Collectable drop rate

[Bonulino]

Developers, PLEASE, increase the drop rate for T4 Cultural collectables!!! I just spent 3 hours farming the first section of Lords of Dust over and over again to get the 5 Polished Ores I need to make a Dexterity shard for an equipment upgrade on one of my toons. Multiply that by the 5 toons I have and the number of required equipment upgrades for each as they level, and the process becomes practically sadistic.

[Jasparion]

Developers, PLEASE, increase the drop rate for T4 Cultural collectables!!! I just spent 3 hours farming the first section of Lords of Dust over and over again to get the 5 Polished Ores I need to make a Dexterity shard for an equipment upgrade on one of my toons. Multiply that by the 5 toons I have and the number of required equipment upgrades for each as they level, and the process becomes practically sadistic.

Your 3 hours to get the items needed to craft something vs the minimum 40 runs I did of Raven at the Door to get the Bracers.

Sometimes it takes a while to get the gear you want. Im okay with it. Though maybe 20 runs would have been better...

BTW: https://www.ddo.com/forums/showthrea...em-Efficiently

This comment may be handy:
Something else I just noticed is that heroic wheloon (slayers) is giving T4 collectables even though it says it's a level 15 wilderness area when you enter. I'd expect that it's a typo and that heroic wheloon is really L16, since the quests there are all base level 16, but epic wheloon is dropping T5 collectables, so who knows? You can get 14 adventurer packs in just a few minutes, so it's a pretty good farm, especially for T4/5 cultural.

Another option to try is TOEE on Elite and killing Gargoyles (from the final page of that link above).

[Qhualor]

I farm Baudry's first quest for Research Notebooks almost daily and I know Khyber Prayer Pamphlets are not uncommon. one time I farmed that cabinet about 35 times for 15 Research Notebooks and ended up with about 13 Pamphlets and few of each of that purple prophecy collectables and small Eberrons. I've looted around 75 smalls from that cabinet in the past few months. the ratio seems to be about 15 notebooks to 6 pamphlets for me. its not uncommon for me to do 25-30 runs each day. the fewest runs I ever did was 16.

I actually got a Polished Ore tonight running the first quest in the last part of the Threnal chain, the level 9 quests, killing a Gargoyle at the beginning of the quest. my reaction was, "unicorn"! didn't realize LOD drop Polished Ore. guess I need to check that one out now.

[Jasparion]

I farm Baudry's first quest for Research Notebooks almost daily and I know Khyber Prayer Pamphlets are not uncommon. one time I farmed that cabinet about 35 times for 15 Research Notebooks and ended up with about 13 Pamphlets and few of each of that purple prophecy collectables and small Eberrons. I've looted around 75 smalls from that cabinet in the past few months. the ratio seems to be about 15 notebooks to 6 pamphlets for me. its not uncommon for me to do 25-30 runs each day. the fewest runs I ever did was 16.

I actually got a Polished Ore tonight running the first quest in the last part of the Threnal chain, the level 9 quests, killing a Gargoyle at the beginning of the quest. my reaction was, "unicorn"! didn't realize LOD drop Polished Ore. guess I need to check that one out now.

I need to check out how many Polished Ore I have and maybe start listing them on the AS !

[EllisDee37]

Lords of Dust is a poor farm for polished ore. Switch to Wheloon Prison backpack runs instead.

[Jasparion]

Lords of Dust is a poor farm for polished ore. Switch to Wheloon Prison backpack runs instead.

I think about listing my T4 Culturals for $$$ Profit and within the hour someone comes along and destroys my devious plan !

[Spadedragon]

Developers, PLEASE, increase the drop rate for T4 Cultural collectables!!! I just spent 3 hours farming the first section of Lords of Dust over and over again to get the 5 Polished Ores I need to make a Dexterity shard for an equipment upgrade on one of my toons. Multiply that by the 5 toons I have and the number of required equipment upgrades for each as they level, and the process becomes practically sadistic.

I agree, rare drops rates on collectables needs to be increased.

[mikarddo]

If everything was instant gratification nothing would be rare. I certainly cannot craft everything I want right when I want to - but I dont think it would be good for the game if I could, so thats fine. Either farm or wait till you have the parts through playing normally.

[Darius1680]

If everything was instant gratification nothing would be rare. I certainly cannot craft everything I want right when I want to - but I dont think it would be good for the game if I could, so thats fine. Either farm or wait till you have the parts through playing normally.

No one is expecting instant gratification. However farming rare ingredients can take a massive amount of time. When farming rare ingredients takes longer than farming a rare named drop then something is wrong.

[EllisDee37]

No one is expecting instant gratification. However farming rare ingredients can take a massive amount of time. When farming rare ingredients takes longer than farming a rare named drop then something is wrong.

Well, you don't need rare ingredients unless you're crafting unbound. In that case, I agree that unbound crafting is a dead system.

If you mean uncommon, the longest uncommon farm is 7:30 for Tier 3 Lore. Meaning if you need 5 Silver Flame Hymnals, you're looking at 37:30. I'm skeptical you can get a rare named drop in 37 minutes.

[Spadedragon]

Well, you don't need rare ingredients unless you're crafting unbound. In that case, I agree that unbound crafting is a dead system.

If you mean uncommon, the longest uncommon farm is 7:30 for Tier 3 Lore. Meaning if you need 5 Silver Flame Hymnals, you're looking at 37:30. I'm skeptical you can get a rare named drop in 37 minutes.

Unbound crafting is definitely a dead system. If I had to provide the mats for a high level unbound insightful item, I would have to charge 1,0000 shards for it to justify the cost and time it took to get the mats. That's a shame considering most named items with more power would sell for much less.

Also you can't compare the farming time of uncommon ingredients with rare ingredients. There's a huge difference in farming time.

[Ulfo]

unbound crafting is a dead system.

When your unbound crafted stuff will be buyout from ASAH for 1500 AS, you will think different. 8)

[mikarddo]

No one is expecting instant gratification. However farming rare ingredients can take a massive amount of time. When farming rare ingredients takes longer than farming a rare named drop then something is wrong.

I dont see that anywhere though. Please be specific. Which rare ings are you farming thats taking you 20+ hours (massive amount) for a single (bta) item?

[Darius1680]

I dont see that anywhere though. Please be specific. Which rare ings are you farming thats taking you 20+ hours (massive amount) for a single (bta) item?

Where did I say it took 20+ hours to farm a single ingredient? Where did I say anything about bta items? Please don't make arbitrary out of text assumptions.