I have been playing with a friend on LAN and searching for these drops in Ugdenbog. I have done multiple full clears of Ugdenbog and gotten none to drop from even the unique boss and heroes of that zone.
I went to check the crafting requirements on some items and they require 12 & 20 to complete many of them. I really wish the drop rate was increased, or atleast, able to drop from many more monsters.
Please Crate, do not make Ugdenblooms the new vengeful wraith/ectoplasm. I’m happy to sink hours upon hours farming items in Grim Dawn, i’ve put in 1800 hours and love it, but please don’t make Ugdenblooms that item, it is needed in way too many items to be this excruciating to find.
PS - The expansion rocks, the art and design of the new levels is top notch, and I like all the new lore and bosses. Overall 10/10 thanks Crate
Yea, i’ve been checking every stump i come past, to no avail. After running for Decree of Malmouth, i feel like Ugdenblooms are as hard to find from my own experience.
Yeah, op’s suggested change is on target. I’ve found a number of component BPs that I was looking forward to crafting - but the stickler is they all require huge amounts of udgenbloom, and I’m not looking forward to grinding it.
Increase the drop rates from the rotten stumps. Even better - poisonous bloom, carnivorous plant - it would make sense thematically that udgenblooms could drop from them. Drop rate wouldn’t even have to be as high as, say, consecrated wrappings or soul shards to be an improvement for player experience. At the current rate as they are now, I could see trading super rare legendaries exclusively for ugdenblooms.
Other than ugdenbloom drop issues, loving everything else about this expansion!
Um, strange. Drop rates were low during initial testing, but I’ve easily found 8 during a single run of the area. Is this happening just during multiplay or when you’re single playing as well?
I ran two 85 characters both through Normal and Elite of the new expansion and I have 5 on one character and 9 on the other. This is two clears of the expansion areas, so multiple runs through Ugdenbog while picking up quests and exploring the entire area.
This is actually a bit strange since I’ve found at least 10 on my initial run through story mode without any farming on Ultimate. Not sure if it’s just rng.’
It’s entirely possible this item drops more from boss drops, which means that non-ultimate/elite farming would net less drops like the OP has experienced.
The multiplayer runs were done in Ultimate between levels 95 to 100. I just ran Ugdenbog earlier today on my farming character (at 100) and netted just one Ugdenbloom.
My runs were done on a level 100 in Ultimate. My initial runthrough of expansion netted me 3 ugdenblooms. But, beyond that the droprate has been extremely low. I know i can farm it numerous times to get them eventually.
I remember the drop rate of ectoplasm and vengeful wraith from early on in development(alongside it’s crafting requirements and use in crafting Haunted Steel), which felt similar to the current drop rate of Ugdenblooms. They have since changed the drop rate of ectoplasm and vengeful wraith so they drop alot more often. I see similar issues with Ugdenbloom and the old droprates of ecto/vengeful.
+1 to this - I’m loving the expansion so far, but I can’t find a single ugdenbloom to complete the coven’s quest where you find something from a basilisk something from those swamp beasts, and the ugdenbloom. I’ve found 10 of both the other components easy, but no ugdenblooms. The quest info says they drop from Ugdendbog golems, and I’ve farmed the undergrowth cave about five times (which is where the golems seem to concentrate), but not a single ugdenbloom. Where else should I be looking?
I haven’t even been able to complete the Coven’s Walls quest after three clears of this zone. Ugdenbloom will not drop once. And you guys say this stuff is a crafting mat? Bah.
On the similar topic, what about Aetherial Missives/Mutagen? I feel like their drop rate is lower than Tainted Brain Matter, but isn’t that what’s they’re equivalent to?
Yeap, definitely needs a slight boost. Though I haven’t had it as bad, often netting 5+ flowers in Gloomwald - Barrowholm run. Also, the plant boss in The Undergrowth usually always drops a flower, as does the boss golem that’s found in Ugdenbog.
A bigger problem though is the beast faction nemesis, who is currently severely in need of a hit with the nerf-by-4. As if you’re farming heavily, you’ll run into it pretty quickly…
Also, Wendigo Spirits need a boost vis drop rates, since I’ve gotten most of mine via doing the Coven’s quests and only 3 from mob drops.
From Gloomwald to Barrowholm and everything in between. There’s a lot of golems and rotting stumps in Gloomwald, which is what makes it worth running, plus a small chance of a Wendigo Spirit dropping.