When is the next double XP event?

JustLovely · September 7

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

DenverRalphy · September 7

JustLovely wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

Pretty sure (well, relatively confident) that Witches Festival is the next event to have 100% XP buff.

JustLovely · September 7

DenverRalphy wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

Pretty sure (well, relatively confident) that Witches Festival is the next event to have 100% XP buff.

Anyone know when the witches festival starts this year? Mid to late October I'm assuming.

DenverRalphy · September 7

JustLovely wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

Pretty sure (well, relatively confident) that Witches Festival is the next event to have 100% XP buff.

Anyone know when the witches festival starts this year? Mid to late October I'm assuming.

Usually lands around the last week of October.

virtus753 · September 7

JustLovely wrote: »

DenverRalphy wrote: »

JustLovely wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

Pretty sure (well, relatively confident) that Witches Festival is the next event to have 100% XP buff.

Anyone know when the witches festival starts this year? Mid to late October I'm assuming.

We got the September roadmap on August 28, so the schedule for October (which is when Witches has always begun) should be up in maybe 3 weeks.

We do have the Writhing Wall event starting October 13. That may mean Witches is more likely to be later in October than mid.

ETA: The earliest Witches started was October 13 (2016), but that would make it coincide with Writhing Wall this year. Since then the starting date has been later (between October 18 and 26). The past two years in particular have been on the later side (24 and 26).

tomofhyrule · September 7

Witches is very likely to overlap with the wall, since the whole point of witches is to be over Halloween.

The wall is not a ticket event and is intended to last a while, and it's a 3-phase thing in the first place and only two of the phases are in the current patch. The third phase can't even happen until after U48 releases since the data isn't there yet.

We do tend to get the Q4 patch during the Witches event, so it all follows that everything will overlap a bit (which will lead to a lot of forum complaints, but if you know about it, then you won't be annoyed about it)

DoofusMax · September 7

JustLovely wrote: »

I'm trying to figure out if I should save my master writs for leveling subclassing or go ahead and do them.

When is the next double XP event?

TIA

Since unopened writs now stack, there's not much of a downside to holding them until the end of October for Witches Festival. Undaunted is coming in a couple of weeks, but isn't normally an XP-buffed event and I don't expect that the Writhing Wall event in mid-October will be, either (don't recall it being the case when it was on PTS anyway).

If leveling up your subclassed skills can wait six or seven weeks, then save your writs. If you're aren't that patient, then don't. I did the subclass leveling with writs and some 150% XP scrolls from login rewards. The slow part was mostly having to use alts to level up my crafter's class skills, but the crafter whizzed through everyone else's class skills in very short order.

ApoAlaia · September 7

Other years we've had a 2XP event starting right after the 'chapter' event ended alas this year is scheduled pretty late so not sure if we will get one.

Recent · September 7

With subclassing it would have been nice to have a double xp event earlier than late October. Doesn't even need to be an event as such just a few days where we can gain xp from all sources. Im chewing up xp scrolls trying to level up all my skill on alts for subclassing.

DoofusMax · September 7

Recent wrote: »

With subclassing it would have been nice to have a double xp event earlier than late October. Doesn't even need to be an event as such just a few days where we can gain xp from all sources. Im chewing up xp scrolls trying to level up all my skill on alts for subclassing.

Dark humor LOL'ing on this, but we sort of did. There was a double-XP event that overlapped U46 and subclassing by a day on PC. U46/Solstice/subclassing went live on June 2 and the event ended on June 3.

To switch to my tin-foil hat, "You thought there was going to be something to reduce the subclass grind? Ha! Brew that Ambrosia and burn through those XP scrolls! It's all going according to the plan for world domination!"

ApoAlaia · September 7

DoofusMax wrote: »

Recent wrote: »

With subclassing it would have been nice to have a double xp event earlier than late October. Doesn't even need to be an event as such just a few days where we can gain xp from all sources. Im chewing up xp scrolls trying to level up all my skill on alts for subclassing.

Dark humor LOL'ing on this, but we sort of did. There was a double-XP event that overlapped U46 and subclassing by a day on PC. U46/Solstice/subclassing went live on June 2 and the event ended on June 3.

To switch to my tin-foil hat, "You thought there was going to be something to reduce the subclass grind? Ha! Brew that Ambrosia and burn through those XP scrolls! It's all going according to the plan for world domination!"

https://youtu.be/R6MlHxAzLXA?si=YLqMbRaOkiHmWK9v

JustLovely · September 7

Thanks for the info folks!

I'd already pretty much decided that since the master writs stack now it would be better to wait. But I'm human and impatient so I had to ask. I'm going to go ahead and wait I think since I have the 5 or so skill lines I value the most already leveled. The rest can wait even though I don't want to.

tomofhyrule · September 7

DoofusMax wrote: »

Recent wrote: »

With subclassing it would have been nice to have a double xp event earlier than late October. Doesn't even need to be an event as such just a few days where we can gain xp from all sources. Im chewing up xp scrolls trying to level up all my skill on alts for subclassing.

Dark humor LOL'ing on this, but we sort of did. There was a double-XP event that overlapped U46 and subclassing by a day on PC. U46/Solstice/subclassing went live on June 2 and the event ended on June 3.

To switch to my tin-foil hat, "You thought there was going to be something to reduce the subclass grind? Ha! Brew that Ambrosia and burn through those XP scrolls! It's all going according to the plan for world domination!"

I mean... it is ZOS's idea that the Subclassing grind should be a long term project. They even say as much in the original article.

As there are now 21 total skill lines you can unlock and play on your account, it will be a long-term project to max all of them out

I'm sure that ZOS is of the opinion that, as Subclassing has been out for 3 months now, that players would probably have been able to get 4 or 5 of the 18 other Class lines to 50. Their intent is that we'd be playing casually all the way until U50 in June, at which point they'd drop the next thing for us to casually get up (pleasebeanewclasspleasebeanewclasspleasebeanewclass)

Of course, the reality is that the ESO playerbase has an exceptionally grindy mindset, so I know I'm not the only one who got everything up day one. Not to mention because of the (utter lack of) balance with Subclassing that you were essentially forced to get it up ASAP to remain competitive, whether you were excited about Subclassing or not.

Point is though: unless you have to get something up for a prog group or whatever, take time and smell the roses. ZOS intends for you to just get the XP while playing casually instead of grinding master writs or BRP on repeat (I get it; I did that and it was 10 hours of utter boredom for something I don't even want to play with at all)

DenverRalphy · September 8

29 Master Writs, one 150%XP Scroll, and the Discipline Artisan CP perk in the green crafting tree, and you can subclass any skill to 50 in 15-20 minutes.

Ensure you have the first skill on your skillbar. Queue up the master writs in Lazy Writ Crafter and let it craft them all in less than 1 minute. Walk up to Rollis Hlaalu, pop the XP scroll. Turn in master writs one at a time, pausing to put skill points into skills as they unlock (and optionally the morphs) and add those to your skillbar to keep the skill line moving. Right around the time you get to the last master writ the subclassed skill line will hit 50.

And that's without a bonus XP event.

Gabriel_H · September 8

tomofhyrule wrote: »

I mean... it is ZOS's idea that the Subclassing grind should be a long term project.

Meh! Took me 12 days, 3 hours a day to level all 18 lines.

frogthroat · September 8

tomofhyrule wrote: »

Point is though: unless you have to get something up for a prog group or whatever, take time and smell the roses.

This is a good advice. Even the new dungeons do not require the current level power creep; on the contrary ZOS has started to add more and more stop-DPS-and-do-mechanics parts in the boss fights.

If you are in a prog group, or an optimised PVP group, you need it to stay competitive. And in such case, you are used to grinding things anyway. As a rule of thumb I would say that if you need to ask "do I need subclassing", the answer is no, you don't need it. When you need it, you'll know. Level the skill lines up at your own pace so they are ready when you start to need them but don't worry about the speed of levelling.

tomofhyrule wrote: »

ZOS intends for you to just get the XP while playing casually instead of grinding master writs or BRP on repeat (I get it; I did that and it was 10 hours of utter boredom for something I don't even want to play with at all)

A bit off topic, but imo Skyreach > BRP. Hear me out. XP-wise, BRP all the way, but if you don't want to lose your mind Skyreach is better. Less XP but also less concentration needed. In BRP you have to at least a bit follow the fight -- so you are bored out of your mind but still have to have some modicum of concentration. In Skyreach you have no such requirement. You can just chat with your friend if you are on voice, or watch some youtube videos if not, to make it less boring and no need to pay much attention to what is happening on screen. It's a direct railroad so you don't need to pay mind if there is a boss you should die to instead of just nuking everything you see. All you need is the beam and reaving blows and the rest of the bar can be filled with subclassing skills.