Writhing Wall Event – Consolidated Messaging Thread

Maythor

Any chance of boosting drop rates of the bone shards, despite the wall falling a lot of us will be left still having to aid to bring the wall down to try and get the event rewards we still need!

Carcamongus

I'd say the next time we get an event with a progress meter, don't separate us into servers. I can't see the reason for dividing us like that and it wasn't helpful.

Gunner19K

Phase 3 is not working. Is something broken? Any guidance? We are on PS NA and U48 is complete and Phase 2 reached 100%, which puts us in Phase 3 as of 11:30 pm EST. We can see the hole/tunnel in the wall but no way to get through, no quest options, and no way to do anything but see the map and black wayshrine on other side. After U48, the western Solstice main camp wayshrine shows as undiscovered on all toons.

Syldras

Gunner19K wrote: »

Phase 3 is not working. Is something broken? Any guidance? We are on PS NA and U48 is complete and Phase 2 reached 100%, which puts us in Phase 3 as of 11:30 pm EST. We can see the hole/tunnel in the wall but no way to get through, no quest options, and no way to do anything but see the map and black wayshrine on other side. After U48, the western Solstice main camp wayshrine shows as undiscovered on all toons.

Maybe it got manually deactivated when people found themselves in areas they should not be after the update and now they forgot to turn it on again?

Silufadumar

I'm on Xbox Eu....

Do I feel salty?

Damn right I do!

Because I can't see how my server went from a hefty lead all through phase 1 to being 4th (at least) to reach phase 3.

It would have taken a huge influx of players on the other servers to cause such a swing, something would have had to have happened to reinvigorate players interest.... but the opposite is true, as all the comments on this forum can attest.

Many players just gave up on this event, with a 'call me when it's done' attitude that we can't really blame them for.

Yet I still saw plenty of people doing the event every time I logged in, so its not like Xbox Eu suddenly stopped participating.

Something fishy has gone on here and it smells to high Aetherius!

Please Zos, don't do any more events like this if they're not going to be fair.

Signing off...

Captain Salty

Lord_Archaic

Syldras wrote: »

Gunner19K wrote: »

Phase 3 is not working. Is something broken? Any guidance? We are on PS NA and U48 is complete and Phase 2 reached 100%, which puts us in Phase 3 as of 11:30 pm EST. We can see the hole/tunnel in the wall but no way to get through, no quest options, and no way to do anything but see the map and black wayshrine on other side. After U48, the western Solstice main camp wayshrine shows as undiscovered on all toons.

Maybe it got manually deactivated when people found themselves in areas they should not be after the update and now they forgot to turn it on again?

The visuals with the wall has been all weird during the whole thing.....

Inwas seeing the phase two beam when tjenevent first started. So it's probably an artifact that's misfiring on some people's clients.

twisttop138

LarsS wrote: »

twisttop138 wrote: »

msetten wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Writhing Wall update. We are pleased to see so many players jumping in and contributing to the effort to bring down the Writhing Wall. While progress has been steady, we have heard the feedback that the event feels like its taking a bit too long. With that in mind we are going to make an adjustment to speed up contributions across all realms so that players can experience the Writhing Fortress and Eastern Solstice as soon as possible. This has been a tremendous effort for everyone involved and we appreciate those that have dedicated the time to the event. Player contribution still matters but your contributions going forward will matter more. Thanks!

@ZOS_Kevin Then why does the progress for PS-EU suddenly dropped from 85% to 16.6% in game?

"PS-EU had a bug where it's progress has been reset to 16%. We have identified the issue but ohhhh sorry, the fix won't be ready till update 52. We know this isn't ideal but we just know PSEU will rally a redouble their efforts for this once in a lifetime event."

On the webb page it shows 89%.

It, uh, was a joke...

Anyway it's over now. My server got to 100% and it's BROKEN. We got ZOS'd lolol.
I mean isn't that the capstone to this whole mess? We go through this whole thing. The community hates it so much that ZOS can't keep their heads in the sand for once. They decide to end it, regardless of whatever plan they had in place and it's broken. The phrase mickey mouse comes to mind.

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Writhing Wall update. We are pleased to see so many players jumping in and contributing to the effort to bring down the Writhing Wall. While progress has been steady, we have heard the feedback that the event feels like its taking a bit too long. With that in mind we are going to make an adjustment to speed up contributions across all realms so that players can experience the Writhing Fortress and Eastern Solstice as soon as possible. This has been a tremendous effort for everyone involved and we appreciate those that have dedicated the time to the event. Player contribution still matters but your contributions going forward will matter more. Thanks!

@ZOS_Kevin can you confirm whether the amount of quests per % was the same on each server skew or was it lowered based on population on servers like PS4 NA & EU?

twisttop138

Izanagi.Xiiib16_ESO wrote: »

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Writhing Wall update. We are pleased to see so many players jumping in and contributing to the effort to bring down the Writhing Wall. While progress has been steady, we have heard the feedback that the event feels like its taking a bit too long. With that in mind we are going to make an adjustment to speed up contributions across all realms so that players can experience the Writhing Fortress and Eastern Solstice as soon as possible. This has been a tremendous effort for everyone involved and we appreciate those that have dedicated the time to the event. Player contribution still matters but your contributions going forward will matter more. Thanks!

@ZOS_Kevin can you confirm whether the amount of quests per % was the same on each server skew or was it lowered based on population on servers like PS4 NA & EU?

What does it matter now? It's over. Whatever plans they had they threw out the window when the extreme vocal displeasure grew to a fever pitch. They gave up, which is fine.

ElysaDjinn

Today was the first time I was able to collect enough vitrified souls for Orinde's quest with each siege camp done. Thanks for sorting that one out, anyway

Also, one thing I have really liked is the gradually-increasing detritus around each siege camp - ballistae, backpacks, tree trunks/felled trees, crates etc etc - not to mention the graves. Nice detail.

And it is a massive relief to know it won't be much longer before phase 2 is over with, it really has been too long an event, as has been said a few times or so by now

AzuraFan

Destai wrote: »

Future content needs to be more considerate of event-burnout from the get-go and way more generous with the rewards. The latter seems like something you guys really, truly do struggle with. I highly recommend you guys start digging into how to improve rewards in general. Maybe some kind of survey to start, because it's going to keep tanking events if it's not addressed. The game's not really at a point where that's sustainable.

This a gajillion times over. I don't understand why ZOS doesn't seem to learn from previous failures. The anniversary event was a bust because of the miserable drop rates, so they double down on that with the signature event for 2025? Who is making these decisions? Why are they still making these decisions?? And yes, the rewards themselves need to be addressed. They fell way short for this event.

Kilthor69

Silufadumar wrote: »

I'm on Xbox Eu....

Do I feel salty?

Damn right I do!

Because I can't see how my server went from a hefty lead all through phase 1 to being 4th (at least) to reach phase 3.

It would have taken a huge influx of players on the other servers to cause such a swing, something would have had to have happened to reinvigorate players interest.... but the opposite is true, as all the comments on this forum can attest.

Many players just gave up on this event, with a 'call me when it's done' attitude that we can't really blame them for.

Yet I still saw plenty of people doing the event every time I logged in, so its not like Xbox Eu suddenly stopped participating.

Something fishy has gone on here and it smells to high Aetherius!

Please Zos, don't do any more events like this if they're not going to be fair.

Signing off...

Captain Salty

It has never been fair. There are more PC players than Xbox so there is no way that the numbers are correct in the first place. PCNA has lagged throughout which just make you go hmmmmmmmm.....................