So, a little preface here. In order to complete the Adventurer’s Tome in South Vern, you must collect 30 “Fresh Oysters” to create one of the recipe’s needed for completion.
Now. Under most circumstances and in most places, such a task shouldn’t be that hard. It’s just an oyster. How hard could it be to collect 30 oysters to craft a dish? I mean, this place it right on the water, I technically should be able to go buy 30 Fresh Oysters from any number of vendors, but alas, this is a video game with arbitrary rules.
So, what is the issue with these oysters? Well, let me spin you a yarn. I’ve been running around for the past 5 hours, from oyster spawn to oyster spawn, and I’ve collect 3 fresh oysters. I need 30. Does anyone not see the issue with this? The droprate from the spawn is just simply way, way too low. It could be easily tripled and this would still be a task that would take nearly an entire game day to complete. Others are also having this issue, the droprate must be easily less than 10%. I’d be willing to bet it’s less than 8%.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that spawns aren’t instanced, players have to compete over every spawn. If someone beats you to a oyster breeding spawn, congrats, you’re fucked. Oh, and for some reason we can’t create private channels so we can have all the spawns to ourselves, but whatever. Doesn’t change the fact the droprate is absolutely abysmal.
Listen, this shit, has to stop. This isn’t the only instance of mechanics like this in the game. There are multiple problems like this throughout the game, and they need to be addressed at some time. This isn’t meaningful gameplay, this isn’t a worthwhile gaming experience. I’m only doing it because I have to in order to complete the Adventurer’s Tome and get the vendor at my Stronghold. This is not something that needs to be gated by an extremely sadistic timesink.
Like what the fuck? Nobody enjoys this. It’s cancerous. It’s the most annoying type of “busywork”. You don’t even feel accomplished when you complete it, you only get a feeling of “Wow, I’m fucking glad that’s over with because it was completely stupid.”
At some point, there needs to be a pass on all these types of collectibles, and in most cases, whenever you see a drop rate, just by default, err on the side of caution and player sanity and say “triple it”. Holy shit.
That’s all.