Where to find each Heirloom ?

[Cyber Von Cyberus]

Does each area have a higher likelyhood of spawning a certain type of heirloom ? I always struggle to get enough deeds.

[Flame-kun]

No. They're pretty random iirc.

Just go into ruins with antiq (better with Ruins Explorer, and the more hero have this the merrier), bring some keys, then trade shields for deeds.

[Warempel]

Loot in general is pretty random, but when looting heirlooms there's a bigger chance to find Deeds in Weald, Busts in Ruins, and Portraits in Warrens (37.5%, vs 12.5% in the other areas). The chance to loot Crests is biggest in the Cove (50%).

[Narrowmind]

Yeah, you're just in the wrong area. You'll need to spend a lot of time in the Weald to get the deeds you want.

[Jesterofgames7712]

Originally posted by Cyber Von Cyberus:

Does each area have a higher likelyhood of spawning a certain type of heirloom ? I always struggle to get enough deeds.

No area has a higher chance to spawn heirlooms in missions, Just pay attention to rewards and select the mission that's giving you the heirlooms you want. Obviously it's probably best to select longer quests for it.

[Narrowmind]

This is patently untrue. You simply don't know what you're talking about. Op, if you didn't know, you can trade for them as well.

[SlantedRhetoric]

Originally posted by Jesterofgames7712:

Originally posted by Cyber Von Cyberus:

Does each area have a higher likelyhood of spawning a certain type of heirloom ? I always struggle to get enough deeds.

No area has a higher chance to spawn heirlooms in missions, Just pay attention to rewards and select the mission that's giving you the heirlooms you want. Obviously it's probably best to select longer quests for it.

It says which area has more of each type of heirloom in the glossary in-game. It's the book icon on the bottom-right in the Hamlet.

iirc:
Weald: Deeds
Warrens: Portraits
Ruins: Busts
Cove: Crests

And it's very noticeable. It doesn't mean other heirlooms don't spawn but there's a significant difference in the # per mission, though I've had missions in the Warrens where I get an abnormal # of deeds, portraits in the Ruins, on occasion it's still a pretty solid bet that if you need a specific type of heirloom to go to its associated region.

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

It is untrue that there's no difference between the areas. SlantedRhetoric is correct.

[Flame-kun]

Originally posted by Warempel:

Loot in general is pretty random, but when looting heirlooms there's a bigger chance to find Deeds in Weald, Busts in Ruins, and Portraits in Warrens (37.5%, vs 12.5% in the other areas). The chance to loot Crests is biggest in the Cove (50%).

Originally posted by Narrowmind:

Yeah, you're just in the wrong area. You'll need to spend a lot of time in the Weald to get the deeds you want.

Originally posted by Narrowmind:

This is patently untrue. You simply don't know what you're talking about. Op, if you didn't know, you can trade for them as well.

Where did y'all get the data? The loot.json file doesn't mention anything about that. Unless I'm looking at the wrong place...

[Justice]

Originally posted by Hand's Hermit Permit:

It is untrue that there's no difference between the areas. SlantedRhetoric is correct.

I can't confirm, but I've seen some gameplay/footage where early access Darkest Dungeon had heirloom symbol next to each region to give player idea where to farm each heirloom

But it is noticetable when you trying farm a specific heirloom. For example I have problem farming portraits, but by going to warrens I get like 2x times more than any other region
Same deal with deeds, they are significantly more common in Weald.

[SlantedRhetoric]

Originally posted by Flame-kun:

Where did y'all get the data? The loot.json file doesn't mention anything about that. Unless I'm looking at the wrong place...

Idk where the percentages are coming from but I got it from the in-game glossary. It's kind of a pain that they did it in alphabetical order rather than having a handy search function or tab selection but "Deed" "Crest" "Portrait" and "Bust" are all in there with a note on the area to go to find them.

It's worked for me so far but it's not foolproof, like I said I've had weird runs where I get a ton of paintings in the Weald or busts in the Cove for some reason. But that's definitely the exception and not usual so far.

[Warempel]

I derived the percentages from loot.json (chance value). The values are ratios.

Because loot itself is often random, the amount of heirlooms found is typically different on every run. E.g. monsters or curios may drop random loot types like gold, trinket, gems or heirlooms. IF this is one (or more) heirloom draw(s) the mentioned chances apply.

[Cyber Von Cyberus]

Thank you everyone, this has been informative, unfortunately it seems that my luck is quite poor with heirlooms as I mostly ever get crests no matter where I go.

[Flame-kun]

Originally posted by SlantedRhetoric:

Idk where the percentages are coming from but I got it from the in-game glossary. It's kind of a pain that they did it in alphabetical order rather than having a handy search function or tab selection but "Deed" "Crest" "Portrait" and "Bust" are all in there with a note on the area to go to find them.

It's worked for me so far but it's not foolproof, like I said I've had weird runs where I get a ton of paintings in the Weald or busts in the Cove for some reason. But that's definitely the exception and not usual so far.

Ah right. seems I didn't read it properly yesterday. Yes, the chance of getting deed is indeed bigger in weald (3), as big as crest chance.

[Ghoul Hunter]

Originally posted by Cyber Von Cyberus:

Thank you everyone, this has been informative, unfortunately it seems that my luck is quite poor with heirlooms as I mostly ever get crests no matter where I go.

You are supposed to get lots of crests, because everything requires crests. They are designed to be more common.

[No One]

It used to be really obvious because quest heirlooms were tied to region.

Ruins drop more busts.
Warrens drop more portraits.
Weald drops more deeds.
Cove drops more crests.

That said the bias isn't huge. It's noticeable if you're looking for it, usually. Now it's probably more important to find the high-value quest rewards and focus on them.