Official Discussion Thread for "Whitestrake's Mayhem Event"

loosej

anadandy wrote: »

The new style page is just a "chance" correct, and not a one per day on cooldown? Only because i got one page from the intro quest boon box and that is it despite opening several boxes a day since.

Not sweating it, I have tickets to burn but I was curious. My RNG is apparently in the sub-basement. 😅

There's a chance, until you actually get one, then your chance goes on cooldown for that day. Drop chances don't seem too bad, I got one in the first handful of containers for two days now. You can make it easier on yourself by opening rewards until you get your style page for the day, then leaving the rest closed until the next day.

Tommy_The_Gun

IC was a lost cause since day 1, but, Cyro also has gotten much worse. PvP has never been this bad in this game. I guess it is due to population cap being reduced multiple times (too many times) and Ball Groups issues not being addressed pretty much never ever. Well, this is the result. I think it is save to say that PvP in this game is either dying, or is already dead. At least for me, but from what I can tell (here on forums & in-game chat) it seems that majority of players do share similar opinion.

If I were to compare this PvP event to previous ones, then so far, this one is imho the worst.

SeaGtGruff

Last night was the first chance I got to spend any appreciable amount of time in Cyrodiil. I had a lot of fun, despite not being very good at PvP and dying a lot. I left Cyrodiil a couple of times to go to IC and to play ToT before the server reset, and I kept banking my AP each time I left, so I'm not sure how much AP I earned, but it was certainly a lot more than I usually earn. The campaign was pop-locked for most of that time, but the queues were not too bad and I never got disconnected.

That was on PC NA. Tonight I'm going to play for a bit on PC EU, which in recent weeks has started having problems, such as getting knocked through tower walls while fighting the guards and sliding out across the landscape or underneath the map for a minute or so before falling into the void and reappearing inside the tower. That hadn't happened to me in a long time, then it happened a number of times during the last month. I haven't had it happen during the event yet, but we'll see. PC NA hasn't been doing that to me at all, just PC EU.

anadandy

loosej wrote: »

anadandy wrote: »

The new style page is just a "chance" correct, and not a one per day on cooldown? Only because i got one page from the intro quest boon box and that is it despite opening several boxes a day since.

Not sweating it, I have tickets to burn but I was curious. My RNG is apparently in the sub-basement. 😅

There's a chance, until you actually get one, then your chance goes on cooldown for that day. Drop chances don't seem too bad, I got one in the first handful of containers for two days now. You can make it easier on yourself by opening rewards until you get your style page for the day, then leaving the rest closed until the next day.

I think I figured it out. I was buying a bag of yesteryear to get below cap and opening it before turning in my quests, and I'd get a gold page from the bag. Then every boon box I opened after was the same random trash and never a style page.

Today I did NOT buy and open a yesteryear bag. First boon box I opened, style page. I realize this is anecdotal but I think the yesteryear bag was triggering the cooldown. 🤷‍♀️

Also, terrier fragments are the new jester banner.

Araneae6537

You can use jester banners, if you want. These ubiquitous bone fragments cannot be used for anything once the collection is finished! They should really have been moved to the grab bags several event iterations ago. I’m at the point of just deleting these now.

Gandalf_72

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for, "Defeat Your Rivals & Earn Bonus Rewards During The Whitestrake's Mayhem Event!"

"Go toe-to-toe with your fellow players across Cyrodiil, the Imperial City, and Battlegrounds all while collecting exciting in-game rewards during the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP event!"

EF321 wrote: »

anadandy wrote: »

Will the quests be dropping double reward coffers as in previous IC events?

I don't think there were double coffers during MYM, only double tel var in satchel.
Double coffers were during guilds and glory event and similar event couple of years before that.

Hi all!
Hi Kevin!
There is a Tel Var Stone gain bug:

Tel Var Stone gain bug in Whitestrake’s Mayhem Event

Not getting double tel var drops during the event

@ZOS_Kevin

Grec1a

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

The bug is that IC daily rewards do not give doubled amount of Tel Var Stones. You can get 200 Tel Var as always in the year. In all previous versions of MYM we got 400 Tel Var per IC daily...

As the bug means it's not worth opening the Light Tel Var Satchels during the event, I'm keeping mine and opening them every time we get the "Earn 200 Tel Var stones through kills and rewards" endeavour.

It seems to crop up once a month or so, and I'm looking forward to not having to set foot in Imperial City again until the next MYM and saving a bit of time on daily endeavours

Jaraal

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

Gandalf_72 wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

This is the official discussion thread for, "Defeat Your Rivals & Earn Bonus Rewards During The Whitestrake's Mayhem Event!"

"Go toe-to-toe with your fellow players across Cyrodiil, the Imperial City, and Battlegrounds all while collecting exciting in-game rewards during the Whitestrake’s Mayhem PvP event!"

EF321 wrote: »

anadandy wrote: »

Will the quests be dropping double reward coffers as in previous IC events?

I don't think there were double coffers during MYM, only double tel var in satchel.
Double coffers were during guilds and glory event and similar event couple of years before that.

Hi all!
Hi Kevin!
There is a Tel Var Stone gain bug:

Tel Var Stone gain bug in Whitestrake’s Mayhem Event

Not getting double tel var drops during the event

@ZOS_Kevin

The bug is that IC daily rewards do not give doubled amount of Tel Var Stones. You can get 200 Tel Var as always in the year. In all previous versions of MYM we got 400 Tel Var per IC daily...

Cunning scamp tel var sacks are also not doubled.

I'm curious why they told us there would be double tel var for the event, when there's not.

SeaGtGruff

There is definitely double Tel Var stones from killing mobs. I'm not sure why most of the other usual sources aren't dropping double TV-- whether it's a bug, an oversight, or by design-- but if it's a bug or oversight then hopefully it will be fixed next time.

Elsonso

Jaraal wrote: »

I'm curious why they told us there would be double tel var for the event, when there's not.

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

I'm curious why they are not answering !!! Please, answer something! we deserve an answer: is this by design or is it a bug ? This silence is so loud...

Hate to be cynical, but is this even surprising at this point. People have complained about communication issues for years. They aren't answering, and the event is over, so obviously not going to be fixed.

Araneae6537

I enjoyed doing Battlegrounds and some IC this event (sometimes I enjoy Cyrodiil, but it takes more time and I prefer to do it with a group). I enjoy all the close matches I had in Battlegrounds, win or lose. And while I enjoy PvP and cannot be upset to be attacked in PvP zones, I do appreciate working together (or at least live and let live) when daedra are against us — special thanks to the AD nightblade who helped my EP nightblade take out the patrolling IC boss I foolishly tried to take on myself!

Ingenon

Survived another Mayhem event. Earned all the event tickets without dying often. Special thanks to all the enemy players who didn't kill my nightblade while I was sneaking around Imperial City doing my one district quest per day, and galloping around Cyrodiil doing my one town quest per day. Also thanks to ZOS for putting on this PvP event for the folks who like PvP.

Jaraal

Elsonso wrote: »

Jaraal wrote: »

I'm curious why they told us there would be double tel var for the event, when there's not.

Rishikesa108 wrote: »

I'm curious why they are not answering !!! Please, answer something! we deserve an answer: is this by design or is it a bug ? This silence is so loud...

Hate to be cynical, but is this even surprising at this point. People have complained about communication issues for years. They aren't answering, and the event is over, so obviously not going to be fixed.

Just look at the dearth of responses to recent player concerns in the Dev Tracker compared to a while ago. Communications are definitely becoming fewer and further between.