I've been following this thread with a certain amount of curiosity but it only struck me earlier that one of my survey gatherers might actually not know all the traits of all of the plants/mushrooms, so I checked.

She only knows four traits on four plants/mushrooms, three traits, two traits. one trait on some and no traits at all on eleven. She has 8/8 and all other passives except for snakeblood fully unlocked.

So I did a few surveys with her just out of interest, the first one I got only 4 from 5 nodes but the 6th node gave me 12. After that every survey gave me at least one or two 6 and 12's, one gave me only 6 and 12's.

My sample size was tiny in comparison to you guys but I can definitely say you do not need all traits unlocked to get 6 and 12's to drop.

I had never actually checked her knowledge before which tells me that I have always received 6 and 12's when gathering with her because I would certainly have stopped using her or maxed her knowledge if I had not!

I had two characters it saved completely. I only saved them in the first place because they were fully leveled up but they were unplayable, subclassing saved them and made them worthy of play rotation.

React wrote: »

MincMincMinc wrote: »

They have already gone over and upgraded the hardware with really no difference.

For about 6-9 months post-hardware upgrade, the game ran at a level I'd never seen in it's history up till that point (and since!). I was streaming often during this time and would frequently be in keeps where there were 50+ players present and on screen at once with zero ability delay whatsoever.

I wish they would explain why the performance suddenly degraded back to pre-upgrade levels just a short 6 months later. It was like someone had flipped a switch - they released a patch and suddenly the ability delay was back during prime time. Since they never bothered to offer any explanation for this series of events, we're just left to speculate on what occurred. Whether the sudden drop was related to the return of ball groups en masse, the spaghetti code compounding the issues further each consecutive patch, or a straight up reduction in server capacity for a reason not given to us.

But to say there was no difference at all is just untrue - the upgrade was genuinely the one single thing they've done in the history of the game that actually made a difference, and a massive one at that.

100% spot on.

i made a post about this exact thing ... 4 days ago? got swept under the rug and moved to a different forum.

you are 100% correct tho. it worked amazing after the upgrade.... slowly went back to crap.

also.... mysteriously works well during midyear mayhems (except this last one).

its not a conspiracy theory its obvious.

Punches_Below_Belt wrote: »

There’s no point in analyzing PvP for the twelfth year, developing complex challenging encounters and milking crowns with day-glo mounts with nonsensical animations if the servers just lag and crash. Raising the floor and offering new ability options won’t improve anything if the abilities don’t work when we press the buttons.

I actually agree with this. It doesn't matter if you keep coming out with new/fun things for the game if they don't function right and they continue to erode server performance. This is true in PVP and in PVE. Many people have been asking for years to focus on improving server performance over adding new things to the game, and it would be wise for them to listen to this advice because server performance continues to get incrementally worse every time they add something new.

I'm going to guess that poor server performance is not tied to just ONE thing alone, but a culmination of multiple things: from animation canceling (overloading input into the server system), to graphic lag because of all the new flashy visuals, to being able to stack on so many other/different bonuses on your character and teammates that you weren't able to stack on before. my guess is that it all contributes.

And what Vengeance showed us is that PVP can still be fun, even if they start taking away many of these fun things from us. So IMO, they need to take a hard look and figure out what players can and can't live without, and start simplifying the game. Even if that means they have to go back and reoptimize the game code to get rid of old/unused assets, or assets that are no longer going to be used, they need to do it - that or seriously consider upgrading their game engine and spend the money to buy upgraded modern servers.

There’s no point in analyzing PvP for the twelfth year, developing complex challenging encounters and milking crowns with day-glo mounts with nonsensical animations if the servers just lag and crash. Raising the floor and offering new ability options won’t improve anything if the abilities don’t work when we press the buttons.

I prefer a carrot to a stick approach! I bought the Apocrypha year dungeons because they came with an awesome guar mount and I liked the themes and design from what I’d seen. Last year, they weren’t really Mirrormoor related beyond the enemies in one and didn’t feel new…

Anyway, I’m interested in Solstice and enjoy dungeons so that I consider buying them in addition to ESO+, but I’m not digging the “content pass” approach.

Pretty sure this is just a bug, since it wouldn't be the first time something like this had happened.