Vase loot

[Sid]

Anyone ever found anything in vases ? There's that one scroll in a vase inside of the church with the looters in the beginning, but that's honestly all i can think of, they're just all empty.

[Phantus]

99% in my experience are empty. I may have found a couple gold pieces once or twice. I don't bother with them anymore seeing as there are so many barrels, boxes, crates, bookshelves, potion racks...I'm loving this game but they could certainly tone down the amount of things that you feel naturally compelled to look in.

[HozzMidnight]

I draw the line at looting vases. I won't do it.

[Gingermonkey]

Occasionally theres bones, or a couple gold. But almost never worth it.

[HughMann]

If I have full spell slots I just cast shatter in vase rooms, I don't know it that breaks loot but it makes me feel better.

[Mullins]

I'm waiting for a mod that marks all containers that have *something* so I can ignore the rest.

[Erke]

The game certainly can use more properly distributed loot.... I hate finding nothing in a library full of bookcases but 3 books on the floor...
Or bottles everywhere but nothing ever in bottleracks...
Literal hanging herb stashes... But empty...

And those containers with the action icon instead of loot... ALWAYS empty with voicelines ffs... Anyone ever found anything in those and the character going "AT F**ING LAST!" ??

[orthostatic]

If it hasn't already been written by the time I get around to writing a mod or two for this, container auto-looting is what I will write. This game hates arthritic players.

[lawjax]

Having looted everything that I could hover over I can attest to the fact that there are a few vases, crates, and boxes that have been laden with goods such as potions and scrolls, but you would really have to go out of your way to find them. I believe 1-2 notably dwell within the treasury room during Act 1 - the area where you may encounter some paladins and a peculiarly horny woman, real firebrand - can't miss her.

I will say that most of the easily accessible good loot is in public spaces where other NPCs live, such as a certain questionable underground establishment where a love-lost artisan has fallen under the ownership of some less equitable company, or in the dwellings of a ruined city where a tiny peoples, merry in their belligerence, reside.

Really, it's a slog. Larian games are super at training you to want to rifle through every little thing, and equally good at training you to question when and where you should actually use all of this stuff.

Now something else I've noticed, as I have a mild case of restartitis, is that the loot itself is randomized to a degree. I believe item values are set, meaning you should find a sort of local equivalency of what you looted on one playthrough in another in the same general location, but the items appear to be random beyond that. I've found instruments in one area where I had previously found daggers, as an example.

Also, if you are really thorough, try attacking some of the arachnid eggs and enwebbed remnants of some unfortunate souls, as you may find in a certain dank domicile some choice scrolls, valuable trinkets that can be sold off, and the like. At the very least, your thoroughness will give you greater buying power at the next vendor you encounter, which will then give you even greater buying power thereafter pickpocketing the unsuspecting fellow.

[Prism]

I never really gave it any thought till I saw this post.

I will say I did not see anything in the vases until the Grymforge/Shar temple in Act 1 Underdark. Several vases there had loot.
I just check everything out of principle. I like looting.