my missing sigil piece.

That latter bit's neither here nor there though.

[Grenada]

Has anyone checked for mystical broccoli end rewards yet (vale quests).

Or, for that matter, any of the other mystical items?

[TheDearLeader]

Has anyone checked for mystical broccoli end rewards yet (vale quests).

Or, for that matter, any of the other mystical items?

Mystical Fish from Sorrowdusk, so that's still in game.

[BoolZ]

I got the broccoli from a sleeping dust this afternoon.

[AtomicMew]

Wall Street response: Buy! Buy! Buy!

[BOgre]

brought my new monk to the harbor today, ran a few quests. got coins but no essences. As usual all this guessing could have been avoided by some transparency on turbine's part. Yeah, I sing the same song all time... it's just annoying.
I just loved American McGee's and John Romero's and Adrian Carmack's .plan pages. Made all the difference, imo. Now THERE were some devs!

[BOgre]

Oh, and on the subject of carmack/romero/mcgee/doom/quake (sorry about the hijack, but not too sorry...) well, those games released their source (ok, it's wasn't all planned, there were some hacks involved... still) and as a result they exploded in popularity with mods and such being created. In fact there are still mods being made for QUAKE ONE! And Q2 is still played by hardcore id lovers. And bot AI took incredible leaps because of Q2... id is even responsible (at least partly) for GLiDe, SLA, and the overall drive for 3D hardware GPU's and 3D soundcards. Why? I think it's in part because they were open about what they were doing. Of course, they were visionaries, and there's no substitute for genius...
ehhh. I don't have a point i guess. I just miss the good ol days. Probly cuz i'm old