Writhing Wall Event – Consolidated Messaging Thread

Ashnarug · October 27

DenverRalphy wrote: »

U48 installs Phase 3. It's not needed for Phase 2 to start since that phase was installed with U47.

That explains why the Skyshards total is showing 579 instead of 570. It counts (before they are available) the skyshards of Eastern Solice.

Mattymoo92 · October 27

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone! During today's Update 48 PC/Mac launch maintenance, we ran into an issue that artificially pushed both PC EU and PC NA to Phase 2. We investigated and fixed the issue before opening servers, and both PC EU and PC NA are correctly back to the progress they were at when maintenance started this morning.

Due to this, there is a visual bug you will see at the Siege Camps. There is currently an issue where the archers from upgraded Siege Camps in Phase 2 are currently appearing and "levitating" in place. We are investigating a fix for these high flying archers - it should be fixed when servers flip over to Phase 2.

Yeyyyy?

Syldras · October 27

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Due to this, there is a visual bug you will see at the Siege Camps. There is currently an issue where the archers from upgraded Siege Camps in Phase 2 are currently appearing and "levitating" in place. We are investigating a fix for these high flying archers - it should be fixed when servers flip over to Phase 2.

I don't mind levitating archers. But where did the camp wayshrine go to?

Orbital78 · October 27

Bethgael wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

Willythehippie wrote: »

Are the wormwrithe outfit style pages guaranteed one a day?

Yes, though I have had them take many many chests to get them. They can also drop from the defense chests at the camps, the same as the Stirk motif.

And yet, throughout the whole event so far, I have had two (2) drop. In 14 days. I do have pet fragments coming out of my tuchus though.

That is some horrible RNG, tbh I didn't get any yesterday but I didn't try since I have the full style set already now and the resell is not worth farming.

tomofhyrule · October 27

I feel I have to point out that yet again, there are a bunch of minor issues that popped up with this event. Sure, none are gamebreaking… but the fact that so many things are ending up going this way make the entire wall event as a whole look sloppily done.

On PTS, we never tested every stage of the event: U47 dropped already at phase 2, and U48 at phase 3. We never tested U47 without the event active, U47 on phase 1 only, U48 on phase 1 only, or U48 on phase 2 only. As such, a lot of these issues (like Ghish spawning early) could not have been caught.

The PTS volunteers also do not have the time or resources to test everything, particularly when RNG is involved. There was no way we could have reasonably tested that the invaded Jode’s Light delve was dropping its lead properly or that we would have thought to test the Bolgrul undaunted dailies. It seems like a strange choice that the team chose to set up invasions in the delves that were important for dailies and recent leads instead of invading some of the other delves in those zones that are not used at all to prevent conflicts. “Just wait a month!” should not be a solution to a quest or antiquity that cannot be completed.

And again, this is assuming that any bugs or issues reported on PTS are addressed… which is more often than not not the case. So many bugs reported on PTS go live, and then it’s a scramble to fix them for incremental 1 or 2. Why not have the devs follow the reports on PTS and address those issues?! We already saw that barely anyone tested U48 because we have been burned so often by not having our feedback read at all (despite the patch notes always saying “we’re reading your feedback!”) and now U48 came with basically no changes save for two week-long events.

We understand morale is probably low thanks to [gestures vaguely at everything], but the seeming carelessness of how this entire event has come out has really affected how players feel about the future of the game, and will definitely color the playerbase’s intentions to continue spending money for the next season or their continuing subscriptions. Please keep that in mind as you plan for how to reveal, test, and release Update 49 and beyond.

WolfStark1 · October 27

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »

Ashnarug wrote: »

Update 48 is tomorrow but even if they install "part 2" they won't activate it until the event is completed.

It's closer in EU (timezone effect?) so it's technically possible for phase 2 to start then:

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/writhingwall

The question is, will ZOS wait for all zones to hit 100%? (I suspect that would be the case)

NOPE cause Europe is already on Phase 2 at 1% HAHAHAHA
I think with the low drop rates and how hard you have to grind threw alot of NA/PC players off, and some not having the content pass so they dont participate. Hopefully we can catch up but I also work 12 hours a day most days so its hard to grind it out on more than 1 toon. Life be Lifen lol

WolfStark1 · October 27

code65536 wrote: »

wolfie1.0. wrote: »

You are more likely to earn the 1 million gold needed to buy the house, by doing the quests and selling all rewards to NPC vendors than you are to obtain the house via one of the reward boxes.

The drop rate isn't that low, though.

I have 3 accounts that didn't have the house, doing just the golden boxes each day, on both NA and EU. Not wasting my time with blues, and doing the bare minimum for the event because I have no desire to farm.

2 of those 3 accounts have now gotten the house, on both NA and EU. So that's 4 house drops, just from golden boxes. And it's not just me; I have a number of friends who have also gotten the house.

Thats great for you! Some of us are over here with a broken RNG and have gotten literally nothing. Ive done all 6 quests from each giver on 2 toons and have only gotten a handful of Motifs and Style pages, most duplicate of eachother.
Some of us are having a disaster with the drop rates and seeing half the people getting the house multiple times while we get the same already know motif and style pages over and over, ohhhhhh and lots of mats. WHich Mats are great so im not bothered by that but thats all ive gotten in almost a month of this going.
Count your blessings!, we're not all in the same boat and some of us are sinking and throwing in the white flag.

WolfStark1 · October 27

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone! During today's Update 48 PC/Mac launch maintenance, we ran into an issue that artificially pushed both PC EU and PC NA to Phase 2. We investigated and fixed the issue before opening servers, and both PC EU and PC NA are correctly back to the progress they were at when maintenance started this morning.

Due to this, there is a visual bug you will see at the Siege Camps. There is currently an issue where the archers from upgraded Siege Camps in Phase 2 are currently appearing and "levitating" in place. We are investigating a fix for these high flying archers - it should be fixed when servers flip over to Phase 2.

Dont fix them, I think its GREAT!!!! I laughed so hard at them and just thought wow cool effects, Now BLAST THEM SOUL REAPERS!!!

Lord_Graas · October 27

You broke the golden sap drop again in update 48. 22 killed spriggans in circled map area in Malabal Tor and zero golden sap drop.
Also we have new daily quests in Eastern Solstice but we don't have access there yet.

WolfStark1 · October 27

Bethgael wrote: »

Orbital78 wrote: »

Willythehippie wrote: »

Are the wormwrithe outfit style pages guaranteed one a day?

Yes, though I have had them take many many chests to get them. They can also drop from the defense chests at the camps, the same as the Stirk motif.

And yet, throughout the whole event so far, I have had two (2) drop. In 14 days. I do have pet fragments coming out of my tuchus though.

SAME! We are in the same RNG Boat of HELL
Praying this patch was the breaker of our chains LOL

shadoza · October 27

Shared Burden <== I am very disappointed that pay walls are coming closer to home.

Katahdin · October 27

Err the map just opened up in PC/NA and its only Phase 1
81%???

Ashnarug · October 27

Still an issue on your web page.

Skorro · October 27

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dragon_Rise

I'm just going to leave this here... Dragons Rise had:

- tons of great diverse rewards
- special zone bonuses (XP and gold buffs) depending on how the community did/ was doing
- dragon sightings in base game cities

To name a few and it was rewarding for just playing the zone... Not dozens of mind numbing chores.

liliub17_ESO · October 27

Lord_Graas wrote: »

You broke the golden sap drop again in update 48. 22 killed spriggans in circled map area in Malabal Tor and zero golden sap drop.
Also we have new daily quests in Eastern Solstice but we don't have access there yet.

It was already broken, as far as I could tell. I finally got 2 saps - from Ogrims, not spriggans. But that was it. No more sap to be found no matter what.

UrQuan · October 27

Skorro wrote: »

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dragon_Rise

I'm just going to leave this here... Dragons Rise had:

- tons of great diverse rewards
- special zone bonuses (XP and gold buffs) depending on how the community did/ was doing
- dragon sightings in base game cities

To name a few and it was rewarding for just playing the zone... Not dozens of mind numbing chores.

That was a really good event, and I remember having a lot of fun with it, but to be honest I don't remember much in the way of details about how the event actually worked, I just remember how much fun we had in my guilds charging to attack dragons while screaming out "For the kitties!!!!!"

duagloth · October 27

ZOS_JessicaFolsom wrote: »

Hi everyone! During today's Update 48 PC/Mac launch maintenance, we ran into an issue that artificially pushed both PC EU and PC NA to Phase 2. We investigated and fixed the issue before opening servers, and both PC EU and PC NA are correctly back to the progress they were at when maintenance started this morning.

Due to this, there is a visual bug you will see at the Siege Camps. There is currently an issue where the archers from upgraded Siege Camps in Phase 2 are currently appearing and "levitating" in place. We are investigating a fix for these high flying archers - it should be fixed when servers flip over to Phase 2.

Lol

tomofhyrule · October 27

UrQuan wrote: »

Skorro wrote: »

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dragon_Rise

I'm just going to leave this here... Dragons Rise had:

- tons of great diverse rewards
- special zone bonuses (XP and gold buffs) depending on how the community did/ was doing
- dragon sightings in base game cities

To name a few and it was rewarding for just playing the zone... Not dozens of mind numbing chores.

That was a really good event, and I remember having a lot of fun with it, but to be honest I don't remember much in the way of details about how the event actually worked, I just remember how much fun we had in my guilds charging to attack dragons while screaming out "For the kitties!!!!!"

It was the same as the other standard Chapter events: bonus boxes for dailies (which had more than a single piece of blue overland gear), and a fake progress bar on a website to show how close we were to getting a bunch of stuff that I can never get since I started the game just after the event.

Still, even though a lot of us knew the bar was contrived, it was still fun to kill dragons, and it felt good knowing that ZOS was making a donation to a cat shelter. And there was a real feeling of all of us working together for a good cause.

This event is bringing no real unique rewards outside of the Golden Pursuit mount and pet (which tended to be only a 66% reward in the other Chapter events), and is also not exclusive to owning the Chapter Pass. The bars are all working in real-time instead of just being totally fake, but that means that it’s so much more obvious when the goalposts are moved to get it to proceed in the desired timeframe. We have the devs instigating platform wars between servers, but the numbers are meaningless so it’s pitting us all against each other for no reason and nothing we do can change the outcome they intend. It’s driving us all apart, giving us nothing, and frustrating the players. And now to add insult to injury, we’re seeing the careless way that things like dailies and antiquities were opened on the inaccessible side, to go along with the half of the Bolgrul dailies that are uncompleteable until the event ends and the solution is “that’s intended that you shouldn’t be able to do them.”

ZOS_JessicaFolsom · October 27

twisttop138 wrote: »

@ZOS_JessicaFolsom

Hey good morning!! I'm curious about something we're seeing with field marshals. In our previous conversation earlier in this thread, you let us know that you guys hotfixed the drop rates of work cult furnishings. We very much confirmed this in guild that day and a few days after. People were able to get the furnishings they wanted. But starting this weekend we're seeing a downturn. We're back to getting maybe 1 green furnishing every 10 to 12 drops. (Drops meaning when you actually get drops, not every 30 seconds when the marshal respawns) Are the inclusion of plunder skulls in the drop table hindering the furnishings from dropping? The increased drop rate of these were the Zos mia culpa for the dreadful blue boxes that you say you won't fix due to hot fix limits (even tho we all have maintenance this week hmmmmm)

Can we have a look at this please? Thank you for your help and communication in this thread!

Hello! We looked into this today and confirmed that the increased drop rates for the Field Marshals are still set to the higher rate. We also confirmed that there is zero overlap between their drops and Plunder Skulls drops, timers, drop tables, etc. We don't have an explanation for why things may seem different than before Witches Festival, unfortunately. All the numbers and settings are correct on the back-end.

c363b · October 27

After the update why did the Rampart wayshrine show as undiscovered even though my character had been there many times?

Dagoth_Rac · October 28

c363b wrote: »

After the update why did the Rampart wayshrine show as undiscovered even though my character had been there many times?

It is a different wayshrine. It was just a short stubby column before and now it is a more Solstice-y looking large stone square. I am guessing map markers are tied to in-game objects and that prior wayshrine object is gone and replaced with this new object. And now we have to discover this "new" wayshrine.

SeaWoodStage · October 28

I would just like to point out that I've been doing 84 quests most days. That's 24 quests each on my two combat happy characters, and all crafting quests on my other 6 characters. I was standing there waiting for the lens to activate on my main character, and it was awesome.

That being said, could you please fix the lore books. I'm not the only person on the server that has bent over backwards to get every possible lore book that it is possible to get, including Sunspire the weird way around. And then the first thing I saw a few weeks ago while doing the Crossing The Wall quest is an unreadable glowing lore book and I can't get back into the area.

Just stop it. Stop putting glitched lorebooks in places you can't get back into. Just stop this absolute nonsense. Please, for the love of Vivec, just make a list of bugged lorebooks, and put them all in one place. Would that be so hard? I have every lorebook in the game that it is possible to get. Stop messing up lorebooks. STOP MESSING UP LOREBOOKS. I love this game, but why do you hate people that like lorebooks? Cease this nonsense.

spartaxoxo · October 28

SeaWoodStage wrote: »

I was standing there waiting for the lens to activate on my main character, and it was awesome.

Did you get any pics? Did you have to wait for it activate when the phase first started or does it fire periodically?

colossalvoids · October 28

spartaxoxo wrote: »

SeaWoodStage wrote: »

I was standing there waiting for the lens to activate on my main character, and it was awesome.

Did you get any pics? Did you have to wait for it activate when the phase first started or does it fire periodically?

When you port to the camp wayshrine (whatever the name was) there's 90% chance of the beam going from the crystal on top of the lense, it despawns when you're getting closer. It's one of it's idle states most probably which triggers on loading for now instead of being an event end idle as it probably should.

kind_hero · October 28

Skorro wrote: »

https://en.m.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Dragon_Rise

I'm just going to leave this here... Dragons Rise had:

- tons of great diverse rewards
- special zone bonuses (XP and gold buffs) depending on how the community did/ was doing
- dragon sightings in base game cities

To name a few and it was rewarding for just playing the zone... Not dozens of mind numbing chores.

Elsweyr was such a good DLC... I remember playing alot back then. The prologue quest was epic, the events and their rewards... Also, the Hall of The Lunar Champion free house with wings you unlocked by doing story quests was an amazing idea. I liked Southern Elsweyr too.

With this event I was hoping for more memorable rewards. For the 10th anniversary we got a lot of stuff, from themed furnishings to the museum palace. The amount of furnishings and themed item drops linked to the wall effort seems negligible. Like we get a fortification tower that can't be climbed, some rampart walls, a rag flag and some worm cult trash.

I really hope the next phases to be more interesting. Not sure what to say about the amount of bugs. For example, the central camp wayshrine was reset for me, I had to rediscover it. Drops seems to be off.

Right now, I wish the event would be much shorter, I would rather go straight to Eastern Solstice and do the story content, than grind the wall for another month.

Syldras · October 28

c363b wrote: »

After the update why did the Rampart wayshrine show as undiscovered even though my character had been there many times?

I think I've discovered that wayshrine for the third (or maybe even forth?) time now. Seems to be the biggest discovery of this whole chapter so far.

smnlvr · October 28

Since update 48 there are now Green Circles on the ground at active solstice wall camps - this is on PC EU server

anadandy · October 28

smnlvr wrote: »

Since update 48 there are now Green Circles on the ground at active solstice wall camps - this is on PC EU server

PCNA too, I kept dodging out of them before I realized they were just atmosphere. 😆

rucker · October 28

Started the 2 daily quests today. For both I have to be in the new Solstice part which is unaccessable now I guess. Could I have missed something?

Syldras · October 28

With the latest update, the name of event writs has changed (in the inventory), at least in the German translation. Is that a translation bug or a hint on some new system next year?