DenverRalphy wrote: »

Iexo_Peoa wrote: »

A lot of people have been talking about soft grouping here... Except that there's nobody to group with. I don't know if there are too many instances, or if I've been getting on at bad times, but I can sit by the door in a district for an hour and never see another player come through, the whole place is like a ghost town. Where and how are these soft groups supposed to form?

Don't sit at the entrance waiting for groups to stumble onto you. Open the group finder, select a Night Market group that's working an objective conducive to your goal, and join. After you join, travel to the group's instance.

If you sit there at the entrance, you'll wait ages. If you use group finder, you'll find a group within seconds.

And to further this—don't hesitate to start your own group too! Honestly all of the groups I've been in and made have been delightful. I've only really had one negative experience with a person getting uppity cause we died to the trash (to blood port) and they rage quit thinking we weren't able to kill the boss. We killed it just fine without a single death.

Every 3 "clicks" forum gives 503 error.
In my case, game too: I got booted 2 times today, and every action is delayed (like if I turn in a quest, I can make 3 steps away before it plays the sound and appears the announcement).

EDIT: by the way, I noticed since 2 or 3 days ago the look of the forum page on my tablet has changes. For example, the on-screen buttons of "save comment", "cancel", etc are different.

It's the all the players repeatedly complaining about Night Market.
Probably triggered some DDOS counter measures by Cloudflare. 😅

As far as I can tell, theres an essence crucible furnishing but no furnishing for the essences themselves. Theyre so cool and fun and id love to have them displayed on crucibles in some of my homes. Would this be possible for us to get?

The starting quest is bugged.

Ridiculous.

RaikaNA wrote: »

What is the point behind the faction selection idea for this event? Everyone is joining the winning team. Ruckus and glittering don't stand a chance of winning because there are too many people who are joining Eyes. This is a failure for sure.



PC NA server

I've seen a lot of similar comments but honestly unless rewards change from pts, the underdog factions could be considered bigger winners. The fragment for the recipe and ingredients for Glittering Goad and Ruckus are way higher than Thousand Eyes which is arguably oversaturated on the marketplace.

Meanwhile on pts, this was all the winning faction got for winning which imo is disappointing:

Second and third place got purple and blue versions of their monster set respectively.

Unless things changed from pts the end of the season rewards aren't really a big deal no matter your faction's place.

Second Feedback Post+Some Suggestions/Requests for future Night Market runs:
Keys
I am requesting a hotfix adjustment to keys. I love most of the Night Market but I am getting progressively more frustrated with the logistics of juggling multiple groups. I run in a trials guild where I am a member of three cores and weekly participate in an open run, I lead an achievement based beginner friendly to mid tier guild, and I have been filling for friends' guilds/groups because I genuinely love the Night Market and enjoy it. It is becoming increasingly problematic to manage key stage. The other day, I had every group farming overland. I farmed every Argent 3-5 times to help everyone get their keys and fragments. Early the next day a few of us made an improv group to do the dungeons and the ordeal. Most of us also refarmed the Ardents after but some had to go. Later in the day one of our core groups had to farm ardents to get some people keys before we could do the dungeons. While a hm/tri capable trials guild will not have problems going from ardents to opulent ordeals in a 2 hour block, beginner and mid tier groups will. It also feels really bad to farm ardents multiple times with no extra credit and then to find yourself lacking keys when you need them because it was spent with another group and have to farm them again some more. It feels like I'm spending more time catching people up and juggling everyone's key status. I would like more time in the instanced content because I find it very fun and while I find the overland portions of Night Market also fun, I would prefer if I had a more balanced experience.

I don't care what solution is done but please either make it so you could hold multiple keys so farming in advance stacks or make it so the keys are also a single use/unlock and then you can enter the instanced content whenever you want with whoever else has already prepared once. Key prog is killing a lot of my enjoyment of something I otherwise really like.

Suggestions, both from myself or talking with friends/guildies for Night Market QOL/future ideas:

• Faction Solo Buff-I had an idea/request from pts to give some fun idle thematic things in the plaza. Loosely it was pet/interact for Thousand Eyes, brawl with npcs/training dummy things for Ruckus, and dance with a partygoer for Glittering Goad. My friend and I were spitballing ideas on how to tweak the solo player experience to be a bit more fun/forgiving while also keeping Night Market challenging and suggested maybe making these idle activities grant a buff if the player is not in a group and only works while solo. A lot of the race/minigames give powerful buffs so it would fit with what is already there and possibly give solo players a starter buff to help them out and give them a bit more power.
• Helper Faction Agents-I suggested in my first post that an npc similar to dungeons/trials that calls out mechanics in a story accurate way might help especially for skirmishes in the districts and cut down on player confusion, it would also make the districts feel populated by more than just the player and enemies.
• Better Rewards-I suggested a few things like adding a small chance for rare/priceless drops to maybe sweeten the pot on some Night Market rewards, especially for the winning faction. Another suggestion could be to let leads, curated or not, from all sources drop from the Night Market with an increased droprate. This would help those of us who have been stuck on annoying codex entries for a long time get some progress and also fit the theme of great treasures and secrets. We've been asking for more reliable progression for leads for a while and this could fix that while keeping leads more rare outside of the Night Market being active possibly if the devs want to keep it that way.
• New Districts/Lore support-I would love down the line to see new districts and themes that expand the story and mystery of the Night Market. A friend of mine went back and forth for ideas of new districts and relics to traverse them because we found that flavor/story fun. We talked about reimagining things like Graven Deep's bubble walk underwater for a district or a district where a relic changes the day/night cycle or weather to help you traverse different paths. There is so much creativity that could be had here.
• More Story/Lore-Similar to the above but it would be cool to eventually see more questlines in the Night Market related to the main story or even faction specific questline/storylines to do to learn more about the factions and their leaders. The Curator, the faction leaders, the Night Market itself all have teases of there is more to learn over time and I hope that we see that.
• Fixing Side Quests-I do like some of the idea behind the explorative nature of the side quests but I think either giving each a static location/objective points or making it so the detect radius on them is higher would solve a lot of issues people have with them. I also really think side quests especially need better rewards as many people are finding them pointless outside of the achievement for doing each one and I found many to be fun flavor and interesting and would like to see them be just as rewarding as the plaza dailies.

I think this is about all for part two other than bugs or things already said by others. Again, I really love the Night Market and want to see it made better over time. It can definitely be so much more than it is right now.

Ok, just to double check because I’ve seen players confused about this - the skirmish reward comes from a chest and not from the body of the boss. You did not see a chest?

I believe what may be happening is that when you rez, the combat timer “restarts” for your character. If you have an addon that tracks DPS you will see this. So if you do no damage between rezzing and the skirmish boss dying the game seems to register that you did not participate in the fight. If this is the case then ZOS should absolutely fix this.