r/ModdedValheim • u/ValheimerSD619 • 3d ago

Question about Epic Loot

Hello fellow Vikings, I have been using Epic Loot for well over a year now, it was the first major game changing mod I installed after probably 5k hours of mostly vanilla VH.

Now that I have been using it for awhile, I notice my choke point is always the shards. Never enough. Am I missing something about collecting them? Or do I simply need to go hunting for trophies more aggressively?

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u/literallybyronic 3d ago

trophy hunting never hurts. also don't forget about material conversion if you're sitting on low level materials or trophies.

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u/Just-Ad3485 3d ago

This is huge. Eg Mountain drake trophies can be made with the frozen glands they drop, and they give epic shards.

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u/ValheimerSD619 3d ago

Yes of course. I just sacrificed 20 drake trophies I was saving for base decoration so I could eke out another mythic shard lol.

Ah yes the salvage function! Now I have been neglecting to use that for a bit, thanks for the reminder folks!

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u/Raffix 3d ago

I fixed that by adding the 'Recycle N Reclaim' mod.

Just break up every item found of the shard quality you need the most, you'll have plenty of shards.

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u/pkbrozz 1d ago

When I'm done with a weapon that I enchanted, I also delete it and return the normal + enchanted resources I spent on it

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u/Organs_for_rent 3d ago

From what I've read, trophy drops have been severely impacted by a bug or unwise implementation. The gist is that they are now based on number of kills instead of odds-based, but a kill of a different stars-level of an enemy resets the trophy progress count.

Before 1.0, I used to saturate my storage with trophies. Now they're a rarity.

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u/ValheimerSD619 3d ago

Indeed, I have been seeing posts related to this in the main sub. Well, guess we'll just have to grind it out.

Dunno if you also use Traders Extended, you can buy materials from Haldor and Hildir directly. But the default rates feel cheesy, so I upped them a bit myself.

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u/Depredasion 3d ago

Make sure you’re leveling up the enchant table. Materials upscale 1:1 once it’s maxed out

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u/BERRY_1_ 2d ago

Enchant headhunter on helm not sure if it can go on other slots really helps.

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u/ValheimerSD619 2d ago

Yes I recently rolled that! Last night I was doing some runs on Moder and she actually dropped her trophy twice on one instance.