SeaGtGruff wrote: »

Edited to add: It seems like it would be best in public content such as this if entering the public dungeon would drop you into an instance where you're in the earliest part of the story, instead of randomly dropping you into one of any number of instances where the story might be progressed to any random point. Like, divide everything into several stages, and drop players into an instance where stage 1 hasn't been completed yet. Or, if players could be randomly dropped into instances which might be at stage 3, stage 8, stage 22, etc., then give clear directions that point the entering players to exactly where they need to go in order to join in at whatever stage the instance happens to be at. Right now there are portals all over the place, but maybe in future content of this type it would be better to disable any portals that take players to sections of the public dungeon which have already been cleared by other players, and have only those portals which take the entering players to exactly where they need to be. Edit: Or, just have one portal that takes you where you need to go, like in a group dungeon where the portal at the beginning of the dungeon takes you to the location of the last boss that was killed so you can proceed from there rather than having to run through the entire dungeon trying to find your way to where the rest of the group is.

Basically, here's how it should be organized... The event should take place in an instance; as soon as the players enter, the entrance should be locked, and a copy of the instance should be created for the next players. All phases (wings) of the event should go one by one. Ideally, the NPC should move with the group and guide the players. Internet is full of videos (from the game) of similar events in WoW (as a sort of benchmark). I don't understand why ZOS decided to "reinvent the wheel"...

I've had some fun trying to solo a siege camp, but some of the bosses have really nasty one-shot mechanics that don't seem to have any telegraphed warnings, or if they do then the telegraphed warnings come a fraction of a second before the attack one-shots you. Also, some bosses lay down multiple AOE DOTs that either overlap closely, multiplying their damage done, or that are very large and spread apart in such a way that there's practically nowhere to roll-dodge to-- assuming you aren't grabbed by a giant conjured hand that lifts you up and holds you in place so you can't roll-dodge, anyway.

I get that a lot of players are really OP, and that a lot of them really want to see more difficulty added into the game, but the overall balancing seems horrible-- either something is really easy and can be cleared "just by looking at it" (as some people here in the forums like to say), or something is so over-the-top difficult that no one anyone who isn't incredibly OP or part of a group that includes several OP players have has basically zero chance of clearing it.

It seems like a real shame that this game has a huge amount of really well-designed content, but the majority of it seems to be aimed at either the lowest-end players or the highest-end players, leaving average, in-between players out of luck as far as trying to have fun with the more difficult content.

Edit: corrections and additions

my feeling is that the end of the event was ok but not worth waiting for. if they had put something like this between phase 1 and 2 (which i wrongly thought they were), then it would have made completing phase 1 more rewarding. the worst thing was realising that b/tn phase 1 and 2, there was very little difference, and that' was very bad because phase 1 was full of the horrible repeatable dailies, for which i lost interest fast. i think phase 1 could have been the dailies (and better ones ... crafting was fine b/c it was easy, the siege camp and vitrified souls was ok, and the 4th one -- collecting heavy pelts etc from mobs, was awful and i barely did it). then phase 2 could have led us into what phase 3 offered, but maybe split up a bit, then phase 3 could be the finisher. also, phase 1 and 2 needed to have much faster progession metres. they initially had a slow as xmas progression, which they adjusted to make it faster, but not really fast enough. then about 2/3 of the way through phase 2, suddenly the progression jumped and when i logged back in, phase 2 was done. it was as if zos realised 'oh god this is awful, let's just end it', which were my sentiments exactly. so yeah, lot of things went wrong, very little was right except the end, which was not bad. yeah, i enjoyed the writing fortress, although i was kind of confused along the way but that's ok

Nope this was a big waste of everybody their time and money: players and devs.

The only tiny redeeming thing was the fortress itself but even their my quests and progress are bugged without characters not appearing. A disappointment from start to finish.

I say no to one time fomo things, no to drip feeding paid content and other arbitrary gating mechanisms.

If you're going to release content for a limited time, it had better be rock solid. There's no excuse, defense, justification, or rationalization for one iota less. You need to meet the absolute highest standards of quality. And ZOS won't even spend the manhours to reach the minimum acceptable levels of quality.

After this absolute fiasco of a year, no, I don't want them ever to do anything that's reliant on quality.

And ballistas do not do anything in Writhing Wall... All stuck in all instances where I were visiting...

Hopefully 7 days countdown is on pause allso. (doubt)

Nemesis7884 wrote: »

D) Bethesda/ZM has by now gotten the reputation of having extremely poor quality control (proof: pretty much any of their projects released in the past 10 years from new games to updates or remasters or even merchandise released broken)

10 years? Bethesda's entire history is littered with buggy as hell games. They have good cores though, and because of that they have a big fanbase, and a big modding community - who take that buggy mess and fix it. ESO cannot be fixed that way though and it shows.

Same here on PC EU. Infernum just hold his position. But tbh, I have no clue what I have to do there.

After today I think we're at 5 maintenance in two weeks, right?

I wonder if this is a good thing or bad. I guess they're fixing things. But why are so many things being rolled out in a broken state?

Ninja Pulls has a great explanatory video: https://youtu.be/jdyPNnfuy1k?si=7-vSLl3FU0M_soib