my solo self found Cerim needs a wolf skull to upgrade her dagger. it’s 5 levels below what’s dropping. i’ve killed 20ish wolves - no skulls. including the torn wolves.
it’s like somehow the wolves are getting stabbed in a way that obliterates the cranium.
it’s been many hours.
i’ve tried crafting a new weapon but RNG’d the level even lower. because the character is SSF i don’t have a huge stash to lean on for spare weapons or temporary upgrades - build depends on a very specific enchantment on weapon and it’s a huge waste of scarce resources to craft a temp weapon.
and you know how important the weapon is to the character’s identity
please. i know it’s supposed to be not easy. but 20 wolves should yield ar least one skull.
at this point i’m doing a wolf census on the island
p.s. i know i chose to do SSF but a new player would absolutely experience this. bears apparently don’t have skulls most of the time either. i’ve tried all the vendors including Seneschal already, over multiple days
yes the sacred ancient art of crafting 8 whole planks of birch, 6 bars of silver, and 2 stag antlers, into a tiny wand that shoots electric bolts. it’s a process where density approaching neutron’s is achieved through pressing the materials together using the strength of a cerim.
if you rinse pestilence, you end up with materials overflow, but this is no good for early progression
my luck is so terrible i’m starting to suspect the drops being tied to game state and quest progress or char level.
sure enough though, as soon as i don’t need it anymore, i’m sure every wolf will be dropping 2 skulls per kill just to spite me
today i killed 11 more wolves (i got lucky and the cave spawned beasts)
one of them dropped one wolf skull
assuming yesterday i had killed 20 and not more, that’s 1 skull in 31 wolves which makes it 3% observed chance to drop !
i feel like hoarding the skull to upgrade my dagger when i finally get the facet it want
Tangentially: You can trade lower tier wolf items for skulls at the old lady north in marin village.
I think my drop rate’s higher, more like 1/10 though I don’t know why.
yes you can ! but you need the merin questline done for that, and if you need a wolf skull to upgrade weapon lvl 6→7, that’s going to be one tough adventure with your outdated weapon. merin is lvl 25 area ? i would expect to go in there with a lvl 10 weapon