For this first run, I'm on a copied alt who's completed pretty much everything relevant (MQ / guild quests / Cadwell's Gold / all DLC Chapters / Zone questlines) and I'll be focusing on quests and dialogue.

I'm having loads of fun so far, and I love the ghostly 'sreaming souls' addition to the Writhing Wall's animation when you're up close, but I have a few things to ask about already (several are repeats from last PTS which weren't resolved or responded to).

The 'revive point' wayshrine inside Tarnur Mine still has an activation prompt visible (not interactive though) which I've also noticed on PC/Live recently:


The binding energy flows to the shrines, not from them as the dialogue states it should, can this animation be reversed?
https://youtu.be/PBPJbkNA2ys

With the delve quests, Darien will only act as a follower on the way to the first location (per previous PTS patches), but I'd noticed even then his dialogue is different depending on which point you visit first, and it seems more relevant with the 'first / second' location dialogue if you visit Li-Xal Pass before Tarnur Mine, vs the other way around.
(I'll record a clean run of this later showing both versions with all dialogue and post the link as an Edit)

These lines still only trigger after we examine the points in the Wall, despite Darien being the one who's supposed to locate and 'react with' the distortions so we can see them:
First location is Tarnur Mine:

Second location is Li-Xal Pass:


It's great that Mannimarco's note to Necromancer Hezsatari in the Tarnur Mine shrine location can now be read, but the 3 cultists
and their bone colossus still respawn far too fast - after only 15 seconds - so there's too little time to read it before they're back and interrupting you:
https://youtu.be/r0H8BRlvPhA

Whereas the cultists at the end of the Seacave have glitchy or nonexistent shields, with the only one visible sitting much higher than the ones at the other site:



Also, Darian delivered his 'destroy it' line mid-fight in Tarnur, rather than closer to the shrine itself afterwards:


In the Sea Cave shrine location, Darien delivers his 'destroy it' line once we reach the foot of the stairs leading to it, which is much better placement, but the line used seems to be more relevant if this was the first shrine we'd found:


Then after the Fissure Ruins delve, why does Darien imply he'll be coming along once we've made the initial breach in the Wall? He doesn't switch to follower mode, and there was no sign of him at any point on the way to the Wall, at the portal, or in the Writhing Fortress' pocket of Coldharbour. Nothing. He stayed right here and just repeated himself when I came back to recheck:

Is the line intended for a different quest?

These might need the colour saturation dialled up (left are blue, right are orange, for those who're struggling):

I have no issue differentiating colours (qualified gemologist with a zero on all color blindness tests), but even I find these too washed out in-game when they're all on the same setting and other effects are going on all around me, so they could be a big problem for players with genuine sight issues.
Another solution might be to have a different symbol for each version?

The game crashes so much it is nearly unplayable — I have never had ESO crash so much on three different PCs and different internet connections, by the way. I thought, “maybe it was me.” Most of the game is playable if I turn the graphics settings way down and use no companion — but the Writhing Fortress is impossible. Did anyone figure out a way to bypass it to get to the rest of the zone story in the East? It seems you have to do the “Helping the Fellowship” quest to get to the power source, which continues the zone story. Is it possible to teleport to another player who already got past that? The crashes in the fortress, plus the difficulty, are not fun.

It was definitely a big difficulty swing from doing the Fortress to doing some of the main quests where bunches of the npcs had less than 20k hp.

I would note that on the Dark Acolyte Harvester fight my Potato PC had significant difficulty with processing the environment and got horrible FPS.

The fight was easy enough on my build with a companion that it didn't matter but, someone on a worse build without a companion might get stuck on that fight if they have similar levels of bad performance.

it might have been a fluke but, it might be something you might want to check if you've got access to a horrible PC/old console.

My companion did end up dying multiple times to the improved soul reapers as she followed me even after I attuned into the Argonian thing.

Any chance we could get a variant of the Argonian thing as a Chaos Ball Transformation at some point it was kinda fun but, we didn't get that much time to use it.

The finishing blow on the final boss was quieter sound wise than I expected.

Overall, I'd say the experience for the main story was pretty good with the story both being finished and also offering possible future stories down the line.

Is there a way to progress the Eastern Solstice Main Quest line without being present at the completion of the Writhing Fortress?

I've been trying everyday since the PTS started but have never got near to completing the fortress quests.

I'm using a cp3600 template with as strong a build as I can make it.