my wife left me because i was closing too many volcanic vents

The content of the gold boxes felt mostly like trash items. I definitely received some that contained neither a style page, nor a motif or recipe.

It would have been nice if the delve and trial motifs would have been out.
Due to the world boss motif pages being available for quite a long time already, getting so motifs didn't really feel rewarding if you had already collected most pages.

Also, with the limited drop rate of the style pages, getting them felt like quite a grind.

What are your overall thoughts on the event? Did it meet your expectations?
This was a typical chapter celebration with the same formula used year after year. It met my expectations but did nothing to amaze me.

What did you like about the Heroes of High Isle event?
Increased harvesting yield is always my go-to interest, along with the easy access of tickets requiring at most 10 minutes of my day to get.

Is there anything you would like to see improved about the Heroes of High Isle event?
If you want players to care about the goals then you need numbers. What we had this year is the same as previous years where there was just a progress bar on the website with no indication as to the numbers that the bar represented. This meant that we were guaranteed to get 100% because if we hadn't, you would have had to explain how many we were short and I didn't get the impression that that was possible to tell us.

What are you thoughts on the rewards for the Heroes of High Isle event this year?
The purple coffers were nice to pick up a few housing patterns we were missing. The style page this year was disappointing especially since it quite often required several purple coffers before showing up and even then we seemed to be limited to one per day no matter how many other coffers we opened. As said previously, the harvest bonuses were nice but it was about all I could count on.

Any additional comments regarding the Heroes of High Isle event?
Nope, I pretty much covered it. As a veteran player of a few years, I need a lot more to get me excited about an event. This one was just too formulaic to get excited about.

I do like these types of events. Especially having multiple ways of getting rewards.
The style pages should be a guaranteed drop in the gold box. Some people have limited time to play and sometimes you have to farm a hell of a lot of boxes to get a page.

could have made the event reward for Galen more clear and that you needed High Isle DLC to get it, it may have had more people buy it.

TONS of crying about gold boxes having lower chance than purple boxes but i know this is probably not true. Maybe have a rare chance of gold boxes dropping off monster kills and resource nodes so people can get a better sample size next time.

there was a thread about this, but "guaranteed chance" is a bad combination of words. be more clear with "You will receive at least one of the following" or give people percentages to obsess over.

No real story to go along with this event, it was very dry. I would include in your storyboarding for chapter releases how to incorporate events- honestly the story boarding right now leaves a lot to be desired. The writers are great, but the stories have been very stale. We need escalation of tension, not deflation of it.

I enjoyed it. Always nice to have extra drops from resource nodes. Ticket aquisition was pretty easy. The statue reward was awesome!

Having only one motif to grind (Steadfast) made the rewards seem very lackluster, especially with the incredibly low drop rate of the Oaken Order pages. Made it feel very unfulfilling. The abundance of furnishings and plans were nicer, but none of them really fit my homes so I wasn't able to make much use of them. I'm sure many can though.

Next time perhaps either release other motifs beforehand or offer something else to collect. An event like this would be perfect for introducing one of those "collect 50 fragment" things you seem to love hiding in Public Dungeons these days. Maybe even make the existing fragments from those another rare drop to encourage more activity.

Positives
Easy way of getting event tickets and like the idea of community progress events.

Negatives
Rewards for dlc as an eso+ member just aren’t great. It’s really the attunable stations and that’s it.

Drop rate on style pages were awful, I got 1 of them in the whole event. Some events seem to drop them really easily and some are really tough. For these events it just feels like it should be consistent and ideally easier than what we had in high isle.

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

Hi All! Now that we've wrapped up the Heroes Of High Isle event, we're opening a thread for your feedback. This is to pass your feedback to the events team for their future consideration. It would be great to know the following:

• What are your overall thoughts on the event? Did it meet your expectations?
• What did you like about the Heroes of High Isle event?
• Is there anything you would like to see improved about the Heroes of High Isle event?
• What are you thoughts on the rewards for the Heroes of High Isle event this year?
• Any additional comments regarding the Heroes of High Isle event?

Thanks in advance for those who take some time to provide feedback. We'll leave this thread open for a few days to collection of feedback. Also, remember, the Explorer's Celebration is happening right now!

What are your overall thoughts on the event? Did it meet your expectations?
Ultimately, boring. It met my expectations, but I think that's the problem. Events are just a reason to funnel people into one area, foster nostalagia for said zone, and drive some sale. That's my expectations and that's what happened. High Isle went on sale, there were a few Oaken Order items launched as limited time deals in the crown store, and people used it as opportunity for zone completion. It's fun here and there, but the constant stimulation of events just feels tiring. Especially when this zone just came out - feels like it happened too soon.

What did you like about the Heroes of High Isle event?
I liked the overall aesthetic of the zone and its related motifs and drops. I was personally looking forward to the Oaken Order style, and just worked towards that. I also liked the tattoo, but don't think I'd wear it all that often.

Is there anything you would like to see improved about the Heroes of High Isle event?
Increased drops for the Oaken Order styles and increased tickets earned per day from 2 to 3. I very quickly lost in the event due to both of these.

I think we need something related to the zone that's unique to this event. Something memorable and unique - like that Ghost ship or something; not just "go finish the zone and get drops you'd get anyways".

What are you thoughts on the rewards for the Heroes of High Isle event this year?
Other than the Oaken Order styles and tattoos, they felt incredibly mediocre. I'm sure for those who didn't get zone or stickerbook completion, some of the drops were nice, but personally it fell flat.

Rewards need to be more substantial - not just pets. That'll never be an incentive for me. Would've been great to get that big house in Gonfalon Bay as a giveaway reward. It wasn't even on sale. Another great example of increased FOMO.

Any additional comments regarding the Heroes of High Isle event?
Honestly, it's hard to not feel like there's some financial goal driving all of this. I understand that population peaked during lockdown and now you're playing catch up, but things like the completion bar felt a little manipulative. This is the second year in a row where the final DLC is free, a lot of planning had to go into that - that bar included. So it's hard to believe that there was any chance it wouldn't complete.

Kudos to you guys for putting it together, and trying to do something fun for the community.

It was OK, but not completely thrilling.

At least I could kill some world bosses.

Though the fact I could only do this during the event, when no one will likely be there, points to how sad that is overall.

I also managed to get a few public dungeon group events done, but they will be harder after the event.

What are your overall thoughts on the event? Did it meet your expectations?
It was pretty much what I expected of an ESO event. Same event, different zone, nothing really new.

What did you like about the Heroes of High Isle event?
Double drops were the best part. I had never run Dreadsail Reef before, and the double drops there helped to fill my stickerbook a lot faster. I got a number of new-to-me furnishing designs from the boxes. I also finished out the Steadfast motif, which I had never really bothered grinding for.

Is there anything you would like to see improved about the Heroes of High Isle event?
It would be nice if the event added something new to experience, other than the island tour event quest which was kind of a one-and-done thing on the first day. These double drop events essentially encourage people to grind the same WB/Delve/Incursion dailies that they probably already played to death for rewards or achievements when the zone dropped. It would be nice to have a daily repeatable mission unique to the event that also awards event tickets and the gold box, so people can choose between doing that, or grinding the same old stuff to get their daily reward.

What are you thoughts on the rewards for the Heroes of High Isle event this year?
Giving away the Firesong DLC was destined to divide the community. ESO subscribers feel ripped off, because they're being given something they're already paying for, and their only consolation is a pet cosmetic. The first of these community goal zone events (Summerset) gave everyone a really nice, large home. Everyone was on a level playing field. Giving away the DLC when subscribers already have access to it would be equivalent to giving away that home in Artaeum to everyone in game after a bunch of people had already payed Crowns for it. Instead of a pet, why not give everyone who was subbed before the event started a 1 month extension of their ESO Plus? A free DLC has monetary value to non-subscribers, so grant something of monetary value to subscribers as well.

The timing of the event seemed poorly chosen, given that the event encourages grinding dailies, and then two weeks after the event ends, a new motif starts dropping from dailies.

The Oaken Order style actually looks really good.

Every time one of these events gives away attunable crafting stations, they always omit jewelry. I get that jewelry is locked behind the Summerset chapter, but it still seems cheap that it isn't included in the set.

I'm disappointed that the companion items that dropped from the nested boxes were bound.

Any additional comments regarding the Heroes of High Isle event?
Not only this event, but the Explorer event and all other events with double drops: why not fishing? I've been playing for 5 or 6 years now, and I don't think I've ever seen an event that buffed fishing. Angler achievements are some of the most tedious ones to get for many players. It would be nice to have an increased rare fish chance, and if you don't get a rare fish, you get double trash fish to filet. Not only would it reduce Angler achievement anguish, but it could bring down the market value of Perfect Roe, which has gotten ridiculous over the past few years. I'm not talking about doing a fishing-only event, because... just, no. But when all of the other rewards are doubled for an event, why not fishing as well?

On a related note: curated fishing holes. Spending 2 days fishing a zone for the last rare fish you need and continually getting the rare fish you already have, is dumb.

i appreciated double drops in the trial, but it was unclear if i was getting tickets for running DSR each day. given that the trial is included in the scope of the event, it should reward tickets same as any overland quest

The various world boss bugs made me quickly give up on those. Waiting 45 minutes for a spawn was not fun. Not getting quest credit when the bosses did spawn was bad too.

My dislike for Ember took away my motivation for delve dailies, but that's just me.

The vent dailies were fine, up to the limitations of the oh-so-repetitive vents.

What are your overall thoughts on the event? Did it meet your expectations?

- I enjoyed it as it got the zone a bit busier again, it gave some good rewards and it didn't seem to cause any performance issues for the duration

What did you like about the Heroes of High Isle event?

- Relative ease of getting daily tickets through a single daily quest was good for allowing completion even with minimal time investment on busier days. Double trial drops allowed for good inroads into the Dreadsail stickerbook. Double resources were a nice bonus and the occasional treasure map for High Isle specifically helped make progress on Ancient Breton pages (although Ancient / Ancestral motifs generally remain a horrific grind, event impact aside)

Is there anything you would like to see improved about the Heroes of High Isle event?

- One of the event books was linked to a quest and only visible if you happened to get a specific random variant of it https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/618792/by-command-of-the-ascendant-order-lorebook-missing-post-quest. Very frustrating for lorebook collectors.

What are you thoughts on the rewards for the Heroes of High Isle event this year?

- Some of the rewards from the daily golden box were underwhelming (green companion gear) and drop rate on Oaken style pages was a little low. The hoard box from event completion could be trimmed down a bit as things like overland set pieces felt more like an exercise in bag management than reward.

Any additional comments regarding the Heroes of High Isle event?

- Hope it returns again soon.

Overall, I liked it. I am a big fan of double nodes and I love when a surprise purple loot box can drop from anything. It also gave me a great incentive to burn through my hoard of High Isle treasure maps and surveys in the hopes of surprise purple loot boxes.

I also liked that it helped to populate the world bosses and vents. That, plus the double reward coffers for dailies, helped incentivize me to level my rapport very quickly with Ember and Isobel, enough that I fully completed Ember's storyline and have my first companion houseguest finally! And got Isobel's first companion quest done. I enjoyed them enough that I'm actually going back now with Bastian and Mirri and grinding mage/fighter's guild dailies to work on their rapport. Up to Bastian's second companion quest now!

I also felt the timeline was good - the event lasted just long enough for me to still want to actively participate in it daily, but ended just about when I was starting to hit the burnout/fatigue zone of wanting to stop with that map.

The negatives: the gold style pages seemed... stingier than past events. Not that I would want to be drowning in them like, say, Prophet style pages from yesteryear, etc, but it really seemed to devalue the once daily gold loot box. Opening it to no style page was sad and while I appreciated I *could* get one from a surprise purple loot box, honestly, the gold should be gold for a reason. It really ought to contain a guaranteed style page, maybe even curated against what you already collected. Maybe guaranteed in the gold box and removed from the purple boxes entirely? That way, the market still is not flooded with them because you only have X number of days to get them once a day, but at least you CAN have a chance at completing your set by doing the event versus having to get desperate to trade/buy from other players or burn event tickets to finish them out.

The other is a general unhappiness with the High Isle daily reward coffers, but the event highlighted their, well, overall poopiness to me. These have GOT to be the stingiest daily reward coffers outside of maybe Blackwood. We again now have a map with a specific style material (Stendarr Stamp in this case, Ivory Brigade Clasps in Blackwood) required for crafting furniture plans in that style, but no solid way of acquiring them other than to gobble up Steadfast armor/weapons and pray to the decon RNG gods or hope you get one in a daily coffer, which seems to almost never happen. I think the Elsweyr chapter really hit the perfect sweet spot with dailies - Northern Elsweyr delve and world boss dailies always seem to contain a Shimmering Sand style material and a roll of the dice on armor/weapons or a motif. That's awesome. If I'm hard-up for Shimmering Sand and have trouble either finding or affording it in guild traders, the game gives me that option of grinding dailies on that map with various toons to get sands. High Isle? Outside of the event giving double blue poop boxes, they are not worth doing for the singular blue poop box which, for me 9 times out of 10, will hold ONE armor or weapon item to immediately decon. it almost rivals the Gold Coast daily reward boxes, though those are slightly better because at least they usually contain two items. High Isle, more often than not, is one useless item.