And nerfed the way to get the most event boxes last year - master writs.

Devs : "Here is event celebrating the god of crafting and trading, you can get many boxes by doing crafting writs, among other things."
Crafter Players : <Spend many thousands in materials and gold to do many 100s of dailies on all their crafters and sealed writs on grand master crafter primary characters that know >100 motifs and 9 traits, and get many many boxes filled with reasonable goodies> "Huzzah! finally crafters have something special that focuses on them! This one loves this game!"
Devs: "Oh wait. We did not intend for crafters to have such delight in event celebrating crafting god. Is not fair to 110k dps folks who don't know how to swing hammer. Now only get many boxes by grouping and killing big monsters, in the name of crafting and trading god. If you cannot get sufficient tickets, SPEND MOAR MONEY IN CROWN STORE!"

Is perfectly rational, yes?

16 new gold pages, 13 days of the event, 1 gold page per day per account. You CANNOT farm them all yourself if you only have one account.

That's really crappy. Really really crappy.

As far as I'm aware, this is the first event you are statistically unable to farm all the gold style pages yourself. You had to be unbelievably lucky for the last few events, but it could be done. Is that accurate? This is NOT a good direction, ZOS.

I thiiiiink that Daedroth costume from Jesters Festival was the first “impossible to get without multiple accounts or shelling out money at traders” thing, but basically yeah.

allochthons wrote: »

16 new gold pages, 13 days of the event, 1 gold page per day per account. You CANNOT farm them all yourself if you only have one account.

IF you even get one page per day. I didn't get any from today's boxes, and I didn't have enough tickets to buy one. So... it's worse than bad, if RNG chance is very low.

And sadly, I want the pages, because I like the styles. I could live without mace or axe style, but it's still a lot to collect.

allochthons wrote: »

16 new gold pages, 13 days of the event, 1 gold page per day per account. You CANNOT farm them all yourself if you only have one account.

That's really crappy. Really really crappy.

As far as I'm aware, this is the first event you are statistically unable to farm all the gold style pages yourself. You had to be unbelievably lucky for the last few events, but it could be done. Is that accurate? This is NOT a good direction, ZOS.

You can get atleast one of each style page per day.I got one of each today.It's all about rng,and probably next day or so might not get any.

majulook wrote: »

Basically the rewards are really disappointing to say the least. Over 40 boxes only 1 of the new Style pages (in the very first box). Got 3 old style pages, and lots Recipes, Maps, and Mats.

Which old style pages did you get? The event announcement didnt mention old styles being available.

Another event where I'm doing the bare minimum for event tickets.

My guildies have barely been on luckily my other accounts are proving useful in regards to style pages no motifs yet though, i do wb area dailies in select areas for the motifs and plans.

What I don't like about Zeni's direction regarding events is it feels like the spirit of events has been warped and changed entirely. I started playing ESO in 2017, and events back then were mostly fun ways of earning in-game cosmetics and goodies such as motifs and recipes. There were no tickets. All you had to do was complete certain activities during the event and get your coffers. It definitely felt like the devs appreciated the playerbase.

Was it 2018 or 2019 that they added the ticket system for events? I believe that's where the spirit of events started changing. I'm sure they wanted more participation in events, and what better way to incentivize said participation by offering the only earnable, at that time, mount in game? It started out innocent enough. Do this once a day, get your tickets, buy your mount.

But the introduction of these event tickets is the problem entirely. You don't feel rewarded anymore. You have to jump through hoops to even get at the event rewards. Earn your 3 tickets per day, plan how you're going to spend those tickets because gotcha, we don't let you hoard them! You lose tickets if you go over the cap. No more grinding out coffers to avoid the ticket system because there's a hidden timer for style page drops. Not even a style page from opening my first and only sublime coffer of the day.

This ZOZ event was one of the last few events that actually felt fun and rewarding. But oh the event team had different expectations and put a limit on the coffers. Putting restrictions on events is just plain bad and the tickets are already a restriction. Why should I have to earn yet another in-game currency to buy event rewards? I'm at the point that I wish ZOS would make ESO subscription only. I feel like the predatory practice of FOMO is everywhere to make the non-ESO+ subscribers fork over their money in some way.

TL;DR- I'm tired of event tickets. ZOZ event coffers received a very bad nerf. Burn it all down. 🤪
Edited to add- 16 style pages across 13 days of an event was an extremely shady decision. We're already battling RNG and a timer when opening coffers, why not make a guaranteed style page drop once per day?