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Re: Update 48: The Discount Animation Update

As someone who has and uses machines with old systems, The game should not be handcuffing itself to cater to users of phased out systems.

Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and modernise. If you can't at this moment, then plan for the future. Maybe ZOS can keep instances that work with 15 year old machines, but sometimes the good of the many outweighs.

blktauna

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Re: Do you want more unique one time events like the Writhing Wall Fortress in Phase 3?

People paid for this content.

In future, people will pay for the same content... which they will not be able to do any more.

It's grubby. Stop it.

ETA: I'm talking about any FOMO event, mind. No one wants to do this nonsense, specifically, again. But things like public dungeons should NEVER be timed events. If you can't do phasing, then do it differently.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

[snipped quotes]
But again, "oh there's a lot of people" isn't necessarily a good thing as much as "this flows narratively."

Consider any trial: you group together with friends/guildies/randos and you know each person has a job to do. You all og in to work together to perform the task. You start at the beginning where you get the basic idea of a story, you have a general direction to go in, and then you solve the mechanics and defeat enemies. You communicate with those around you and strategize. You then get to the final boss and feel a sense of accomplishment.

Now consider the Fortress as it is: you go to the portal in a zerg and Keshu tells you that you need to finish the wings. You start running to the left portal but then a notification pops on your screen that the west portal is done. You saw none of it. You didn't do a thing for it, but now a whole zerg of people blows past you while you wonder where they came from. Nobody says a word. You turn around to go to the east wing and go through the portal, but you picked the big portal instead of the small portal so there are no enemies around and you're running through an empty field until you finally make it to the boss just as it dies, again missing the entire fight. At least you can follow the zerg to the final boss, right? And then you keel over because there was no indication that the water was bad. By the time you resurrect yourself, the zerg has blown on and you're just following behind.

Which one makes you feel like part of a team? Which one makes you feel like you were needed?

This. In its entirety.

Bethgael

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Re: Writhing fortress broken?

SerafinaWaterstar wrote: »

Did it in the first mad rush on my main.

Thought I’d have a try on a different character - got quest from Skordo. Entered Fortress - and nothing. No enemies, nothing.

Follow quest to Reach Soul Spire but once inside you can’t destroy the thing so what is going on?

Please don’t tell me you can only do this once on one account.

Or that you made it so badly that once it’s been done on that server, it can’t be done again?

I really hope ZOS have a long session planned for ‘lessons learned’ from this event…….

So the guys who where able to play while phase 3 started had the luck to experience it and all the others are going to miss out because ZOS forgot to implement a reset?

It is still stuck in a non progressible state on PC EU. PPL repair and shoot balistas mindlessly, the sit at the closed gate that leads to the enemy after the western portal after having talked to Keshu and an infernal sits there shielded and non attackable.

What a deception.

AnduinTryggva

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Re: Thank you

Bait used to be believable.

LukosCreyden

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Re: Thank you

I respect the effort to recognize the developers’ work, but I think it is important to ground this discussion in actual player sentiment rather than assumptions.

I ran a poll on the event design with 204 votes. The results were clear:
- 32% said “I hate it, this grind makes me want to uninstall.”
- 48% said “I hate it, but I will keep playing the rest of the game.”
- 16% said “It is just a grind, some folks do not mind the hamster wheel.”
- Only 2% combined said they genuinely enjoyed it.

That means nearly 80% of respondents expressed active dislike, with only a statistical sliver reporting genuine enjoyment.

So while the dungeon content itself was well received, the structure and pacing of the event were not. Acknowledging that reality does not diminish the developers’ effort. It simply ensures that future events can be designed with both creativity and player experience in mind. Gratitude and critique are not mutually exclusive, and the healthiest communities make space for both.

P.S. It is also worth noting that the first two phases were absolutely miserable. They dragged on for weeks with repetitive tasks, underwhelming rewards, and appalling drop rates. That structure did not build anticipation, it only burned players out before Phase Three even arrived.

Furyous

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Re: More sources of tri-pots would be nice

Djennku wrote: »

Lady Smock, Mountain Flower, Columbine. Pick those up as you run around in game and you'll have endless tri pots

EDIT: Spend your fortunes on alchemy bags too, there's your IA alternative ^^

One benefit of actual tri-pots is that you can quickslot those as well as another variant of essence of health (eg. those that just restore health and magicka). You can't quickslot two variants of essence of health.

Possibly a mistake on my part. I still prefer having them separate, since the icon for the tri-pots are distinctive. But that is admittedly not a huge issue.

BretonMage

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Re: Writhing fortress broken?

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hello! The hotfix for this issue has been successfully deployed, so those of you whose servers are flipping over to Phase 3 at 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM Eastern Time should not encounter this issue at all.

Thank you everyone!

Nope. We're having this issue right now on NA. I entered, never been in before. Talk to Kesha. Move to portal, optional step to talk to Kesha comes up again. No enemies to fight, everyone running around talking about how they can't get anything to work. Go back, talk to Kesha. Move through the portal. Option to talk to Kesha comes up again. Rinse, repeat.

"Lead infernium to boss. [West]"

What infernium?

I logged. [snip] the point?

At this point, I would suggest you need to have this up for more than a week. 1 day already lost to dungeon-breaking bug and the bug persists despite being "fixed".
[edited for profanity bypass]

Bethgael

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