The Scribing questline is awesome! Probably the best we ever had [Feedback] [Spoiler free]

thedocbwarren

CP5 wrote: »

tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »

For people who found it grindy or repetitive to do even once--what would you want the quest objectives to be so that it didn't feel that way?

like what Necrotech_Master said, I'll summarize the wing quests to give you an idea of what my time with the quest was like.

Indrik Wing:
Listen to ghost, read book, go to new location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Go through door, have cinematic talk with Indrik, learn about the challenges, with the ones I did being...
Do a auridon dolmen, like I had done a decade ago...
Do a delve right next to the dolmen, that I did a decade ago...
Go to dungeon place and blitz through it since any enemies were dead, quest done

Gryphon Wing:
Listen to ghost, read book, go to new location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Go through door, have cinematic talk with Indrik Gryphon, learn about the challenges, with the ones I did being...
Harvest plants while running past overland enemies in a pit I've visited a few times before, maybe
Pickpocket an npc who was right in front of me at the wayshrine
Another delve boss, that I had gone through a decade ago
But now the fun part
I had gone to the hermaeus portal first, but the quest bugged so I left without getting the thing I needed, so after going to the other two locations (and learning that people could grief others by killing the shade that needed to be pickpocketed) I had to go to apocrapha and walk to the delve to get the hermaeus mora fragment, since the portal there in Greenshade was gone, which was a really irritating bit
Quest, done

Dragon Wing:
Listen to ghost, read book, go to new location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Go through door, have cinematic talk with Indrik Gryphon DRAGON, learn about the challenges, with the ones I did being...
Slay a world boss, with a half dozen other players, a boss I had first killed a decade ago
Pick more flowers
Kill random monsters while in that zone
Then some more, stand here, press e nonsense, but with reading books instead! Just like you do in every single quest to begin them, but at least it didn't bug out
Quest, done

Netch Wing:
Listen to ghost, read book, go to new location, but not without one of the scripted scenes bugging out since I got there to quickly...
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, stand here, press e, look there, press e, pick up key, go to next location
Go through door, have cinematic talk with Indrik Gryphon DRAGON NeTcH, learn about the challenges, with the ones I did being...
Kill deadra in vvardenfel, which to be fair is more recent than 10 years old, basic but uninspired
Fish
And I think I did the public dungeon one as well, I honestly forget
Then, uniquely, dealing with some random person ghost, quickly running through 3 quick delves followed by a quick fight with that shade, and...
Quest, done

The crow wing at least mixed things up a bit, but no riddle really matters when ZOS can't let players fail such important quest, so just smashing your face into the keyboard will give you success, and with all the 'witty humor' that clings to so much of the dialogue, I find it grating and skipped through that as much as I could. So my time with the quest was running around in locations I have been in for the better part of ten years, doing the same dull task over and over, listening to npcs who I couldn't care less about (I love how the quest says "ask your allies for help" when I don't think I was ever introduced to anyone except the merchant guy) all to fully unlock a system that should be able to introduce the most dynamism into the game. Why does it have to be so dull and stagnant?

So, to answer your question, creativity. Something to actually make me pay attention, and not load up a video on the second screen to watch while I aimlessly navigate from E to E over and over. This is spellcrafting, with apparently powerful ancient entities, why not have unique and thematic quest in each of these creatures pocket realms based on their personalities and the way they contribute to the system? I don't know, but anything except the same thing every single time would have been nice...

^^^^^ this 100%

Felt exactly like this during the very long tedious quest-line.