Just wanted to make a post as I try to complete this mission that has challenged many in the past. I have heard of players taking a full 6 months or more to complete the quest. In a sense I am over that time since I started but I took a massive break from the grind. Current progress:
Shoggoth: Approximately 18.5k kills, Repeated Codex one full time to complete Chapter 1 drop
Yog: Approximately 1.1k kills, hit Rank 20 Codex doing the level 11-19 Yogs to complete the Chapter 2 drop (quite lucky)
Cultist: 848+ kills, hit Rank 8 Codex, mostly killing the ones near DSEC military now but have killed a mix of others as well. No Chapter 3 yet, hope to get lucky like with the Yogs but will keep grinding.
Shub: 75ish kills, only Rank 3 Codex, grinded the lowest level Shubs only on a couple of occassions. I will need to gear up further in the future to have an easier time with these but plan to when I can after Chapter 3.
I’m enjoying the grind so far and in a great position to embrace it. I’ve done a lot of research on the mission and I will enjoy the 3% reload horns with my Mod Viceroy as it will help me to more easily achieve 15% reload and open ring options a bit in the future. My honest guess of doing this so far is that the drop rate might be something like 1/10k kills of each mob and it would only take a bit of bad luck to really push people to some extreme extents to finish the mission. Not to mention that the difficulty increases with higher HP of each mob naturally. No way to prove that but just a guess. Anyways, thanks for reading and I may return to update when I progress more.
I start the mission like 8 9 years ago. I got chapter 4 back than and I kept trying whenever I go to monria for the other chapters. Last year I looted the yog chapter and I am still trying for cultist and shogs. Imo it is just stupid how much we need to cycle to get that 3% reload which doesn’t even work with all armors. And all this because of a flawed loot system which doesn’t refresh the items in the poll because there are x amount of already looted chapters laying in storages of inactive accounts etc. It doesn’t even matter how much you cycle because you cannot loot it if the chapter it’s not in the loot poll… I think kill count was a better option for this mission or % chance to obtain the quest item.
I got Shoggoth and Yog chapters early - then the Cultist one twice before getting another Yog one. The last one for the Shubs chapter was brutal. I was seriously under powered and they were above my skill level. Took me so long. Like probably 5- 10 years in total. At least 2-3 years on the Shubs doing the daily token grind. Probably cost me more than Deathifier paid for Treasure Island. The worst of it all was the exact day I finally got it I also bought a ring with the reload on it. Christmas 2021. I still have that ring and the stupid horns are sitting in my storage never used. Now, I hate the Shubs so much I probably will never do them again.
Took me a month or two to get mine, but then unlike all the ones saying it’s taking years, I didn’t just do it a few hours a day for the daily or when I happened to be there. I picked a mob and stayed on it til I got the page, all day everyday. Then moved to the next mob. Most the time I don’t use the horns because of helm issues but when I can it’s a nice bonus.
Time for night raged to become enraged this mission just drives a sane person crazy and quickkk lol. I can’t obviously prove this but there’s also thread on it by someone else with the loot working like this on monria forum and from what i saw it does. Somehow on the last chapter especially whatever one that is for you, you are blocked from even being able to loot it (probably until some hidden cycle amount idk). As far as I know there isn’t any other thing like this in game that I’ve come across. I went to monria for the horns and plan was to just try the shub mob (hardest) for maybe a couple days and if I didn’t get it then o well not going to waste time n $ on the easy mobs. So tried shub for a few hours nothing but someone with far superior gear was grinding them 15+ hours per day for a month straight (no luck for them) so I did the token daily on shog (easiest)for few kills and got the chapter almost instantly. Next day seen same person grinding shubs again hard nonstop for their last chapter so I was just planning on going to do the shub daily token kills on them and sure enough even as the person was hunting them + killing way faster than me I looted it in a few kills. Showed them and we were both like wtf this makes no sense. Long story short I’m trapped at this point so have to finish I go for cultists (3rd hardest) get that in a couple days then yog (2nd easiest) and my last chapter I cycled a fricken fortune for a couple weeks 15 hours a day to get it. So take this how you want but I’d tackle hardest mobs down first. GL
That is the problem right there. Some have looted more than 1 x chapter for a specific mob and the loot pool doesn’t refresh it in the loot because there are multiples copy of the same chapters. I remember this was a problem few years back and Dme ask on chat if someone had multiples copies of the same chapter to tt them so they can be refreshed in the loot. Than one guy said yea I have 12 copies of x chapter after he tt them they start dropping again. I don’t know if people still can loot more copies of the same chapter but I think there is the biggest problem. So if you have multiples copy of the same chapter please tt them… and pm me so I can go loot 1 and 3 ?
I dont think it works like this for the chapters or with the catalysts on aris unless they keep increasing the max supply every day/wave since people are constantly getting the horns, but if you’re sure you could probably message jelly Royale and pay him to TT his 1000s of chapters he must have by now living over on monria lol. If you do this let me know how long your last chapter takes and if you think the loot suppression theory is real over there for those.
if lucky 4k ped if not lucky 6k ped cycle (all loot into trade terminal LOL) *
i know exactly where they will drop (has to be right weapons and places and type of the mobs also)
if you running eco mode or over kill chance of looting the chapter are under 50% *
the easy one are the yog kill 45 get the chapter
cultist around 2k+ kills get the chapter
Shoggoth around 4k+ kills get the chapter
shub around 1k+ kills get the chapter
Tips : if your radar have green dots your chance of getting chapters are 0% try to hunt without green dots near you (it tested 100% work for some players)
I mean that’s an interesting tin foil hat loot theory.
But the meat and potatos of it, revolve around just killing them until it drops. Which of course makes all the other voodoo science seem legit…because hey you got the item so your method must be accurate 100% of the time for 50% of players anyway.
